Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-07-06
About the state.


j During the past year SSs Maine per
sons died from cancer, which Ii th,
largest number of deaths from this ont
cause to be recorded in single year
since the reporting of vital statistics wal
inaugurated In this state.
| Considerable hot air seems to have col
lected over 10 Bangor town. Six sections
OF granolithic sidewalk on Main Street
were displaced by an explosion Sunday
noon OF what Is supposed to have been
overbeated atmosphere. No one injured.
Nelson q. Frederick, wanted for for
gerry and desertion, and another military
prisoner by name Of Cousins, who
escaped from Fort Williams Sunday by
overcoming and tying Q guard, were
arrested at Poland Thursday by q posse
Of deputy sheriffs after chase of $50
miles.
| The biggest hens egg exhibited 10
Lewiston or Auburn Is being shown In
the window of Getohell's drug store,
Court Street. It measures inches by
"a and weighs one-half q pound. 1t
is supposed to be triple yolked. It was
| laid by Rhode Island Red hen on the
farm Of Mrs. Nellie Woodbury. Of New
Gloucester.
Has any reader ever attempted to
bring up baby pigeon by hand? asks
the Thomaston correspondent OF the
Knox Messenger. 1t is some contract
and the man in our town who has been
trying hard to take the place of the
mother pigeon, which feeds by regurgi-
tation, became 80 exaggerated that he
ended up by declaring that the darned
thing didn't know any more than 1t did
when 1t was an egg.
Mrs William q. Jones OF IS Charles
Street, Bath, has fine parrot. he
escaped from his cage on Memorial day
and few off with flock of crows, going
across the river and continuing along to
Waldoboro. He there became tired and
alighted on the arm of q woman who
was in her garden. The owner In few
days ascertained the whereabouts Of her
pet and he 10 back In his cage apparently
content to forego further wanderings
over the country.
A tablet has been placed on the
Kotschmar Memorial Organ In Portland
in honor of Will G. Macfarlane, the first
municipal organist in America. The
inscription reads as follows:
VIII G. Macfarlane, Mus. D.,
First Municipal Organist
In America
Dedicated this Organ In 1912
And Served as Municipal Organist of
Portland
Until 1919
A Devoted Public Servant
Talented Musician
A Genial Man.
Census figures are always disappoint-
ing. No city or town Ia satisfied with
it's growth during the decades between
enumerations, no matter what the figures
may be. Cities In Maine reported up to
this week have all shown an increase In
population although none have been
large enough to satisfy the community
interested; but this week one has been
reported which has made an actual loss,
which is highly disappointing to 1t.
Rocklaud is the city. She has made q
ulation Of S,l09 in the present year of
our Lord 1920.
People of Maine have long been famil- |
lar with booze runners into the state
from the Canadian side; but just now
they are getting familiar with new
kind of smuggler or near smuggler. The
new variety are sugar runners. The fell
low citizens Of Maine don't have to be |
told there has been and Is now q sugar
shortage, but, strange to relate, there
don't appear to be one across the line in |
"Our Lady of the Snow" There are
tons of this sweet material stored in st. |
Stephen which Is run across the st. |
Croix River, where the duty lie paid on
the American side and the stuff sold at a |
big profit. 1t is difficult for Canadian
officials to stop the big trucks carrying |
from ten to twenty tons at load, and
they make all kinds of subterfuges to
prevent overhauling and search. Driv-
ers of trucks have even run officials
down, and shots have been exchanged
beween fleeing sugar runners and Gus
toms officers.