Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-05-16
Maine News Notes.

Maine News Notes.
Lewiston has appropriated $500 for a.
Fourth of July celebration.
The lime workers of Knox county
have struck as the corporations failed
to accept the new bill of wages.
Fred Cohoon of Bangor, aged 80 and
married, was drowned by the upsetting
of canoe in Burnt Pond, Otis, Sunday,
the It'll.
Thomas Butler of Guilford, aged 40,
was drowned while working on log
boom at a lumber mill. Mr.. Butler
leaves q widow.
Fred Bilodeau of Oakland has been
arrested, charged with making and issu-
ing counterfeit scent pieces. He has
state prison record.
At special town meeting the citizens
of WaldOboro voted three to one to close
the liquor agency on and after Tuesday,
the end of its year.
General Joseph Wheeler, the famous
old warrior of Alabama, has definitely
accepted the invitation to deliver the
Decoration Day address at Bangor.
The NJ. L. Getchell Co. of Monmouth
has been awarded contract to furnish
the Peary expedition with $50 pairs OF
moccasins for the Arctic expedition.
Mrs. Glen After was drowned in the
river near Carratunk on the 9th, as the
result of an accident while she and her
husband were crossing in small boat.
The contract has been signed by
officials representing the Bath Iron
Works and the Secretary of the Navy for
the cruiser to be completed May a, 1908.
The mayor and aldermen of Lewiston
finally succeeded in electing liquor
agent. 1t was on the 293d ballot, and
j. NJ. Scannell had five out of the eight
votes thrown.
Names grand old man, DR.. Alonzo
Garcelon, was 90 years of age on the 9th,
but this ordinarily advanced age did not
interfere with the Doctors professional
duties, which he attended to as usual.
The Lawson Company of Mexico has
been incorporated at Augusta with a
capital stock of SO, DOC. 900, of which S7OC
is paid in. Thomas w. Lawson of Bos,
ton is one of the promoters and the pur,
pose of the company is to do general
mining business.
Rev. Bowley Green is to leave the
pastorate of the First Baptist church Of
Portland, and enter upon the work of ar
evangelist 1t is his intention to con
tinue his church work there until fall
and then begin his new work, which will
confine him to no one denomination OF
state.
William ]. Pierson of Tenants Harbor
st. George, hanged himself in his Wagon
house, Sunday. Mr.. Pierson, who wa'
Ga years old, had become very despond
ent over the death of his wife and
other relatives, and had said to friends
that he didn't see anything further tt
live for.
Herbert Mcintosh, aged 81, wa!
drowned by the upsetting of a canoe
Sunday, in Cedar Lake at West Sebois
10 miles north of Bangor, on the Bangor
& Aroostook Railroad. Mcintosh hal
parents in Sharpsburg, Penn. He wa
bookkeeper for the Maine Hub Manu-
featuring Co.
Forest fires have been getting star
during the dry and windy weather re
Gently. One at Wells Beach the first o.
the week destroyed the town house anC
some 100, 900 feet of sawed lumber, caus
ing a loss of $4,000 to $4,000. Nor
than hundred men were employed II
fight it before it was extinguished.
Maine horticulturists report that tn,
strawberry vines passed through TIL
winter without suffering from the frosts
thus giving us an assurance of cheal
strawberries and plenty of them in thei
season. As yet the Maine farmers hav
not learned the gentle art of lying Al
thoroughly as it has been acquired b.
the peach growers in New Jersey.
DIR. E. G.. Reynolds, one of the mos
prominent and highly respected citizen
of the town of West Newfield, disappear
ed Wednesday under strange circum
stances and large number of mon hunt
ed for him all through that section dur
ing the night The next morning hi
body was found on Garland Mountain
hanging to a tree by halter, the knee
touching the ground. The man hat
been dead some hours. Overwork ant
worry on account of the health of hi
daughter are assigned as causes for tn
deed. DR.. Reynolds was dentist. H
leaves wife and daughter.
George Gordon, a life long resident o
Winn, committed suicide, at an early
hour, Thursday morning, by drowning
He got up about o'clock as usual ant
went to the river back of his own home
taking with him one section of spring
tooth harrow which he dragged on tt
himself as he lay in the water which wa
about three feet in depth. No cause i
assigned for the deed. Mr.. Gordon wa
a hard working citizen of VIM, abou
IS years old, and leaves widow, twt
sons and two daughters, and severa
brothers and sisters besides an aget
mother who is very seriously i'll.
A Kittery lady thinks the boys of thu
present generation are getting prett!
nervy. A few days since this housewife
observed a youngster of perhaps {
dozen years, digging dandelion green's OF
the lawn in front of her house. Thinking
it would do the lawn no harm and woulC
help the boy earn few pennies, she die
not modest him. After digging for some
time she saw the boy 60 to her we'll neal
by and calmly clean and wash the green's
A few minutes later the lady was sur
prised upon answering a knock on he
door, to have the same urchin offer her {
peck of greens for only 20 cents.