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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
A Lost Combination,

The Chinese had all the grand secrets
Of electrical discoveries more than 5000
years ago, and they made Use Of the
magnet as loadstone long before that
Historical records show where their ar.
mics were led across the vast plains of
the interior OF the nation by combi-
nation of electricity rs combined
power of loadstones and some other
substances unknown to the Celestials
of the present day.
This form of electricity is among the
lost arts and must come to the front
with other grand discoveries within the
next few years. But not the great and
learned shall have the benefit Of this
forthcoming discovery in electricity.
The one who shall have this golden
key to a grand electric mystery shall
have the fruits of his labors.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
North Paris.

Frank Kimball and James Robinson
have moved to Trap Corner and are
working for j. Cushman.
Charles Stevens is to collect the cream
on this route for the year beginning
April L.
Mrs. Ella Andrews is visiting at
Charles Edwards for few days.
The lady who left fur boa at Odd
Fellows Hall the day of the Pomona
Grange can have the same by calling al
Grange Hall March 2S.
West Paris Grange is to celebrate its
18th anniversary March rs, that being
the date of the first meeting fifteen years
ago. The regular meeting will be at 1C
A. NJ, then the defeated side in the late
contest will furnish dinner and the
afternoon will be devoted to music
literary exercises and general good
time.
Mrs. Page visited her mother, Mrs
John Crawford, recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Curtis and children
visited at w. E. Curtis March 18th.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
Hebron.

The Missionary Circle met Friday
afternoon, the 18th, for the children of
the Sunshine Band to open their mite
boxes, which amounted to over three
dollars. After opening the boxes re-
freshments were served and the little
folks went home happy.
On Sunday, DR.. Crane gave very
able and eloquent discourse. The at
tendance was large and those able to be
present were amply repaid for their
journey through the mud.
Mrs. Melcher and her daughter came
TO her sons last week where they will
make their home.
The family of Mr.. Kenney of Portland
are living in Mrs. Ellen Gilman's house
for the summer.
Prof. and Mrs. James Pike have been
visiting at Mr.. Joseph HibbS' for few
days this week.
Fred Marshall and Alton Hibbs are
saving wood for many around here.
They use gasoline engine and make
short work of it.
Hebron Grange held an all day meet
ing Wednesday.
The winter term of the academy closed
Thursday.
The athletic exhibition Wednesday
evening in the gymnasium was pronounc-
ed success by those present.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
Bethel.

Mr.. Fred Edwards has purchased the
house on Main st now occupied by Mr..
Charles Davis, and will soon occupy 1t.
Mrs. o. S. Pillsbury and daughter
Grace are visiting friends in Bethel.
Gould Academy opened the spring
term Tuesday with good attendance
Maple syrup is in the market but the
present weather causes fear of short
season.
Mrs. Chase, mother of Mrs. A. E.
Herrick, has been critically i'll at the
home of her daughter, but is GONZALES
cling.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Roberts left Pros
pect Inn Monday, after winters stay
there. Mr.. Roberts has been clerk at the
Inn.
Harry burlington and Frank Weet
went to Brunswick Friday, as guests o.
Mr.. G. B. Farnsworth, Bowdoin '03
Victor Gehring and Earl Philbrook alst
went to Brunswick to attend the meet
Herman Mason went to North Bridg
ton to attend the prize speaking ant
athletic exhibition of Bridgton AGA
deny.
The ice left the Androscoggin the 19tl
and logs are running although the water
is not as high as usual. This is a few
days later than last year, but earlier
than the average.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morice of Toronto, WHIT
have been spending the past eigh
months in Bethel. will soon return t.
their home. Mr.. and Mrs. Morice will b.
much missed.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
West Paris.

