Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1857-03-13

atl tNc hclguhlT' ol the Nlcinltl 70 WOOL
breaking. Spare cards were always kcp,
on hand Cor the boys. Tho use Of ardent
spirits was not common until later period,
except at huskingS and raising-.
Another kind of cmhloymcnt now out Of
use. va. cardboard making. There was a
machine at North Yarmouth, and It was
our winters employment to rough out the
boards and send them 10 the machine. We
had q machine of our own for making the
handles These boards were boxed up and
sent To Boston. once shaved out three
rrus' a day for a fortnight in succession
One winter We Kept the machine going night
asi day. People lborcd hard and Jared
hard, hut generally we're in good cireum-
stances until the war OF 1850.
Daniel Young spoke. can well rcmcm.
bcr the time when my father erected the
frst immc Tor a wool carling machine in
America, which was put in operation by
Mhyall m Gray. lie manufactured broad.
cloth which D., carried 20 lI..ton on horse.
hack or alr.
pr Joshua Earring. of Long leland, New
York, spoke. Ny grandmother camo from
England, .e,,lcI on Long Island. Among
the Incident. Dc would mention a., existence
of huillirr still .nnlirr whore ,hey went
o. church with their gun. on their shoulder.
Their usual opl va, co;n md milk, with
inca, twice wrrk In III. b1yhool they
planted ro'at,r. with the ,krus upward,
thr,' In q hill in u triangular form. Now
one horse anil q hoy will plan, four or five
nrre- a LAY iu thr same lruhiy The boys
anl girl. used to have fr,lics in pullu: liz.
~ whom punch was furnished as - drink
In thU'' days there ~oro no double wagons
nor carts Vow t'crrarr spinunc-wnrri,.
T. i.arar' thing u,w.aIsy- 20 obtain pure
linen thread. Il /. nearly an mixed with
cotton %, thc mi-ro.oorr will show.
Sy'unu. p,Ir, E.I, Of Ard1yrr, neat
spoke. The Cr,t settler, Il AnIp,rr came
from Aud.,'r aul Mrthucu, Ma, \ com.
Tlny of young men went "a, rar as Ballast,
and finally commenced a settlement in An.
dover. Ny grandfather, Ezekiel Merrill,
and wife, FIR, novel into town ia l5,J.
T.r two ynr, hisvi'r .w M i.mal, except
uc native Indians. They lived on h,lls
l,r,., known as thr crl., bilI. which they
hlilcl and caught IN traps hltrr . ycr.,
my grandmother clmo 90 Bethel on horse.
back, when there came great .now..iarm.
and .'c walked home 900 snow shoes. Their
lor hou,, took fir and hIrn,i up with r,.
'rythine in H. In l7pe, tle rr,t mill va.
built. The proprietor, Offered eco agrr, OF
land - he man wh, would erect H. rr,t
Tn.,.,E,c w., In l,23, aud thr mail was
carried tu . p1ckot.hluik.rchi.f
Nr D. rrl'., OF Paris, spoke. Paris
was my native town Nyrriudnthrr came
90 tnr .gr'v',rr now lr,c 100 1905. Wlcn
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pul, and sometime. below N.rw,vyrlar,.
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,,.,nI-.r. ,r I,.i.l,,i,, L,j,r. 3, Jir.r,r,
s.,,. :, IN, I.ni,, n, ,,uu nat ,rl
whether or NOT il mi,Lt ari., from li, .u.
r.rior knowledge Of p,liti,, that has r,n.
I,r,i 50 many Of nj, rupIl, 50 successful in
rolI,ical lie. Mos, OF thc., aro COMPARE.
ti,aly Young men. and We may vet hear
mora cr tl,,m n, rublir mon. ono reason
# their success may have arisen from tie
fact that they were all good boys and good
boys will mako good men,
Hon. \. Grover responded ''''m 70
b. one Of that number, can ''.' To m'u'
the names oi l"'''h''' anu Jaws ~" ~
our state senate among 'he m'm''r' o'