Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-11

| WHICH mas manifested itseil III So'Si
al attacks of heart trouble. OF one OF
these he complained Wednesday noon,
and for it he took remedies. But art
eli mounting the stairs to his own
rooms for dinner he was stricken
suddenly and the end followed. Phy-
sicians were unable to resuscitate him,
although they worked on him for some
| time.
Benjamin SWEET.
After 81 years of continuous service
at the Continental mills, Lewiston,
Benjamin SWEET, for the last II years
| yardmaster for that concern, DIED,
early Wednesday morning, at his
home, No. 2 Continental blocks. after
weeks illness from pneumonia. Had
he lived until Dec. 49, Mr.. SWEET would
have been II years of age.
Boxer in Hospital.
1t became known, Tuesday, that
Leon Lebrecque, the Rumford boxer,
who left the ring after boxing three
rounds at Mechanics Institute, Fri
day night, in what was to have been
a six-round bout, with Ernest Thl-
bodeau, received a compound fracture
OF the lower jaw in the second round
He is in a Lewiston hospital for treat
ment. The outcome is regretted by
| Thibodeau's friends who say he had
handled Lebrecque carefully, feeling
himself to be the better man. Little
public comment has been made on the
accident, as the boxing match was the
first in a series which are to be held
at the institute, this winter. The Sc
ries has been Endorsed by the enter
| tainment committee of Mechanics In
stitute, which is P. E. Mccarthy, SUI
perintendent of the paper mill; Chas.
l.. Brown. Martin l.. Griffin, chemist
at the paper mill; Matthew McCar-
thy, judge Of the Rumford municipal
court, and Cleon S. Osgood, road mas
ter of the Rangeley division of the
Maine Central Railroad.
City Clerk of Biddeford Dead.
Lawyer Edgar A Hubbard, for II
years city clerk of Biddeford. and a
member of the York bar. for many
years. died at the Trull hospital, on
Tuesday, from a cancer. He was born
| in Newfield, Me-, March 3, 1852. Mr..
Hubbard studied law in this city and
was admitted to the bar in 1878. He
practiced law until 1888, when he be-
| came city clerk. He was clerk of the
Beard of Registration for some years.
and was always active in politics, be-
coming a Democrat until the Citizens
party was started. Mr.. Hubbard was
a 32d degree Mason and was former
ly a member of Dunlap Lodge. A. F.
| & A. NJ, and other bodies, A son, Ar
/ thur T. Hubbard of Reading, Mass,
employed in the baggage department
of the Boston & Maine Railroad, sur
wives.
Smallpox in Biddeford.
James J. Mellon of the Biddeford
Board Of Health quarantined nine
fresh cases of smallpox in six families.
| Il is expected before the end Of the
week the employees of the Pepperell
Manufacturing Co. will be offered vac
cination at the expense of the corpora
ton. Mayor ]. G. C. Smith and Sec.
Mellon waited on Agent Ernest L. Nor
rell of the company, Tuesday, and ask
| ed that the company furnish free vac
cination for its workers. All the new
cases reported, Tuesday. are in the
families of French speaking residents
Shot in Side While Cunning.
Alfred Blouin. aged IS years, mill
worker, and son of George Blouin, a con-
| tractor living in Cloves street Biddeford,
was shot in the side, Tuesday morning.
while he was cunning in the WOODS on
the Pool road. He is at the Weber
hospital in a critical condition. Blouin
was inserting a shell in double-bar-
relied shotgun. when there was an ex-
plosion, tearing a hole in his side peIow
the heart. He was able to drag himself
| to the home of Alvan c. Cove, teacher
in the public schools, where his cries of
Come quick, I'm dying." were heard.
An ambulance took him to the hospital.
| He is weak from loss of blood and the
| shock to his system may prove fatal
| There is danger also from blood poison
ing. The youth was unable to explain
the explosion.
Prominent Bath Physician Married.
| Word was received at Bath, Tuesday,
of the marriage of DR.. Clarence A Peas
lee and Miss Frances B. sHobson, both
of Bath, in Portland. Monday evening,
by Rev. Ashley D. Leavtt of the State
street church. DR.. Peasiee is physician
prominent in city affairs, having served
two years In the board of aldermen His
bride is the daughter of NJ L. Hobson
of Wiscasset. She had been DR.. reasee,s
assistant for the last 10 years. The
couple will live at 1922 Middle street, Bath.
Sheriff oliver Endorsed by w. C. T. U.
| Sheriff Wilbur c. Oliver of Sagadahoc
county appeared before the members of
the Bath w. c. T. T., upon the invitation
| OF Mrs. F. Z. II. McFadden, the presi-
| dent, at the regular meeting in the Y.
M. c. A. parlors, Tuesday afternoon.
Sheriff Oliver said he is highly gratified
that his regime of liquor enforcement
Is appreciated by the members of the
union, who recently passed resolutions
indorsing his campaign. He also said
there is not, to his knowledge, hotel,
drug store, club or shop where liquor Is
sold in Bath Tuesday. The sheriff added
that II any liquor is being sold he wants
to be Informed. He announced that his
policy Of strict enforcement will be con-
tinued to the end of his administration,
Dec. 81, 1914
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