Frank Keene lost valuable horse last
week.
Miss Della Ridlon has returned home.
Mrs. F. S. Farnum went last Monday
for a trip of week or ten days to Port
land and Boston. She will attend the
millinery openings and order spring
goods.
The Rebekah entertainment will be
deferred week or two longer. Not
withstanding the unfavorable weather
about seventy were present at the regu-
lar meeting on Tuesday evening. After
exemplification of the work Mrs. Sturte-
want gave pleasing and helpful talk to
the members. There was short enter
tainment and refreshments of cake, cocoa
and confectionery were served. An in
vitation to visit Mount Hope Rebekah
Lodge at Norway next Thursday evening,
March 26th, was read. 1t was voted to
accept the courte y and forty or more
intend to go if suitable transportation
can be provided.
Mr.. E. d. Stillwell of Binghamton,
n. Y, has come here to take the place
of general superintendent of the business
of the Paris Manufacturing Co. Mr..
Stillwell will move his family here as
soon as an available rent can be secured.
There is scarcely rent to be had in
town and when the Paris Manufacturing
Co. get their business in good working
order it will be necessary to have more
accommodations for people to live. We
| would like to see more houses built here
and a good commodious hotel would be
of great benefit to the town.
Miss Effie Royal of South Paris has
been visiting Mabel E. Kicker.
Mrs. Ann Ellingwood and Mr.. Samuel
Estes were married at Trap Corner last
Monday.
Lester Penley has finished working
for Frank Small and has position in
the store of Z. l.. Tebbets at Locke's
Mills. Albert Bowker of Bryant Pond is
to take his place as clerk in the store OF
Mr.. Small.
The West Paris Grange are to tear
down the partitions in the lower part OF
their hall, which was used for a rent
and convert it into dining hall. Mr.
Aldrich, who lived in that rent, has
moved into the house recently vacated
by Mrs. Gustavus K. Bryant
There was good attendance at the
mothers meeting conducted by the w
c. T. U. last Thursday afternoon. A
sketch of Neal Dow was read, also an
article regarding the prohibitory liquor
law. There was spicy discussion upon
the subject, Resolved, That woman
makes society what she pleases." The
vote was nearly unanimous in favor OF
the affirmative. Mrs. Daniel of Min
neapolis, Mimi, was present and gave
an interesting talk. 1t is the intention
to have another meeting in about g
month.
The W. c. T. U. will hold a public
union temperance meeting next Sunday
evening, March 90. Every one cordially
invited. Subject, Anti-Narcotics.
Mr.. II. G.. Brown has so far improved
in health that he is able to 60 out o.
doors on pleasant days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eli j. Swan and daugh
ter, Marguerite, of South Paris, cam,
Saturday to visit over Sunday with G
W. Bryant and family.
Mrs. Mabelle Pike is visiting hel
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. n. j. Cushman.
Mr.. Elisha NJ. Emery goes this Mon
day to the lake region, where he ha!
secured job at carpenter work for TIT
summer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
Newry.

An accident in the mill on Sunday
River few days ago resulted in the
serious injury of c. A. Baker, whose
face is badly SCARED, and teeth loosen
ed. Another, later, at Swans Corner,
so badly injured young man named
Goudet, that doctor was summoned.
j. S. Allen has sold all his apples, and
there is demand for more. People are
learning that there is no way in which
to spend a dollar more prOfitably than
paying it for barrel of apples for use
in the family.
Loggers who are hustling to finish
their jobs, are working nights, and rest
ing their teams days on account of the
heat and bad state of the roads.
Snow is going fast, March so far has
been warm as April, but, Zone swallow
does not make summer" Wen be
liable to have another touch of winter
by and by. :,
We have lately had pleasant call
from George Spinney, who moved with
his family from Newry to Bethel year
ago.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
Greenwood.

Last Saturday morning your scribe
started to make series of calls at
Pinhook, So-called, in Woodstock, and
here are few jottingS that materialized
in consequence thereof. The first call
was at the hotel at Bryant'S Pond and
there had brief but pleasant chat with
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ford of Hartford
We were playmates more than half a
century ago, and, as might be supposed,
found enough to talk about.
Getting aboard of an up-river team we
soon found ourself at the residence of
William Jackson and wife, and there
stopped until after dinner Mr.. Jack
son and self have known each other for
many years, and fourteen years ago we
were both employed in Mann's mill in
Milton. Mr.. Jackson is in trade at
Pinhook and doing good business.
Our first call in the afternoon was on
Lawson Cole, former neighbor, now
keeping house with three of his children,
a son and two daughters, his two oldest
sons being at work in Rumford Falls.
Mr.. Coles oldest daughter, Myrtle, is in
her 10th year, pretty and accomplished,
but has had the misfortune, in cOnse-
quence of some disease, to become en-
tirely deaf, and can converse only by
means of the slate and pencil.
An hour later we were in the family
of Elon Whitman and wife. These peo-
pie are relatives and well stricken in
years, Mr.. Whitman being above so,
while his wife is = few years younger.
He is nearly as deaf as the young lady
above mentioned, so that it was impossi-
BILE to talk much with him. She had
been on the sick list but recovered so as
to be able to do some labor. Their son,
Edison, is unmarried and living at home
with his parents.
The following evening and night were
spent with Washington Billings, who
will be noticed further next week.
The first interview next morning was
with Almond Whitman, former night
operator at the Pond, but now living on
the farm formerly owned by the late
Newell Rowe. He is one of the seven
sons of Elon and Lucy Whitman.
Calling at Alden Chase's on the way
home we were glad to find him much
more comfortable than formerly, and
hope he will continue to improve in
health until it is fully restored. He
stated among other things that the town
meeting on the I'd inst. was the first one
he had missed during the go odd years
that he had been voter.
We did not like the idea of travelling
so far on the Sabbath, nor the looks of
those loaded double teams, nor the
sound of those engines whistles, but of
course we must conform to the customs
of the times.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
-nn Polar Icnr

