Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-07-22
Maine News Notes.

Rockland, was drowned while bathing II
the Kennebec river at Gardiner.
Farmers In Dexter are putting In milk
ing machines with which to draw th'
tactical fluid from the members Of theil
herds. Milking by gasoline engine Ger
tsinly doesn't sound dairymaidish.
While wading 10 Msddybemps Lake
with party of friends Thursday, Grace
Davis, is years, and Ruth Webber, sud
denly stepped off ledge into deep water
| Miss Davis, the daughter Of the superln'
tendent of the st. Croix Gas d Electric
Light Co. of Calais, was drowned.
Master Horace Weatherbee OF Lincoln
seems to have faculty for money get.
ting. he was riding his bicycle In the
northern part Of the town few DAYS
ago, and In turning out for an auto was
thrown from his wheel. When he
landed, head first, his nose actually
bit silver half dollar in the road.
Contracts which will eventually call
for the employment of nearly zoo men
have just been closed at Rockland oy the
Ruckland Granite Company, and opera
tions at the South End plant will begin
at once. Stone Is to be cut for the
Brooklyn Plaza of the Manhattan bridge
and bridge at South Norwalk, Conn.
The work will last nearly year.
George Emory Fellows, LII. D., a
fol mer president of the University of
Maine, has been chosen president OF the
Milliken University at Decatur, ILL.,, to
take office at the beginning of the new
college year. The James Milliken Uni
versity is q comparatively new institution
but has an enrolment of HOO students
and Ga members In the faculty.
Little Gerard Labrie, the four year-Old
son of Mrs. Thomas Labrie Of Lewiston,
was playing in the door yard and in some
way he got hold of some matches. He
lighted them and before anyone knew It,,
his clothes were in flames and he was
terribly burned. Although help was i'm
mediately summoned, the child could
not be saved, and died within few
hours.
There is one Foxcroft boy who is out
after business and he believes In doing
business in a business-like manner. His
name is Verne Eldridge and he advertises
to be worn digger" Neatly printed
cards bearing his name and his business
as worn digger" have been circulated
In places in Foxcroft where anglers are
likely to congregate and his business 10
growing rapidly.
William McGilvery of Pittsfield and
D. Z. Cimmins of OldtOwn have pur-
chased the mill on Hunnewell avenue,
for many years tue plant of the
Bryant Lumber Co. They will establish
a shoddy plant. The new concern expect
to have the mill in running order within
a few months. They will employ about
50 hands. The plant has been practically
idle for five years.
A Progressive convention for the Third
District at Waterville
Tuesday nominated Edward NJ. Lawrence
Of Lubec for representative to congress.
There were 275 delegates In attendance.
The Progressives have not as yet acquired
a legal standing as a party, so they have
to choose their candidate by the conven-
ton method, and his name will be placed
on the ballot by petition.
A Skowhegan woman, Mrs. Val Rey-
nolds, carries on skunk farm, and Is re-
ported to do good business at 1t, with
the assistance of her husband and dog.
They and their dog raise and catch
about $50 year, and get from Sl.00 to
81 90 each for the skins. Mrs. Reynolds
asserts that skunks are like any animal
and there is no trouble with them II one
knows how to handle them.
The valuable horse of W. q. Cushman
of Mechanic Falls met his death in a
strange way. Mr.. Cushman had har-
messed out and was putting package
into the wagon and his sister, Mrs. Ward,
was just stepping into the carriage when
the horse made dash for the watering
trough and did not stop in time to clear
the tub and was cut through the chest in
such way that he died in short time.
Mrs. Ward received some bruises when
the horse started.
Gill c. Chen of Shanghai, China, Is in
Bath, and will remain there several
weeks in the Office Of Keegan & Brldg.
ham to obtain Office experience. He is q
of the class of 1913, University
OF Maine, and is to open an Office In
Shanghai. His father is prominent cit
izen in Shanghai, having been for several
years chairman of the board of educa-
ton, and is at present member of the
house of representatives.. One of his
sons is graduate of Harvard Law
school.
High up on the slope of Mt. Katahdin,
above the timber line, there has been
established station for the fire patrol
in that section that ought to prove of
great deal of benefit in fire protection In
that section. The station has tele-
phone, and is far above the timber so
that an uninterrupted view of miles of
forest lands may be had. 1t is kind Of a
com bnation lookout station and patrol
the patrol in making his rounds
spending part of the time on the noun.
tain and reporting the fires by means of
the phone there.
Michael Carmichael, son of Sylvia and
Columbia Patrick and grandson of Shil.
Patrick OF England is the name
and pedigree of a beautiful Angora cat,
valued at 81, 900, owned by Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward l.. Morse of Stockbrdge, Mass,
who are spending the summer in one of
Capt. Barker's log cabins at The Birches.
"Mike," which is the name he answers
to, is very contented in his summer
home, having travelled there in one of the
most expensive travelling baskets which
money could buy. He is nine years old
aud weighs 10 pounds.
George Thompson of Phillips, 90
years of age, has just completed the
building Of dam Is feet long, which
the age Of its builder and the method Of
doing the work make an unusual per-
Torrance. Thompson has been entirely
unaided and all of the dirt used in the
dam has been carriad to its place in a
pail The timbers used have been drag
ged across country from an abandoned
farm more than mile away. The small
ones Thompson lugged on his shoulder,
but the heavier pieces he dragged with
rope. The dam Is on the farm Of bis
sOu-in.law, Fred Ross. near Phillips vii.
lage. A pond about Is feet in diameter
has been formed. As the water comes
from springs and is pure and cold,
Thompson believes 1t would make an
ideal place to raise trout and is planning
to stock 1t with brook trout within o
few days.
The town records of Fairfield, which
are being copied in permanent form un-
der the direction of Town Clerk w. j.
Bradbury, are now complete in their
splendid, new, typewriter, loose-leaf
form for 100 years. In other words, the
work Of copying the records of the town
meetings has been finished down to the
year 1881. This does not, however, rep.
resent tenth part of the labor still to be