Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-07-04


George Young 10 at work for Hezekiah
Stetson In Sumner haying.
Friends OF Mr., and Mrs. D. L. Turner
from Greene gave them Walt last week,
stopping with them over night.
GREENWOOD.
The drouth ID still on, and growing
more severe every day. There are acres
Of upland that last year and the year be-
fore cut one and . half tons Of hay to
the acre, and to-day what little grass
there 10 would burn Ike dry leaves. And
the brook, running through the fields
on the Bennett place ID dry for the hrst
time In June In twenty-four years.
Curiously enough In Ainnesota they
are still having 20 much rain ~ to be st
q loss TO know what 70 do With Il. A
letter from Mr.. Davis says Il has been 20
wet there all the season that weeds are
about the only crop growing on low land.
Learning through the Democrat how dry
Il 10 "down east" be says they can fur
nish any quantity Of water needed, II We
can coptrive some way TO get Il here.
The striped vine bug IL with us again,
and many . pumpkin plant has already
succumbcd TO his ravages.
j. w. Cummings u now canvassiug
for the Lewiston Journal, and stopped
with his father, Dea. 8. B. Cummings,
over Sunday.
Frank Bennett and family have gone
to live with Joseph Cummings, whose
sisters death was reported two weeks
ago. Mr.. Benefits family consists Of .
wife and two little boys.
The writer was 90 fortunate recently
~ to get . short interview with the
widow Chas. A. Coffin, whom be had not
seen In several years. She makes it her
home with hsr daughter, Mrs. Woodsum,
In Mechanic Falls, who now has three
little children, all boys.
E. Z. Wentworth made pleasant call
at the Bennett place the first OF the
week. He ID well informed man, and
one IL always sure 70 learn something
new by having . talk with him.
Mrs. Fred Cole, who was reported on
the sick list last week, Il c0nvalescing.
Clifton Swans disease has assumed
the form Of dropsy, which caused hls
legs to swell, 90 40 20 make Il necessary
to tap them; and the discharge OF .
large quantity Of water was the result.
Late In the afternoon John Titus turn.
ed his work horses into the pasture %
feed In the cool Of the day, and not long
after one Of them wss found lying on his
side with his legs against the stone wall.
which position be got into while rolling.
The horse Was % heavy that Mr.. Titus
found II impossible 70 sxtricate him,
with al the help ct his command, and
was obliged to get the other horse TO
move him away from the wall before be
could get him on TO bis feet. AZ good
fortune would have h, the horse WAS
not materially injured.
Mr.. Titus says the drouth has reduced
his hay crop moro than ono half, and the
fourteen tons Of old hay In his barn In
creases In value every time be looks ct
Il. He has seven acres OF sweet corn
which 10 looking well, considering the
fearful ordeal through which Il has
passed.
Mrs. E. l.. Durham spent last Tues
day with Mrs. Harry Cole, and in the
afternoon called on Mrs. Newton Bry-
ant. No reporter present, hence the
brief mention.
Eliza, widow Of the late Tewksbury
Cummings, has been visiting relatives In
this neighborhood and other places.
In reporting Mr.. Coles marriage re-
Gently several papers got his name
somewhat mixed with another. Alon
Cole IL Q twin; his mate, Alton,
having died when little boy, perhaps
four or five years old. The reporter, BY
some means, got the wrong person mar
ried-On paper.
Thursday morning. Another rain after
The most Of this lettsr WAS written; light,
bat good deal better than mona.
SHOWS FALLS.