The animal par excellence which the
hunter, the amateur arctic traveller and
the young explorer hopes and dreams
Of killing is the polar bear The reason
for this is the magnificent trophy
which the great white skin makes.
This feeling was no less strong centu-
ries ago than it is now, for we read
that one of the early Icelandic sea row.
crs to Greenland quarreled with and
killed his bosom companion because he
had slain a large bear instead of leav-
ing that honor to his chief. With the
modern repeating rifle the bear stands
no chance against the hunter, no mat
ter under what conditions they may
meet, and IL he is hunted in the native
way, with the assistance of dogs, there
is hardly more excitement than in kill
ing musk oxen. except for the wild.
heiter SHELTER dash over the ice to over
take the animal after the dogs strike
the hot scent.-Leslie's Monthly.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
An Unfortunate Sequence.

REV. Mr.. Stern's remarks over poor
John were so sympathetic, I thought,
said the widows friend.
Sympathetic" replied the widow.
"He said John had gone to join the
great majority. ;"
"Well"
"Well, in his sermon several Sundays
ago he declared that the great majority
of people 60 below"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
, RrOwnfield.

Mr.. Charles Sanborn was found dead
in bed Tuesday evening. There is a
great deal of sickness in all parts of the
town. Drs. Fitch and Marston are kept
busy nearly all the time.
Mr.. E. B. Bean has presented to the
town the building formerly occupied fol
store, to be used as high school build
ing.
Mr.. John Mcdonald, who has been or
the sick list, is out again.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Fl. Allen of Portland
visited Mr.. and Mrs. j. l.. Frink, Mrs
Aliens parents.
Mr.. T. Barnes of North Conway wa:
in the village to-day Thursday.
Miss Swan of Denmark is working fol
Mrs. DR.. Fitch.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
AndOver.

Loggers are breaking camp. The
warm weather has seriously interfered
with some firms, but upon the whole il
has been rather a hard winter for lum.
bermen.
Thurston Brothers are getting ready
to drive, which they expect to be at in a
few days.
The Y. P. S. c. E. gave a sale of home
made articles in the hall last Wednesday
evening. The amount taken we have
not been informed.
Easter Sunday will be observed in the
Congregational church. Appropriate
music will be given by the choir.
Born, March IS, to the wife of Samuel
Marston, son.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
West Sumner.

Shirley Hazeltine and Clara Hazeltine
are to work for r. N. Stetson the com.
ing year.
Charles Ryerson is able to be out
about the village.
Miss Lou Chase of North Paris is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Carl p. Durham.
Geo. II. Packard & Son are running
their saw mill having quite an amount OF
lumber in the yard.
The weather prophets are predicting
an unfavorable season again for farmers.
We hope their prophecies will prove un-
true.
F. w. Bonney has sold two horses the
past week.
Howard Curtis will drive the cream
route for Turner Centre creamery
through this section.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
Denmark.

The many friends of Mr.. Will Allen
will be glad that he has returned from
the hospital at Portland, where he has
been the past few weeks, and is very
much improved in health.
Mr.. Elwood Pendexter, after having
spent the winter with his parents here,
has returned to Greenwood, Mass,
where he is engaged in painting.
Mr.. Fred Sanborn has begun on the
foundation for his new mill.
Mr.. A. III. Whitman has purchased the
old John Blake place of Henry Walker.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
Fryeburg.

