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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
Greenwood.

The wet season has been favorable for
one kind of vegetation at least. Riding
with a man along the road day or two
ago he remarked that If the bushes were
not cut back it would be impossible for
a team to get along after damp snow,
the roads would be so filled with them.
There is nothing within the bounds of
road repairing of more importance than
keeping them clear of bushes; and yet
there is no one branch of the work more
neglected.
There seems to be a good crop of cram
berries started, but they, like everything
else, are late so that it will require the
most if not all of September to mature
them. What the prospect is on Cape
Cod we have not heard.
Yesterday was perfect hay day, and
to-day is equally fine, and isn't it nice to
have two such days in succession?
Some are nearly through with their
having, while others have not fairly CON-
menced on account of the pressure of
other work.
Lying before US is an illustrated card,
the mechanical part of which is perfec-
ton itself, and on the back side the
picture is thus explained: "The design
on the front of this card represents in
allegory the history of the Louisiana
Purchase. 1t shows Napoleon, Emperor
of the French, and Thomas Jefferson,
President of the United States at that
time. Columbia in the center points out
on the map the exact boundary OF the
purchase. Indicative of its position in
the forefront of improvements and
progress is shown the New Home Ma
chine"
Napoleonl How Europe shook from
center to circumference at that time, not
even excepting John Bulls little seven
by nine island, at the very sound of his
name! In less than score of years later
where and what was he? How appro-
pirate the words at that time: "How are
the mighty fallen!
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
Bethel.

Rev. Arthur Shirley supplied the Con.
gregational pulpit In the absence OF the
pastor, Rev. G. N. Gleason.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aubin and little daugh-
ter returned to their home In Portland,
Sunday.
Miss Agnes Barton is visiting former
classmates and friends.
Principal Hanscom and family are
spending short time at Mechanic Falls
at the Davis homestead.
Mr.. N. F. Coolidge died very suddenly
Wednesday morning. He was in usual
health and attended to some Of the
chores as usual and came in to rest as
was his custom and died in few min.
utes. Mr.. Coolidge was eighty-one
years of age and leaves widow and one
son, Mr.. John F.. Coolidge. Funeral
services were held at his late home Fri.
day afternoon and the interment was In
Riverside Cemetery.
The W. G. T. u. met with Mrs. Horace
Andrews Tuesday. The next meeting is
to be observed as field day at the home
of Mrs. Ernest Cross.
Mrs. Fannie Twitchell and Mrs. Sturgif
and her son and daughter returned to
their home in Portland, Thursday.
Mr.. Irving Clark has returned after
several months absence in the South and
Massachusetts,.
Francis and Harold Chandler have re-
turned to their home in Norway.
Mr.. Whitman, manager of the corr
shop, has arrived.
Thursday the Ladies' Club will hold
the annual fair.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
North Buckfield.

At 80 o'clock Saturday morning, the
Sd, North Buckfield was visited with
high winds and hail storm, doing heavy
damage and running garden and field
crops. Its fearful roaring caused the in
habitants to remember July Sd, 1892,
when a cyclone passed through the
place leveling houses and barns.
Mrs. Clara NJ. Greene of Portland has
been visiting at A. F. Mason's the
past week.
Mrs. Cora Bartlett of Haverhill, Mass,
is stopping with her sister, Mrs. Wash
ington Head.
Mr.. Stanwood Wilmington and family
of the lower village have the sympathy
of the people in our place in their sick
ness.
B.F. Heald and wife visited Lewiston
Wednesday.
Norman and Charles Philbrook of Nor
way spent the Sabbath with their grand
father, Mr.. Augustus Spaulding.
A party of nine boys passed through
our place Tuesday, en- route for the
White Mountains.
Miss Belle Gibbs of LivermOre Falls Ia
visiting Miss Maggie Heald.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
A BOY HUNT.
Chased From Hedge to Hedge by Big
Pack of Weasels.

