Issued Thursday Tuesday THURSDAY Issue Saturday The Courier-Gazette By The Cetiritr-Guttte., 465 Main St, THREE CENTS A COPY Volume 80............... Number 22. Established January, 1846. Entered u Second Claei Mail Matter. Rockland, Maine, Thursday, February 19, 1925. The Courier-Gazette THE prisoners’ pay THE CAVE VICTIM IF THE TROLLEY LINE GOES TALK OF THE TOWN THREE-TIME8-A-WEEK Warden Eaton Sends Check Millions Sympathized With Ami still- February inclines to tlia Street Railway Official Discusses Several Phases of I side of leniency. • ALL THE HOME MEWS To State For Payments Plight of the Kentucky Ex­ STOP LOOK LISTEN Situation Which Is Becoming Acute. Subscription $3.00 per year payable In ad­ Illegally Made. plorer. The road machines Jiave been busy vance; single copies three cents. i smoothing the roughest places and Advertising rates based upon circulation I clearing gutters. and very reasonable. A check for $5697.85, to reimburse Something like 100,0(10.000 people ‘It's a delicate subject, but -the anil our cars have been -held up from NEWSPAPER HISTORY went to bed Monday night .saddened PREVENT BEING The Rockland Gazette was established In . the State for money illegally paid welfare of tile public is at stake," half to three-quarters of an hour because a man. in whose life only a Irving Curtis is getting his new 1846 Iu 1874 the Courier was established i as wages to the inmates of the State said a prominent ollicial of the Cen­ until an automobile could get from house on the New County road well and consblidated with tlie Gazette in 1882. score of them had normally any in­ tral Maine Power Company yester­ our cleared tracks into the highway. on toward completion. The Free Press was established In 1855. and j prison at Thomaston during the terest. was found dead in a Ken­ In 1801 changed Its name to the Tribune. day. in discussing the big problem It cannot be that this Would appeal tucky cave. These papers consolidated March 17, 1887. months of October, November and to anybody as fair. Floyd Collins, a cave explorer, which confronts trolley lines every­ Strangely quiet around the Brook December, 1924 was sent Tuesday by "Even the Maine Central Railroad KILLED risked the violation of Nature’s law where. “It is no4 the jitney or the yesterday. Bill Williams at home Warden Lester D. Eaton of the taxi which threatens the extinction feels Ibis unfair competition. I am of gravity once too often. Nature with a touch of grippe. ••• of the Rockland, Thomaston & Cam­ told liy the officials that some mo­ — There is do dispute managed with- — prison to State Auditor Hayford and retaliated by pinning him to the den Street Railway, but the unthink­ torists make it a point to call at the — out passion, and yet there is scarce — by him was turned over to the State floor of a cave some 70 feet under The garage at Glencove has been ing competition of those who own station Just before a train leaves, — a dispute worth a passion—Sherlock. ••• treasury. ihe surface of the earth where he opened under new management, with BY ONCOMING TRAIN private cars and pick, up prospective anil ask if there are any passengers The payment of a daily wage to died of thirst and exhaustion. C. A. Lamson as proprietor. •«. .«■ ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 4 street railway patrons all along the going to Portland, Augusta or other the prisoners, varying from 30 cents For 18 days Nature held him a line. To such an extent has tills places. If tlie answer is in the affirms - The final meeting of the Commun­ to 50 cents per day was authorized prisoner, tortured him beyond the 14-26 SAILED FOR THE FLINTS practice grown that many roads tlve the motorist places his car at ity Fair promoters will be held this by former Governor Baxter and hi* power of man to bear, ami allowed have been operating at a loss, and their disposal, and the Maine Central afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Post Executive Council, and the payments his body to lie recovered only after Editor of The Courier-Gazette: — the local road would have again loses much needed revenue. One Office, up stairs. I am glad to note that you are were made by the prison warden in she had exacted her full penalty—his shown a big deficit but for tile in­ traveling man who has a home at accordance withe the order of the life. purposing to reprint in your aolumns creased fare--, which were authorized Boothbay Harbor said that he had The regulation meeting of Wins- Governor and Council. The legality All the resources of man—repre­ Charles R. Flint’s book, "Memories by the Public Utilities Commission. paid fare to get home only onee | low-Holbrook Post tonight wifi dis­ of An Active Life.” 1 shall gladly of the practice under the statutes sented by liis greatest organization, "The people iiuve already seen one during the entire season. was questioned by the State auditor cuss important matters, including tho reread it. Mr. Flint and his father the State—battled during those 18 trolley line discontinued in Knox "I was riding on a * train from big membership drive. were my best friends. They gave me and formal demands for the prison days for his life, and during those county, and I certainly believe they Batli to Buckland one night and income to he sent into the State to Bail the three-master Charles B. 18 days men watched the contest would regard it as little short of a there was Just one other passenger. H. R. Mullen of the Sea View Ga­ Flint, and after over three years ser­ treasury were made by him. anxiously, calamity if the road connecting At one of the stations a man drove Warden Baton upon instructions rage stuff was demonstrating yester­ vice built the barque St. James for Would Nature win; or would man? Camden. Ito 'kport, Rockland. Thom­ up in u motor car anil took that man day with one of the new Nash sedans THE CARNATIONS WE SELL from the Board of Prison Commis­ me; then they gave me to sail one This was the question that the aston and Warren should follow suit. aboard. The engineer was a humor­ —disc wheels, balloon tires and all of their tinest ships, the M. I*. Grace. sioners, failed to comply with the world asked as each new edition of ‘There are many angles from ist. ’For heaven's sake pull out. be­ the fixln's. No relatives could have done more demands, and payment of the pris­ the newspapers reached the street. which to view the situation, and one fore we lose this other mail,' he oners’ wages continued. z\ recent Are grown in our own greenhouses. If you want for me. (Capt.) Al. B.’ Cook. Even between editions, news of Col­ of them is the freight business. shouted to the conductor. Ralph A. Smith ha® resigned ills Bridgton, Ale., Feh. 17. opinion from Attorney General Pel- lins’ fate was demanded and the The Street Railway ought to have "And yet tile public demands serv­ position as clerk at Carver's book fresh, crisp, beautiful blooms ask for Silsby’s Own lows has ruled that tlie payment was Globe operators were kept busy night the privilege of carrying freight tv ice from tlie transportation com­ und stationery store to become dis­ illegal and the treasury reimburse­ and day answering the question, Carnations, at The Little Flower Shop. The half million business paid The Camden as long as it does so aH panies and finds fault if It is not 100 trict manager in the territory for the Parker Cotton Mills Company was a ment has followed. “Have they got Collins yet?” And cheaply as its competitors. Our per cent efficient. I was riding to Portland Evening Express. Charles Godsend to the concern upon the Of the total amount of Warden the -long-repeated answer "No” in­ rate into Camden is c'heaper than Wiscasset in a Maine Central pas­ McIntosh succeeds him at Carver's, We also have ready for you this month Cinerarias death of it® President. Consult Eaton’s check $4906.50 represents variably brought expressions of dis­ our competitors offer, but of course senger car one day and some of the $1.00, $1.25. Japanese Rubber Plants 75c and Walker 524-R.—adv. money paid to prison inmates; $530.- appointment and regret. the other people would argue- that passengers began kicking because 40 represents money paid to paroled Never before in the memory of we do not deliver at the door. While the car was cold. Finally one man The John A. Karl & Co. force has $1.00. Daffodils $1.50 per dozen. Sweet Peas convicts; and $261.40 is for money oid-tlme newspaper men bas such this Is true, it is also true that the announced liis intention of entering spent a busy week moving into the paid to discharged convicts whose universal anxiety been shown over consignee could hire ills goods a complaint to the Public Utilities fine new quarters at 303 Main street. and Violets $3.00 per hundred. These are all terms have expired. the life of a single individual. Sel trucked from our cars and still save Commission. The roomy new store, with its excel­ weY/pfanse dam has any event aroused such money. Under those circumstances “ ‘Boys you have no license to kick,' lent location, will give the firm a home grown. widespread interest.