Mrs. Essen has moved to South Paris
Miss Marion Ward is visiting her aunt
at Intervale, n. Fl.
Mrs. George Walker is at the hospital
in Portland for surgical operation.
Mrs. j. F. Shaw entertained the ladies
of the Congregational Sewing Circle
Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Fred Littlefield has returned
from her trip to Massachusetts,.
Mr.. Elwyn Mayo is at home from
Dorchester.
Mr.. Delmore Robinson has moved his
family to Conway, n. III.
The snow is fast leaving us. Most
teams are on wheels.
Miss Mary Page has gone to Show
hogan.
Mrs. Jordan has improved in health
SO that her sisters have returned home
Mrs. Frye has returned to her dutie.
at the post office after entertaining thu
grippe.
Married, March IS, by Rev. B. n
Stone, Miss Nellie Hardy and Mr.. JOIN
W. Webster. They have gone to Way
land to live.
Mr.. Herbert Spring has returned tt
his work in Dorchester.
Mrs. E. G. Fife has gone to Boston
and New York for millinery and fame!
goods.
Mr.. Eben Perry from Dorchester wa
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Bracket
this week.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
Fast Waterford.

Born, the 18th, to the wife of Philip
ROlfe, a son.
Will Chadbourne has hired Harry Hill
and George Everett for the summer.
Edwin Skinner has hired for nine
months with Elton York of North Water
ford.
Bessie Haggett of South Paris is spend
ing her vacation with relatives here.
Ellsworth Field and his mother, who
have been working for Fred Kilgore
have gone to Oxford.
Mrs. Conant, of Appleton, is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Phil Rolfe. Mr.
Conant accompanied his wife here.
George Smith has moved from Frank
fuckers to the Hodgdon house.
Charles Hunt and family have gone to
Portland.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
East Sumner.

Last week we received card from W.
W. Thomas, our Swedish minister,
mailed at Stockholm, Sweden. On the
reverse side is a cut of the Crown Prince
extending his thanks to Minister
Thomas for the grafton delivered by him
at the unwilling of the John Ericsson
monument. The card bears Swedish
stamp marked 5, with the letters
Sverige" on the top. The card as well
as the stamp is curiosity.
The lumber and wood teams have
taken to wheels.
Very little maple syrup in the market.
Roads in many places are bad, in other
places improving.
Farmers are now working up the
wood piles.
1t has been busy winter.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
Lowell.

The drama given here the 4th inst. was
repeated Wednesday evening.
G. G. Andrews of South Paris is here.
E. I. Stearns has been quite sick the
past week but is recovering. Pneumonia
was feared.
w. o. Brown is doing quite business
selling and putting on wall paper.
Mrs. Lyman Irish at the village is
seriously ill.
Frank Walker from North Fryebnrg
with a gasoline engine and crew of men
has been saving wood about the village.
Joseph Bassett is visiting at Norway.
Frances True and Althea Farnham are
at home from Bridgton High School for
the spring vacation.
The dancing school at the village
closed Friday evening.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Spring Clothes.
It's Easy Picking.
Harness.
Spring Announcement.
For GraduatiOns.
Same Man, Different Place.
Best Wearing Stockings for Men.
Baby Carriage for Sale.
Wanted.
5. Richards, Optician.
Probate Notices.
? Notice. OF Appointment.
Statesmen Wanted.
Horses for sale.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
Contagious Disease. Among Plant.

All the fungous diseases Of plants
such as mildew, scab, blight, rust, rot
ETC., are contagious. The contagion IL
carried from year to year in the dis
eased part. be it leaf, fruit or branch
The presence of any Of this diseased
material in the orchard or vineyard in.
creases the chance Of the appearance
and spread of the disease another year
Nothing is so destructive to the fungus
spores as fire, and all affected plants
or parts Of plants should be cut out and
hurned
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24


Mrs. C. 81. Prince came home Saturday
from sojourn with her daughter In
| Portland, and Charles to celebrate the
event rang the church bell at O'Clock
instead of at 9 o'clock on Sunday morn
ing.
Misses Georgia and laura Dean have
changed their boarding place from w. w.
Tuttle's to the home of Mrs. Elizabeth
Waldron and her daughter, Mrs. Anna
| Pike.
A. F. Warren & Son are to occupy the
stable at Hotel Long when Henry Nulty
takes possession.
Mrs. Ellen Davis of Peru is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Ames.
Henry Parsons and son have lost val
liable team horse, the third one within
few years.
Mrs. Emily Loring returned to hel
home in Lewiston the l4th inst.
Mrs. Carrie Fogg of Lewiston has re-
Gently visited friends in town.
| w. DeCoster has recently canvassed
this vicinity for funds to renovate the
old church at East Buckfield.
Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Munson have beer
in town to look after the parsonage.
Rev. Mr.. Turner returned from 6
ministers convention at Portland Thurs
day.
The funeral of Mrs. Achsa Damon was
attended by Rev. Eleanor Forbes Sun
day, at the home of her son John, will
W HON she had lived.
H. A. and Mrs. Irish visited their sol
Allen at Bath over Sunday.
A report of the death of A. j. Buck
in Idaho comes to us. He was native
and former resident of this town, anc
the father of S. N. Buck of Norway.
Mrs. Clara Marston and master Ear
of Auburn are guests of Mrs. Marston''
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Irish.
Ardon F. Tilton, Jr., of Auburn, il
visiting his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs
Gilbert Tilion.
These boys used to cling somewhat tt
their grandparents, but since coming
from the city at the same time they hav'
cut their tether, and are having flint
time.
Romance Dean is visiting old acquaint
ances in town.
Friday, goth, mercury at Is as write
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
Grafton.