Chased From Hedge to Hedge by Big
Pack Of Weasels.
The following extract from an inter
esting book may be Of interest to our
friends. 1t is From Ny Life as an
Angler" by William Henderson, pub
llshed in London In 1879.
about this time, while rambling In
the picturesque lane leading from Mer-
rington to Windlestone with two other
boys, an adventure occurred sufficient
" startling to two little fellows from
nine to ten years old. We were busily
engaged In picking wild strawberries,
which clustered In the hedgerows,
when we saw at about hundred
yards distance pack Of at least
twenty weasels running from hedge to
hedge and evidently scenting out foot
steps. 1t flashed upon us that we were
being hunted. So, springing over the
nearest hedge, we ran across pasture
field and, standing upon the farther
bank, looked back toward ourGssail-
ants. To our dismay we saw the whole
pack, with noses to ground, steadily
tracking our course. The word was
given. Kun. run" and off we scam
pered across another field to take up
our position on another hedge. Still
the pursuit was going OH. and the crea-
lures were evidently gaining upon US,
so with wild shout we fled to the
village, which, happily for us, was not
far off. have frequently heard OF
persons being attacked by weasels, but
was never hunted by them Oh any 9TH
err occasion"
The above must have occurred about
1872. the locality being the north OF
England.-Forest and Stream.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
West Paris.

The Firms held Q religious service
Tuesday evening and Wednesday fore
noon of last week at the Free Baptist
church. Their preacher, who was nm
able to talk English, but who seemed to
be an able and fluent speaker, was Mr..
L. P. Miettineu of Thomaston. Many of
our townspeopls attended the evening
session and the Firms are sufficiently in
terested so they have formed church
organization and it is now their intention
to hold religious meetings once q month.
Mrs. Hezekiah Farrar has been quite
i'll for two or three weeks with slow
bilious fever.
There is a heavy yield of raspberries
on Mr.. F. L. Wyman's berry farm this
season. He is sending the bulk of them
to Portland where he is getting a good
price. He has an average of about
twenty pickers working daily and
harvested nearly 100 bushels OF berries
last week.
Last Wednesday Prof. A. W. Gilbert
from the Maine State College at Orono
was at Nh Wyman's and gave q. free
demonstration of the best methods OF
spraying to kill insects on apple trees
and various crops. It is to be regretted
that more farmers could not have re-
ceived the benefit of this information but
not very many of the farmers could
leave their work to come.
Mr.. G. w. Durham and family OF
Brattleboro, VT, started for Waterville
Tuesday with his automobile, taking his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Durham,
along with them.
Rev. Henry A. Abbott and wife of
Plymouth, N. H., visited his sister, Mrs.
Elmer Z. Tuell, few days last week.
They are now visiting relatives in West
Sumner and expect to return here before
their vacation is over.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. II. Brown and son, G..
l.. Brown, are spending vacation with
relatives in town.
Rev. A. K. Baldwin and family are
stopping at A. E. Marshall's on High
Street.
Mrs. Carrie Briggs Bird is visiting her
relatives at Trap Corner.
Miss Minnie E. Stevens and mother,
Mrs. Mary Stevens, have gone to Massa-
chusettS to visit Dwight Stevens.
Miss Elinor H. Tuell was the guest OF
Mrs. A. L. Tubbs at South Paris two or
three days last week.
Mayford and Jennie Mann of Norway,
and Mr.. Burton l.. Reed of Somerville,
Mass. were guests at Mr.. and Mrs. L.
NJ. Mann's several days last week, ac-
companied by Mr.. Edwin j. Mann; they
also went on a camping trip.
Miss Laura NJ. Bradeen returned home
last Thursday after several days visit at
Bryant's Pond. She was accompanied
by Mrs. Jennie Lurvey and son, Harold.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
North Paris,

1t is rumored that Joseph Littlehale OF
Everett, Mass, has sold his mill here.
Mr.. Smith is at work for R. B. Nevers,
Born, Aug. 2, to the wife of A. T.
Hollis, daughter.
Mr.. Greeley of Portland, a milk deal.
er, has been in this vicinity trying to
secure more milk.
Henry Dow of Pennsylvania is visiting
his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. B: X
Dow. Mrs. D. B. Dow has visited here
also.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Durham and
little son of Brattleboro, VT, have visit
ed relatives and friends. They came
here in their large auto.
Mr.. Taylor of Hyde Park, Mass, was
in this vicinity recently distributing
Bibles for the Maine Bible Society.
Mrs. Eleanor Small and Mrs. II. S
Robertson of West Sumner are visiting
at T.. T.. Fields.
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East BrOWnfield.

