Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-05-11
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

years Bangor city official. will cele-
brate his 91st birthday anniversary next
Sunday. Mr. Snow is one of the oldest,
if not the oldest member of the Masonic
fraternity in Maine.
+. 7. Spofford supervisor Of the census
for the eastern Maine district. opened his
office at Bangor, Wednesday. 1t is eX-
pected it will take three months or more
to complete. the work in that district.
There will be 2lS enumerators. Bangor
will have II of them, each ward being
looked after by two men,
Florence Hazel. the 2-years-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. L. f. Crosby of Tenn
pie, while visiting at the home Of her
grandparents. Mr.. ana Mrs. ID. NJ Howe.
Sunday, May 6, ate several tablets con
tanning strychnine which were being used
as "A tonic by Mrs. Howe, who has been
ill. In less than two hours the child was
dead.
These divorces have been decreed in the
Aroostook supreme judicial court: Saba
Bennett VS.. Sander l.. Bennett: Joseph
Gideon Caron VS.. Almera Caron; Dolly
NJ. Drake VS.. Bert A. Drake; Martha q.
Green vs.. Jacob d. Green Matte +. Ire
a aTrv v5 81 E Msry I PrnR c onds
Pritchard vs.. Geo. ". Pritchard; Cora +.
Rideout VS. Cary n. Rideout.
In the supreme court ut Auburn,
Wednesday, the docket was finally called,
all cases in which there was no appear
ance We're dcfaulted. and the business OF
the term was put in the way for final adj
journment. Cases were assigned for trial
hut it is practically certain that the jul
rics will be dismissed. this week. There
are. however, n number of matters for
the consideration of the court alone
which will require some time next week.
At the annual meeting of the Woman $
Aid Society of the Eastern Maine Gen
eral Hospital at Bangor. Tuesday, these
officers We're elected for the coming year:
Pres, Mrs Henry Lord; lst vice pres,
-. a i'm Afps. i
| w. Sawyer: treas. Miss Mary ii. Merrill;
sec, Miss Jennie Il. Pickering. The re-
ports of the officers showed the hospital
| to be in a flourishing condition. Resolu-
lions were adopted on the death OF Mrs.
| Geo. Webster, who was president of the
| society for two years. The treasurer 5
! report showed a balance Of almost $1,000
on hand.
| Libby Co., which has been before the OK
| ford supreme court at South Paris. for
| two days, has developed one of the most
| important law points ever considered by
Maine court In many communities
| honest and unsuspicious people frequent
| ly have been induced by plausible agents
! pose are mere matters of form in small
| business transaction, but which later
| have turned out to have conditions inn
| plying a contract to pay money or trans
| fer property. In the case in point, Eli
Stearns. a Bethel farmer, signed paper
| with conditions under which he might
| lose considerable money. He claimed
that he did not fully understand the
meaning of this paper when he signed it.
His attorney, Judge Enoch Foster, argued
that legal and binding contract in the
meaning of the statute implies the meet
ing of the minds upon each side. If the
signer does not understand the conditions
of the paper in the same manner that the
writer thereof understands them, there
is no meeting of their minds and the con-
tract is not a legal one. Judge S. G..
Strout of Portland. in ruling upon this
point, sustained Judge Fosters position
and said that if the plaintiff carelessly
signed the paper without understanding
its meaning. the paper was of no use. He
could not De bound by its conditions.