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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
THE OXFORD BEARS.
THE oolNoS OF THE WEEK m ALL
SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY.
Paris Hill.

First Baptist Church. Rev. 81. II. Bishop
Pastor. Preaching every Sunday az II A.. ~
Sunday School az l2 n. Y. p. 8. c. E. SUNDAY
afternoon at 8. Sabbath Evening Service at ~
: SO. covenant Meeting the last Friday before
the lst Sunday Of the month st 81 p. y. AL
not otherwise connected are cordially invited:
Universalist Church, Rev. j. II. Little. Pastor
Preaching service every Sunday at ii A. n
Sunday School at IL n.
Advertised letters in Paris post office,
Feb. lst:
Miss Alice whitcomb.
Miss Addie Edwards.
1t is perhaps generally known that the
Universalist church and society of this
place was made one of the residuary
legatees under the will of the late Mrs.
Maria L. Marble of Portland. The set
Element of the estate of Mrs. Marble is
now nearly completed, and notice has
been received that the share coming to
this society will amount to sl29O.59. A
meeting of the society will be held at the
post office next Saturday evening at ! 80,
to take action on the acceptance OF the
bequest.
George NJ. Atwood and family are
visiting the family of c. K. Brooks in
Cambridge, Mass. Mr.. Atwood will re-
turn after a stay of a week or two, and
Mrs. Atwood and Master Raymond will
remain longer.
Charlotte F. Hammond, NJ. D., who
has been in Boston since The Beeches
was closed, is now in New Orleans, where
she is visiting friends and taking in the
festivities of the Mardi Gras.
As Rev. Mr.. Little will be absent next
Sunday, there will be no preaching SER
vice at the Universalist church, and the
Sunday School will also be omitted.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
COLLEGE AND SCHOOL.

Chicago now pays her superintend'
ent of schools $4,000 year.
How to raise chickens will be taught
at the University of Missouri. Tile
curators have decided to offer a full
course in poultry raising.
An unusual course that is to be Of,
fcred ut the University OF Chicago Is
that of training young men and WON
en- TO become practical servants. Tile
course is to extend through four years.
Rev. II. B. E'rissell, principal of the
School For Negroes ut Hampton. Va,
says it requires $4,000 Il year for the
support of the school There are LOO
scholars living on the ground and be,
tween 5000 and 1000 coming directly
under his care.
Yale has property worth S6.S00.OOO
Oh the books of the tre:is drcr, and
S1.G46.O0O of this is i'm realty mort
cages. $l,CG5.e80 in railroad bonds,
SG43.UOO in corporation bonds other
than railroads. $2SJ.000 in various
stocks and $2,453.UO0 in real estate.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
RumfOrd Falls.

The Dynamite, Torpedo and Gun Com
pany has been organized at Rumford
Falls for the purpose of manufacturing
munitions of war, with s250,0OO capital
stock of which nothing is paid in. The
treasurer is Aretas f. Stearns of Rum
ford Falls.
Some work is being done at the head
Of the falls, near the light and water sta
ton, to turn more water though the
wheels at the station. During the low
water the station has been inSuthciently
supplied with power.
Work is being done on the programme
for the Maine Methodist conference
which will be held here in the spring,
March 30 being the date of the opening.
The committee which is soliciting enter
tainment for the delegates is at work,
and is meeting with general success.
Deputies Porter and Elliott recently
visited the Grand View House and seiz-
ed "a half-pints and four quart bottles of
whiskey.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
LAW POINTS,.

The surrender and cancellation of an
old note are sufficient consideration
for the execution Of Il new one given
in lieu OF the same. I3 S. W. SI3.)
Where an agent. acts for himself adj
versely 10 his principal in given
transaction neither notice to FOR
knowledge of the agent can be lawfully
imputed to such principal. go Fed.
Rep. 1851
A contract for the sale Of goods,
terms cash. less y per cent is an
agreement for cash sale ut speci.
fed price aud not an agreement for u
credit sale subject 10 discount for
cash. (J4 AT. Rep. G34.l
Where after the dissolution of firm
an account with 1t is carried on rs q
running account with the succeeding
6rm payments made TO the latter, un-
less appropriated. will go TO discharge
the oldest items Of the account. (54
Att. Rep. 555.)
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
SPORTING NOTES.
We will see The Rajah 90. 2