Last Friday afternoon the W. c. T. U
and L. T. L., with invited guests, were
most cordially entertained by Mrs. E. A
G. Stickney at the Stickney homestead
Delicious refreshments of ice cream ano
cake were served. All enjoyed pleas
ant afternoon.
Mrs. L. R. Giles is very sick.
Mrs. Mansfield of Boston is being en-
tertained at Mrs. E. A. G.. Stickney's.
Mrs. L. NJ. n. Stevens spent Aug. 9
with her daughter, Mrs. Gertrude
Leavitt.
Mrs. Rose Poore Godfrey has been Wis
iting in town.
Mrs. Annie Butterfield Knox is at hel
brothers.,
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Hebron,

Mr.. Drew Thompson of Auburn is now
with his daughter, Mrs. j. c. Donham,
for few weeks.
Mr.. Fl. L. Whitney spent Old Home
Week in Boston.
Mrs. Leon Whitney is now on visit
to her old home in Vermont.
Mr.. Leon Whitney went to Boston
this week.
Miss Grace Bumpus has been in Harps'
we'll the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. L. Melcher went to
New Meadows Inn Friday, Aug. I'd, II
being the thirteenth anniversary of their
marriage, and also Mr.. Melcher's birth,
day.
Two grandsons of Mrs. Jane Barrows,
who have been at Mrs. Howe's for few
weeks, have returned to their home In
Newton Centre, Mass.
Mr.. Henry Bearce and Miss Kate Mer,
rill made short visit to the Moody
family in their camp at Shagg Pond.
Miss Mary Scribner of New York Is al
Mr.. Sargent's.
Mrs. Ora Stearns Hylan is at Il. T.
Stearns',
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Oxford.

DR.. Farris is attending the encamp,
ment of the N. G. S. NJ, with Co. d, lst
Regt., at Portland Harbor.
Mrs. Farris and little daughter are
visiting her sister, Mrs. Stone, at Dix
field.
Carl Edwards and wife of Portland
are at Mr.. E. w. Edwards for a short
time.
Miss Retha Glover has closed her en-
gagement as pastor in Aroostook Co.,
and is now spending some time at her
cottage on the Advent camp ground at
Mechanic Falls.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
East Sumner.

Mrs. S. c. Heald has been at Old
Orchard with her sister, Mrs. A. D..
Park, for few days. Mr.. S. c. Head
went down the last of the week for a
short stay.
A. II. Harlow and family are at West
Harpswell on vacation.
Arthur Heald's family of South Wey-
mouth, who have been stopping on the
old Heald place on Sumner Hill, have re-
turned home.
There does not seem to be a great rush
of summer guests In town as yet.
The Minot Packing Co. are getting
their plant ready for the annual pack of
corn.
1t looks now as though haying might
be prolonged into September. 1.-THE
worst hay season ever known, say some
of the farmers. Potato bugs and witch
grass, however, seem to flourish.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
Hiram.

Hon. Charles E. Hubbard of Washing
ton, D. c., has visited his sister, Mrs.
Peter B. Young, and other friends at his
native home after an absence of fifteen
years.
Eli C. Wadsworth has thirty-nine board
ers at Mountain View Farm, from
Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, New
Jersey and Illinois.
DIR. A. d. Golding and DR.. A. Il.
Cutter Of Lawrence, Mass, made a visit
to the farm this week. DR.. Cutter found
that patient whom he had sent there,
as last resort, had gained twenty
pounds and recovered in three months.
Mrs. Henry l. Mason is recovering
from a recent serious relapse at Maine
General Hospital.
Miss Eta Starbird is recovering from
recent operation on her ankle.
Samuel L. Clemens is improving.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
East Bethel.

C. NJ. Kimball visited Portland last
Tuesday.
Mrs. Elmer Cole and two daughters of
Washington, D. c., are visiting relatives
here.
Mr.. George Blake and family of NAL
den, Mass, have been visiting relatives
here on theiy return from Houlton, Me.
Mrs. Ada Tyler of West Bethel was
the guest of her father, Mr.. M. S.
Coburn, few days last week.
Alder River Grange held very pleas
ant meeting last Friday evening. A
literary programme was prepared by
Miss Amy Bartlett and Mrs. Eta Bean,
and proved very entertaining. After
which they served coffee and cake.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
WooINe SLEEP.
A Prescription That Worked Well u
philadeInhia

A Prescription That Worked Well IN
Philadelphia.
A haggard looking man strolled into
a downtown drug store the other day
and asked the druggist for help. He
said he had trouble In getting to sleep
when he retired. No matter how
sleepy he might be during the day or
how much sleep he might have lost,
the moment his head touched the pill
low he was wide awake and lay thus
for several hours. Once asleep he was
very hard to waken, but he had to be
up at a certain hour, and in conse-
auence of his peculiar affection he was
losing more sleep than he could stand
The drug clerk regarded him quiz
ideally few moments and then re-
piled:
"My dear man, you don't want medl-
cine. What you want Is something to
change the trend of your thoughts.
Do as a friend of mine did. He was
troubled the same way and found that
the old folks plan of imagining sheep
passing a barrier and counting them
was out of date, so he began trying to
name all the states in the Union. He
soon got them SO he could classify
them alphabetically. Then, when they
10 longer interested him, he started on
the counties Of his state. He now has
them at his tongues end, classified up
TO the fourth letter. Now he is start
ing Oh state capitals and their loca.
tions. Then he will take up county
seats. A moments glance at an atlas
during the day shows him when he Is
wrong. and the beauty Of the plan Is
that he rarely has to think along these
lines longer than ten minutes before
he Is sound asleep. To make it short
the study of geography is Il good mar
cotic. "-Philadelphi Record.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
Mrs. Rose Mckinney Haywood.

