Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-03-10

Robinson Dean Of Buckfield was h
the place Friday.
Miss Russia Beals Of Turner has beef
visiting Mrs. Elizabeth Morton.
Freight trains have been running live
ly since the blockade was raised.
RN. Hall is repairing damages at tn,
True mill, and A. c. T. King st Billings
mill.
Paris Grange will hold sociable a,
their hall Friday evening. All are In
vited. Admission five cents.
Rev. W. T. Chapman OF the Methods,
church exchanged pulpits on Sunday
with Rev. Mr.. Roberts Of the Baptist
church on the Hill.
Beginning last Sunday, a train will
run from Portland TO Berlin every sun
day through the summer, leaving Port
land at 30, arriving at Berlin ut IL. l,
brings the Portland and Boston Sunday
papers, arriving here at 9:l3. 1t Is no,
an excursion train, and does not return
on Sunday, so what passengers there are
won't be likely to carry so large and
flourishing Jag as they used to on the
Sunday train last summer.
When long freight train comes up
the Grand Trunk and the engine stops
to take water, the train extends over the
crossing and blocks travel. On that ac-
count nearly IL not quite all the up
freight trains are left standing below
the crossing, and the locomotive is un-
coupled and run up To take on water,
then run back and coupled on again.
The Grand Trunk gets kicks enough,
and deserves enough OF them, so that IL
is n pleasure 10 give credit In this matter
for consideration and regard for the
public.
4 foot bridge was stretched across
Stony Brook, where the bridge went
cut. the first of the week. A temporary
bridge was at once started just above.
Work has progressed rapidly on IL, and
by the time this is in print II will prob
ably be ready for use. This bridge Is
built on abutmeuts made of logs laid up
cob house fashion. The span Is forty
feet, aud there are four stringers. The
whole thing Is held together with pins,
no iron being used about IL. When the
bridge u done with, the lumber can be
sawed up for other purposes.
The material for the cells in the new
jail arrived soon after the blockade was
raised, and Mr.. Rausch. who Is in
charge of the work OF setting them up,
came Friday night and began work Sat
urday, employing eight workmen from
South Paris and Norway TO assist
him. The prisoners were taken back
to the jail at the Hill Saturday noon,
where they will have to remain ten days
or more while the work Is being done
The cells were bought OF the Pauly Jail
Building and Manufacturing Co. OF ~.
Louis. one OF the largest concerns In
that line In the country. In the main
room OF the jsil there will be six cells,
three on each side Of a middle corridor,
and with corridor around the outside,
between the cells and the wall. The sides
aud tops Of the cells will be boiler plate,
and the ends toward the corridors will be
Of bars. There viii be no bedsteads In
these cells, but hammocks of heavy
duck will be stretched for beds. In the
other apartment, where the cells for
poor debtors and women are, there will
be iron bedsteads.
ELM HILL.
Mrs. f.. |. Libby has returned TO her
home at Pennington.
Mrs. Mary +. Greedy is working for
Mrs. II. L. Ellis.
Herman Given is visiting his grand
father, Henry Burgess.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. l.. Ellis are receiving
on the birth OF Il daugh-
Ter.
Ethel Ellis has been visiting her friend,
Alta Walker, at South Paris, the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ballard, OF Oxford,
we're the guests of Mrs. w. K. Weber
asst week.
We noticed in the Democrat some
lime since, "A statement by a South Paris
nan as 10 how much worse the wind
blows on this hill than IL does At South
Paris. We do have n breeze occasional
Iv. and in the summer IL Is very vel
come, after We have been 10 the village
where there was not breath OF air;
aud having lived some time at both
places can say that there would not be
much choice with Us as 10 locality In
time Of cyclone. but during freshet
Dur preference would certainly be Elm
Hill.
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