We will see The Rajah 90, 2:l4T'
1T the races again this year.
Young Corbett has written an ineer-
esting book entitled How to Punch the
Bag"
Jockey II. Phillips, the leading win
ner at New Orleans, was unknown q
year ago. He will clear $4,000 this
year.
George Schmidt, the. new auto racing
star hopes to lower the sensational
French records of Fournier and An
gieres.
An echo of the Elderone scandal OF
1902 was heard when the board OF re-
view refused to reinstate Driver Tom
Stuard.
Next season, say the knowing Ones
will bring about the lowering of many
athletic records. College athletes are
doing splendid work indoors.
philadelphia Jack" OBrien has
fought so many battles during the last
two years that physicians state he Is III
danger of dropping dead from heart
disease.
Colonel Pepper, by Director, 217'
dam Emulation, 2:21, by Onward, was
destroyed recently at Pittsburg. where
he was owned, owing to an injured
stine..
Harvey Tobias, who raced Belle ",
2:22A. and Magnolia, 2:24A, and was
in the money fourteen times with them,
will retain public stable at Pana, lll.'
next season.
Nj. II. ReardOn. indianapolis, Ind,
has sold The green three-year-old pac'
ing FLY Alice Brooks. by Princeton
2:19h. to George ID. Sherman, Fort
Henry. y. Y.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
BrOWnfield.

Irving Linscott has been very sick, but
is improving
Mr.. David Cram is very sick and is
said to be gradually failing. No hopes
of his recovery.
Rev. Mr.. Clough still remains very
feeble.
There have been a number of cases of
humps in town.
Paris Rowe is quite sick, but is said
to be little better.
Mr.. Thomas Seavey is another sick
one on the list. He has been sick a
number of days.
Mr.. 1. NJ. Linscott has bought horse.
1t is said to be good one.
No prayer meeting as usual as Mr..
Cameron is sick.
The ladies of the Universalist circle
have purchased new organ for the
church. Mrs. Eva Bennett organist.
Mrs. Sherman Mcdonald has taken a
young child from Portland to live with
her.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09

In court at Auburn Wednesday the
cases against Rev. Frank w. Sanford,
the leader of the shiloh movement,
were begun, with the court room packed
with spectators. The first case, which
was completed that day, was for cruelty
by Mr.. Sanford to his own son. The
testimony of several witnesses showed
that the boy, years old, was kept with
out food or water for seventy-two hours,
as punishment. Mr.. Sanford was
represented by II. w. Cakes of Auburn
and II. E. Coolidge of Lisbon as counsel,
but they put in no evidence for the de-
fence. The jury returned verdict of
guilty after being out less than half an
hour. Thursday morning Mr.. Sanford
was placed on trial for manslaughter, in
connection with the death of child at
Shiloh. The jury in the manslaughter
case were out all Friday night, and after
being further instructed by the Judge,
remained out until about II o'clock Sat-
urday, when they reported disagree
ment. They stood 10 to 2 for conviction.
The case for cruelty, on which Sanford
was convicted, will be appealed, and the
rest of the cases, of which there are
several, will 60 over this term.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09

The opening stanza of 1.-THE Wind
Harp" by James Russell Lowell, arrest
cd my attention to-day, and remember
ed it, although | had seen it but once
and had not thought of it for nearly 40
years. quickly recalled the time when
-mid-Sunday in mid April, 1858, and
the place wherein a floating bit of pa
per, on the deck of the U. s. mail packet
Chesapeake, about midway from Port
land to New York city. did not know
the author, but thought him no SLOUGH
of a poet, and | think so still. These
are the lines:
81 treasure In secret some long fine hair,
Oftenderest brown, but so inwardly golden
| half used 20 fancy the sunshine there,
SO shy. so shifting so waywardly rare,
Was only caught for the moment ana holden
While ] could say Dearest! and kiss IL, and then
In pity let 20 TO the summer again"
If that isn't a pretty conceit, pray tell
me the reason why! To my way of think
ing Lowell is the peer of the poets. In
whatever key he sings, from minor to
major, he never flats nor drags; even as
Biglow, Yankee-like, singing through
the nose, there is melody-in four sharps.
The Biglow Papers, of which there are
twenty or more, were nearly all written
in the decade before the war, when the
political pot was sending up hot steam.
He was the double of Jack Downing,
but Downing in rhyme. In one war
time poem there are lines that flush the
blood and quicken the pulses like Long
fellows sail on o Union strong and
great, and these are they:
uEo1 cleo m ,,aacat M o,,.h l,,llo cloan
But sword on thigh, and brow with purpose knit;
And let our Ship of State to harbor sweep,
Her ports all up, her battle. lanterns liz,
And her leashed thunders gathering for the
leap"
The 37th anniversary of Crystal Wave
Lodge of Good Templars was held at
East Buckfield Monday evening, Feb.
LIST. Ii was rough night (as uSuaD but
the hall was well filled. am ignorant
of the entire program, but hear that our
young minister and his wife each gave a
reading which are said to have been fine.
Niece Mabel has accepted a call to
teach in the girls department in China
Academy. She enters on her labors in
two weeks. My father attended one term
of school there, with Elijah p. Lovejoy
as teacher, who was murdered in after
years by the slave power because he had
the courage of his convictions and would
wear no mans muzzle. A brother OF
his, Owen p LOvejoy, was in Congress
just before the war, and we remember
reading in the New York Tribune a
speech of his, and he just fiayed them
aliye-the owners of men. To those who
were in sympathy with him and the
cause he defended. there was rare music
in the singing of hi, lash, JOHN.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
West Sumner.

