Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-04-13
Maine News Notes.

In Belfast the other day Byron B
Webb married Jennie NJ. Webb. A tan
gled Webb, certainly.
There Is q movement on foot to bring
Billy Sunday to Old Orchard this sum
mer, but 1t is not yet known whether th'
project is feasible.
More successful than anticipated wa
the state girls conference at Portland
from Friday to Sunday. The total regis
tratiou was l144; IS from Oxford County
Governor Curtis has renominated Jus
tice George E. Bird of the Supreme Ju
dical Court. Judge Bird was first nom
mated BY Governor Cobb in 1908, and
has served one term Of seven years.
Clifton Foye, a student at Wiscasse,
Academy, was drowned in Sheepsco'
river, when the boat in which he was
rowing with two companions overturn
ed. One of his companions swan
ashore, and the other was rescued by an
other man.
David ". Lawry and Sidney Lawry,
trawl fishermen OF Vinalhaven, who
started out in a fifteen-foot dory just be-
fore the storm of the Sd, have been given
up for lost. David Lawry was Al AID
had wife and four children. Sidney
Lswry was 81 and single.
Eugene Hinse of Lewiston, aged so
years, was found dead in the snow near
Durham on the 4th. Ii is believed that
he lost his way during the storm Satur.
day night and died from exposure and
exhaustion. He was unmarried aud is
survived by father and several broth.
ers and sisters.
At meeting of the Republican State
Committee at Augusta Thursday, Fred
eric H. Parkhurst of Bangor resigned as
chairman, to enter the campaign for the
nomination for governor in next years
primaries. Frank j. Ham of Augusta
was elected chairman. Treasurer Henry
G. Boyer, Jr., of Portland, also present
cd his resignation, but action on it was
deferred until the next meeting OF the
committee.
A novel and pleasing feature of the
newspaper institute to be held the third
week in April at the University of
Maine will be the programs, which will
be printed on paper made by the stu
dents OF the newspaper chemistry depart
ment in the universities own plant.
Another pleasing number on the pro-
gram will be banquet prepared and
served by the students of the domestic
science course.
James A. Callahan, aged 10 years,
died at the Augusta General Hospital
Monday from the effects OF gun shot
Wounds inflicted Saturday evening.
John Z. Conpors, Gardiner barber, Is
charged with firing the shot. Connors
admitted to the officers that all day Sat
urday and in fact for several days he had
been drinking a concoction composed of
Jamaica ginger and cider, and commended
that he knew nothing which happened
after five o'clock Saturday afternoon
until after the shooting.
The Pennington Chronicle says:
friends Of Miss Annie w.
McLeary, eldest daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. L. McLesry Of this village, will
be interested to learn of the honor and
privilege that have lately
been given to her by her election as dele
gate from the Gamms Gamma chapter OF
the Alpha Chi, musical society to
which she belongs, to a great musical
at Long Beach, Cal. Miss
McLeary is not only houored by selec-
ton to a place in this great convention,
but her travelling expenses for the round
trip are paid.
The young ladies of the senior class of
Bangor High School have decided to
limit the cost of graduation gowns to So.
This will include material and making,
the latter to be done by the young ladies
perhaps with the assistance
Of their relatives. The graduates have
also been promised the assistance of
some of the members OF the Federated
Clubs in the construction of the gowns.
There have been instances in past years
v here young women have left school
prior to graduation because they felt I'M
able to meet the expense but there will
DO nothing of the kind this year.
Bangor has acquired new city park,
iu the triangular strip at the junction
of Harlow and Center Streets, which
was formerly the site of the old First
Baptist church and several residences,
swept clean by the fire of 1911 and
bought by the city as part Of the Pub
lie Library lot which adjoins it. This
has been handsomely graded and will be
known as Library Park and part of the
CITY park system. Upon this will be
soon erected the bow scroll from the
Maine, sunk in Havana har-
Dor, as a monument. This relic has been
in storage for soms time.