Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-28
About the State.
The Maine blueberry crop is reported
to be failure this year.

The Maine blueberry crop is reported
to be failure this year.
An elm tree at Fairfield was struck by
lightning three times during a recent
shower.
The Portland Board of Trade has re-
ceived about 5000 letters of inquiry as a
result of its advertising the charms OF
that city as q summer resort. There's
no doubt but what advertising pays.
John Kendrick Bangs, the famous
author whose summer home is at Ogun-
quit, will be one of the speakers at the
York County Republican convention,
and will later do some campaign speak
ing for Taft and Sherman.
Aroostook County has been favored
with unusually good weather for farm
ing so far this season, and the farmers
are we'll pleased with the prospects.
There has been just enough rain to help
the crops along and keep them in good
condition.
Charles S. leighton, aged 46 years, a
farmer residing three miles from Au-
gusta, committed suicide Tuesday by
shooting in field near his home.
Dependency over business matters and
i'll health are supposed to have been the
cause of the deed.
Emmanuel Walmsley, aged 40 years,
who was arrested on the charge of
assaulting his wife In Lisbon and con-
fined in the police station at Lewiston,
committed suicide in his cell Sunday by
drinking carbolic acid from bottle he
had concealed on his clothes.
At quarry at Crotch Island, Stonipg-
ton, Tuesday, Frank Baldasara, an
Italian 80 years of age, shot and instant
" killed his brother, Antonio Baldasara,
and seriously wounded his uncle,
Ebomedio Sorretti, who endeavored to
stop the shooting. Jealousy was the
cause of the act. Baldasara escaped
after the shooting.
On the 18th party of distinguished
gentleman arrived in Bangor. A re-
porter had long talk with them, after
which he required the aid of an electric
fan to return to normal condition. Upon
returning to his normal self he wrote
that the spokesman of the party talked
of brick clay, limestone deposits and
cement plants, all to be located in Maine
and intimated that there were millions
of real money to be put into the enter.
prises. 1t is to be hoped that the talk
was not of the variety known as hot air,
News comes from Good Will Farm,
that excellent institution in which SC
many Maine people are interested for the
continuous good it does, that recent
gift from Mrs. Tracy W. McGregor OF
Detroit, Michigan, will establish another
endowed home at Good Will. The new
addition will be called, by Mrs. Nc
Gregor's request, Whitney Home, and 1t
will be a perpetual home for fifteen
boys. These endowments are all in
good cause, and the workers at Good
will are to be congratulated as well as
humanity in general, that so much un
selfish work for good is going on in ouI
midst.
Mrs. Catherine Fairservice Sergeant
quietly observed last week the 9Stb an
niversary of her birth at her home in
Sheepscot, with her son and daughter
For a woman of her age she is enjoying
remarkable health, a slight fault in one
of her eyes being her only disability.
She il now the only living member of {
family of ten and the celebration OF hel
centennial Ia looked forward to, and II
she can be prevailed upon to agree t.
the plan it will take place at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. j. NJ. Alexander
25 Curve Street, Boston. Mrs. Sargean
is a ''real" daughter of the Revolution
her father having served during the war