Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-10-30
Maine News Notes.

Sheriff King r. Graham OF Cumber-
land County IL seizing Jamaica ginger
and treating 1t just like any regular red
liquor.
Fred Spaulding, aged "a, committed
suicide by shooting at Ellsworth, be-
cause Of dependency. He leaves sisters
and brothers.
Julian P. Nutter, IS years Of age, son
OF . prosperous farmer in Scarboro,
committed suicide by shooting Tuesday.
No motive 10 known.
Alexander T. Laughlin of the Portland
Associated Charities Was chosen presi
dent of the Maine Association Of
Charities and Corrections at Its meeting
ct Watervllle last week.
A Houlton dentist tells of shooting
deer from his bed In camp without even
stopping to sit up. The point OF the
story IL that he did It "some time In the
night" and he may have game warden
after him.
The Democratic State Committee
recommends the choice of Hon. Daniel
J. McGillicuddy a. member Of the Ma
tional Committee, to succeed hon.
Charles r. johnson of Wsterville who
has become judge of the United States
court.
Mrs. Clarence Severance of Skowhegan
lost her life on the Goth, when the auto
mobile in which she was riding ran of
q bridge into brook and overturned.
- l~1-~nI hAfrrn ohn nnnlA ha
rescued. Five other people in the car,
including her husband, were not materi.
ally injured.
When the cargo steamer building at
the Kelley, Spear Co. yard at Bath goes
into commission she will be peculiar
sigbt with her camoufage painting to
reduce visibility to the enemy at sea,
dark blue and green, with white for the
foam of the waves. In the superstruc-
ture ochre will be used 10 addition to
blue and green, in seeking q sky effect.
This style Of painting has been adopted
by the United States Shipping Board.
II seems odd-in addition to the hard
ship-but 1t 10 said to be fact that In
parts OF Maine and New Brunswick,
which appeal to many of the outside and
ignorant people as being nothing but
wooded waste, that 1t IL cheaper to burn
the expensive and hard.to-obtain coal
from Pennsylvania regions than the
stove wood from the immediate vicinity.
Woodstock, N. B., for instance, 10 re-
ported paying $16 per cord for wood and
but $l5 o ton for Pennsylvania coal.
r..,lk 49, I..s 81. kha aiiyaa Il
to form q considerable portion OF the
cargoes OF some Of the first steamers to
90 out of this port this winter, for frozen
beef has been coming to this city from
Canadian points for some time and the
storage warehouses where they handle
frozen food products are we'll filed with
1t. The people who are handling this
beef profess utter ignorance as to Its
ultimate destination and no doubt they
don't know, for 1t is all 20. d. n. s."
which means ION His Majesty's Service"
and has only to be called for when
wanted.-Press.
The French papers of Maine will gladly
put ND with the Inconvenience entailed
BY q recent postal law which provides
for the filing with the postmaster at the
place of publication English foundations
OF all articles concerning the government
of the United States or any country en-
gagged In the war, before admission to
the mails, because it is designed wholly
to prevent the spread Of German or pro-
German sentiments, to the injury of our
own country. Each Of the two French
papers published In Lewiston has . cir
culation of between 5000 and 1000 and 1t
will be considerable of q job to furnish
translations of all the things their edit
ors can think of to say about Germany
alone.