Mr.. Richmond futile recently bought
a horse of Henry Davenport.
Mrs. Augusta Bates has gone to West
Paris where she will spend several weeks
with her son, Mr.. L. c. Bates.
Mrs. Clara Keen, who has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Hannah Bates, for
some time, returned to her home at
North Buckfeld last Saturday.
ii. b. II. Chandler of Leavitt Institute,
Turner, spent last Saturday with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Chandler.
Mrs. w. j. Lapham is making an ex
tended visit upon her mother, Mrs. Mary
A. Durham.
Miss Edith Bradford has been visiting
friends in Brunswick.
Miss Gertrude Beal, a former teacher
here, now a student in the training
school in Lewiston, made short visit
upon friends in this village recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Foster and children
of Bryant's Pond are visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Farrar, and her
sister, Mrs. Charles Buck.
Many friends of Mrs. Helen Robertson
are much pleased to see her in town
again. She is visiting her parents, Capt
and Mrs. G. NJ. Small.
II. T. Heath drives the mail team to
Buckfield part of this week. h. P,
Bowker is taking few days off training
fine looking three-year-old colt.
The annual meeting of the stockhold.
ers of the Oxford County Telephone and
Telegraph Co. occurred Jan. 2S. Fol.
lowing is the result of election of Off
GERS:
Directors-S. +. stetson, Sumner; c. f. Dud
ley, Paris; Orlando Irish. Hartford; +. A. Tay
lor, Buckfeld; W. e. Skillings, Sumner; p. c
Head, Buck6eld: E. NJ. Atwood, Buckheld.
Clerk-R. q. Stephens, Sumner.
| Treasurer-Miss Fannie Hersey, Buckfeld
School closed Friday, Jan. 20. The
last afternoon was merry time for all.
Miss Heald, teacher, served ice cream
and Alton Horne, one of the younger
pupils, served cake to his schoolmates
In the donkey" contest Wilfred HEATH
took first prize, cup and saucer, ant
Eula Newell consolation prize, a candy
| toy.
| Mrs. Julia Mayhem of North BucktielG
is visiting her niece, Mrs. Warren Lo
throp.
Rev. Mr.. Bishop of Paris Hill gave g
most excellent sermon here last Sunday
Text, st. Luke IL, 40, "Wist We not thai
| must be about my Fathers business?'
Charles Ryerson has been working il
the telephone Office for few days in the
absence of regular Central"
Mr.. Frank Young has been quite il
for few days but is better now.
| A. G. Farrar, who has been ill for some
time, does not gain as it seemed he die
last week. Report is he is still suffering
much with severe pain in his head.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09

Pomp and / went out one day,
ALI for to goa sleighing.
We came across gay old maid,
Who seemed to be a straying.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
Hiram.

Mrs. Herbert Spring, who has been in
Dorchester, Mass, some months, is at
home on a vacation.
Mr.. Fred X. Bean is improving. Mr..
Lansing III. Hubbard is attending to his
store.
Mr.. Edwin Hartman is seriously i'll Of
heart disease.
Mr.. Henry w. Merrill is sick and the
anvil chorus is no longer heard.
Mr.. Alonzo Martin of WestbrOok is in
town.
Miss Annie Spring of Fryeburg
Academy is at home on a vacation.
Messrs. Seth w. and John Clemens,
and Fred c. Spring are attending Shaw's
Business College at Portland.
DIR. Charles Z. Wilson went to Bridg-
ton Friday.
Mr.. VIM. F. Ordwsy of South Hiram,
q worthy citizen, In very III Of dropsy.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
Bethel.

