Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-09-21
new ENGLAND news
IN TABLOID FORM
Items Of Interest From All
Sections Of YankeeIand

ISVIIIS VI Wl0lOSS llUW ~
Sections Of YankeeIand
Preliminary population figures an
nounced by the Census Bureau In
clude: State of Maine, 1920 popula
tion, 1896: increase since 1910. 25,
625, or 3.5 per cent.
Trying to swim fifty yards that h
might qualify as first class bo.
scout, Gordon w. Mather, sixteel
years old of Providence, R. l.. wa
drowned in Stump Hill Pond.
Perry Dumont escaped from thu
State Insane Hospital, Bangor, Me.
outdistanced the guards and commit
ed suicide by jumping into river
Dumont was forty-fiv years old.
Sixty-one Boston women have beel
elected delegates to the Republican
state convention. whereas only sever
Boston women have been elected del
egates to the Democratic state con
vention.
Jesse Pomeroy recently began his
fortyfifth year at the Massachusetts
State Prison, apparently in the best
Of health and spirits. He was com
mitted to solitary confinement on
September Z, 1876, but during recent
years has been allowed the privilege
of mingling with other prisoners and
exercising in the yard.
Francis M. Swift of Brookline.
Mass, formely of Yarmouth, has
just gone on the retired list of the
railway mail service after completing
q term of 81 years and seven months.
For 81 years he has been clerk In
charge on the Cape, with travelling
record of nearly two million miles,
mostly on the same run.
In an opinion handed down by the
United Safes Circuit Court Of Ap-
peals, Boston, the decision Of the Dis
trict Court awarding damages to
Chadwick G. Company, was sustained
Suit was brought by Chadwick &
Company as a result Of the stranding
OF the tug Scranton in the Buzzard's
Bay entrance to the canal.
A hand bag containing $4,000 in
currency, stolen from the automobile
OF Victor II. Hanscom on Excrange
street, Portland. Me-, was dropped in
Monument square few blocks away
by the theft, with the contents un-
touched. The bag had been cut open
with knife but nothing removed Sc
far as the owner could discover.
One man was killed and another
escaped uninjured when the White
Mountain Express on the N. Y, N. H
&H. railroad trapped the two men In
cut as it was entering New Haven
Ct. One Of the men threw himself
flat on the ground between the rails.
The other was unable to Get out OF
the path of the train and was ground
under the wheels.
Milo B. Hillegas, Vermont commits
sioner of education, presented his re-
signation effective Oct. 1. On that
date he will take up his duties as
professor Of instruction in the Teach
ers' college OF Columbia university,
of which he Is now a trustee. Dr..
Hillegas was an assistant professor
at Columbia when chosen state com
missioner in 1916.
Want TO marry, young lady? Then
20 West" This is the advice given
by Mrs. Elizabeth Towne, New
Thought advocate, who produced
statistics to prove that unless the rs,
900 women in excess Of men in Mas
sachusetts go west Of the Mississippi
where there is said to be a prepon
derance Of men, they will have nc
chance to marry.
Under the $4,000 emergency ap
preparation authorized by the Bostor
city council to combat infantile pa
ralysis, Mayor Peters appointed DR.
S. A. Levine as expert diagnosticia1
| in the health department at 500
week for period not to exceed three
months. DR.. Levine's duties will b.
confined to fighting the outbreak o
infantile paralysis.
Nellie, shepherd dog known Il
many tourists throughout the Hook
ing River valley Mass, was killed b!
plunging over the Cantwen cliffs q:
she battled with a large American
eagle.
The dog was herding sheep on TN
rocks when they were attacked b!
the eagle and Nellie gave her Life q
defense of the flock.
The Public Utilities Commtssio'
of Maine has rendered decision
authorizing the Maine Central K h
Co. to issue its first and refudin
mortgage gold coupon bonds OF tn
aggregate par value Of $4,000, 1000 Q
which the sum Of $2,SoO.O0 Is 10 b
issued 10 pay for new equip
ment and additions and beeterment
to the company's property.
After six strenuous hours, the %
delegates to the Connecticut Republi
can state convention selected the stat
ticket to run with United States Sen
ator Frank B. Brandegee. and VII
real dramatic suddenness the nomina
ton for Governor went to Everett :
Lake of Hartford, formerly Leuten
ent- Governor, and before that fa
nous halfback for Harvard. \
Irving ]. Nfield. who was brougi
to Montpelier, Vt; from Detroit, Mic
by State officers because he did NJ
| support his family, committed suicid
by hanging himself. He used sma
rope which he attached to hook
the wall in the kitchen Of the hom
, He intended returning to Detroit al
, had made arrangements to pay $40