Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-02-08
Maine News Notes.

NA0tuG INVWO tNVeSSe
Bucksport's historic town hall, CEN
tury old, was burned Tuesday.
Cumberland County has actually got
into its new $3.50, 900 court house, courts
and all.
The evangelists, Chapman and Alexan-
der, are now conducting meetings In
Bangor.
Mason Baker, 40 years Of age, was
killed in the Forest paper mill at Var
mouth Friday by being caught in belt.
The seniors of Edward Little High
School, Auburn, have been denied the
privilege of taking Washington trip in
place of graduation exercises.
Commander Peary has been ordered to
report at Washington for regular duty in
the navy. This will interfere consider
ably with plans which he had made.
Mrs. Joseph Whitworth of Biddeford
died at the hospital Thursday as the re-
suit of burns received the previous day
by her clothing igniting while she was
building fire. She was 40 years Of age,
and leaves two children.
The Bangor Salvation Army are plan
ming to build working mems home in
that city and already funds to the
amount of nearly 5000 have been sub
scribed. 1t is proposed to run an en-
ployment agency in connection with 1t.
The badly mangled body of William
Driscoll of West Rosehill, 81 years old
and unmarried, was found Sunday in the
lover Maine Central railroad yard at
| Lewiston, where he had been run over
by the outgoing and incoming Pullman
trains.
Frank Murray and Thomas Lewis,
convicted of breaking and entering the
Hartland post office, were on Friday sem
fenced in the United States Court at
Portland to eight and seven years re-
spectively in the federal prison at AT,
lauta, Ga.
John House of Monmouth, aged &c
years, was instantly killed Sunday by a
freight train, eastbound, quarter of a
mile below the Anabessacook station on
the Maine Central, while walking on the
track. The mans skull was fractured
and one thigh broken.
Lewiston is to have another industry
The old dry plate factory which has
been idle several years, has been leased
by a Massachusetts, company and will be
operated to its capacity within few
weeks. The product will be dry plates
and other Photographic supplies.
The same man has been appointed
manager of the department of purchases
and supplies for the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad, the Boston
and Maine, the Maine Central, the
Washington County and the Somerset
These several railroads are now operated
as parts of one system.
1t is reported that two new hotel,
would be built at Old Orchard this
spring, one on the ocean front and the
other near the camp ground. There
will be a number of cottages built, il
plans materialize, and the carpenters are
looking for busy spring 1t is claimed
that the work on the hotels will b
pushed forward so that they will b'
ready for opening after the Fourth.
More or less stir was occasioned il
Portland last week by the disappearance
Monday morning of Charles A.. Bean
treasurer and manager of the 1. S. Bear
Co., a we'll known wholesale fruit con
Germ. Mr.. Bean evidently took Boston
train, but left 1t at some station on the
way. He has not yet been found. Al
investigation of the affairs of the com
pany reveals that it is probably insolvent
i A correspondent of the Lewiston
Journal reports that in tearing out the ole
part of the state house at Augusta fol
remodeling, serious structural defects
were disclosed which make it matter o
congratulation that no part of the build
ing has collapsed. The conditions viii
make more work necessary than was
planned, and when it is done there will
be little of the original state house left
as it was built.
| A bird lover of Brewer this winter has
seen quantities of ground sparrows while
he has also seen an occasional robin.
Neither have the crows, which usually
seek the seashore during the cold
weather, left their customary haunts
Early in the present week this same man
observed sheldrake winging its way
rapidly over the city, following the river
As the pool at the water works dam was
approached, the bird flew steadily lower
till it was directly over the pool, when
it alighted. The following morning
ducks and crows, as we'll as large mum.
Der of gulls, were visible evidences that,
of the salmon pool at least, spring is on
hand, while the long stretch of open
water for half mile below the dam,
would almost make one think that the
salmon fishing season Ia about to open,
instead of being two months away.
Frank B. Hills, first selectman OF
Thomaston, hitched up in front of the
Rockland post Office day or two ago
with "pedigreed carriage"-the one 10
which Washington's first secretary of
war used to ride. The carriage was
built in Boston 100 years ago and was
the private carriage of Major General
Henry Knox, secretary under the first
President, and not only is 1t one of the
most historic vehicles in the United
States but it is also probably the oldest
able-bodied private carriage in existence
on the continent. In spite of its 1870
years, a quaint substantial vehicle it is.
General Knox no doubt had it made,
just as history tells it, in Boston, for
there were no carriage builders in Thorn
aston in those early days, and as General
Knox operated packet line of small
sailing vessels between Boston and