Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-03-10
Maine News Notes.

Hon. John A. Peters, member of Con-
gress from the Third Maine District, has
been selected by the state committee as
chairman of the Republican state con-
veption to be held in Augusta, April Q.
Charles Adams, pulp mill employe,
was drowned in the Kennebec river at
Skowhegan Tuesday. He fell. from a
sluiceway which he was clearing of ice
and was carried over dam. He was 40
years of age.
William Boone, a Bangor Il Aroostook
railroad conductor, died at his home at
Houlton as the result of an accident near
Fort Kent day earlier. He fell beneath
the wheels while attempting TO board his
train, and lost both legs.
Herbert Champagne was instantly
killed in the yard of the United Box
Board Co. at Fairfield Tuesday by being
crushed between two motor cars. The
young man was q years of age, and had
been married only few days.
The town of Northeast Harbor, on
Mount Desert Island, still holds the ban
against automobiles, the vote against
admitting them at the annual town meet
ing having been Psi TO IS. Many of the
wealthy summer residents Of Northeast
Harbor were DESTROYS of continuing the
exclusion as was voted.
Miss Hazel Stewart, a sophomore In
the Pennington high school and daugh-
ter of Charles Stewart of Vests Mills,
shot herself through the heart Monday
with a rife in the home of relatives at
South Strong with whom she had passed
the weekend No cause for the suicide
was known. She was II years of age.
1t is stated that the payrolls of Lew
iston and Auburn mills and shoe shops
aggregate about half a million per
month and that the Auburn shoe shops
pay out nearly as much money each
month as the Lewiston cotton mills.
Within a year the output of both cities
will be increased by additions to existing
factories.
Permission has been granted by Adju-
tant- General Greenlsw TO the Maine
Naval Militia TO organize an aviation
squad. Ii is understood that as soon as
organized the squad will have furnished
for its use Bleriot mOnoplane. IL this
is carried out, il will be the first aviation
squad 10 be organized in the militia of
the country.
An OrlaDd correspondent reports the
bluejays there so hungry that in spite of
their usual shyness they flew into barn
and joined doves who were picking up
grain. The advent of the jays precipi-
tated sharp battle with the doves, but
the jays held their ground and insisted
on their share of the feed. They have
been daily visitants since then at the
barn.
A proof copy of the Bryant Pond
Quadrangle, as issued by the United
States Geological Survey, has recently
been received at the Office OF the State
Water Storage Commission. The edition
will shortly be ready for sale at the
nominal price Of 10 cents. The Quad
rangle in question covers portion Of
the towns of Paris, Woodstock, Green
wood, Milton and vicinity.
While there was a substantial increase
In deposits, the profits OF the savings
banks in Maine the past year were sl5,-
704 less than in 1912, according TO re-
turns to State Bank Commissioner Henry
b. Smith. The deposits aggregated
$95, los, 430, a gain of 81, 292, 902, and the
profits were g, SSl $50. The average
rate of dividends paid was 39l per
cent, the dividends amounting 10 So,
SCI, 70S The average amount of each
depositor's account was Sl04 SO.