Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-04-21
MEXICO.

l.. X. Stevens received n cut on hi
head which required stitch or two I,
close, while cutting Ice under clothes
line, Monday.
Mile +. Gleason has sold parcel OF
land lying near Hszen G.. Virgins e
Benz. +. Virgin.
Joseph Luvillc Webster and daughter
Flora came here Wednesday with the re-
mains Of Mrs. Webster. They were 10.
TERED by the side OF her father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. John +. Twombly
in the cemetery on the Ebenezer Virgin
farm.
By an oversight neglected TO send
you all my communication relating TO
the Easter evening gathering, in which
| stated mainly that much Of the sue
cess of the entertainment was due 10
Mrs. Minerva Parsons, who drilled the
young people in song and recitation,
and presided at the organ during the
evening.
+. L. Thomas commenced 10 take lum-
Der from Rumford Falls Wednesday for
Record at Jay and Plummer's men be-
gan TO ''roll landing" along the andre
scoggin below the Falls.
Tuesday, DR.. Binford was called to S.
A. Reeds where he found the only
daughter sick with diphtheris. Thurs
day the doctor reports mild case with
little il any doubt Of recovery.
Joseph Cary came out Thursday after
two weeks confinement to his house.
Dances, singing, recitations and decla-
nations with ice cream, cake and hulled
corn, are the sources from which cash is
being procured to pay the expense Of
sidewalk from the Roxbury road to the
toll bridge.
Brewster Bennett, wife and child,
have gone to Stark, Maine, to locate.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett has gone to
Dixfield as housekeeper for Van X.
Eastman.
The Bennett family came here four
years ago from Northern New Hamp-
shire worth nearly $500. Peter, the
father, died soon after they located here.
After his death very good set Of build
ings, commenced before the death Of
Peter, were completed. The buildings
are now owned by Geo. W. Ridlon. In
them are two good rents, one Of which |
IS soon TO be occupied by Mr.. keene,
who Ia to move here from West Peru. |
Mr.. keene has preached here Sunday |
afternoon for nearly two years. By |
having bad luck the BENEFITS had but |
little left when they went from here.
Wallace Mason Is making things hum /
II his mill, at the site Of the old kimball
Mill. He Is working fifteen men nj
present.
Mrs. l.. +. Swain of Roxbury returned
home Thursday. She had been two
weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Allynn
Richards.
read In the locals Of one paper that
ehool at Ridlonville had commenced
nd that Fred Robinson was teaching
he ''Grammar or High Division" thereof.
'uch statement may be misleading to
ormer residents Of this locality. DR..
'ictor NJ. Abbott's old house, now oc-
upied by his widow and daughter, was
ways regarded as located at Mexico
,orner, and as In school District No. 3,
I the town Of Mexico. Under the new
aw, District No. 2, formerly Harlow
I'LL District and District No. 3 were |:
Consolidated. A &5,270 school house
uilt, on the DR.. Abbott land, and In {
hat new school house Fred is doing ex- |
client work, the writer judges, by the {
lsnifest interest shown by his own
cholars. The primary department is
lught by Miss Allen from East Dix |
ED, who has taught several terms here. G
8 some Of as have little regard for G
ID names, II we cannot agree TO call the
ew school district the Corner District,
erhaps 1t might be called by our local d
,rrespondents the New District, or II
nwilling to call It the Corner School G
lme It the Union School. Il