Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-31
THE WEEK IN MAINE.
The Most Important State News
Briefly Told.

IL lS SalQ IHat tuo OccI 1sio ooyo wa
not man the cup defender this year, rs
they are not satisfied with their treat
ment last year.
New cases of small pox continue to
appear in Lewiston, most of them at
least having their origin in the lum-
bering woods.
Fred, the 14-year-old son of George
Labbee of Topsham, was drowned on
the 21st in the Androscoggin river while
fishing for driftwood.
Noel St. Pierre was fatally injured in
the Pejepscot paper mill at Brunswick
on the ed. He was 20 years old and
leaves a widow and two children.
They are putting the roads in shape
down in Jonesport and clam shells are
used in many places. A coating of them
makes splendid covering for highway
which the shore towns are very fortu-
nate to have available.
The legislature has passed an act Great
| ing the towns of Brunswick and Tops
ham water district" subject to rati.
fcation by the two towns. A special
town meeting in Brunswick on the 2lst
voted to accept the act by vote of 1872
toe.
Although Houlton is supposed to be
dry town now, since the advent of Mar
tin Lawlis as sheriff, the thirsty ones
have no difficulty in securing a drink.
The boundary store is only two miles
away and there liquor is to be had in
abundance.
Ground has been broken on the lot at
Lewiston where Calm & Grants hand
some new theatre is to be built, and
work will be pushed as fast as the
weather will permit. The building is to
be 70 feet on the front, 125 feet long and
100 feet wide in the rear.
Indications are that one of Names
large unused water powers-that on the
Union River near Ellsworth-will soon
be developed, as business deals looking
to that end are being consummated. The
power when harnessed will be used for
electric lighting and power in Ellsworth
and Bar Harbor, and probably other
smaller places in that vicinity.
Another Maine-born writer comes to
the front in Sewall Ford, author of the
novel "Horses Nine" He was born in
South Levant, but has spent only a small
part of his life in this state. He is 30
years of age. and for16 years has been in
new. paper work in Boston, Baltimore
and New York. He has written much
short fiction for the magazines.
That Dedham woman who had to
carry her husbands dinner every day
and leave her hen house unguarded, so
the neighbors came in and took away
her fresh-laid eggs, and also her profits,
can be pardoned for placing an energetic
swarm of bees at the hen pen door. The
punishment was cruel, no doubt, but
she saved her eggs, which was the mo-
tive she had in moving the bees.
Chas. G.. Hoyt, aged "a years, of North
Orrington, was killed Thursday morning
by fall at the plant of the Eastern Man.
ufacturing Co. in South Brewer, where
he was employed as a millwright. He
was engaged in adjusting pulley, and
losing his balance he fell to the floor, a
: distance of eight feet striking on his
head. He lived only few hours after
the fall. A widow and three children
, survive him.
The semi-annual meeting of the State
Board of Trade was held in Auburn
: Thursday. The programme included
. addresses as follows: BY Hon. George
Pottle of Lewiston, General Growth ant
Progress of Maine;" by Hon. Joseph b
Peaks of Dover, one of the Maine rail
road commissioners, on the Growth ant
History of Railroading in Maine;" by l.
A. Goudy of Portland, "Public use o
Public Utilities" and by Nathan C
Grover, resident photographer of thu
United States, stationed at Orono, Uni
versity of Maine, on "Hydrographi'
Work in Maine" Congressman Little
!; field and Judge Savage were among thu
! after-dinner speakers at the banquet il
the evening.
A thrilling scene was presented
West Falmouth Tuesday, when some &C
, cident, it is not known what, caused tn
t derailment of number of cars of ;
Maine Central freight. One of the de
/, rallied cars was tank car containing
/ 5000 gallons of naphtha. The shocl
: cracked the tank, allowing some OF tn
I ndpuUud 10 cSCdpe, anu III SohhC Way !
became ignted, with terrific flash
which, fortunately, injured no one
The naphtha continued to burn, but Sc
slowly that it looked as if there was t.
be long suspension of traffic, the tanl
being so near the track that it was i'm
e possible to get by. The Portland nava
S reserves were called out, with their one
: pound gun, to shoot some more holes il
t the tank, which they did, allowing thu
naphtha to escape and burn much NOR
rapidly.
Considerable interest was aroused b.
the report of a special treasury agen
of conversation which he had will
Byron E. Lurchin of Pembroke, Maine
now under arrest on the charge o.
; ; smuggling tobacco into Boston. Lurchil
j. said: "People up my way do not con
slider it any crime to smuggle. They al
smuggle their meat and sugar from
Canada" He said that wool, tobacco
Cinnamon, phenacetine and sulphona
were the easiest things to smuggle ovel
, and they brought good prices, also thai
! it was very easy matter to stand il
with the customs authorities. 1t is fail
, to say that Lurchih denies the CONVEX
sation attributed to him, and that thu
: people in the vicinity of Calais are indig
nant at the sweeping character of thu