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Newspaper
Saco Independent
Location
Saco, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1919
Page
1
In a sunlit plot thread Mollie conceals her secret to pursue a romance with the local rector Mr Sutherland. A chance rescue by the curate creates tension as Mollie schemes to vanish from his life before the fortnight ends.
A conversation at Mollie's door features Freda accusing a man of needing to verify Mollie as the other maid. Mollie appears carefree, while Eleanor later remarks the rector vows Mollie will be kept found.
Federal Board of Vocational Education adviser Mr. Osborne will visit Malta on December 8 for three weeks to interview about 70 disabled veterans in Phillips County. Eligible singles receive 80 dollars monthly training, married with one dependent 100, more than one dependent over 110. costs are covered by the Veterans Welfare Commission beyond government payments.
On Saturday afternoon November 22 the Woman's Club held a formal reception for new members at Mrs. J. K. Bell's home from 3 to 5. Edison provided music throughout the event. Club officers Mrs. J. H. Forster Mrs. C. E. Taylor and Mrs. L. Sestak greeted guests and were assisted in the dining room by Mrs. W. H. Frazier Mrs. A. E. Easton Mrs. J. K. Bell and Mrs. C. W. Nelson.
During a Thanksgiving service at Columbia University New York President Nicholas Murrey Butler described unrest as the greatest in history. He blamed psychological mental and spiritual factors not politics or economics and urged individual energy and courage to restore the world to health.
Chas M Schwab president of the Berth Jechem Steel Company arrived in Pittsburg to attend the Andrew Carnegie Memorial services and urged that the nation must learn to be efficient. He said America cannot lead while inefficient and the labor troubles must push greater production.
Archibald Blue died on Thanksgiving Day in Rochester Minnesota after traveling there for medical help. A member of the Blue Brothers and a lifelong Saco resident since 1893 he left a wife Christina Kippen and five children. Funeral services were held at the Blue home with Masonic honors and Rev Muirden speaking. He leaves four brothers and a sister and a wide circle of friends and community sympathy.
Zagloul Pasha, head of Egypt’s delegation to the Peace Conference, cablegrams President Wilson urging support for independence as Egyptians who fought with the Allies face British reprisals. Earl Curzon tells the House of Lords Egypt cannot defend its frontiers or govern itself, rejecting the notion that nationalists seek crushing suppression.
In Washington the Shipping Board announced a program to create passenger liners on major ocean routes, totaling about 60 ships. Roughly half are former German army transports, including the Leviathan, undergoing repairs. about 25 are wartime transports, averaging 9,000 dead weight tons. The York Buenos Aires Line will start December 15 as the first of these passenger services, with several more lines planned soon.
The Carranza government faces U.S. demands for the release of William Jenkins American consul at Puebla held on a bandit kidnapping charge. Washington reports strained relations with Mexico with State War and Navy ready for contingencies while federal authorities note no evidence against Jenkins and argue federal court authority should apply.
Arthur Williams, Federal Food Administrator for the Eastern district, said retail dealers should be supplied with sugar by wholesalers and that everyone could have as much sugar as last year. He warned against unscrupulous sellers hoarding sugar for year-end profiteering while the Sugar Board operates.
George G. Lee and Timothy Shea denied rumors that local unions in Chicago were pressing for a general strike to win higher pay. They said the Cleveland conference is focused on time and a half overtime and not on arranging a nationwide walkout.
Countess Primo Magic, famous as Mrs Tom Thumb and one of the best known Liliputians, died at her home in Middleboro Mass yesterday afternoon after a long illness. She was 77 and had traveled around the world several times under P. T. Barnum.
Ole Hanson former mayor of Seattle denounces a Chicago organized Labor Party calling it a misrepresentation. He says the group is composed of the wont work and the will kinnock and mocks immigration service eligibility, urging voters to see cranks united yet few in number.
General March stated gas is not an inhumane weapon of war. He argued battlefield deaths from gas are small compared to bullets and explosives, but gas can temporarily incapacitate many troops and thus remains an effective weapon.
A raid on the Red Workers Union headquarters in Newark City uncovered a bomb laboratory. A Justice Department agent found 50 to 60 bottles and phials, including a large TNT container, plus muriatic acid sulfuric acid ammonia hydrate and glycerine sulfate in a rear secret room.
Chicago public utilities commission orders a 50 percent cut in suburban steam trains closes all department stores two days per week and restricts stores to 11 am to 3 30 pm. Theatres will close one night weekly and elevated trains run one car outside rush hours.
A Santa Fe switching crew at Frontenac refused to move a train carrying volunteer miners and soldiers to two steam shovel mines. Eleven strip pits in Kansas coal fields will be in operation by the state this afternoon as Governor Allen tours the district north of Pittsburg.
Thousands of workers in Gary Indiana lose their jobs as the American Steel and Tin Plate Company closes all mills due to the coal strike. Reports say the Elwood Indiana plant, with 4000 to 5000 workers, also halted operations.
Gas shortages deepen as West Virginia utility orders cut gas deliveries to Toledo, Cleveland, Canton, Akron, Youngstown, and other northern Ohio communities amid a coal shortage and rising power concerns.
A statement by former Secretary of the Treasury and Railroads director Thomas McAdoo suggesting coal operators profit enormously and should raise miners' pay without raising coal prices provokes criticism. Washington officials and party rivals see political maneuvering amid the coal strike and income tax disclosure questions.
Will all those who assisted us in any way during the illness or after the death of our loved one accept our grateful thanks. Malcolm Blue Mrs A Blue and family Mr and Mrs E Lueht.
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