Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-07-06
Maine News Notes.

Sanford 10 much stirred up over On.
forcement Of the Sunday law.
Whitefield il getting ready to cele-
brate Its Tooth anniversary which occurs
August 25.
About 1000 Odd Fellows and Re-
bekahs gathered at Waterviile Thursday
for field day. A parade was held In
the forenoon and athletic sports enjoyed
on the Colby campus in the afternoon
with dance In the Armory 10 the oven
ing.
Prof. Austin Cary OF Harvard; former
| " of East Machias, this state, has been
appointed state forest superintendent Of
New York by Gov. Hughes. Prof. Cary
was at one time state forestry commits
sioner In Maine and has been an in
structor at both Yale and Harvard, In
forestry.
At the close of q conference between
the executive committee of the State
Grange and q committee representing
the city council and the Board of Trade
it was announced by Chairman Edward
Evans of the committee of Changers
that Bangor would be the next place for
the annual meeting Of the Grange, De-
cember 81, % and %, 1909.
The first death for some years at least
resulting from a base ball accident, oc-
Cured last week. 1t was at Stratton,
Franklin County, and the victim was
Llewellyn A. Coombs of Augusta, %
wears of age, who was employed on the
railroad survey between Bigelow aud
Strattou. He was hit on the head by a
pitched ball while playing the game on
Saturday, June 49, and died on the fol-
lowing Monday.
Evidently preferring suicide to dis.
grace, Arthur Graham, the acid maker
at the st. Croix paper mills at Calais,
who disappeared Monday, after being
threatened with arrest for alleged indie.
cent conversation with two girls under
-, took his own life. His body was
found floating in the river at Woodland.
Few people believed he had committed
suicide, although his hat was found or
the river bank. He was 4S years old
and married.
A pine stump six feet and seven in.
ches through is curiosity on piece o.
land in Phillips north of the road lead
ing to Thomas Winnings from the Nehe.
miah Haines place. Augustus Vinine
saws that his father and uncle felled tn,
!, tree, sawed and bolted the butt Of it and
, shaved 25, 900 shingles and 1000 feet oil
boards from it. This pine stump meas
ured more than seven feet across befor'
It. rotted around the edges and lost III
bark and part of the wood on the outel
edges.
Mrs. Thomas Anderson of Hartlant
was drowned at Great Moose Lake in tina
town Tuesday afternoon. Mr.. Anderson
was away from the camp where the.
were staying, from morning till o'clocl
at night. On his return Mrs. Anderson
was missing, and after search her bod!
was found in the lake. It's thought sh
waded out after the boat and got beyont
, her depth. She was about 30 years o
age, and leaves husband, to whom sh'
, had been married about five years, ant
one child.
A death said to have been due tc
brown tail moth poisoning occurred al
Kittery Point Thursday, the victim be
ing George Il. Wilson of Derry, N. H., ;
member of the local moth fighting force
He was taken i'll about two weeks ago a
his boarding place at Kittery Point
The physician in attendance said that b,
not only suffered from the external poi
3 soning, but also inhaled the poison
while handling the moth filled pieces o
burlap on the trees. He was % years o
age and leaves a widow and three chill
dren.
, Supt. Charles G. Atkins of the Graf
s Brook hatchery obtained the first spawl
I of the salmon at Bear Brook in Bridgtol
and Matched them at Manchester. This
the first hatchery in Maine, was at tn
: source of a brook tributary to Cobbossee
n contee Lake, four miles from Augusta
9 on land belonging to Samuel Sanborn
Here in the spring of 1868 were hatchet
q the first landlocked salmon ever produc
/ ed by artificial process, and the first fis
. of any kind ever produced by that pre-
I cess in Maine. In 1872 Mr.. Atkins re
signed from the state commissioner
3 and entered the government service
{ Craig Brook station was established ant
K. in 1872 Mr.. Atkins obtained and incuba
D ed the first eggs ever taken from the Al
A lantic salmon.