Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-05-20
Maine News Notes.

1 Vice President Marshall has appointed
United States Senator Frederick Hale q
member OF the board Of visitors TO the
united States Naval Academy ct An
napoiis for the academy year 1919.
Governor Ailliken attended the recent
convention for the organization Of the
American Legion In st. Louis, he being
charter member % one Of the war
governors. A number Of others were
included in the Maine party.
Two sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest
Davis, aged respectively four and three
years, were burned to death at Madison
Tuesday In q barn 10 which they had
been playing. Il 10 thought that they
had been playing With matches.
Forrest E. Cross, q young and highly
respected resident OF Skowhegan, COM
mitted suicide by shooting Friday. It
had been known for some time that
De was under severe nervous strain, and
his condition had been noted a. partic-
ularly bad Friday morning.
Joseph Churchill of Caribou, aged 65,
committed suicide early Thursday morn
ing by shooting himself in the head with
revolver. He was visiting his daughter,
Mrs. r. A. Vante, near there. III health
and dependency since the death OF his
wife are supposed to be the cause.
Fire supposed to be incendiary, start
ing In the wood yard Of Palsifer &
Young at Auburn early Tuesday morn
ing burned q stable and two valuable
horses belonging to the yard and about
three hundred cords of wood, and did
damage to number of adjoining build
ings. The total damage is reckoned at
about s60, 900.
How much better to laugh than to
cry. Well, then, here's something for q
little innocent amusement:
Some papers have been aiding the
Victory Loan campaign by inserting In
many places in each issue the line,
"Sure, we'll finish the jobr' Fine and
very commepdsble. But 1t did at least
look odd, when run at the end of very
nicely written obituary, as noticed in
one Maine paper.
A peculiar affair at Preeque Isle was
the wrecking of the piano in the Meth
odist church. An explosion which
shook the village was heard Thursday
night, but ii was unexplained until the
wrecked piano was discovered whsn the
church was opened for Sunday morning
service. The piano was blown COM
pletely to pieces, and parts of it were
found all over the room. It is supposed
to be the work Of crank.
All resort business men near Portland
report prospects good for record break
ing tourist business this season, and the
hotels that have been closed during the
war will be opened. Demand for cot
tages Is also brisk. 1t is also pleasant to
learn that Riverton Park, which was
closed last year, will be again open, un-
der new corporation that has leased 1t
from the owners. Cape Cottage casino
and theater, used for war purposes, are
again In the owners hands and will be
reopened.
Under present conditions of liquor law
enforcement, business is reported poor
at the jails in Maine. The Washington
County Jail at Mschias has had only
three prisoners this year, excepting
those committed to state prison at the
January term, and the number Of COM
mitments in 1918 was only about twenty
five per cent of the average of previous
years. The last prisoner was discharged
from the Knox County Jail at Rockland
on the 10th, and the door was left I'M
locked for the first time since the jail
was in use, some thirty years.