Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-26
Greenwood,

But little idea of the drouth was enter
tanned about here until the other day.
when we had occasion to dig round some
boulders preparatory to blasting, then
the soil was found to be nearly as dry as
ashes.
The editor seems a little skeptical
about hedgehogs injuring trees; but if
he will come up to our place we will
show him several hemlock and poplar
trees that they have about ruined, and
also one sweet apple tree. They will cut
of limbs nearly half an inch in diameter,
apparently just for the fun of the thing,
and in a corn field they are much more
destructive than coons or skunks. Their
| flesh is worthless as an article of food,
and they will stick their quilts into
everything that touches them.
The editor has expressed no skepti-
ciSm, he has simply asked for informa-
ton as to ho,o the hedgehogs injure the
forests; question which the above
paragraph partly answers.
Two Mormon elders visited the town
recently, but seem to have come to the
conclusion that we are an incorrigible
set, and so left without holding any
| meetings.
Last week, Newton Bryant went to
New Gloucester to attend the funeral of
his uncle, Alonzo F. Cole. Mr.. Cole was
brother of Mrs. Erastus Bryant, and
| only two are now left of family of
eight children. The other one is a
brother and lives in Mechanic Falls. Mr..
Cole leaves widow but no children.
The frama for Papso,p Cnla.c rau, ~, I'll
was raised last week. After the work
was done the crew took supper with his
son, Alfonzo Cole, who lives near by. d.
d. Cross of Howe Hill is doing the car
penter work.
Mamie Brooks called at the Bennett
place recently and reported that her
school consisted of ten scholars, and that
everything pertaining thereto was run
ming with clockwork precision.
Glad to see Bryant Pond represented
again on the local page. Are incliued to
think it provoked smile when the cor
respondent read about Frank Small's
milk route.
And now the report comes that some
villain started fire in the south part of
the town, which burned over sixty acres
of timber land belonging to George Cole,
Arthur Noyes and VIM. Woods, before
it could be subdued If the scamp who
set the fire could be found out they
would make it hot for him.
The drouth has already become a
serious matter; the grass that looked so
green and promising three weeks ago
has now dried up beyond recovery on
the ridges, and all the rest of it will
unless we have rain soon. Several
slight thunder showers have passed over
each way, but not drop of rain fell here
from any of them.
The young craft still keep up the
custom of hanging Maybaskets, and
sometimes seem willing to get caught
Recently hawk was sailing round
overhead preparatory to swooping down
and picking up chicken for dinner,
when suddenly he came down, but not
in the manner intended. Measurement
across extended wings, two feet seven
inches.
Two mothers have lately wept for
their children, like Rachel of old. but
not exactly for the same cause. Each
one had boy several years old, and, as
time; but when they both found that
nature had decreed it otherwise, their
grief was so intense as to produce weep
ing. But cheer up, mothers, and think,
or try to think, the next ones will be
just what you want.
One day last week Edgar Morgan
stepped on nail causing a wound that
soon made such trouble as to require
the aid of a physician. When last heard
from he could only get round on crutches,
and the wound was very painful.
Simeon Farr, the present overseer of
the town farm, is Frustrated with Sc
we're trouble in his back. His son-in-law,
Osgood Swan, is at work for him on the
farm.
Fred Cole has been sick recently, and
it was feared that typhoid fever would
be the result. He is now reported as
convalescing.