Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-07-08
Maine News Notes.

A double drowning accident occurred
at Thompson pond, Poland. Tuesday
the victims being Richard X. Hass, sget
IS years, and William Schmidt, aged 8;
years, both of New York city. Younl
Hass was the son of Benjamin F. Hass
a well.to-do New York merchant
Schmidt was chauffeur for Mr.. Hass
Hass with his parents and younger SIS
ter had been spending the summer al
Camp Casco. The victims fell from
boat while fishing. Schmidt IL survived
BY wife and three children.
Decisions handed down by the Law
court few days since in the long-drawn
out York bridge cases settle 1t that the
town must pay for the bridge, q matter
of between forty and fifty thousand dol
lars. In the past six or eight years this
bridge has been the cause of a tremen-
dous amount of discord, manifested not
only in at least three bitterly fought
lawsuits for large sums, but in the divi'
sion of the people Of the town against
one another. and an attempt to make
division Of the town into two parts by
the legislature, which was not finally
settled until the referendum had been
invoked on 1t.
Miss Kate e. Flitner and Miss Sarah
B. Lord of Gardiner have rendered their
designations as teachers in the public
schools, to take effect July l, being
among the first of the Maine teachers to
come ander the provisions of the pen
sion act passed by the last Legislature.
Both have taught school for more than
40 years, and, as the members OF the
school board say, with exceptional
fidelity and efficiency" Both women
speak of the great changes and improve
ments in teaching and in the buildings
and surroundings. Miss Flitner says
that at one time she had class OF 9S, a
class that it would be we'll nigh impos-
sible to handle in these days. Both teach
ers have always been held in the high
est esteem by the residents OF the city,
and their former pupils are scattered
from the Atlantic TO the Pacific.
Sheep Four Months Without Water.
Washington, June 2S.-Sheep on the
Nebo national forest, Utah, go four and
half months without water except for
such moisture as they get from the dew
and the juices of forage plants.
Grazing sheep on range entirely des-
titute of water is a recent innovation
due to the increasing demand for forage
and the efforts of the forest officers to
find a place on the forest ranges for all
the stock that can safely be admitted
The area on the Nebo which has now
proved disable by sheep is high and
rocky, portion of 1t being above timber
line, and it has neither springs nor
streams of sufficient size or accessibility
to be used for stock watering purposes.
The grazing season lasts from June 10 to
October 81, and during this period of
four and half months the animals do
not get drink.
Under such conditions, however, the
sheep have done extremely well, and last
years. lambs from this range bad an aver.
age weight at the close of the season of
6S pounds on the Chicago market, which
was rather above the normal weight
from that vicinity.
In one area on the Targhee forest in
Idaho sheep get water only twice during
the four months summer grazing season.
There is no water on the range, but the
sheep are driven to nearby stream
lower down the mountain side. Lambs
from this range weighed IS pounds on
the Chicago market.