Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-11-18

The Maine Automobile Association
will hold its annual meeting In Bangor
Dec. Sd.
Bangor war work organizations are
considering plans for q memorial to the
Bangor men In the war. =
Old Town is raising money for q mu-
nicipal playground and plans to acquire
Q large tract on the outskIrts of the city.
A third pair of twins, boy and girl,
have recently been born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Doak Of the Sawyer District, Carl
bou.
Seventy. five thousand tons of phos.
phate for Aroostook potatoes shows that
1t takes capital as we'll a. labor to sue.
cessfully grow spuds.
Miss Ida Norwood, . registered nurse,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.. Thomas Nor
wood, lie dead at her home ct Southwest
Harbor, from eating poisonous mush-
rooms.
Charles Bean of Concord, young
man of about 25 years of age, committed
suicide Tuesday evening BY shooting
himself through the mouth with a
revolver.
William q. Bennett, whose home is In
Augusta, was killed by fall on the 9th
at the Bath Iron Works where be was
employed. He was SO years OF age and
leaves wife and four children.
Its one bundredth anniversary was OBJ
served by the Baptist church at DAM
ariscotta Thursday. Besides several
preachers of the den domination, Governor
Carl e. Milliken and President A. j.
Roberts of Colby College were among
the speakers.
Frank L. Dutton OF Augusta, chair
man of the Maine Industrial Accident
Commission, died suddenly Friday, prob
ably from apoplexy, while on the train
betwe cen Boston and Chicago, on the way
TO attend to legal business In North Da-
kota. he was 4S years of age, and leaves
a wife.
It is reported from Grand Rapids,
Mich, where the National Grange is in
session, that in the election which comes
on Tuesday of this week, William j.
Thompson of China, Maine, master of
the Maine State Grange, is one of the
candidates for national master who has
developed considerable strength.
A remarkable case of recovery of sight
Is that of Capt. Ansel G.. Marston of
Bath, who after being blind for ne,rly
seven years, now sees az we'll a. ever he
did. Capt. Marston is 81 years old, and
was patient at the Eye and Ear Infirm-
airy in Portland under the care OF DR.. F
Y. Gilbert, for several months prior to
the recovery of his sight.
Willie Huxley was almost instantly
killed at Kennebago settlement on the
9Th, by the accidental discharge Of an
automatic rifle in the hands of young
man named Walter Bond, from Boston,
who had arrived at the place only about
an hour earlier. The rifle belonged to
the owner of the house, who never
allowed q loaded gun In the house, but
this had been loaned and was returned
with the magazine full. Bond was not
familiar with the workings of the gun.
Huxley, who was shot, was about 81
years of age, and was for while during
the war in the service. being one of the
first three to enlist from Rangeley, and
serving until discharged for disability.
Miss A. Alma Blanchard of Hampden
Is being given a starring part 10 a tryout
Of big picture by the Fox Film Co.
now being screened at Charleston, West
Virginia. Miss Blsnchard's sudden and
successful entry into profession in
which she has always been much inter-
ested came through Mrs. Graham
Thatcher two weeks ago, who "discov-
cred" the young Maine student of dra.
matte art while both were guests in
Richmond, Virginia, where Miss Blanch-
ard has been visiting some time. Miss
Blanchard was born in Bangor, but for
some years has been living with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. F. Blanchard, in
Hampden. She is graduate of Hamp-
den Academy, and after teaching school
for some time, she studied at Emerson
School of Oratory, and later she studied
dramatic art In New York. Y