Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-07-23
Alalns News Notes.


The Allendale mill ct Van Burep,
owned by A. E. Hammond. was burned
ON the 14th, with loss estimated ut
e100, 900.
Total receipts from registration Of
automobiles and drivers up to July IA
were e618, 1893 q, against e416, $3.50 50 for
the same. period last year.
Havelook Crabb, 40 years old, was
killed by lightning at Blaine on the
18th, while hoeing potatoes. His young
nephew who was with him Was not In
jured.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maynard Sherburns Of
Mt. Vernon have received Q telegram
notifying them of the drowning ct
Bridgeport, Ct, Of their son, who was
employed in shipyard there.
Levi Scott, an East Newport farmer,
was fatally shot Friday BY the accidental
discharge of Q shot gun with which be
was starting ont to shoot crows. He fell
on bis doorstep and the charge passed
through his heart.
Louis Declare Of Glenburn has been
bound over on the charge OF operating
whiskey distillery. When bis place was
raided, q complete distilllng outfit was
found. The officers said they believed
the whiskey manufactured was intended
| for use with cider In making particular.
~ powerful "split."
Only one of the fifteen passengers and
employees escaped injury when pas.
senger car and work car Of the Somer-
set Traction line collided Wednesday
near Lakewood. Mot0rmen Reuel Copp
and Elmer Cormier of Skowkegan were
seriously and perhaps fatally injured,
others less severely.
Ernest Heffernsn was killed and
Leon Shehan was dragged twenty feet
and badly bruised at Old Orchard Thurs.
day, when grocer's automobile driven
by the former was struck by the Camp
Ellis dummy" backing up to Old
Orchard. Heffernan was 20 years old, Q
resident of Biddeford.
Rodney Ross of Bath was fishing at
Middle dam, Rangeley, aud had big
strike, but lost the fish while playing 1t,
together with hook and 3.foot wire
leader. He was fishing In the same spot
the next morning, got another big strike
and landed the f1sh-a Z "a pound SAL
mon-in the mouth of which was the
hook, with It's leader trailing, lost on
the previous day.
The members of the Knox Academy
| OF Arts and Sciences are to celebrate
the birthday of Gen. Henry Knox, July
IS, by dedioating big pine in the Knox
Arboretum as living monument to bis
memory. Rev. Pliny A. Allen, vice.
president of the academy, will deliver
the address of welcome, Hon. John
Frances Sprague of Dover, Names
historian, will deliver the dedicatory ad-
dress, Hon. Reuel Robinson. Of Cam.
den will read paper on "Knox," and
patriotic selections will be sung by q
community chorus.
Oscar N. Holman of Dixfield 10 In q
hospital at Portland with Q dangerous
bullet wound received when he was shot
BY passenger on his car last Monday
night. Holman was q conductor run
ming on the Portland and Saco division
of the Portland Railroad. At the time
i OI INC 6uOUSiuS u0 Wus lAoniuS LIN Aops
trip on the road, having been summoned
In the draft, to leave South Paris on the
Goth. Work of the officers resulted In
the arrest in Boston, charged with the
shooting, of Joseph P. Kehoe, 81 years
of age, of Hartford, Ct, and James j.
Gillen, 10, of Boston. 1t is reported
that Kehoe has made confession to the
officers.
A New York man who wrote to the
proprietor of Breakwster Court, at Ken.
nebunkport, inquiring the price Of .
suit of two rooms and bath with board
for himself and wife, was informed that
the charge for two comfortable rooms
with board would be $1s7 q week, but
of course II better accommodations were
wanted the price would be correspond
iugly higher. The New Yorker wrote
back that the price was satisfactory but
be would like to have four rooms instead
of two. All of which indicates that de-
spite the hundreds OF millions New York
has invested In war loans and given to
the Red Cross and Knights of Columbus,
there ia still money left there.