Mrs. Rose NJ. Haywood, formerly Rose
NJ. McKenney, passed away Wednesday,
July 81, at her home in Norridgewock.
She was taken i'll on May /, and suffered
from Bright's disease and complications.
She was the daughter of VIM. McKen-
ney and Mary l.. Bessey of Paris, and
was born July Is, 1S45. She
married Rev. o. b. Rawson of Paris,
who died in Connecticut, where he was
preaching, in 1885. Later she married
Rev. Fl. NJ. Heywood-both husbands
being Baptist ministers. She will be re-
membered as Preceptress of Oxford
Normal Institute, when under manage
ment of Horatio 4. Swasey. She also
taught other schools in Maine for many
years.
She leaves a husband, Rev. Fl. NJ. Hey
wood, one sister, Margie NJ. Watson, now
living in Boston, and one brother. Frank
P. McKennsy, from whose home in West
Paris she was buried in Mountain Ash
Cemetery, Biscoe District, on Saturday,
Aug. 8.
She was highly esteemed and dearly
loved by all who knew her. Her friends
were many, as she had lived In many
towns in many of the New England
states.
None knew her but to love her,
None named her but to praise.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
East Waterford.

Miss Matte A. Whittier of Waltham,
Mass, is spending fortnight with Mrs.
G. l.. Hilton.
Mrs. Tenney and three children of
Berlin N. H., have been the guests of her
niece, Mrs. Dana Berry.
Fred Kilgore went to Augusta Thurs
day to see his sister, whose death is ex-
pected daily.
Mrs. Mandana Miller and granddaugh-
ter, Maude, of Waltham, Mass, are at
G. A. Miller's.
Mr.. Miller and his mother drove to
Mechanic Falls few days ago to see her
sister, Mrs. Blanca Foster, who is very
low.
Miss Mary Chadbourne, who is here
for the summer, spent a week at Old
Orchard recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil H. johnson OF
North Fryeburg visited in the place re-
Gently.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
Denmark.

Mr.. Ernest Ingalls, still remains very
sick.
The Macabees Lodge in this place will
give a drama in Odd Fellows Hall,
Thursday evening, 18th inst.
The Shorey vaudeville troop are in
this town for week and are giving a
good entertainment. Next week they
will be in Bridgton.
Mr.. George Gray and l. II. Berry are
putting new water works into their
houses.
The diphtheria case at Mr.. Went
worth's has been very light and the child
has recovered and the quarantine has
been removed.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
Shooting the Steenbuck.

Many Of the poor Beers in the Trans
vaal, by whom all the shooting that
Is Gone is for the pot and not for sport,
have perfected a system of shooting
with the assistance Of oxen. A steen-
buck has no fear Of cattle and will
lie still even IL they Craze right up to
him. The hunter gets together few
cattle and with his gun walks behind
them in such way that he cannot be
seen from the front. Great care has to
be exercised to drive the oxen so that
they may seem to be grazing natural
". The hunter must be ready to shoot
without having to alter his position.
The slightest movement is noticed by
the buck.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
North Stoneham.

Levi Buffers has moved from East
Stoneham into the Hilton McAllister
house to board the men while they do
Ernest Bartlett's haying.
Joe Fox OF Lowell Is cutting the hay
on G. N. Harriman's place near the cider
mill.
Mrs. Eden McAllister has come from
Massachusetts, and is staying at the
school house with her husband.
George Briggs of Albany was at n. B.
McKeen's Saturday night and Sunday.
Arthur Remission of Slab City, Lowell,
is visiting week with his aunt, Mrs.
John Adams.
Capt. w. C. Brooks from South Paris
10 visiting at VIM. Gammon's this week.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
Maine News Notes.

