Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-07-01
THE WEEK IN MAINE.
THE MOST IMPORTANT STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Bowdoin graduated SO young men last
week; Bates "a young men and % young
women; and Colby 25 young men and II
young women.
The towns of Baldwin, Waterville and
Lincolnville celebrated their centennials
last week, with highly successful affair
in each town. The exercises at Water
vile included the dedication of the new
city hall.
Allen Marshall was drowned at MILL
nocket few days since by the upsetting
of his canoe while coming through the
headsate in the Great Northern Com
pany's canal. He leaves wife and
seven children.
A corporation known as the Madrid
Railroad is to build narrow gauge road
from Phillips to Township No. 6, dis
lance of six and one-half miles. The
corporators are well-knOwn Franklin
County men.
In addition to all the centennials and
other anniversaries observed in Maine
towns last week, it was commencement
week at Bowdoin. Colby and Bates Col
leges, and BowdOin celebrated the close
of a century of educational work.
A telegram recently received in Ban
gor announced the death in Chicago of
Florence S., wife of President Nathaniel
Butler, ID. d., of Chicago University,
formerly of Colby College. The cause
of death was typhoid pneumonia, from
which Mrs. Butler has suffered for some
weeks. Her age was 40 years.
Nearly all the companies of the Ma
tiOnal Guard, State of Maine. have sent
in acquisitions for khaki uniforms and
when the encampment takes place in Au-
gust the troops will appear dressed in
the light and serviceable uniform which
became so famous in the Spanish war
and which is now used by the troops in
the Philippines.
Richard Furlong of Waterville shot
and killed himself Wednesday in the city
gravel pit on Main Street. Furlong was
very poor. He recently sent his wife to
Magdalen Islands, her former home,
because he could not support her.
His suicide is supposed to be due
to dependency. Furlong was seventy
years old and is survived by widow
and adopted son.
A. w. Paine of Bangor, who has just
completed his 9th year of practice at
the Penobscot bar, is probably the oldest
lawyer in point of continuous practice
in New England, if not in the country.
He will be 90 years old on the 10th of Au-
gust, and is still in sound bodily health.
his only infirmity being aslight deafness.
He writes remarkably legible hand, and
does all of his own Office work, never
having employed stenographer or type
writer. Besides his law practice, which
he attends to every day, he is connected
an official capacity with many corpo-
rations.
When interviewed a few years ago con-
corning Roosevelt's life in the Maine
woods, Bill Sewall said to the reporter:
Roosevelt will be President some day
and don't you forget it. One day sitting
on log in the woods he said to me Bill,
| am in perplexed state of mind and
want your advice. If / follow my nat
ural inclination will devote my life to
botany. But something tells me that
there is great future for me in public
life. You may laugh at me but l have
a presentiment that one day | will be
president of these United States
humored him." said Bill Sewall, land
said that would follow public career
if were he."