Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-04-23
Maine News Notes.

The sardine canning season ct Kast-
port ID said to be opening slow with .
prospect OF . small spring pack.
Capt. William Otis Of Brunswick, aged
90, ran down to Bath, the other day, to
see about q few business matters and
while on the street had the pleasure OF
meeting John w. Roberts of that city,
who 10 90. It Was the first time these
boys had ever met.
Carl Perkins, aged 20 years, fell into
the bevel gears under the Mcclellan saw
mill ut South China Monday, and was
crushed to death. He went below tho
mill floor to replace . belt and when
found his head and shoulders had been
severed from the rest Of his body just
uuder the arms. He was the son Of
Henry f.. Perkins of Weeks Mills and
is survived by his parents.
Dark Harbor, the beautiful but exclu-
sive summer resort at Islesbor0, In
Penobscot Bay, has taken . new start
this winter and more new cottages are
being built there than for q number of
years. r. s. Moseley of Boston Is hav-
ing $4,000 summer palace built. II
will be low aud rambling with 80 rooms
and nine baths. The former Praul cot
tage, now owned by Harold Pratt of
New York, an official Of the Standard
Oil Co., 10 being enlarged and rebuilt,
adding 81 rooms, and six baths, with q
sun room Is SO IL, open sleeping
porches and large piszzas and balconies.
Bangor declares that 1t has one city
which 1t can contemplate
with much satisfaction, for It Ii source
Of revenue, rather than an expense. That
10 the water department. The city
owns it's water works. The city sells
the water to the people and charges It.
self with what 1t uses for various pur-
poses. The total water "sales" for the
past year amounted to $95, $40, of which
sSl 1888 was actual cash business, the
balance being charged of to city de-
partments and charitable institutions.
After all the bills were paid there was
cash profit of $9l29, which goes into .
sinking fund to pay for the plant and
permanent additions.
The case of a Great Dane. dog owned
by a Colby student is rather peculiar.
The dog has mania for chewing things,
Il seems, and did some little damage to
DR.. Craigin's stable door, for it seems
that he will bite anything that has the
taste like wood. He was arrested on
of DR.. Craigin and placed In
room at the police headquarters In City
Hall, where he almost chewed the wood
IN part of the windows to pulp. He
vas discovered before he had broken the
wooden part down, and was placed in .
regular cell. The owner has said that
le cannot do anything with the animal
Is far as breaking him OF the habit Is
and has said to either kill
him or give him to some ono In the
country. The dog is handsome, per-
ectly intelligent and kind, and il it were
,ot for his gnawing propensity, would
% most desirable. 1t has not yet been
decided what disposal will be made of
him.
The famous 7l.year-old missionary of
he wilderness, Rev. G. II. Bowel, has
completed a trip of over three months
lmong the lumber camps of Northern
Maine, covering hundreds OF miles on
.ote teams and ON snowshoes, making
oug tramps in time which would trouble
many q younger man to equal. Starting
1t the foot of MOosehead Lake, he visited
III the camps in the Frenchtown and
Lily Bay region, whore he preached to
hundreds of wOodsmen who are cutting
spruce for the paper mills of the Great
Northern Paper Co. He dropped 10 on
he camps of the dam-builders at the
outlet of Ripogenus Lake, giving them a
talk, and then liked II miles up the lake
On snowshoes to Red Brook, then to the
little hamlet of Chesuncook, where there
are about 100 people, which he has Wis.,
tied for the past IA years. The people
have built little church and had preach
ing by Mr.. Bowie for two Sundays.
Then taking the trail of the great West
Branch, he went from camp to camp,
swung around the circle to Telos and
Lakes, reaching civilization
and q railroad at Patten. Everywhere
he was received most kindly, men often
going with him for miles and carrying
hio nocH