Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-06-10
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Miss Minnie Bradley came from bos-
ton to Miss A. N. Pages on Friday,
May 80.
Mr.. A. F. Lewis arrived the same day,
having spent the winter In Washington.
Rev. r. P. Mathews of Newcastle
preached at the Congregational church
on Sunday, not as candidate.
Miss Carrie Mcmillan of Minneapolis
is renewing her acquaintance with her
friends in this, her native place.
Miss Mary Fife of Somersworth, N. a.,
has been visiting her brother, S. w.
Fife, Esq.
Mr.. Charles Purinton of South Easton,
Mass, was at A. Fl. Evans over Sunday.
Edward Woodman, Esq. and wife, OF
Portland, were at the Oxford for few
days.
Mrs. R. II. Turner of Portland is at
Mr.. VIM. Gordon's.
The street car began its trips on Mon
day.
Mrs. Hale Jacobs of Maiden was in
town for three days, coming to attend
the anniversary of Rev. B. N. Stones
marriage, and the beginning of his
Swedenborgian ministry.
Miss Molly Gordon went to Roxbury,
Mass, on Monday, to attend the church
wedding of her cousin, Will Gordon and
Miss Mooar of Roxbury. She spent
Wednesday night at Miss Bayrows' with
Miss Lena Emerson, who came home
with her on Thursday.
Mr.. Cotton of Conway Centre has
been removing the machinery from his
piano factory in that place to the chair
factory here.
Two games of base ball have been
played on the academy grounds-on Sat
urday bstween the Fryeburgs and Bridg-
tons, and on Wednesday with the North
Conway club, both resulting in favor of
the Fryeburgs.
The report that Mr.. Willard is to re-
main another year in the academy is Civ
ing great satisfaction to the friends and
patrons of the school. The baccalaureate
sermon is to be given on June 18th by
Mr.. Libby of Andover Seminary, whose
supply of the Congregational pulpit was
so much enjoyed by the congregation.
The appended excerpt from an editorial
article of some two-thirds of column
in length which appeared in the New
York Times of last Wednesday, May 2S,
was read with breathless interest by
the people of this town. Not till the
publication of this article by the Times
were people here aware of the fact that
they were living on the site of what was
once jumping volcano, and it goes
without saying that the knowledge i'm
parted by the Times article, coming, as
| it did, so soon after the destruction of
the city of st. Pierre by the eruption OF
volcano, has caused no little appre-
hension, not to say CONSERVATION to
prevail here lest the same awful fate
may be impending over Fryeburg as
latelybefell st. Pierre. 1t will be noticed
from the extract from the Times that
the fact that this town is on the site OF
what was once jumping volcano is not
the only new information contained in
the extract, but that it also tells of "a
stone Ratchet handed down for genera
tons in the tribe of Paugus, the cele.
brated Indian chief" This discovery
which the Times, so many generations
after "the tribe of Paugus" became ex-
tinct, has made of this stone Ratchet is
almost as wonderful as the discovery
which, seventy-four years after the death
of Paugus in Lovewel's Fight, was made
by Elijah Russell that Paugus was slain
in duel which in the course of that
famous battle he fought with John
chamberlain. The extract from the
article in the Times is as follows:
| oMoTEPE.
The route through Lake Nicaragua passes di
rectly under the shadow of Omopete. a volcano
lcapable of doing for that region, without pre-
vious advertisement of Intentions, all that Mon
Peee has done in Martinique. The Sun.
That is not the worst of it.. Omopete
is what is known as jumping volcano
the vulcanus saltans horribilis of Pliny
the Younger. There is conclusive histor
ical evidence that early in the fifteenth
century this volcano was situated in Frye
burg, Me. This fact was established by
accurate drawings of it sketched npon q
stone Ratchet handed down for genera
tions in the tribe of Paugus, the celebrat
ed Indian chief. AS is we'll known, ONO
pete has two great horns springing W
from its slopes, giving it from distance
the appearance of gigantic aurochs
This popularity is faithfully sketched
upon the Paugus Ratchet. There is nc
,other horned volcano on the globe.