Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-01-31


BKrHRI--A cold wave has just passed
over here. Last Saturday night We had
about SIX inches OF snow and our Numbers
men and farmers brighten at the prospect
OF good sleighIng. Monday the mercury
dropped to l5o below zero. Il. c. Ping
rec & Co.'S logging procession passed up
through Bethel one week ago for Went
worth Location, n. Fl. 1t 10 said hsK OF
the lumberman's winter Is gone aud the
winters cut CT lumber will be so per cent.
less than last year.
1t has been stated In the Lewiston Jour
nal and Oxford DENocRAr that Deacon
Eliphalet Burbank OF Gilead, some forty
years ago raised the frat house In town
without liquor. Dea. Israel Adams OF
Manhattan, Kansas, formerly OF Bethel,
in private letter says: 81 think this is
mistake. The house that my sister, Mrs.
Olive Blake, lived in when | came West
ten yesrs ago, was built by my father,
Isaac Adams. in 1928, ffty.three years
ago this summer. / we'll remember the
time for 1t was the year when Adams and
Jackson were the rival candidates for
President. Party spirit ran high. was
an Adams man, OF course, although but
boy. Ny father gave out word beforehand
that he was going to have his house raised
aud finished without liquor, and engaged
two men by the names OF Emerson and
Coffin to do the carpenter work, with the
condition that he should furnish no liquor,
and the arrangement was strictly carried
out. know IL was said at the time that
there had never been building raised Ia
that region without liquor. we'll remem-
Der Dea. BurbBnk as pioneer In the cause
Of temperance, and Is deserving OF great
credit for the noble work he ACCOM-
plished."
The farmers In this section have been
much excited over the salutatiou, " Have
Won got cut uuder your hay rack!' The
Compauy's agent has been in our town
looking ut all the racks lie says he will
make il lively for all who refuse 20 pay
So 90. In most cases farmers decliue pay
ing the amount asked, and IN several places
had some rough experiences. one Of our
leading farmers threatened TO take the
law on him II he did not leIve town.
The NJ +. Circle met with Mrs Truman
Crosby Last Thursday afternoon and eve
ming.
John Swan has shipped forty.seven car
lo,ds OF potatoes from our station since
l..t I.ll.
Mr.. Edward Capen while cutting timber
In the woods ls.t Wednesday, struck the
blade OF his axe into his foot, making .
serious wound. The nature Of the wound
wa, such that the big toe had to be ampu-
tsted.
Sunday morning az Bethel about six
inches OF newly fallen snow covered the
ground evenly as floor carpet. A. nine
O'Clock the wind commenced To blow and
continued 10 increase, filling the air with
snow until Sunday night we had terrible
gale. Shingles were torn from the roofs
Of houses, limbs wrenched from the trees.
and the thermometer dropped to 20 be-
low zero. All day Monday the thermom-
eter ranged from lO7 TO 20o below. On
Tuesday morning the thermometer indica-
ted 26o below.
The agent OF l.. b. bennett has been ir-
terviewing our farmers, demanding three
dollars for improvement on the hay rack
known as "the cut under rack" The
farmers refuse 10 pay, a. many Of them
have used this kind OF rack for more than
twenty years. W.