The excitement caused by the arrival
of two small pox patients in our village
about ten days ago has somewhat sub
sided. The board of health have acted
promptly and judiciously and it is hoped
there will be no spread of the disease.
The home of Mrs. Rollins is still under
quarantine, as her son Walters case
still seems doubtful. If the citizens &C
cept the situation with good judgment
and cooperate cheerfully with the doc
tors and board of health there will be
little to fear.
Wednesday, another of Bethel's aged
and respected citizens passed away, Mr..
Hiram Wilson. Mr.. Wilson leaves a
widow and two soDs. Funeral services
were held at his late home Thursday,
attended by his pastor, Rev. c. N. Glea-
SON. Mr.. Wilson had been a member OF
the Congregationalist church for many
years.
Mr.. Clarence Fox, for many years clerk
for the late Calvin Bisbee, has bargained
for the stock in the store. 1t is under.
stood the mill property will not be sold
at present but Mr.. Lovejoy will continue
to run it as previously.
Wednesday evening a meeting was
called looking toward the organization
of a Civic League. Qhite an interest
was manifested and probably definite
action will soon be taken.
Thursday, Walter Wight fell from the
scaffold of his barn to the floor. While
he was injured about the back the at
tending physician thinks no bones were
broken.
The students of Gould Academy held
the last sociable of the term Thursday
evening.
Miss Sarah Hall still remains very
feeble.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. R. Wiley, Miss Wiley,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred L. Edwards and Miss
Marguerite Finney attended the clerks
ball at Norway. 80,
The annual fair and entertainment will
be given by the Gould Academy students
next Friday at Garland Chapel.
Feb. 10, the Canadian Jubilee singers
are to appear at the NJ. E. church under
the auspices of the Methodist society.
The measles are appearing in this
vicinity.
The return game of basket ball be-
tween the Berlins and Bethels, which
| was to have been played Feb. 6, has been
postponed for the present.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
LOcke's Mills.

The mill property of Frank Cummings
at South Bethel, formerly owned by
Rufus Virgin of Rumford Falls, was de.
stroyed by fire Saturday forenoon. Mr.
Cummings had recently put in valuable
machinery which was destroyed, with a
large quantity of lumber. Locke's Mills
fire company went up to assist.
Tom Thayer came up Saturday from
Norway. Mrs. Thayer is helping Mrs.
Sylvia Hussey who is quite sick.
A. S. Cole of Albany came up Wednes.
day and w. H. Farnham carried him
home Friday.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
East Sumner,

The many friends of Rev. P. E. Miller
were pleased to see him again in town on
Sunday. He came up to attend the funer.
al of Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett.
Mr.. Miller is still at Cumberland Gen.
ter where he has nearly completed five
years passionate with the Congregational
church.
The school under the charge of Miss
May Chaffin at East Sumner closed on
Friday the 10Th, ult. An entertainment
was given at the Grange Hall in the
evening by the scholars which was
largely attended and passed off finely.
A supper was served followed by sOci-
able.
Mr.. Abel S. Heald and his sister, Mar
celia, are both very feeble at S. C.
Heald's. Isaac BOnney is also quite
feeble.
The severe cold weather is hard for
aged people.
Wood and lumber business is lively
and lots of teams are busy.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
A Boys University.
Youth's Companion.)

"Where the loafer wastes his life and
the boys grow up to vulgar and useless
mediocrity"; here is vivid and I'M
fortunately true picture of many coun-
try villages. The remark was made by
George Robley Howe, a man who lives
in country village,-the town OF NOR
way, Maine, but not that kind OF VII
lage, because Mr.. Howe and his associate,
Mr.. George Noyes, have found way to
lift up and transform it.
Their work in this little Maine town
has already attracted the attention OF
educators all over the United States.
They have taken the country boys as
raw material, and created therefrom a
scientific university, in which all the
sciences which can have local interest
and foundation are learned by the young
pupils. Attendance is voluntary, tut
ton is free.
The boys themselves, as they grow old
er, become the instructors OF their
younger companions, and all alike 60,
not to books, but direct to nature.
They have their camp kit,-blanket,
Ratchet, knapsack and such other things
as make them independent in the woods
and either by themselves or with their
older advisers they tramp the surround
ing country and study the plants, ami
mails, insects, and minerals.
Not only do they form collections, but
they classify them, accurately and scien-
tifically, each boy working in the de-
partment which he has chosen for him
self. From the surrounding hills they
have taken meteorological specimens for
which natural history museums have
offered large prices, and from neighbor,
ing streams have gathered valuable
pearls.
The most important thing of all is the
mental and moral training that they get
The intelligent study of nature implies
constant association with absolute truth
and the comradeship of beauty. Under
these influences the Cough boy and
the incipient loafer clarity themselves
The dregs of their nature settle, the life
becomes purer and better.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
Wilson's Mills.

