Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-06-03
Editorial and Selected ITEMS.

Hot weather Tor the past week.
-Dry-all nature, especially amman
nature, these not days.
There wiz be sale of Artillery
horses At Montreal, on Wednesday, the
Sth Of June.
The Maine Medical Association viii
hold their annual meeting at Bangor, on
the 2Sth, 29th and SOth of June.
The alteration OF time in running of
trains on the Grand Trunk Railroad is
postponed for two weeks,
MIR. J. II. Rawson is fitting mp store
n the front OF his dwelling house, rs
Confectionery and Grocery stand
The services of tho Congregational
Churches OF Norway during the Summer
will bc as follows: the Centre at 10 so
A. NJ. At the Village at l.30 p. Nj.
Rev. c. c. Mason publishes in the
Gardiner Reporter a spirited reply to
Rev. y. l.. Parks attack on Free Mason
~.
There will be 4 trot at the Fair
Grounds al South Paris, on Tuesday 9Th
inst. with purses of $50 and $50, Some
good trotling is expected.
Mr.. Alyah IIersey, Depot Master at
south Paris, has sold several hundred
boxes Of nice Tomato Plants from Au-
burn and Lewiston lighthouses, this
Spring.
A Circulating Library ofnearly three
hundred volumes has been established by
twenty stockholders at South Paris, and
opened to the public-a good move.
The warm weather IS causing COM
pany to engage board in our beautiful |
Village, Some houses have already en-
Gagged all their rooms.
consolidation has been ratified by the
stockholders OF the Maine Central Rail-
road.
Our friend C. I. Mellen has raised |
the first radishes we have seen this sea-
SON. Thanks for mess,
Brigham Young paid $40 to take his
family to circus, the other day, and
only took part Of his children at that.
Our euterprisiug neighbors in Nor
way have set new star in the armament
an advertising paper called the Ok
FORD STAR, printed byJ. F. Upton-to
he issued semi-montht May its light
not be hid under a hill.
-One of the Improbable improve
menlS on record was the canal which
never afforded but one dividend. and
that WAS one summer when the directors
moved the towpath and divided the hay.
Boise City. Idaho, has only one un-
married woman-This lack OF women is
bad for Boise
Il man in Rhode Island has been
sent to Jail for ten days for sleeping in
church Nothing was done 20 the clergy
man.
People who are always fishing for
c0mplomeuts. do no; need very long lines.
They will get their best bites in shallow
water.
"A Richmond paper, calling attention
to some improved spotted pigs bred there
says; "Our maxim should be 10 encour-
age our own people in preference to all
others
Hayes City, Kansas, has a female
constable. The young men are in con-
slant fear that she may have an attach
ueut for them.
Il Paris lawyer lately caugh; the
small pox of his inamorata. She having
pi,ted him, married him.
The terms of OF twenty United States
Senators terminate on the 4th of March
next
A man who is over eighty years old,
and has jus; married his fifth wife, IS call ,
ed by his friends 1.-THE refuge for aged
and indignant parents"
Mr. \. Staples of Auburn has a corn
field which contains 1900 hills
Levi Shedd has been appointed Post
master at Greenwood, vice d. IL. Crock
eft, resigned.
-Dea. Rodney Hutchinson OF Hart
ford has los, promising boy of Canker
rash. and has three other children sick
with il.
Decoration day was not observed in
town this ycar-not because there were
none to pay the tribute OF respect to the
houored dead, but IS Tie Post of the C.
y. L. has gone down. there seems to be .
no one to take the matter in hand.
A Western physician finds sun flower
seeds valuable for coughs and heayes in
horses.
1t is said tomato plant set in the
cenue OF a hill OF cucamaers, melons, &c.
VIII eaectually keep of striped bags an d (
other insects. The tomato is cut away as
soon Is the vines begin to blossom.
"A match game of Base Ball was
played on Saturday, May 18th, between
the Keoka "a nine Of Craig's Mills, and
the Little Androscoggin Club of WEIGH
vile, which resulted in fayoror he Keokas
by a score of OF TO 10.