Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-12-16
About the State.

Il AUO0S SuO St8S0s
| A testimonial banquet to former Ad
Ijutant General Elliott C. Dill will b.
given by the officers OF the Maine Nation
al Guard at Portland hotel Jan. 23d.
Burleigh Chase of Canaan shot ani
killed himself by accident Wednesday
while hunting. he was son of Abnel
Chase, q well-to-do farmer, and was q
years old.
Something new In the fox line is re-
ported from Skowhegau. 1t 10 q slate
oolored animal, but trappers have told
the captor that when older 1t will be q
silver gray or black.
Franklin Simmons, the noted sculptor,
who died in Rome on the 9Th inst, was
native OF Maine, having been born at
Webster in 1889, but since 1858 be had
lived mostly in Rome.
A $45, 900 hotel Is now among the pos
sible additions to Eastport for the COM
ing year, the proposed site being the 10.
cation Of the former Quoddy House,
burned q few years ago.
Miss Sophie Tarbox of Biddeford has
received certificate from Payson Smith,
State superintendent of schools, emit
| ting her to an annual teachers pension
of S135 annually. She has taught school
AZ years continuously in Biddeford.
Mrs. Charles Stacey, aged IS, and wife
OF the proprietor of sporting camps at
Sourdnahunk, was instantly killed, and
her brother, Hollis Bruce, was seriously
injured Wednesday when carriage in
which they were riding was struck at q
railroad crossing at North Lincoln by q
west bound Maine Central passenger
train.
The milk white deer which had been
roaming the hills of New Vineyard all
this fall, and had seemed to bear a
charmed life as many hunters had fred
at it and missed, has fiually fallen before
the rifle of Edgar A. Hunter of that
town. Mr.. Hunter considers himself o
fortunate man for while deer partially
white are occasionally shot in the woods
1t is rare that specimen entirely white
is secured.
On the state preserve at Monmouth
two of the bucks, this fall, grew discon-
tented and ugly. Recently they have
been attacking other deer in the herd,
and the trouble became 80 serious that
the two were killed, and Thursday they
arrived in charge of Curator James at
the Augusta House for venison steaks or
stews. One weighed 1l6 and the second
fnfo nf
pounds, for which tho state received
S24 90.
It now seems that the theory of MUIR
der in connection with the death
OF Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Eldridge
of West Gardiner is about to be
given up. A good alibi has been estab-
lished by Fernald Edredge, the son,
who was detained after the man and
woman had been found dead in their
burning house. 1t is said to be possible
that the jury may decide 1t as case of
suicide, but 1t will be about two weeks
before report is made.
Among the list of unclaimed deposits,
as published in the Times by the Bath
Savings Institution, was one of 81, $40 .63.
This was deposited by Samuel Francis
on July Is, 1857. 1t is believed that be
was sailor, who came to join a Bath
built vessel, and was never heard from
afterward. The original deposit amount
ed to $50, which to-day, through COM
pound interest, has increased to 81, $40 63.
1t is one OF the oldest accounts in the
bank.
What, it may be hoped, was the last
fatal accident of the deer bunting season
in Maine occurred near Lagrange station
Friday, when Ralph Bishop OF Orneville,
20 years old, was shot and fatally wound
ed by his father, Louis Bishop, while
deer hunting. They had started deer,
and the young man went around to head
off the game and drive it in. When the
deer came in sight the elder man fred,
not seeing his son. The bullet missed
the deer but struck young Bishop in the
side, and he died in ten minutes.
w. B. Hanson of 10 Pine Street, Au-
burn, has been appointed general super
intendent and consulting engineer OF all
the mills owned by the Lockport Cotton
Mfg. Co. at Lockport, N. Y. This COM
prises the felt mills and sulphite works
as we'll as the batting and cotton mills
and bleachery. A new cotton mill and
bleachery and dyeworks are to be erected
in the near future. This with the present
plant, which covers more than five
acres of buildings, will make this con-
Germ one OF the largest Of its kind in the
world. The power to drive 1t will come
ec!rically from Niagara Falls, % miles
away. Mr.. Eanson's headquarters will
probably be in Buffalo for the present.
When Mrs. Fred Psyheur threw pol
ishing cloth across the room of her
home at Biddeford the other day she
started trouble. The cloth had taken
fire while she was polishing stove, and
1t landed on o bed where her sick hus.
ban lay. The cloth set fire to the bed
clothing, and the husband hurled the
blazing cloth toward another section of
the room. 1t struck in tue baby's crib,
and the little fellow was severely burned
as he pushed 1t out on the floor. There
1t set fire to the clothing of the baby's
twin sister, and only by prompt action
with a pail of water was the mother able
to save the lives Of her two little ones as
we'll as her husband. A physician had
to be called to the relief of the four, all
of whom had been badly burned.
Terrors OF the high cost of living are
naught to the University of Maine domes-
tic science girls, at least as far as buying
and preparing nutritious food is con.
cerned. This is being demonstrated
every day by the young ladies, who serve
nourishing meals at a per capita cost OF
only six cents each. This six cent meal
includes In the menu salmon pudding,
hot mullins and apple brown betty.
There are 100 calories In 1t and Is per
cent. protein. Twelve and rs cent meals
are also prepared by the young ladies.
Miss Eunice Niles of Hsllowell and Miss
Edith Flint of West Baldwin served II
cent luncheon to q mixed assembly OF
men and women the other day, and the