Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-03-14
Buckheld.

A. w. and Mrs. Horton Of Sumner
were calling on friends Thursday while
on their way to Norway, where they are
stopping for time with their nephew,
S. N. Buck.
Odd Fellows Hall appears to have be-
come repository for pianos OF late.
think they are there on approval.
Many who have been i'll are on the
mend. Alice Nulty has ridden out.
Thos. s. Brigham, Carlton Gardner and
VIM. Irish are improving.
The last rites were performed over the
remains of one of the mothers In Israel
on Tuesday, in the person of "Aunt"
Rachel Turner, whom I have frequently
mentioned as daughter of Revolu-
tionary soldier, when l would see the
last one mentioned. Hers was long
and industrious pilgrimage here, her
age being near IS. Rev. Mr.. Athearn
conducted the religious exercises, and
her remains were laid beside those OF
her husband on tho mountain side. A
brother, Russell Pratt, survives her, and
daughter, Mrs. Abel Irish, with whom
she has lived.
On one occasion of Old Home week,
at the Old Church on the Hill, how hap
py were we that our lives were cast in
such pleasant places, when the old town
was pictured in such glowing terms, for
her beauty and philanthropy-the moth
er of the poor and struggling lawyer,
and merchant, and artisan; but alas, the
picture is reversed. When the people in
town meeting voted unanimously to pray
for charter for an extension of the
electrcs from Turner to this place,
thereby checking extortion to which the
people have long been subject, and
obtain a more direct route with the
larger spheres, the lens is turned, and
when Merritt Parsons, II. A. Irish, F.
r. Dyer, Esq, E. NJ. Atwood and j. E.
Warren were called to Augusta to show
cause why the same should obtain, there
appeared before them the great and hon
,rable in solid phalanx, to blot Buckfield
from the map; and it looked for time
as though the delegation would have no
home to return to, but "Whom the
GODS would destroy" etc.
This Friday evening will be held rain
or shine supper and dance, a benefit
FOR Frank Wilmington, that he may re-
ceive treatment for ills to which he has
long been subject.
At a regular meeting of the grange on
Wednesday evening, Mrs. V. P. DeCoster
md Lyman Waterman of East Buckfield
Entertained the grange very pleasantly.
Mrs. DeCoster's paper was on the lines
Of raising poultry and eggs for profit,
md certainly the profit appeared quite
conspicuously, and the pleasure she por-
,rayed. She is possessed of children,
hut we would advise the childleSs to en-
gage in this pursuit instead of cats and
logs, thereby obtaining profit and the
| pleasure of pets at the same time.
| And the old man contributed some
, what to the amusement of the younger
class, by being drawn out Of his shell,
not by an incubator, but by polite in
vitation of young lady, as we supposed
% march, but which developed into a
game called Tucker where modern
marital relations were exemplified to
the letter, as in the game one is allowed
to grab any mans wife but his own. II
is especially interesting for the old man
in his dotage, whose wife is too infirm
70 participate. John, you ought to
have been there.
Mrs. Emma Jewett is convalescent.
James Jewett is i'll at Hotel Long.
Miss Georgia Dean has gone to Port
land for treatment, her sister Laura &C
companying her.
C.S. Childs is finishing an Office with
hard pine. He states there will be ar
advance of one cent per pound in meats
till this expense is cancelled.
F. L. Barrett says apples have gone
back on the farmers. One dollar fol
Baldwins, Sl.25 for Ben Davis.
A telephone meeting was held here
/ FRIDAY,