Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-04-23
FRYEBURG.

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Mr.. Will Bradley has been very sick.
DIR. John Shedd, Of North Conway, was
the guest of DR.. Harris one day this
week.
Mr.. Dunn, of North Yarmouth, was
in town on business this week.
Mr.. Charles Mason and Miss Alice
Hammons were united In marriage by
Henry Garland, justice Of the peace, OF
Conway Centre, Saturday evening, April
18th.
Miss Annie Webster spent this week
with her uncle, Dana Webster.
Mr.. A. r. Jenness has returned from
fishing trip at Sebago.
The district schools began Monday,
April 18th.
Miss Zenna Bickford is having vaca.
ton of a few weeks. Miss Clara Love
Joy is taking her place in Mrs. s. F.
Ladd's store.
Miss Harriet Adams is teaching school
at Fryeburg Centre.
Mr.. John Weston has returned, after
spending several weeks in Massachu-
sets.
Mr.. Eckley Ballard, who has been
very sick, Is much better.
Mr.. Lewis Lovejoy has returned to
Connecticut.
Rev. Mr.. MCDOWELL, of Bridgton,
preached at the Congregational church
Sunday morning, April Goth.
Mrs. Virginia Trube and two children
have returned from their winter In Tex
as.
Mr.. Harry Hubbard has been confined
to the house several days with q bad
cold.
The Congregational Sewing Circle met
with Mrs. H. w. Cousins Thursday after
noon.
Mr.. John Kerr has moved into his new
barber shop on Smith Street.
Mrs. E. G. Fife has returned from
Boston, where she has been to purchase
new spring goods. Her annual opening
sale will be Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thursday of next week.
About forty Of the Knights attended
the tournament in Portland Thursday
night, April Is.
Mrs. DR.. Towle, who has been spend
ing the winter with her son In Boston,
died very suddenly April 8. Her re-
mains, accompanied by her son and
daughter, were brought here for inter-
ment.
Electric lights were turned on last
Friday evening.
Mrs. Henry Tibbetts and daughter
Ellen have returned from their trip
South.
Miss Maude Bartlett, of Brownfield, is
the guest of Mrs. Fl. B. Bartlett.
More logs are being turned into the
Saco River this spring than for number
of years before.
Mrs. Henry Walker has gone to visit
her children residing In Massachusetts.
"The Declaration, as written by Mr..
Jefferson, was pruned by Congress, and
very much improved by the process.
Debate dragged on till July 4, when the
members, greatly pestered by the flies
which swarmed in from livery stable
near by, hurried up the final vote, and
adopted the amended Declaration late In
the afternoon" The foregoing quota.
ton, which is from the lately published
biography of Thomas Jefferson by
Thomas E. Watson, calls to mind q pas
sage in the sketch which William Willis,
in his "History of the Law, the Courts
and the Lawyers of Maine," gives OF
Samuel Aver Bradley, who resided and
practiced law here for some twenty
years in the early part Of the last cent.
ury, and who also resided here the
three years Immediately preceding his
death. Mr.. Bradley's father, John
Bradley, "was," says Willis, "the owner
of large tracts of land at and near FRYE.
burg, to improve which three OF hi:
sons-Robert, John and Samuel-emi
grated to that town, where they become
useful and respected citizens. Samuel
, went there about 1894, and In company
with Asa Eastman, father Of our re-
, spected brother of the bar, Philip East
man of Saco, went to Cold River Valley
, about fifteen miles north Of Fryebure
Village, erected log cabin, and spent
one summer in the forest, telling trees
and clearing lands preparatory to max
. ing farms and a permanent settlement
But the discomforts and privations OF
{ this mode of life, and the annoyance Of
the mosquito and black fly, were toe
severe discipline for young man Of
good taste and ardent aspirations. Re
turning to Fryeburg In the autumn, hi
, placed himself under the instruction o.
/ Paul l. ngdon, graduate Of Harvard ir
the class of 1770, and the first precepto
of the academy at Fryeburg, by whom
he was prepared for college, and enter
ed Dartmouth in 1895. Perhaps it is no
, too much to say that the bar and thu
forum are indebted mainly to the mos
, quitoes and black flies for the services
NJ ls1, lit fvNv
the pioneer life of the forest"