Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-08-10
Maine News Notes.


Theodore Brassa, So years Of age, die
at Waterville Thursday as the result o
injuries received when falling ladde
struck him on top of the head.
George Gerard, SO years OF age ant
unmarried, committed suicide at Oak
land with q shot gun. Dependency
from Ill health is supposed to be th
cause. He leaves two sisters.
New Hampshire will bar from IL
state fairs this year cattle for exhibition
from all other states except Maine ant
Vermont. This Is to avoid any spread
ing of the foot and mouth disease.
| 1t is reported that man had bis peck
ct picked of 5000 at Old Orchard on
recent Sunday, though the money wa
"sewed" into his pocket, and one OF the
station employees saw the thief take 1t.
Percy A. Gribbin of Portland, member
of the firm of Gribbin Brothers, vel
known fish dealers, committed suicide
Thursday. His health had been notice
ably affected for some months, but be
had refused to take a vacation. III
leaves wife and three children besideI
other relatives.
While playing "horse" In his father
barn at Kennebunk, Everett G. Wake
field, IL years of age, slipped bis heat
into halter which was hanging from 9
beam, and before he could release him
self died from strangulation. His body
was found suspended only a few inches
from the floor.
There may be seen in the Catholic
cemetery at West Lubec, gravestone
on which the inscriptions are well worth
reading, recording as they do the death
of three members of family, their ages
averaging 100 years. The first is that OF
Alexander Horau, who died June 10,
1850, aged 100 years: the second, John
Koran, died Feb. IS, 1875, aged 10l
years; and the third, Jane Koran, died
April Is, 1878. aged IS years. They were
ali from County Antrim, Ireland.
1t is doubtful if the equal of this can be
found in the state.
W. Il. Whiting of Jonesport, a tin.
smith, has made for himself q tin hat
which outshines Mambrino's helmet,
made famous by Don Quixote, and out
classes any thing in eastern Maine. The
hat is made OF tin, common sheet tin,
the same kind that baked beans and sar-
dimes and tomatoes are put up in and II
IL built on 1915 model. 1t is neat, but
not gaudy; tin body with copper
band, not quite as brilliant as ribbon
one with college colors, but more sub
stantial and quite as attractive. At
least, it attracts plenty of attention
when he wears it on the streets. SITS
my hat and my head" says Whiting,
"and if want to wear it don't see that
it's any body's business"
An unusual honor has been conferred
upon Waterville man, Lieut.-Col. NJ.
S. Goodrich having been named as sur,
geon of the Ancient and Honorable Ar
tillery company. This is the first time
this organization has ever gone outside
of Massachusetts for its chief surgeon,
as some one of the many prominent doc
tors in Boston has always had this Office
and DR.. Goodrich feels especially proud
of the honor on account of this. He
will hold the post for one year. In 1912
he accompanied the body to England as
assistant surgeon, of which at that time
there were four. This year the number
has been reduced to two. 1t ia expected
that this year the company will go to
Atlanta, Ga, for its annual outing.
Pennington people are very proud OF
Prof Perley C. Voter of Middlebury
college, Middlebury, Vt, chemist, who
has lately been called to investigate a
case in New Hampshire, where man
and woman were undergoing trial for the
death of the woman's husband. The
prosecution alleged that the man and
woman on trial had put her husband out
of the way by the means of arsenic, but
Mr.. Voter, by the most painstaking in
vestigation, proved that the man had alb
sorbed the arsenic from his surround
ings and that thus his wife and the man
suspected of completely in the alleged
crime were guiltless. Prof. Voter work
ed on the case 80 days aud made his de-
auctions 80 clear and strong that the
jury was out only 20 minutes, then
brought in a verdict of not guilty. Prof.
Voter is a son of Warren T. and the late
Mrs. Ella Z. Conant- Voter of this town.
He is a graduate of the Pennington high
school and Bowdoin college. He then
took course OF three years at Harvard,
winning his Pb. D. degree there.
The experiment. which is being made
by the sea and shore fisheries Of raising
clans seems to be successful at Cumber-
land Foreside.: About five years ago
the Legislature appropriated the sum Of
IS, 900 to test many disputed theories in
relation to clam propagation. Several
thousand bushels dug from the Scarboro
fats were planted at the Foreside and
also on the fats at Cousens and Lane Is
lands, place several hundred feet in
length having been staked off at each of
the points mentioned with warning
notices of fine of $40 for trespassers
posted on the trees along shore. The
experiment has been watched with in
terest as many of the clam beds along
shore which in former years have been
very prolific in their yield are now prac-
tically exhausted. The flats are now
found to be packed with clans, large
and luscious, possessing the same quail
ties that have made the Scarboro bivalve
famous. No question remains as to the
outcome of the Foreside experiment,
but poorer success was attained at the
other two localities, large proportion
Of the clans not having survived the
change of domicile.
Can be Proud of the Commission.