Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-05-06
About the State.

The Bible Society of Maine Is to butld
a home for itself on lot which It owns
In Portland, at cost OF about $4,000.
st. Albans will celebrate its centen
nial on the 18th of June, with an histori
cal and industrial parade, addresses, 8
concert and ball and other features.
During the coming season John s
HYDE, founder and head of the Bath
Iron Works will erect magnificent man
sion in that that city. No figures have
been given out as to the actual cost oi
the building or its size, but 1t has been
learned that it will be q considerably
more pretentious structure than the well
known Hill residence at Augusta, which
is known to have cost approximately
100000.
There ia q degeneration family in
North Auson, Fletcher -Crymble family
The Oldest member is Mrs. Susan Hantel
Fletcher, who is 80 years old; her son,
George Henry Fletcher; his daughter,
Mrs. Inez Fletcher Crymble; her son,
Merton Fletcher Crymble; and his son,
Charles Crymble. The youngest mem
i UbT HAS UcoIuoo Ss
great-grandfathers, two grest-grand'
mothers and one great-grest-grand.
mother.
"Just like finding it," Is what the
Bangor city treasury officials remarked
when check from The Bangor Railway d
Electric Co. for S2S00 was presented as
pay ment for one years franchise fee for
the use of the city streets by the electric
lines, according to the terms OF the re-
newal of the franchise for a 25-year
term. The franchise had been extended
a year pending adjustment and the $2SOO
deal. President Graham said that he
thought the city needed the money.
On a recent trip to Boston A. l..
Kruger of East Parsonsaeld wore an
overcoat SO years old, so he told "Ob,
servant Citizen" of the Post, and which
had been made for his father in Germany
at cost of S13. The coat is of broad
cloth and shows no evidence of wear
anywhere, not even in the lining. he
saws the coat has been worn constantly
ali this time and 1t looks better to-day
than many coats that are only year
old. Despite his 76 years Mr.. Kruger
manages to visit Boston twice year,
and this was one of the times.
William Pool, who manned one of the
guns of the frigate Cumberland during
her engagement with the Merrimac, died
at his home in Rockport few days
since at the age of eighty-four. he Is
believed to be the last but one OF the
survivors of that battle. Mr.. Pool, who
for wears had been best known as "Cum-
berland Billy" on enlistment was as.
signed to the Cumberland. During her
engagement with the Merrimac numbers
of his fellows were shot down all around
him and he was transferred to gun aft,
to which he stuck until it was obvious
the vessel was doomed. In company
with the handful that had not been
killed, Pool escaped to small boat. He
was later transferred to the North Caro-
lima.
The season being a little dull, the
black fox reporter has started out
again, and produced the following: Six
black foxes, worth S15, 900 or more, were
ca ptured by Calvin Graves OF Hancock
and his two sons, Thomas and Arthur,
near McFarland's hill, Sunday afternoon.
The capture is one of the richest ever
made in Maine and breaks the record for
recent years. The foxes will probably
be marketed In Prince Edward Island,
where the black fox industry Is conferred
| in this part OF the world. Calvin Graves
and his sons ran into the nest near Nc.
Farland's hill entirely by accident and
surprised the mother and her five prog
eny, three of whom are females and
two males, and were successful in bag.
ging the whole of them. The fur OF the
mother fox was in fairly good condition
and OF course the others are 10 excellent
shape. The young foxes are, 1t Is esti'
mated, about two months old and are
the size of half.grown cat. They are
now safely Gagged at the Graves home In
Il hancock, and they are jealously guard.
ed, for it is not often that Maine hunt.
er bags several thousand dollars in one