Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-06-19
Maine News Notes.

vinalhaven Is debating whether to &C.
cept the gift of Carnegie library.
The new Androscoggin County direct
DRY has 400 more names than the one
last issued.
The Maine Central Railroad has put
on q dining car between Portland and
Bar Harbor-the first dining car ever
run regularly Oh that road.
Benjamin Giles, aged 20, and Herbert
Staples, of the same age, were drowned
In, Green Lake, near Ellsworth, Sunday
by the upsetting Of their canoe during
thunder shower.
Tuesday afternoon at Bucksport Mrs.
Melvin Hutchings went to Halls wharf
on the water front to fish for founders,
taking her seven months old baby in
go-cart. Mrs. Hutchings was intently
fishing when sudden gust OF wind
rolled the go-cart off the wharf into the
river, and the baby was drowned, there
being no help at hand.
The Department of Maine, Grand
Army of the Republic, held its annual
encampment in Portland Wednesday and
Thursday. Frederick s. Walls of Vinal-
haven was chosen department COM
mander after four.cornered fight. He
having the largest vote on the first bal
lot, though not enough to elect, the
other three candidates withdrew and he
was then unanimously chosen.
A picnic of the graduating class Of
Brewer High School had sad ending
Tuesday. The class were spending the
day at Hymes Pond, about ten miles
out, and four of the boys were out in a
sail boat, when it was overturned by q
gust of wind, and the boys went down,
all in the boat drowning before help
could reach them and in sight OF the
others of the party on shore. The boys
were, Norman Herrick, II, son Of s. s.
Herrick of South Brewer, Winfield
Brown, II, son of Edwin Brown, Lamont
Parker, 1S, son of Mrs. F. A. Burrill,
and Lawrence Aiken, 10, son of George
Aiken of North Brewer.
When Governor Cobb and party were
in Fort Kent recently to attend the
graduation exercises of the Madawaska
Training school they were treated to
sight seldom seen by casual visitors.
During the morning the attention OF the
party was attracted to large bull moose
which had wandered into town and was
browsing around in the vicinity of the
"dry bridge" near G.. H. Pages store.
After wandering around and displaying
himself to large crowd he was chased
toward the mountains by some school
children. Since his first appearance he
has been seen several times near the
starch factory evidently intending to
summer in that locality. Such Is the
story as it comes from Fort Kent. The
only funny thing about it is that 1t says
the sight is one "seldom seen by casual
visitors" A good advertiser would
treat it as common occurrence.
In speaking of old times in Wiscasset
a correspondent says: "When Lydia
Leighton lay dead in her coffin all Wis
casset people who saw, marveled at the
rose pink coloring of cheeks and lips:
Only the old nurse who had loved and
tended the sick woman knew tho secret
of these vivid tints. When Lydia had
sailed on her wedding day with her hus-
band, the young sea captain, she was
filled with ardent longing to see all
there was of life, taste its experiences to
the full. Thus it was that when they
tarried in some far of foreign port, the
girl wife had placed herself in the hands
of native doctor, who had tattooed the
delicate skin with some magical prepare
ton like the bloom of the wild rose.
Afterward, through all the years of her
brief life, that bright complexion never
changed. So it was that Lydia in her
last hours was bereft of the dignified
pallor of death and was doomed to stare
with rose leaf bloom into the mysteries
of that world beyond the grave"