Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-04-16
About the State.

The Good Templars of the state met
10 Grand Lodge at Bangor last week.
Mrs. Elsie Hobbs Raymond has been
indicted on the charge of numbering
Miss Matte Hackett In Readfield in
1905. The Matte Hackett case has rest
ed for years as one of the apparently I'M
solvable mysteries.
Miss Mary B. McDavid of Augusta,
while deranged, committed suicide by
pouring kerosene over herself and then
thrustiDg her head into the furnace.
She was so burned that she died few
hours later. She was IS years Of age.
Frank W. Jones of Augusta, aged 10
years, was electrocuted Wednesday,
while gathering brown tail moth nests.
The pruning pole came In contact with
the high tension line of the lewiston
Augusta. Waterville street railway and
II 900 volts passed through his body,
killing him instantly.
A peculiar case of cruelty was that re-
Gently disclosed at Lisbon. A child five
wears old, which could neither walk nor
talk, is alleged to have been kept BY its
mother tied up in q burlap bag and hung
behind the stove, in the hope OF getting
rid of it. The child was sent to the
cbildren's home at Augusta.
Frank Arnold, for many years employ
ed in a Portland hotel, committed
suicide BY hanging at Damariscotta We'd
nesdsy. He has been in poor health for
some time. OF late he has been living
with his sister. Mrs. Freeman Chaplin.
He was q veteran of Halls Second Bat
tery and served with distinction In the
Civil war. He was "A years old and
leaves one son.
State Horticulturist A. K. Gardner has
discovered a serious infestation of the
San Jose scale In Brunswick. Twice be-
fore has this pest been found in the
state, in both cases on young trees re-
Gently brought In. The Brunswick
orchard Is an old one, of old trees, and
the pres ence OF the scale 10 not easily &C.
counted for. Most of the infested trees
we're cut down and burned, and the
Others were scrsped.
C. E. Embree Of Riverhesd, N. Y,
sales manager for the Long Island Pota-
to Exchange, who has been working In
the state for several months under the
direction of Commissioner OF Agricult.
ure John P. Buckley of Westbrook,
awakening interest in cooperative
marketing of potatoes and apples, was at
the State House, Monday, snd stated
that the movement In this state had
progressed more rapidly than either be
or Com missioner Buckley had expected.
A meeting Of the executive boards OF the
various organizations will be held In the
near future for the purpose OF arranging
for CO. operation on the selling end. Sell
ing headquarters will DO located in New
York and after the matter OF pota'o
shipments has been worked out more
at tentiou will be given to apple ship
ments. It Is expected that the apple
dealers will be organized upon the
Oregon plan.
Cliff Young Of Camden 10 the possess
or Of q little old book which 10 indeed
curiosity, says Camden Herald. It Is N
arithmetic that WAS used by his great
great grandfather when he attended
school In Lincolnville. The book II
written entirely by hand, the penman
ship being excellent and every figure Il
still distinct. We understand that u
was the only book used in the schoo
and was passed from scholar to scholar
The book contains about so pages and Il
bound in . cover of heavier paper
From some of the dates written 10 thu
book We judge 1t was In use about l7SO
Some OF tho definitions are 40 quantity
worded that No give herewith some Of
them. addition teaoheth to bripi
several particular numbers into one tota
sum," "Subtraction 10 the taking less
or number out of greater whereby tn,
difference between the numbers give'
NAV be known" "Multiplication 10
rule BY which any given number may o
speedily increased; according TO an,
proper number Of times" "Divisiou U
rule which speedily discovers ho'
often ono number 10 contained Into an
other and how much remain" Con
adorable space 10 devoted TO tho Rule
Thfee and the Double Rule OF Three.