Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-05
Interesting Vital Statistics
For Month Of May.
Liquor Seller Fined and a Jail
Sentence Added.
Body Of Long Missing Arson Child
Found In the River.

The annual business meeting of the
Forest Hill Cemetery Association was
held Monday evening, in c. .. SmaHs
law Office and the officers elected
were: President. Ezra NJ Fletcher;
vice president, Orlando Walker; sec
Rotary, Frank l.. Powers; treasurer,
Samuel f. Remick trustees, G. o.
Small, ]. Frank Withee. Dr. w. G.,
Sawyer. The treasurer's report show
ed a balance of $i100 in the treasury
and it was voted TO use a portion of
this money in improvements on the
cemetery grounds.
A meeting of the Madison High
School Alumni Association was held,
Monday evening. and it was voted to
hold banquet and bah in Madison
on June u, as the graduating eXer-
eises will occur on June 20.
The town clerks book shows the
following vital statistics for the month
of MAJ: Deaths, May %, Maria F..
Blackwell, aged IS years, 5 months.
and IL days; May %, John Thibault,
aged years. Births, May 8, to the
wife of Joseph F. Lava1le, daugh
ter; May II, to the wife of John 3.
Boulger, a son; May H. TO the wife
of Joseph DUDE. a son; May 20, to
the wife of Samuel f. Perry, a son;
May %, to the wife of Tony VianZane
a daughter. Marriages, May 9. Peter
j. Grove and Miss Cora Benner, both
of Madison: May liz, George N. Gag
non and Mrs. Annie MiI1ette, both of
Madison
Xavier Talbot was tried before
Judge G. F. Newell, Monday. on the
charge of two single sales of liquor.
Talbot pleaded guilty and received
fine of $50 and costs, and 80 days in
jail. Another case to come before
Judge Newell was that of Walter Ray.
at whose store in Arson. large
quantity of soft beer was seized, last
Friday evening. by Deputy Sheriff
Walker Sheriff Mooers of Skowhe-
gan. conducted the case for the State,
and Judge Simmons of North Arson,
for the defendant. OF the
beer seized "a bottles was what is
known as Tivoli beer. and was claim
ed by the officers to be practically the
same thing as lager beer The de-
fence claimed the beer did not come
under the definition of intoxicants ae-
was made Ray was discharged
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Moore left town,
Monday afternoon, for Pasadena, Cal,
where they expect to make their
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wern of Dorchester.
Mass, arrived in Madison, Monday
afternoon, and are the guests of Mrs.
Wern's brother. F. III. Pease
Florence Gilbert and Mrs. Alice Per-
xins of Lewiston. are spending a few
days with relatives and friends in
Madison.
Mrs. e. F. Doughty of Naples, is in
town being called here by the Illness
Of her stepmother. Mrs. c. K. Evans
Joseph Thibedeau caught a 13-inch
Monday forenoon, in the Ken
nebec river opposite the Indian Spring
wooden mill
Theodore b. Weston was the guest
Of relatives in Portland for two days
the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John C. Merrill of Ma
chias, Lee Merrill of Kingston. Mass.
and Lee Merrill of Fitehburg. Mass.
arrived In Madison, Monday night, be-
Ing called here by the death of their
'ather, Henry Merrill.
Mrs. Nina Paine has gone, to Strait
ton, where she has a situation as cook
N the hotel for the summer.
The body of Mary. the three-yea
Did daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike
Jacob of Arson. was found, late Mon
lay afternoon. caught in some bushes
N the Kennebec river near the farm
IF Fred Clark, about three miles above
Norridgewock. The body was found
by the river drivers of Mr.. Lockwoods
rev. and Deputy Sheriff McKenney
was notified and the remains brought
tn Madison