Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-03
Maine News Notes.

Maine News Notes.
The official estimate puts the Maine
apple crop at 40 per cent as compared
with last year.
Burglars who had made small breaks,
and who proved to be local talent, have
been arrested in Augusta and Oakland.
Lena NJ. Bean of Portland has been
acquitted by reason of insanity of
numbering her 2-year-old child by starva-
ton.
In The town of Union, with 1900 in
habitants, there are twenty-seven resi-
dents who are so years of age and up
wards.
Knox county is growing good or the
grand jury is getting careless. Only
four indictments were found at the pres
emit term of court.
Mrs. Ralph Parker, % years old,
respondent, drowned herself in the
Mousam River at Sanford Wednesday.
She leaves husband and young child.
Burglars at Hartland Tuesday night
blew the safe in the post office and secur-
ed about $500 in money and stamps.
The explosion reused the people, but
the burglars got away.
The Maine State Fair trustees have
voted to pay premiums in full. 1t was
also voted to hold the fair next year on
the dates when it used to be held-the
first full week of September.
At Badgers Island in Kittery, Satur-
day, Sept. 2Sd, a bronze tablet was I'M
yelled concentrating the launching at
that point of the Ranger, John Paul
Jones' famous fighting ship, in TIT.
The grand jury in Androscoggin
County, after long sitting, reported l5l
indictments. The bulk of them are
liquor cases, and most of them based on
evidence furnished by the Sturgis
deputies.
The annual report of the Bangor &
Aroostook railroad for the year ending
June 80 shows it to have been the most
prosperous in the history of the road.
There was a net surplus of 81, 1922,
which is a gain of S1,505.29 over the
year previous.
The Samoset at Rockland, which al
ready accommodates 250 guests, is hav'
ing an addition built which will contain
90 rooms and baths. The past season
has been the most successful in its his
tory. That is, in fact, pretty nearly the
universal report from Maine resorts.
Roy Tibbetts, aged but dozen years
attempted to commit suicide at Temple
by shooting. For cause unknown the
boy placed thirty-two calibre revolver
to his breast and fired. The bullet wen
through his body, narrowly missing the
heart. At last accounts the boy was
living but in precarious condition.
Lewis Judkins of Weld committed
suicide by hanging about ten days since
Not coming down stairs at the usual tim,
his room was visited and found unoccu
pied. A search of the premises dis
closed Mr.. Judkins' body hanging in thu
sheep shed. He had respondent spells
and had once before attempted to TAKE
his life.
From figures compiled by DR.. A. G
Young, registrar of vital statistics, it il
found that during the past year in thi
state II persons committed suicide
against so for the preceding year. o.
the total number 60 were males and Il
females. The youngest suicide was a
girl of II years and the oldest man OF
S. years.
John C. Maloney will not be tried a
this term of the Knox county court fol
the killing of Mrs. Annie Bishop, al
counsel for Maloney has filed motor
for his commitment to some insane
hospital in this state for the purpose Of
determining his sanity, which motor
was granted, the court ordering Malone,
committed to the insane hospital a
Augusta.
Henry C. Whitmore, aged about 60, :
foreman for the Elias Jersey Roofing
Company of Portland, fell to his death
early Saturday, Sept. 23d, from the roo
of the tower of the wooden mills at Win
throp, where Mr.. Whitmore with crew
of men was engaged in putting roo
on the tower. The breaking of stand
ard to which pulley was attached LEI
him fall to the ground, drop of 70 feet
He leaves wife and several sons anG
daughters, mostly of mature years.
The case of Ernest Bodwell, the
Brunswick young man who wandered
from home and forgot his own identity
is very curious. During his two weeks
of absence, as indicated by things in hi:
possession, he travelled quite extensively
his itinerary including Bangor, New York
city, and several cities in Massachusetts,.
He came to himself suddenly in Fair
haven, Mass, where he had secured en-
lployment in an eyelet factory, and has
no recollection whatever of what hap
pened during the lost two weeks.
AS potato digging progresses in Aroos
took, it is being discovered that the
yield per acre is in excess of what was
predicted few weeks ago-the smiles
of the farmer broaden in consequence,
for it seems to be the prevailing idea
that the price during the coming winter
and spring will be satisfactory. To be
sure, there are fields that are only pro-
ducing 40 and so barrels to the acre; but
these are scare; more are yielding from
go to so and even IS and 80. And few
fields have been reported where over 100
barrels are being dug-even as high as
1875. Such crops as these last mentioned
help to swell the average. And not in
the history of Aroostook has there been
season when the quality of the potato
exceeded or even equaled the crop of
1905. This will have its effect in making
a demand for the county's output.
LIKE FINDING MONEY.
Finding health is like finding money
so think those who are sick. When
you have cough, cold, sore throat, or
like w. C. Barber, of Sandy Level, Va.
He says: 81 had terrible chest trouble,
caused by smoke and coal dust on my
lungs; but after finding no relief in
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