The snow of which we had an abun-
dance week or two ago, is fast disap-
pearing and our sleighing nearly gone.
TO judge by present appearances sum-
mer will soon be here.
J. f. Brooks has started his drive on
the Cambridge River.
Miss Carrie Brooks returned home
from Sunday River, Saturday night.
Mrs. A. F. Brooks, who injured hel
arm by fall, is improving.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
Wilson'S Mills.

Monte Fox has been quite i'll with
pneumonia but is now on the gain.
E. S. Bennett is moving home from
Enrol, having got through with his jot
there.
r. S. Bean, who is much out of health
started for Maine General Hospital, Sun
day morning. r. A. Storey carried him
to Colebrook. His sister, Mrs. NJ. G. Lin
nell, went to the hospital for treatment
week previous.
The thaw has been great damage tc
the numbering part of the community
The hunters. license law makes one
think of the killing of the goose that
laid the golden egg. But one can only
say, "What fools we mortals can be. y
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
Rumford Centre.
RED HILL.

School closed last Friday with very
successful term taught by Miss Ethe
Russell.
Miss Maria P. Seabury of Yarmouth
Me-, is visiting at Mrs. A. P. Hall's.
There are number of people in the
vicinity unable to be about on account
of the grippe.
U. G. Woods has sold his pair of black
horses to Pennington parties.
The Red Hill school gave an entertain
ment Monday evening, March 9th, at the
school house, at which large company
gathered to do honor at the occasion
Much credit is due to Miss Ethel Russell
the teacher.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
Sumner.

Lynn Dyer has had the mumps.
Mrs. John Davenport and son Percy
went to South Paris last week.
Miss Ethel Robinson of Peru visited at
G. F. Dyer's last week.
Mrs. C. B. Tuttle, Flora and Bertha
Sturtevant are sick with the the grippe.
Harry Bonney sold his horse recently.
George Dyer and Lester Varney went
to Pennington recently.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
East Bethel.

Mr.. William Render Bean is in very
feeble health.
Mr.. Gardner Bartlett is visiting his
father, Mr.. Jonas Bartlett, who is in very
feeble health.
Mrs. May Darling, who has been spend.
ing the winter with F. j. Russell and
family, has returned to Il. w. Bartlett's.
The ferry boat at Beams ferry, owned
by Elmer Trask, went down river with
the ice
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
Dickyale.

A. c. Hammond has moved on to the
S. Morrill, farm.
Mrs. R. S. Tracy is quite ill with a
bad cold.
o. A. Bisbee has bargained for the E.
G. Child place in "the city of Dickvale."
Mrs. o. o. Tracy is in poor health.
Henry Davis has moved into the
Thomas Wyman house.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
Coming Events.

March 25, 96.-Baptist Quarterly Meeting, Bry
ants Pond.
March Sl.-Farmers' institute, Grange Hall,
South Paris.
April Farmers institute, Grange Hall, South
Waterford.
Canton.
April 7.-OxfOrd Pomona Grange, South Paris.
May l, 2.-Oxford County teachers convention,
Oxford.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-24
..-- .SchoOlmaster's Examinations.
Harr, uall
North Buckfleld,

Mr.. George Heald of Camden, who has
been here with his brothers few weeks
in very feeble state of health, is very
much worse at this writing.
Mrs. Emma Bonney is stopping with
Mrs. n. B. Emery at present.
Merit Warren is out saving wood with
his gasoline power this spring.
Gideon Fletcher and G. W. Hammond
are in poor health this spring.
Mrs. c. Damon is very low at this
writing.
Mr.. Chute and wife, who have beer
stopping at F. B. Damons this winter
have moved to Auburn, Me.
There is an epidemic of bad colds
going through our vicinity at present