Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-08-24
About the State.

ktwanians to secure him for an address.
It's long way from Smyrna In Asia
Minor to the Maine woods, but it is q
welcome relief to Consul General George
Horton, who with bis wife and little
daughter Nancy, and Mrs. Horton's sis.
ter, has made the journey In five weeks
from that war-torn region to the quiet
OF the Middledam camps In Franklin
county. They will pass three months in
the United States.
General Elliott G. Dill, for many years
member of the editorial staff of the
Lewiston Journal, and afterward adju.
tant general of Maine, now sales man
ager of the United States Cartridge Co.,
with Office in New York City, is 10
Maine. General Dill Is passing the month
OF August with bis family at Rangeley
Lakes. He is now serving bis second
term as mayor OF Rosedale Park, N. j.,
where he lives.
Rev. Frank Hall, pastor OF the Wesley
Methodist church of Bath, has aroused
much favorable comment by bis strong
denunciation of the midway or carnival
shows, permitted In the streets of Bath
during the centennial celebration. In
his rather startling sermon on Q recent
Sunday morning, the pastor declared
there was open gambling, and that the
side shows of dancing girls were morally
indecent and disgrace to any town.
A concerted drive is to be made this
fall for Q bridge across the Kennebec
River at Bath, through Congress, the
State Legislature and the Maine Central
Railroad, says the Boothbsy Register.
The project is one which deserves the
support of every progressive citizen of
Knox and Lincoln Counties, as it will
add 30 per cent to the ease OF trans.
portation to this section, and will elimi.
nate the tremendous expense OF ferrying.
Census returns from Hancock County
show a considerable loss from the emu
meration of 1910, the figures of decade
ago being 35,575 and the present ones
80, ,361, loss of 5,2l4. Loss iu rural
towns should cause no great surprise,
but that Bar Harbor and Ellsworth
should lose in population Is surprising.
Ten years ago the population of Bar
Harbor was ,446; in January last 1t was
1922, a loss of S25; Ellsworth's popula-
tion enumerated In the thirteenth census
was 3, $40, the fourteenth census found
but 3,05S, q loss of 491.
Readers will remember that last Feb.
ruary Mrs. Althea G.. Quimby went to
London to attend the Worlds w. G. T.
U. meetingp And that she carried with
her Maine flag with the greetings of
Governor Milliken, for Maine, the par
ent Of prohibition, to the conventions?
Well, on Monday the governor received a
letter from the secretary of the United
Kingdom Alliance, with headquarters In
London, saying that all prohibition Sec
tions were aligned together in the great
work and asking for facts as to the pro-
hibitory law and Its workings in Maine.
The construction Of two large balloon
stations, one at Fort Williams and the
other at Fort Mckinley, in Portland Har.
Dor, including hsngsrs, generating plants,
garages and storehouses, is contem-
plated by the war department. The sta
tions when completed and equipped will
approximate 100000. The construc.
tion is of steel and reinforced concrete.
1t is said that the construction work,
amounting to about 100000, has been
awarded to Forgione & Romano Co. of
Portland. 1t is expected that the work
Of construction will begin within the
next few weeks.
Homer Norris, widely known COM
poser, orgsnist and author of Q number
OF books on musical subjects, died last
week in New York, as result of blood
poisoning which followed injuries when
he was struck by taxicab June 20.
Mr.. Norris was born in Wayne, Me-, In
1850. After studying In Boston and
Paris, he was organist of the Ruggles
Street Church, Boston, for twelve years,
and later was organist and choirmaster
at st. Georges Church In New York for
many years. A composition be wrote
specially for the occasion will be sung
this fall at the Portland (Maine)
music festival.
A peculiar situation centers about the
former Bath sailing ship Edward Sewall,
at Buenos Ayres, where q conflict has
arisen between the immigration suthori-
ties and the ship workers union. The
ship was in need of repairs on arrival,
and the demand by the crew that they
be discharged was conceded by the cap
tain. For some reason not explained the
immigration officials were unwilling the
sailors should enter Argentina and
threatened to fine the captain $1,000 II |
any were released. The sailors appealed
to the union which declared q boycott on
MT ha kbok H.
Sewall is detained.
The State Young Mems Christian |
A Association OF Maine will 90 into camp
on Its grounds on Lake Cobbosseeco
Winthrop Center, September and con.
tinue until September 6. Beside boat.
ing, fishing, swimming and other sports,
there will be topics for discussion In
cluding such subjects as these: Indus.
trial Betterment, Constructive American
izstion, Religion in Industry, The
Human Side OF Industry, and they will
be presented by such men as these:
Sherman Rogers, student Of industry
and former lumber jack; Peter Roberts,
Ph. D., immigration expert; Henry E.
Dunnack, State Librarian; K. A. Hun.
gerford, specialist on economics; James
Fl. Hustis, president of the Boston & |
Maine Railroad; Thomas W. Estab-ook,
purchasing agent of the Brown Com.
psny, Berlin, N. A.; q. N. Gerry,
Americanization specialist.
Corlene Sistesso, an Indian maiden of
81 summers, has recently arrived In
Bath to visit her friends, Mr.. and Mrs. |
Francis Sunshine, West side Indians,
who have been living In Bath the past |
few years, while the head OF the family |
has been working In Q local industrial |
plant. This tall, lithesome girl is o
native Of Sioux, Montana, where she
was born In an Indian reservation and
has lived many years of her life riding
the prairies or In the rugged Black Hills,
where she was taught to ride q pony
almost before she could walk, and was
brought up In the rugged pursuits of
her ancestors, her grandparents having
been full blooded Apaches. Her father
Was half Mexican and half Indian de-
scent, while her mother was Q full
blooded Sioux. Corlene prefers the
name Of her parents, Rainbow, and thus
she is known among those Of her tribe.
Both parents are dead and her only liv-
ing relative is her grandfather, Reindeer,
who IL conteptedly passing his declining
years at an Indian reservation iu Mon
tana, and In spite of the fact that he has
reached the ripe old age of 90, is still
vigorous. Her brother, Chief Cloud,
was educated ct Carlisle College, the
Indian institution OF learning, at Carlisle,
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