Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-12-14
Oxford County Notes.

From the twenty. ninth annual report
of the Central Maine General Hospital
In Lewiston 1t is learned that that insti.
tuition cared for 228 patients from OK.
ford County during the past year.
Work at the canning factory OF Fer.
nald, Keene & True Co., Bryant's Pond,
of which firm Senator Bert NJ. Fernald
is member, has closed for the season.
Approximately 1928, 900 cans were packed,
81, 800 paid out for labor, and $4,000
paid to farmers OF Woodstock and vicin-
ity for the corn. This factory has been
doing business at this village for more
than twenty-five years and the money
paid out yearly for corn and labor has
been OF substantial benefit to the com.
munity.
The annual meeting of the Androscog-
gin Valley Agricultural Society was
held at the Grange Hall, Canton, last
week with Pres. Wallace W. Rose In the
chair and Henry s. Richards secretary.
The following officers were elected: {:
President, John Bowlen, Livermore;
vice president, Wallace W. Rose, Can
ton; treasurer, George B. Barrows, Can.
ton; secretary, Henry 8. Richards, Can.
ton; trustees, Silas Robinson Of Peru,
Henry Hussey of Canton, Frank Z. Walk.
or and Morris D. Hussey of Canton, A.
Z. Bracket of Dixfeld, Herbert Dudley
OF Livermore.
The Van Telephone Company was
organized Dec. at Bethel. Capital
stock, $4,000; all common; nothing paid
in; par value, $50; shares subscribed, 3.
President and treasurer, A. L. Van Den
Kerckhoven, Bethel; clerk, Emma Van
Den Kerckhoven, Bethel; directors, A.
L. Van Den Ksrckhoven, Emma Van
Den Kerckhoven and Eugene Van Den
Kerckhoven, all of Bethel. Purposes,
the furnishing of telephone service In
the towns of Albany, Bethel, Gilead,
Greenwood, Mason and Newry, county
Of Oxford, as at present operated by A.
L. Van Den Kerckhoven, one of the In.
corporators hereof, in his individual
capacity, under Q lease from the New
England Telephone and Telegraph Co.
OF Its lines In said territory. Certificate
approved Dec. 2.
Miss Pauline Jordan, q native Of
Welchville, and who yet retains q home
In that little village, the daughter of the
late Mrs. Angie (Washburn) Jordan, has
received letter of commendation from
the Executive Committee of the Near
East Relief through the secretary,
Charles v. Vickrey. Miss Jordan lie q
graduate OF the Haverhill (Mass.) High
School, and the Teachers College,
Columbia University. She trained for
nursing In New York hospital and the
Institute of Radium In Paris (France).
At the opening Of the world war she
volunteered her services. She went to
England and from there to France. She
was then transferred to Rumanis when
that country was 10 destitute and dis
ease-stricken condition. To get there
she, with several other nurses, had to
travel to Russia by way of Archangsl
and through that country to her desti-
nation. Her party had scarcely arrived
when the revolution In Russia complete.
ly isolated Rumania, leaving her people
without food, clothing or medical sup
plies. Miss Jordan was forced to suffer
ell that the people among whom she
lived suffered-famine, scarcity OF cloth.
ing and sickness. After conditions i'm
proved Q little she went into the Caucas
us region and is there now, having spent
some more than Eve years In this part
OF Europe. When the Turkish army
marched on the Caucasus, Captain
Ernest A. Yarrow gave all tho workers
permission to depart; but Miss Jordan
volunteered to remain and take the con
sequences. It was for this and Other
services that she received her letter oi
commeudatiou.