Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-04-08
GREENWOOD.

The stormy March has gone at last,
and the most singular month, says one
man, he ever knew. It came in with q
rainstorm, and went ont in the same
way. Three out of the five Sundays
were rainy, and the last one came so
near being the same that it rained the
Saturday before and the Monday follow
ing; thus taking the snow all off except
few drifts.
The fields and pastures begin to look
green, and the hens find very good pick
ing in and about the dooryard. Some of
the barns begin to look pretty empty,
but if the spring continues favorable as
at present there will be no hay famine.
Working up wood piles is now the
leading business. One man took a new
departure last winter, and instead of
cutting and hauling it sled length, he
cut it into cord wood in the woods and
likes that way better.
Speaking of wood piles, probably John
Titus has the largest and best one in
town, consisting as it does of sixteen
cords of rock maple, some of the trees
cut being two feet in diameter, and the
logs so tough as to require four pounds
of powder to split them. The wood was
sawed at the door with horse power.
Frank Bennett has sold his place to
Ransom Cole, near whose mill the place
is situated.
While looking over some old papers
the other day, we came across copy Of
the Oxford Democrat bearing the date
of July ], 1890; and it soon became ap.
parent why it had thus been preserved
On the first page is picture of the old
Hebron Academy with its dimensions
and also the new one, then in process OF
building, and known as Sturtevant Hall
Then follows an address by Judge Bon
ney before the Social Union in Boston
the whole occupying nearly four
columns; and it is certain that the same
amount of space could not have been
better appropriated, since it gives large
amount of interesting information tC
every lover of local history. Looking al
the local page we find forty-seven town.
represented, also Johns letter, in which
he denies rattlesnake story, which haG
somehow got into circulation, and re
lates several incidents, all in his usua
vein of humor. The paper contains two
original poems, and is really very in
teresting number.
We understand the road commissioner
has appointed Daniel Bryant to lool
after this highway district, and he viii
probably find something to do, sine,
the roads are reported to be in the wors
condition they have been in when tn,
snow left in the spring for twenty-five,
years.
Last Monday while John Titus ant
wife were on their way to visit the Ben
nett place, the horse and wagon boil
dropped into a "horrible pit of mir,
clay" obliging them both to alight; ant
then it was with difficulty that the team
was extricated. Yes, the roads are bad
and will be until they are made as wild
and the bitches as deep as they were be
fore the road machine came into use.
| Harry Cole came through the neigh
bOrhood Wednesday to see how rich tn
people were. Being close observer h
probably noticed that the population ha'
slightly fallen off in one place, and in
creased in another.
/ While visiting in Hartford during tn
fall Of 1899, we called on our cousin
Edwin Howard, it being soon after hi
wife had broken her hip by falling. De
ceased first married Amos Darrell, VIII
died in 1856, leaving his widow with on,
little boy, Amos, and daughter, Ida
was born in orphanage soon after he
husbands death. When we called there
as above mentioned, we found that he
son, Amos Darrell, had been there on
visit, and left for home the day befor
our arrival. Her daughter Ida was a
home, taking care of her injured mother
Both of these children were unmarrie,
at that time.