Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-11-18
NUMBER 46.

hibition went into effect. Prohibition
has also had its effect on other Of
fences. Patrolmen are getting fat,
as about the only excitement they
get Is IN trying doors. All but 81
OF the 81 saloons In the city are
closed. The liquor dealers here pre-
dict the ban will be raised by the mid
die Of the month.
The board of trustees Of Wesleyan
University, Middletown, Conn. at a
meeting held in New York decided to
increase by $1,000. 600 the endowment
OF $2,00e, 900 authorized last June. OF
this total about $4,000. 900 will be used
in increasing salaries OF the faculty
and in providing for needed additions
to the teaching staff. Action was
taken making a first increase at once
on the basic salary of full professors
form $1,000 to $3250.
A hold-up rivalling the daring ex-
ploits of the bad men of old days In
the West took place in Portland
shortly before 6 o'clock P. n. when
two strangers, armed with revoavers,
stood up Morris Gcldhaber, an India
street storekeeper, two Nofweg1ans, a
Biddeford man and a small boy in
Goldhabers little shop and relieved
them of more than $500. The strang-
er wore no DISCUSSES, worked quick
II and escaped without hindrance-
Winchen Smith actor and play.
wright, has given the blanket and sur
cingle presented to his father by the
late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
for the use of his famous stallion,
Thomas Jefferson, to the Hartford
tuberculosis relief committee. It is
learned that the blanket won by the
famous stallion has been turned over
to the Road Drivers Club and sold at
the clubs racing meet held at Char
ter Oak Park last Saturday. Thomas
Jefferson defeated the fastest stallion
in the country in q race held in Bos-
ton in 1875 for purse Of $4,000. He
had a record Of 2:23.
Miss Blanche Wildes, registered
nurse of the Mass. state department
Of health. in an address, declared that
"about one-tenth of the babies born
In Massachusetts die before they
reach their first birthday and that
40 per cent Of them die before they
are a month old" One great reason
ahe assigned is because the mothers
OF these babies did not have good
care before and up to the time Of the
babys birth. After ALL" said she,
there are not many rules beyond
right food, fresh air, sunlight AMI
cleanliness" She expressed hope
that a law will soon be passed OBJ
hging all cities and towns to employ
school nurses.
Oficias of the Springfield Boys
Club are exonerated Of any charge Of
criminal carelessness IN the report Of
Judge Bart Sossidy of Lee, on his in
quest on the death Of II members Of
the Boys Club camping party who
were drowned at Big Pond, East Otis,
last July. The report says the i'm
mediate cause OF the accident was a
squall that caused panic among the
boys In two boats. Judge Sossddy
says 1t may be that the club repre-
sentatives might have taken more
precautions relative to the supervis-
ion Of the boys in the use Of boats,
but the evidence does not show that
they failed to exercise the usual care
and prudence in the conduct Of such
camps.
Christopher Preble, sebec, Me-, the
noted bear hunter and trapper, Is re-
covering from a set-to with big
black bear, in which he received one
Of the worst clawings in his hong eI.
perience. He got the bear, which is
No. 129 on his list. He was on line
of traps on Alder stream when he
found that one Of his bear traps was
gone. The trail showed that a big
bear was dragging 1t with the clog
He hurried along the trail and In
jumping over log ran plump into
the bear. The bear made rush at
the hunter, but was held back by
the trap and clog, and Preble. who
had held on to his rife, managed to
roll over and. while lying almost on
his back, fired, the shot going through
the bears brain.
The United States Trading Com
pany, Ltd. OF New York. doing busi-
ness in Boston, has brought suit for
$500, 900 against Robert Montgomery
of Boston in the Superior Court tor
Suffolk County for an alleged breach
of contract. The plaintiff company
says that It negotiated for the pur-
chase of a Canadian steamship called
the Gen. Turner, which was to be
used In carrying trade between the
United States and foreign p,rs
Montgomery, who il is claimed rep
resented himself to be the virtual
owner and man in control Of the
American Discount Company, agreed,
It is alleged to guarantee the &C
ceptance Of drafts to the amount Of
$17s,000 made by the United States
Trading Company. Montgomery, 90
cording TO the plaintiff failed to per-
form his contract.
With national prohibition steadily
approaching in the United States, the
smuggling Of liquor across the Maine
New Brunswick boundary = becoa-
ing Of daily occurrence. Fast auto
mobiles make regular trips between
provincial centres and the cities Of
Maine and although the customs Of.
lcials are alert, there are 80 few Of
them that 1t is impossible to guard
/ all reads. Residents Of Maine living
along the border have no trouble In
obtaining all the stimuiants they
want By stepping across tho boundary
une.
No Loss Of Animation.
n suppose Crimson Gulch Is Quistes