Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-01-27
Maine News Notes.

Colby College has Y. D. Club, COM
posed of men who served in the rs b
Division. All the members enlisted at
the outbreak OF the war and served nine
teen months in Co. d Of Waterville.
Ice harvesting is practically complete
in New England, with good thickness
and splendid quality. The frost Is also
said to have extended from to 10 feet
into the ground, according to location.
The Rooseveltian family of Governor
Milliken was Increased last Thursday by
the birth of another daughter at the Ex-
ecutive Mansion at Augusta. The new
conner has been named Dorothy Blaine.
The spring meeting of the Maine Fed
GRAFTON of Women's Clubs will be on
March 1926 at the University of Maine,
Orono. The Woman's Club of Orono
will on the evening of Tuesday, March
%, give reception TO the visiting club
women.
The Portland Board of Health is pre-
pairing to head off the flu as much as
possible. Hotels and restaurants were
Tuesday requested to sterilize all dishes
with boiling water or the use OF com.
pounds. The flu has already appeared
in that city.
The honor system has been adopted
by the girls of the University Of Maine,
who have organized the Student Govern
ment Association and made rules and
regulations for their own government as
students, as rigid as any ever adopted by
men students.
1t Is said that James B. Perkins OF
Boothbay Harbor is slated for naticna
'dry" enforcement officer for Maine.
Mr.. Perkins is q we'll known lawyer, q
Democrat, SO years Of age, has been
county attorney in Lincoln County for
several terms, and is representative from
Boothbay Harbor in the Seventy. ninth
Maine Legislature.
The 2eth Division boys, of which the
old I'd Maine (103d Inf we're conspicu-
Gus part, had 1871 recommendations for
awards OF all kinds and 713 were granted
including two Medals Of Honor, 274 Dis
tipguished Service crosses, B Distin.
guished Service medals and 1872 certif-
Gates from the commander-in chief. Only
four of the 80 combat divisions of the A.
e. F. received more Distinguished Serv-
ice crosses than the Goth.
| A Farmingdale resident was surprised
one evening recently upon opening his
shed door to see skunk eating supper
with bis cat family. The two seemed to
be on friendly terms and the skunk re-
NAMED for several minutes while the
man watched him, finally leisurely walk.
| ing of when the man called to his wife
to "come and see." No attempt was
made to shoot the skunk In the shed
but search outside failed to locate the
animal.
But three remain OF the fleet of 10 six
masted schooners that before the war
we're known the world over, the Edward
j. Lawrence, Wyoming and Ruth e. Mer-
rill. They are no longer engaged In the
coastwise trade, having been sold by
their former owners early In the war and
since visiting all parts of the world. The
six masters lost or destroyed included:
The Alice Lawrence, Addis Lawrence,
George w. Wells, Mertie B. Crowley, W.
L.. Douglas, Edward B. Winslow and the
Eleanor A. Percy.
| When Census Enumerator Arthur q.
Aud, carrying record book, called at
home on Wednesday, says the Boothbay
Register, the good housewife ushertd
him right out to the shed and showed
him the electric light meter. 1t wasn't
80 strange mistake at that for several
years ago "Dutchy" had called at that
house regularly every month to take tho
meter reading as he had long been en-
ployed by the electric light company.
It was not the first place In town, either,
that people had taken him for the meter
man.
A recent decision of the British House
of Lords is Of unusual interest to Maine
people, particularly to the lawyers and
especially to Associate Justice Albert NJ.
Spear. The case in question was Cas-
dagli VS.. Casdsgli, (9l9) A. G. 145, and
the House of Lords in its decision cites
with approval Judge Spears decision In
the famous Maine case of Mather Va.
Cunning BAN, los Ne. 1925 The note.
worthy feature IL that Judge Spear had
dissented from an opinion Of English
courts and in the Lords decision the
former English decision is overruled.
A move has been made looking to the
enforcement of referendum on the rati-
fication of the prohibitory amendment to
the United States constitution. This Is
In the form OF q petition filed with JUS
tice Charles J. Dunn of the Supreme Ju-
dicial Court by Thomas Curran of Ban.
COR, one of the signers of the referendum
petition, asking for a mandamus against
Governor Carl e. Milliken, compelling
him to issue proclamation for day on
which the people OF Maine can vote upon
The question. Hearing on the petition is
set for Feb. "a, before Justice Dunn.
The amendment was ratified by the legis-
lature at its session last January. With
In three months after the adjournment
of the legislature, petitions bearing more
than Is, 900 signatures for referendum
were filed at the state department.. The
question Of whether the referendum pro-
vision of the constitution Of Maine ap.
piled to the ratification of amendments 10
the national constitution was submitted
by Governor Milliken to the Supreme
Court, which rendered unanimous
opinion that 1t did not.