F. Perley Flint came up Monday week
to see his father who remains about the
same.
F.P. Thomas of Andover has been in
town the past week, also j. n. Cunning,
who went to Parmacheenee and returned
here the last of the week.
Frank Smith of Corinna, who taught
the winter term of school, Q6 weeks
went home the past week.
Mae Fox has gone to stay with her
aunt, Mrs. Archie Bennett, who is very
much out of health.
Mrs. Blake, who has been cooking for
Whitcomb Il Griffin at the Bean place,
owing to i'll health has given up the
position and returned to her home in
Milan, and Stephen Patterson is cooking
for the crew.
Miss II. w. Pickett has gone to Han,
over.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
West Brownfield.

Mr.. A. G. Cram is down to Woodfords
sick with the measles.
John Blake is working for Carl Blake
in his mill.
Miss Alice Jones has finished work
for S. NJ. Hobson and is at home.
Clifford Jones is working for George
Quint.
Arthur Brown has the measles.
All you hear nowadays is 81 have had
the measles" or 1--WE had the mumps,
have yOu?"
David Cram is very low at this writing.
Myrtle Jones is working at East
Browntield for Loring Cole.
Mr.. Darius Littlefeld is in very poor
health this winter. He is living with
Mrs. T.. q. Nolan.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09

The two-story log cabin which will be
Names building at the ST. Louis ex-
position is now on its way to ST. Louis.
Ii was loaded ON III cars at Portage and
taken to Brownville via the Bangor Il
Aroostook railroad and left over the
Canadian Pacific railroad for Detroit,
Mich. Twenty men, who constructed
the building and took it apart prepare
tory 70 loading, will go to st. Louis to
erect the cabin there. The actual work
of construction, excluding time spent in
securing the timber, was eight weeks.
1t is two story structure with eleven
rooms on the ground floor and ten on the
second. It is l40 feet long, so feet wide
on one end and 43 on the other. In its
construction $4,000 feet of the best
spruce logs obtainable were used, while
a similar amount of shingles will be re-
quired for the roof. After the cabin was
built il was taken apart in sections. A
car load of evergreen was taken along to
be used in building hedge fence sur
rounding the cabin.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
East Waterford.

]. B. Haskell dedicated his hall with a
ball the evening of Jan. 30. Packard's
Orchestra furnished music. There were
fifty couples on the floor besides many
spectators. 1t was u very orderly, well
behaved crowd. The hall, which is on
the second floor, has large stage and
at the other end of the hall is gallery.
The dressing rooms are below. At the
close of the evening B. G. McIntire pro-
posed three cheers for j. B. Haskell and
his hall which were heartily given. There
will be another dance Feb. Is.
Wilma Millett of Sabattus is visiting
her relatives in this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo Cole of Newhall
were at Mrs. Coles sisters, Mrs. G. F.
AmeS', q few days last week.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
North Buckfield.

Z. d. Heald and son lost one of their
valuable work horses this week. They
were a very fine pair of large, black
horses.
l. d. Fuller and daughter, Mrs. Eva
Hammond, returned from Brockton,
Mass, the 3Oth of January. They have
been gone four weeks.
Mrs. Lillia Newell is stopping at
Eugene Fuller's for while.
G. w. Hammond is in the lumber
business this winter.
Bert Cummings of Paris has bought
quite lot of apples in our vicinity late
ly. He is packing them this week.
Mrs. julie Mayhem is visiting at West
Sumner this week.
Washie Heald is having quite lot of
orders for game fowl this winter.
Clyde Keene, who has been at work in
Wellesley, Mass, the past year, is at
home.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09

The dismembered body of a man was
discovered Friday near the Eastwood
station at Lebanon. 1t is thought that the
man was killed by freight train on the
Boston and Maine f. r. Parts of the body
were scattered along the track for dis
lance of two miles. The severed head
had been mangled past recognition. In
the pocket of fragment of the coat was
found a notebook in which was written
81. Fountaine." A man of that name,
whose home was at Somersworth, N. H.,
had been employed in lumber camp
near there.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-02-09
North Paris.

West Paris Grange gave an entertain
ment in Dunham's Hall at West Paris
January 30th. There was music, an ex
cellent farce, apron and quilt sale, and
sociable. A fine time with a good
crowd. Receipts over $40. There will
be literary contest running through
February and March with w. II. Lurvey
and Mrs. Mile Davis as captains.
A. L. Curtis has sold his farm to
Harry Lane of Redding, and has hired
out to the town as overseer at the town
farm.
F. E. Gowell has sold nearly 500
pounds of poultry since last July.
There are over 900 books in the Prem.
tiss Library now. Eighteen new ones
have just been bought.
Mrs. Lucy Edwards visited at America
Andrews last week.