Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-02-25
MAINE NEWS NOTES.

The Democratic State Committee met
at Augusta Thursday night and decided
to hold the state convention in Bangor,
June 18th.
"Uneedarest," the name chosen by
some Ellsworth gentlemen for their new
camp at Green Lake, seems to size 1t up
in a word.
The Notifications now being construct
ed by the government On Great Diamond
Island, Portland Harbor, are to be
christened Fort Mckinley.
Harold Murch, the five-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Murch, of Webster,
was drowned the 14th while crossing
saltwater River on the ice.
Silas A. Jackson, q farmer, aged 20,
committed suicide at his home, four
miles from Augusta, Monday, by stab
bling himself in the throat. He had been
i'll for several months and took his life
in a fit of temporary insanity. He is
survived by wife and one child.
A brick making plant will be in opera
ton at Thomaston in few weeks. 1t
will cost about $4,000 and have an out
put of nearly 100000 bricks day. The
plant will be modern, operated by steam,
and will have ten permanent kilns. Bos-
ton and Worcester capitalists are inter-
ested.
Judge VIM. Fl. Fogler of the Supreme
Court of Maine died at his home at
Rockland Tuesday morning. He had
been seriously ill from diabetes only
since Saturday night when he took cold.
The Judge survived his wife but q
month, Mrs. Fogler's death having Oc-
Cured the 18th of January.
How the women of Yarmouth laughed
the other day when the men of the Bap-
fist church cleaned the sacred edilicc
preparatory to putting down new
carpet. What they particularly enjoyed
was to see the men in beating the carpet
stand on the wrong side facing the wind
and get the dust blown in their faces.
The ice harvest on the Kennebec for
the season of 1902 is practically at an
end, but the amount harvested is not up
to the estimate made by the American
Ice Co., 100000 tons. The total cut is
only SAC, 900 tons. The season has been
very short. But little snow had to be
removed from the ice, but the fresh et
spoiled the fields.
Another Belgian hare has been eaten.
The guilty man is Editor Shorey of
Bridgton, and there is no doubt that the
killing of one of his beloved and beau
tiful pets hurt him more than it did the
hare. There is also rumor that one was
eaten at an Auburn church supper the
other night. This makes at least two
which have been sacrificed on the altar
of human appetite since the little Bel
gian hoped into Maine. We anxiously
await the figures as to the profits made
on their hair, hide, feet, bones, hops, etc.
One Of Names most enthusiastic all
tomohilists is Hartley c. Baxter of
Brunswick, who has just bought his
fourth machine. He was the first man
to navigate one through Brunswick
streets and it is OH record-and no joke,
either-that horse on Main Street fell
in fit at the sight of it. In the base
ment of his splendid new house on Col
lege Street is big store room where his
four autos are stabbed when not in use.
Last week, Mr.. and Mrs. Baxter, with
their son left for Savannah, Ga, where
they will spend several weeks. Mr..
Baxter has shipped his big automobile
to that city and will enjoy automobiling
in the southern states for several weeks.
Later they will 60 to New York and
make the run from that city to Wash
ington, D. c.
1t is rumored that the full bench OF
the Supreme Court is practically ready
to hand down its decision in the equity
case involving the municipal ownership
of the water works in Waterville and
Fairfield, and this rumor, which seems
to come from a well-informed source,
plainly says that the decision of the
court will be unanimous in favor of
municipal ownership. If the rumOr
proves correct the decision will be likely
to have great weight in the action of
future legislation on questions involving
municipal ownership. This case, which
is notable one, was argued before the
full bench sitting in law at Portland a
year ago last July, the case going up on
report. The attorneys for the Maine
water Co. were Symonds, Snow & Cook
OF Portland, Heath & Andrews of Au'
gusta, Hon. William T. Haines of Water
Vile, and Libby, Robinson & Turner of
Portland; the attorneys for the Kenne-
bee Water District being Orville D.
Baker of Augusta, Harvey D. Eaton OF
Waterville, Hon. George G. Weeks OF
Fairfield. The Kennebec Water Dis.
trict was chartered by Chapter 200 OF
the private and special laws of the lcgis-
lature of 1899, and gives the company
thus formed the right to condemn and
purchase the plant of the Maine Water
Co. in Waterville, Fairfield, Benton and
Winslow.