Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-29

No danger from drought just .
present.
Roy II. Curtis was at homo fror
Augusta over Sunday.
Dinner will be served in G. A. r. Hal
Memorial Day for veterans and thei
families.
The Ladies' Aid of the N. E. churcl
will have food sale at their vestry Fri
day, Juno l, at 3P. N.
The stores and offices will close al
day Wednesday, Memorial Day. Bear !
in mind, and don't get left on you
groceries.
The Ladies of the G.. A. r. will NEE
afternoons at 2 o'clock to make wreath
for Memorial Day.
Another hydrant test was made by tn,
Norway Water Co. Saturday night, will
results not much different from those o.
the previous week.
In spite of the drenching rain of tn,
last forty-eight hours, q thin curl Of
smoke still rises from the grain pile al
the grist mill ruins.
Charles II. Howard and family will &c
to Everett, Mass, for visit the last OF
this week. Mrs. c. NJ. Howard will
meanwhile visit in Portland.
Next Sunday morning, at the Baptist
church, there will be a special collection
taken for the benefit of the Maine
Baptist Educational Society.
Harry p. King of Portland has begun
building a house in the King neighbor-
hood, at the corner of the Number Four
Hill road and the Mixer road, 80 called.
A number of the high school girls &C
companied the ball team to Mechanic
Falls to help out on the game Saturday,
Miss Jewett going az chaperone. The
party all went in the barge Telephone. 4.
Among the buildings which are receiv-
ing new coats of paint this spring are
Hotel Andrews, and the houses of Hiram
Pulsifer on Pleasant Street, Charles Il.
Thayer on Park Street, and George II.
Davis on Maple Street.
MI. FlcdSaut hcocAou bouS0 ofo piou-
ming for fair to come OF some time In
October, probably near the FIRST, and it
is hoped each member will take an indi-
vidual interest in it and spend some of
their spare time through the summer in
doing something for the fair.
Whatever may be the prospect with
regard to the brown-tail moth, there can
be no doubt that we are to be infested
with the apple tree caterpillar this year
worse than for several years past. Fruit
trees and wild cherry trees are already
spotted full of their webs, and it is evil
dent that considerable work will be
needed to keep them down.
The work of clearing the Mason Manu-
Co. lot is progressing we'll, only
a small part of it at the lower end re-
naming to be finished. 1t needs only
glance at the lot and its situation to
show that it is the one most desirable
place for the factory. The batters are
up for part of the buildings, and show
that the factory is to be no small affair.
Indeed, its size is surprise to all who
see it.
The mortality among dogs continued
last week. Dogs belonging to George
Pratt and W. S. jackson were taken with
the same symptoms shown by two dogs
which had previously died, but they
pulled through all right. W. o. Froth-
Ingham's dog was not SO fortunate, for
he only survived the attack about fifteen
There is another part to this
story, though. Indications of poison in
the case of the rockingham dog were so
strong that his stomach was examined,
aud strychnine was found. No more
than that is known about the matter
now, but it looks very much as If some
Due had been leaving poison around in
at least negligent. The dogs in
the village are being kept pretty closely
= srded just now.
BOLSTER DISTRICT.
Mrs. r. c. Stowe spent the past week
with her daughter, Mrs. Z. E. Chapman.
Mrs 40. Wheeler passed last Friday
with her mother, Mrs. Whittemore, at
Mountain View Stock Farm.