Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-12-17

The Lsvistos police commission. Ions
ne suo5ect Of fisrcs controversy, d
now nr1iy sseablished - Q legal In
sueosaoo, the matter having been carried
% the iav court which decides that tn
oommission va bsally appointed.
| Private Waltz Burgess OF Union,
wounded and in French hospital, asked
me name Of anurss there. He Vas moi
little surprised that Union was also
oH home town. The young woman VI,
Aiss Alma Sidslinger. Mr.. Burgess VA
suhsring from injuries received irem Z
oersting bomb.
Announcement has been received BY
the ofactals Of the railroads from the
director general that none OF the men
In the employ Of the railroads under
government supervision will be allowed
70 receive Christmas presents from ship
psrs and mpply men. The director
general says that such practice II objec-
aonable and must be discontinued.
Friday being fish day, . Bath family
decided to have choWder. The accom-
plished Chef Of that family made . 70
narksbly good chowder to which all sat
down and enjoyed At noon. Soon one
member OF the family discovered that
there Was no fish In the chowder. The
lady Investigated and discovered the fish
all cut mp but uncooked in plate in the
kitchen.
A New York man named Edward
Cooibaugb, German, who had been liv-
ing In bis cabin on Little Sebago Lake
since early summer, disappeared . few
days ago, and his body Was later found
In about eight feet of water some forty
feet from the shore Of the lake. It 10
supposed that he started to cross mar
row part Of the lake to his camp and
broke through the thin ice.
The first thought-it-was-a-deer victim
for the season ID George W. Davis Of
Gardiner, who was shot and fatally
wounded by Henry Merrill while the
two men were hunting from . camp ut
Somerset junction. Before he died In
the hospital at Greenville, Davis signed
statement generating Merrill from
blame. Both men were In the employ
leaves Q wife and two children.
DR.. Wellman C. Blake Of the Texas
hospital, Bath, remarks that physicians
are generally agreed that one especial
rsason for the fatalities OF the epidemic
OF influenza, the past fall, and the extra
ordinary run of the disease was due to
war-food malnutrition, which prevented
physical systems from coping with the
germs. Not that people In America at
least, have been lacking for food, but
the food lacked the quality of the
normal times. The bread made with .
mixture of potato, rice and wheat has
not had the staying" properties Of real
wheat bread. To many bread 10 actual
ly the staff Of life and this staff 10 very
crooked stick mixed according TO war
formula. he says he found cases of
men In the Texas yard who were unable
to sleep properly or work with normal
because of lack of wheat, real
wheat in their blood. DR.. Blake thinks
the present renewal OF influenza will not
prove dangerous. The germ Ii weaken
ed. The tendency of all such epidemics
ID to wear itself out toward the end.
His own cases at present he says are 10
proof Of this assertion; they are all mild.
Capt. John Cameron, we'll known to
people in this city and . former master
Of the steamer Rose Castle, appeared to
some of bis friends last evening, and to
many of them it was a. II he had risen
from the dead, relates the Portland Press
Of Dec. IS. Capt. Cameron has been
among the missing for more than three
years and - he vas last heard from try
ing to run bis ship into the harbor at
Trieste, Austria, during the summer Of
1915, Ii looked like An even chance that
bis bones had been lying ut the bottom
Of the Adriatic sea for some time. But
they haven't. he not only sailed In but
sailed out again In perfect safety and
made good get away with the last car
20 that ever went out OF the port. he
England in safety and then
shifted tho base Of his operations to the
Pacific ocean, where he has been ever
since. He has been in command OF the
Wolmaf Castle and the Durham Castle
and has, a. he expresses IL, "done fairly
WE'LL" His last exploit was to bring in
. tremendous cargo Of wool at time
when IL Was selling around Is cents Q
pound and for this he received 1t least .
fair compensation. Capt. Cameron left
bis ship on the Pacific and 10 taking .
much needed rest just at present.