Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-11-23

A Lisbon Falls man has been arrested
charged with using the mails to defraud,
by scheme of advertising for women to
make silk ties at home.
William Kelley, aged lS, and Guy
Moody, II, of Lincoln, were drowned in
Mattanawcook Lake on the 18th by the
capsizing of their canoe in q squsll.
John A. Heon of Springvale committed
suicide by drowning. Dependency from
i'll health is supposed to be the cause.
He was 81 years of age, and leaves wife
aud number of adult children.
Herring have re-appeared to such an
extent around Eastport that the Ameri-
can Can Co. was obliged to reopen its
plant to make enough cans for the can.
ming companies to finish their orders.
A second fatality resulted from the re-
cent locomotive boiler explosion at Aver
Junction, Washington County, In the
death of Hugh R. Drisko of Columbia
Falls day or two later. Drisko was q
passenger on the train.
A force of over sixty men Is at work
on the stockyards at Yarmouth Junction
which are to be used by the French In
connection with the shipment of horses.
The sheds are 250x40 feet, and the whole
area covered In some thirty acres.
Considerable fault is being found with
the hen at the Experiment Station at the
University of Maine, because she struck,
after laying 29S eggs in one year and re-
fused to lay another solitary egg. Why
not praise her little for what she has
donep
A man believed to have been George
Jackson of Boston, 81 years of age, was
found dead at Lewiston junction Wed
nesday night by Grand Trunk conduct
or. II is thought that he was kill Jed by
fall from freight train on which he
was riding.
James O'Neal was struck and fatally
injured by train while walking on the
track near lockwood. The rem ains
were sent to brother in Boston, the
nearest relative. O'Neal was about 45
years old, and had been employed by
the Great Northern Paper Co.
Sylvanus Haney, aged 40, died at CAL
ais Tuesday from injuries received Sun
day night when he was trampled upon
by his horse. Haney was descending
from the barn loft and fell to the floor in
front of the horse which reared and
came down with two feet on his body.
State Superintendent of Schools Smith
is sending out to the local superintend-
ents circular letter urging an investi-
CATION and report regarding the protec-
ton afforded TO pupils from disa ster by
fire and from the risks to health arising
from unsanitary school surroundings.
Mrs. Susanna Underwood, woman
nearly ninety years Of age who lived
alone in small house at Lisbon Falls,
lost her life in a fire which badly dam
aged her house Thursday afternoon.
Her charred remains were found on the
pantry floor. Though her eyesig ht was
not good and she was very hard OF hear
ing, she had been In good health and &C.
tive for one OF her years. She was ma
tive of Ireland.
Speaking of Bath as ship building
port, the Bath Times declares the faith
OF Charles M. Schwab in the port: Mr..
Schwab's opinion of Bath as a possible
rival of the great Scotch and English
shipping cities is we'll known and is sim
liar to the views often expressed by the
late Gen. Thomas W. Hyde, who used to
say that some day both banks Of the
Kenuebec at Bath and Woolwich would
be filled with yards and that the Kenne'
bee would become an American Clyde,
The depth of water from Bath to the sea
is an immense advantage to Bath. Mr..
Schwab Is also known to be immensely
impressed with the higher character OF
Bath barbor over that generally found IL
other places.