Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-10-01

superior court on a complaint alleging
| the maintaining of a liquor nuisance.
He gave bail in $500 for his appear
ance.
Knox Co. Supreme Court.
In the Knox county supreme court.
at Rockland, Monday, Sadie McGraw
was forld guilty of keeping house
of ill-fame In the case of Pasquale
Amiello. indicted for nuisance, Judge
PhilbrooE ordered a verdict of mot
guilty, after the States evidence had
been presented. Chandler Brackett of
Thonaston pleaded guilty to an indict-
ment charging nuisance.
Abbie M. Small, Dover, N. n.
Mrs. Abbie NJ. Small died. Sunday
evening. at her home. 6S7 Central ave
nue.. Dover, n. H., aged 70. She or
ganized the first lodge of the 1nde-
pendent order of odd Ladies in New
Hampshire. Granite States Lodge or
Dover. Mrs, Small was born in New
field. Me, May 80, 1894, the daughter
OF Daniel Davis, a sea captain, and
Abbe (CamperpelD Davis. She was
the widow of Benjamin A. Small of
Dover She came from Indianapolis,
in 1887. Two sons, Frank a. Small of
salmon Falls and William A. Small of
Dover, survive.
Sheriff Oliver Successful.
After a pursuit of more than year
Sheriff Oliver of Sagadahoc county,
Me rar down Charles A Douglass
in HayerhiiI Monday afternoon, and
took him Lack to the Maine courts to
face trial on 81 charge of desertng his
family. The arrest was made by In
spector Hussey, who found Douglass
in a Pecker street lodging house, and
arrested him on the general desertion
law which has been adopted by nearly
all lof the states, Maine and New
HAMPSHIRE included. Douglass was
arraiened before Judge Vim in the
distritc court as fugitive. He waived
| eXtradltion.
Rumford Has New Auto Fire Truck.
This week, Wallace Butterfield, who
| has for several years been driver OF
| the combination truck of the Rumford
| fire department. is. with j. W. Devon
of Elmira, n. Y, trying out the new
| 5000 automobile fire truck which was
| ordered by the town, Last spring, and
| which has. just been delivered in Hum
| ford This piece of apparatus lis of
| $50 horsepower The claim is made for
fit by Chief Engineer Fred E. Carroll
| that lit the best piece of fire apparatus
of it's kind in use in New England. or
| in the world. 1t has been equipped
with this high power because of sew
eral steep hills within the limits of the
village corporation Monday, the truck
| was sent up the Dunton street hill and
up the famous Joe Bill hill leading
| to the house built by the Italian now
serving life sentence at Thomaston for
| the murder of his wife. A test run
was made from the engine house on
| the island to Rumford Center Village.
| The board of engineers. Chief Carroll
and assistants, W. G. Morse and Her
| bert Allen, and also the board of as
SCISSORS, including r. L. Melcher. o. j.
Gonya and S. r. Pennell timed the
| run of more than six miles. 1t was
made in eight minutes. a satisfactory
| test run to Virginia, including the
| hitchins on of hose was also made
| Summer Cottage Destroyed.
The summer cottage known as the
anchorage and Garage owned and
occupied by Williams e. Kotman of
New York. on the North shore at
Northport camp ground was entirely
| destroyed by fire. Monday, with a
part of its contents. The loss is
estimated at $4,000. The kotman's
expected to leave for New York in a
few days. The fire caught from a de
fective ehimny Firemen from Belfast
saved some of the surrounding prop
erty.