Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-11-13
Maine News Notes.

| A gross and woods 1rs 1t Great Pond
beach, Georgetown, last week, ragged fol
ewmty-four hours before it was Sub
dued.
i The fifst wedding and the first deatf
| at the women's state reformAtory .,
Sk0whegan occurred on tho same day
the Sd inst. The death was that OF {
six-months-old child OF ono Of the
inmates. The bride In the other event
was released on parole ct the time Of thu
wedding.
i At Steep Falls Tuesday Mrs. Robert
Ridlon was badly crushed and fatally
injured and Mrs. Charles Sanborn had
both ankles broken when the team IL
which they were riding was struck by q
freight train at crossing. Mrs. Ridlou
died that evening from her Injuries.
She was 80 years Of age and leaves q
husband.
The body Of Nelson 81. Stanhope OF
Dover, who bad been missing for several
days, was found Tuesday In the base
ment OF barn about mile from his
homo. Death was due to shooting, and
It WAS undoubtedly Q case OF suicide.
Stahhope was assistant superintendent
for the Prudential Insurance Co. 1t
Dover, and was about IS years of age.
He leaves wife.
The Maine State Pathological Society
at Its annual meeting In Portland last
week chose these officers for the coming
year:
Pres-C. G. Clement Wipternort
| Vice. Pres:-A. G. Macomber, wilton; Sydney
Treas:.T. =: CHASE. Buck6eld.
Sec-E. L. White, Bowdoinham.
Mem. Ex. Com.-W. O. Robinson, North
Arson.
Mem: Ayr. Exp. Council-wilson Il. Consns.
Thursday afternoon quite . number
OF naval officers arrived In town from
somewhere and left just before dusk
somehow for somewhere else. They
came from some naval vessel somewhere
that Was there or somewhere else for
some purpose or some other purpose
and from somewhere will 90 to some.
where else. Thus should all reports be
written of the movements of our army
and navy. Isn't IL Neutrality-suspicious.
Republican.
Simeon p. Huntress OF Somersworth,
N. a., has carried the mail between
Salmon Falls and South Berwick for the
past 80 years, sunshine and rain, with.
out q break. He began Nov. /, 1857,
and since 1859 has also conducted
livery stable at the same place. He has
served under Presidents johnson, Grant,
Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Har.
rison, Mckinley, Roosevelt, Taft and
Wilson. He has driven thousands of
miles and handled tons Of mail.
Miss Opal Myrick of Patten, who Is
teaching at Kokadjo, may safely claim
to have charge of the smallest school in
the state and also probably the only one
In the country in which the two pupils
consist of twin sisters. They are the
11-year-old daughters OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Washington Irving Hamilton, who keeps
the hotel and store at Kokadjo. They
sometimes have companion, when the
weather permits little girl who lives
away up on the Grant farm to attend.
Rev. Oscar W. Stuart has assumed the
passionate of FIVE churches in WATERFORD,
going there from Limerick, where he
has been pastor of the First Free Baptist
church for the past year. The pastor
has to touch each of his Eve churches
and preach q sermon at each every Sun.
day. The passionate has been held for
some time by Rev. Jack Hyde, who re-
Gently enlisted, and is now in France.
The churches are at WATERFORD, Old
Corner, South WATERFORD, East Water
boro, North Alfred and Alfred Gore.
The jumps from ono church to the next
are made BY automobile. Mr.. Stuart 10
SO years of age, married, and the father
of fonr bovs