Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-04-12
Maine News Notes.

Work on the construction OF the
Portland, Gray and Lewiston electric
road has actually begun.
The Maine Central people say the ics
will 60 out of Moosehead by the 25th Of
April-a very early date.
Horace French, aged "a, died Tuesday
at Bowdoin Center from burns received
several days earlier. The old man lived
alone, and when found In his house ht
was frightfully burned, and an upset
lamp showed the cause. The unfOrtu'
nate man had evidently extinguished the
flames before losing consciousness
which he did not afterwsrd regain. De-
ceased had no near relatives.
One of the peculiar features of the
past winter ia that the narrows between
Acknowledgements Lake and Cupsuptic
Lake did not freeze for the entire win
ter, and looms, DUES, rows and robins
were right around that vicinity all the
time. Billy Soule of Pleasant Island
camps says that he expects the fishing
will be especially good in the spring fol
the reason that the water will surely bt
very low in the lakes, as it was extreme.
ly low last winter, and it cannot rise to
its common height.
When the first pulp mills were built ir
Maine the lumbermen had no idea that
the industry would ever amount tt
much, except that 1t might afford q
convenient market for the smaller trees
that were not fit for lumber. From 6
small proportion of the total cut of logl
the "pulp stock" has now increased &c
that on some rivers it equals and on
others even exceeds in quantity the logs
cut for the saw mills. In Maine the har
vest for the pulp mills will reach the
enormous total of 350,000,000 feet this
winter. The amount cut for the saw
mills will not be far from 400, 000, OO(
feet.
A speed in excess of So miles an hour
for four consecutive hours was the
record made Tuesday in the Gulf of
Mexico by the Bath-built torpedo boat
Flusser Of the seventh torpedo fotllla.
The vessel carried q board of naval
officers making final inspection and
speed test of the five new destroyers
which recently reached there. The speed
was at that time the greatest ever attain
ed by naval vessel of the United States
but was exceeded on Thursday by the
destroyer Reid, which for four hours
maintained a speed of thirty six miles an
hour. This establishes new worlds
record for naval vessels.
Rockland Courier Gazette: The joke is
on Senator Staples, who went to inter
view client in one of the upper cells at
the county Jail Tuesday. "You may
come for me In about Is minutes" said
the senator to Turnkey Smalley. The
latter went about his duties in the court
house, where the telephone bell claimed
his attention about 10 minutes later.
"This is the jailer's residence" said the
voice on the other end. "There's man
making a big disturbance out in the Jail. -"
Mr.. Smalley fastened to learn the cause
of the racket and found that it was
Senator Staples who bad been locked
into cell which contained neither his
client nor anybody else. He was out.
doing all his senate stunts in the way OF
oratory when he succeeded in calling at
tention to his predicament.
The Anti.Saloon League of Maine was
merged in the Christian Civic League OF
Maine at the annual meeting of the lat
ter organization at Waterville last Tues
day. The board of directors was in
creased from eleven to fifteen members.
the new ones repr esenting especially the
anti-saloon element and being named by
it. Rev. w. F. Berry was made superin-
tendent for the state and will have for
assistants Rev. 81. N. Pi:pgle, Mr.. E.
H. Emery and Rev. c. z. Owen, who
will be known as secretaries. Mr.. Owen
has been in charge of the anti-saloon
work in Maine. Officers elected are:
President-M. 8. Holway, Augusta.
Vice. President-A. F. Lsughlin, Portland.
Clerk-Rev. w. F. Berry, Waterville.
Treasurer-Horace Purtnton, Waterville.
1t was voted not to accept any contri-
buttons of funds from any political par
ty or committee