Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-01-13
Maine News Notes.

The State Board of Trade will meet at
Biddeford in March.
Old Town is offered $4,000 library
by Carnegie and is wondering if it can
afford the $1,000 year to support it.
The corner stone of the new Grand
Trunk station in Portland was laid last
Monday, with due amount of ceremony.
The Lewiston city Council Thursday
evening unanimously passed an order
petitioning congress to repeal the duty
on coal and beef.
On Sunday night when Stalhiel Curtis
of Monroe went to his barn to attend to
the cattle, he found his father, Jonathan
Curtis, hanging to beam. Life had
been extinct for some time.
Irving Ryan, age "a, of Belfast, fell
from coal scaffold at the wharf of the
Belfast Hay & Fuel Co., and was almost
instantly killed on Wednesday. A wild.
owed mother, one brother and two halt
sisters survive him.
The Waterville Board of Health re.
ports over 100 cases of typhoid fever in
that city, with the number constantly
increasing. Several deaths have,occurred
and it is not strange that the city is much
alarmed. There are also over thirty
cases in Augusta.
Of the college men in the Legislature
this winter, Bowdoin claims eight; Bates
six; Colby, five; Harvard, three; U. of NJ
two; Amherst, two; Massachusetts, In
stitute of Technology, two; and Yale
Tufts, Dartmouth, Brown, Wesleyan
Boston University and the University OF
| Vermont one each.
The Maine Democratic Club celebrated
Jackson's Day Thursday evening with a
banquet at City Hall, Portland, at which
Hon. Samuel w. Gould of Skowhegan
candidate for governor in the last
campaign, was POSTMASTER, and Hon
John Dewitt Warner of New York was
the principal speaker.
Many Portland people believe that
there is little doubt that the annexation
of South Portland to Portland will come
within the next few months. The plan
is to have the Legislature pass the neces.
sary act and then let the voters of the two
cities vote on it as they please. The an
nexation sentiment is growing, it is said,
in both cities.
Winslow is getting to be one of the
wealthiest towns of the state. BY the
| returns for 1902, lis shown that WinSlow
stands tenth on the list of towns and al
her present rate of increase, she will not
be long in overhauling several of those
above her. Her valuation is now consid.
erably more than a third as much as that
of Waterville. No wonder Waterville
wants to annex her.
Lumber has been Bangor's mainstay
this year, the log cut of 210, 900, 900 feet
last winter, having been all driven to
boom, and with the exception of fair
stock carried over for next springs saw.
ing, has been manufactured into lumber
or pulp. Prices of logs have been higher
than ever before in the history of the
industry, SIS to SIT per thousand having
been realized, compared with 50 and Sll
per thousand few years ago.
A bright Rockland man has proven
himself benefactor to the coffee drink.
ing public by connecting and placing on
the market coffee precipitate, prepare
ton for clarifying and settling coffee. BY
its use all such devices known to house.
wives as fish skin, egg shells, cold water,
etc., may be relegated to the background.
The company recently incorporated at
Rockland has capitalization of 900
and proposes to push the preparation.
1t is peculiar but none the less fact
that many people make will and then
wonder what to do with it. Some place
it with their private papers, Others leave
it with their lawyer while some actually
hide it away. Few people know that the
laws of the state provide safe keeping
place for wills but this is a fact. Any
person making will is at liberty to seal
it, write on the envelope to whom it is
to be delivered after the death of the tes-
tator, and leave it at the Office of the
Register of Probate. When will is so
deposited receipt is given and this re-
ceipt can be left with papers in ones desk
or wherever 1t may be desired. If at any
time testator 80 desires he can with
draw the will by presenting the receipt
These wills are kept secure from prying
eyes in the county vault and a good
many people take this opportunity to
have their will securely placed.