Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-02-12

ject of address, "a Visit to the Home Of
Washington" You are cordially invited
to attend both morning and evening.
Maine News Notes.
An addition giving two acres Of floor
space Is to be built to the Congress
Square Hotel In Portland.
John Leavitt of Guilford, 72 years of
age, committed suicide Thursday, the
deed being due to depression from the
recent death of his wife.
A Pennington girl, Isabel Gould
White, who graduated from the high
school in 1904, is winning success on the
stage. She is with the "Arizona" COM
pany now In the West.
The Bangor News Is not wanting In
praise of Longfellow, but solemnly asserts
that Maine has produced at least three
greater poots-Isaac Mcclellan, Mrs.
Mace and Holman Day.
Because Of the agitation for moving
the state capital, some of the business
men Of Augusta last week formed a
company TO build q big hotel in that
city, taking the present Augusta House
as the nucleus.
Piscataquis Observer: The country
editor Is supposed to take almost any
thing on subscription account, but the
writer drew tho line the other dav when
q man wanted to turn q bet that he had
won (but had not collected) in payment
for the Observer.
The new turbine steamer Governor
Cobb Of the Eastern Steamship Co.
made q record run Wednesday night
from Boston to Portland, completing
the trip in Eve hours and fifty-five
minutes better time than was ever be-
fore made over the route by any steamer.
Robert NJ. Campbell, editor of the
Ellsworth Enterprise, was rescued with
difficulty Wednesday from his house
which was destroyed by fire. When the
blaze was discovered he was confined in
bed by illness and was carried out by
neighbors barely in time to escape the
flames.
The Portland Star Match Co., which
has been In existence In Portland for
over thirty years, has been sold out to
the Diamond Match trust Of New Jersey
at a price which Ia denied publicity.
Whether the plant will finally be remov-
ed from Portland ia not certain, but
Portland Is apprehensive.
The new turbine steamer Camden,
built for the Eastern Steamship Com
pany, will be launched on the afternoon
of Feb. IA at tho Bath Iron Works.
Miss Martha Cobb, daughter Of Governor
William T. Cobb, will christen the
steamer. Gov. Cobb is expected to be
among the launching party.
Mrs. Louise e. Adams. s3 years of age
was fatally burned at her home in Port
land Tuesday morning, by her wrapper
catching fire from hot stove. Walter
Fryatt, clerk for lumber company, was
passing the house at the time, and rush
ing in, wrapped the old lady in rugs and
beat out the flames. She was imme
diately taken to the hospital, but dice
there few hours later.
A swindler has recently been trying t.
victimize California banks by putting
up az security for loans certificates Of
stock Of the Fort Kent Trust Company
and AroostoOk County school bonds
He gave the name of Mott. He owns
no stock In the trust company, and need
less to say neither AroostOok County
nor any other county In Maine issue.
school bonds. Both are undoubtedly
forgeries.
Benjamin Thompson, a Shapleigt
farmer, disappeared on the night o.
Saturday, the I'd, somewhere between
Sanford and Springvale, his team being
found on the road with his overcoal
and mittens In the pung. Tuesday
morning his body was found, frozen
about mile from Sanford. Thompson
was bachelor, about 70 years Of age.
He had had two paralytic shocks and
was not mentally strong.
There Is in Portland an immigrant
case similar to that which recently
reused so much interest in Boston.
The immigrant in this case is Alma
Schetzen, a Jewess II years Of age, who
comes from Russia and whose family are
in Detroit. She is refused admission
and ordered deported because afflicted
with trachoma, communicable disease
of the eyes. By the action of her family
a special investigation Is being made In
her case.
The body of Mrs. Sadie Eugley was
found Thursday morning under one OF
tho windows at the home of her mother,
Mrs. W. R. Chandler, at Warren. Mrs.
Eugley had arrived on the train the
previous evening from Boston, where
she had been employed for some time,
and started to walk to the house, which
was Q quarter of . mile distant, with o
very snowy road. 1t is supposed that
she was overcome by the cold and her
exertions or that she was taken sick on
the way. Tracks were seen in the
snow where she had walked around the
house, but no one inside heard her max
Ing any effort to gain an entrance. The
coroner decided that it was clear case
Of freezing and no inquest was necessary.
Tho West Freeman correspondent oil
the Maine Woodsman, in looking over q
box of souvenirs and curios the other
day, came across q cake Of hard tack
which had been in his possession since
1852. 1t was part of the rations issued
to Co. K, Gath Maine Regiment, when
ordered to the front from Augusta. 1t
10 In much better condition than the
rations issued to these same boys months
later at the siege Of Port Hudson when q
gulp and swallow with closed eyes was
the only way they conld get outside of
the moldy hard tack and wormy bacon
which for a while was their only fare.
Not so much clamor was made in those
days over poor food as there was in our
late war with Spain. But the Johnnie
Rebels were glad now and then to swap
. piece of hoe cake with our boys for q
bit of their bareback.
NEIGHBoRS GOT FOOLED.
81 was literally coughing myself to
death, and had become too weak to leave
my bed; and neighbors predicted that I