September 2, 8, and are the dates
of the state fair at Lewiston. 1t Is the
46th annual exhibition and will be bigger
and better than ever before.
Lewis F. Loud, the Maine Central
yardmaster at Northern Maine Junction,
who was crushed between locomotive
tender and freight car Wednesday noon,
died that night at the Eastern Maine
General Hospital in Bangor.
Orrin A. Mahoney, Rockland kiln
tender, shot his wife Thursday, firing
eight revolver bullets at her, four of
which took effect, and then put two
bullets into himself. Domestic troubles
were the cause. Neither of them died
Immediately, but neither will recover.
Fred Pooler, well-known guide, re-
Gently employed as cleaner at the
terminus of the Somerset Railway at
Moosehead Lake, was drowned Monday
after stepping from car and falling
from the wharf. The body was recov.
cred. A widow and two children sur
vive. he was 81 years old.
Ex-Governor John D. Long, while on
his way by auto from his home in Hing
ham, Mass, to his summer home at
Buckfield, was taken i'll with an old
trouble and was obliged to stop at
Brunswick. He was confined to his bed
for a few days, but is now improved,
and expects to be able to 90 to Buck
field early this week.
Miss Gracia Wotton of Friendship, en-
ployed as a waitress in hotel, was
drowned at Monhegan on the Sd. While
in bathing Miss Wotton, who was good
swimmer, swan out some distance and
had started back to the shore when she
went down. The body was very soon
recovered, and three doctors worked
over It three hours without success.
The bitulithic pavement on Pine
Street, Portland, which was laid only the
preceding week has been dug up BY q
corporation in order that they may have
access to their manholes. They were
ordered some time ago to put them up to
legal grade but ignored the order, 30
that now they will have the extra ex-
pense of digging up and relaying the
pavement.
The largest land-locked salmon ever
caught in Maine waters with a rod was
landed on the Sd In Sebago Lake by
Edward Blakeley of New York, who is
in camp at North Sebago. It was Mr..
Blakeley's first salmon. 1t was three
feet one inch long, five and one-half
inches thick, 10 inches deep, and weigh
ed 22} pounds. The Boston Herald says
of this catch: There seems to be NO
eainsaying that twenty-five and Q half
pound salmon caught In Sebago Lake.
A rival fisherman weighed 1t.
Harry Feltis OF Bristol Is charged by
the coroner's jury with striking the blow
which caused the death of his father,
Lorenzo D. Feltis. The elder man was
injured ON the head over month ago,
and the SON was arrested charged with
assault and battery. but was discharged
for lack of evidence. 1t was thought
that his father fell and struck his head
against water barrel. The coroner's
jury now charges that Harry Feltis In
fiicted the wound with Q hoe or some
other dull instrument, and he 10 again
under arrest.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
unlversalist Grove Meeting.

The annual Bryant's Pond grove meet
ing of the Oxford Universalist Association
will be held In Dearborn Grove in that
place on Wednesday, Aug. 81. One fare
for the round trip on the Grand Trunk
from Lewiston, Berlin and intermediate
stations. Able speakers, not yet an
nounced, will be present. The Bryant's
Pond parish viii furnish good music and
coffee without charge. 1.-THE day should
DO stormy the services will be held in
the church.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
RECESS.
AFTERNOON.
ENDORSED BY THE COUNTY.

1.-THE most popular remedy in Otsego
County, and the best friend Of my fami.
ly," writes VIM. NJ. Dletz, editor and
publisher of the Otsego Journal, Gil
bertsville, N. Y, sis DR.. Kings New
Discovery. It has proved to be an in
fallible cure for coughs and colds, max
ing short work of the worst of them.
We always keep bottle in the house. l
believe 1t to be the most valuable pre-
scription known for Lung and Throat
diseases" Guaranteed to never disap-
point the taker, by F. A. Shurtlef d Co.
Price 80 cents and $l.00. Trial bottle
free.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13
West Lowell.

Mrs. Leah Boswell has gone home and
Mrs. Eva LeBarron has gone to Frye
burg to be cared for ty her mother, Mrs
John Seavey.
Alonzo Tyler of Norway was in the
place Wednesday, delivering picture
frames.
w. Fl. Smith of Stow has bought q
pair of steers of l.. McAllister.
Bert Thurston of Stow has bought ],
A. Fox's lambs.
Will Hutchins and family Of Cam
bridge, Mass, are at their camp ut the
cove.
Clarence and Albra Lord are doing N
Fox's haying.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-08-13

Arson claims that certain woman
living not so miles from that place does
no washing. "She has six children and
lives near q brook. Once q week she
makes all the children 60 to the brook
and wash themselves and their clothing.
After the clothes are washed they put
them on and stand in the sun until dry"