Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-09-10
Greenwood,

least, ana altn0ugn somewhat severe ano
damaging to the crops in many places,
still it was light compared to what they
had in Cuba the past season. For seven
months they had little or no rain there,
and a tropical sun sending down his
burning rays every day during that
length of time. No wonder that many
American families, who had gone there
to live, became discouraged and were
glad to get back into the states again.
To say that we live up to the divine
command to the extent of loving ouI
neighbor as ourself would be claiming
perhaps too much, but yet are 80 inter
ested in his welfare that few days ago
we visited his five acre field of sweet
corn to see how it was getting along and
found it very uneven. A small part of ii
will be fit to cut by the 10th, and so up
to the last of the month, some being
hardly more than fairly silked out. Hope
there will be no frost until it is all
marketed.
On the morning of the 9th Of Septem.
Der, about the year 1870, occurred the
heaviest frost we ever saw so early in
the fall. The ground looked as though
a snow squall had just passed over it,
and many of the apples were frozen on
the trees. Corn was then fairly in the
milk and of course was cut and shocked
at once, but as bad luck would have it,
there came long drizzling rain, quite
similar to the present one, so that much
of it rotted instead of drying off; and
consequently was well nigh a failure.
The Maine Farmer estimated tho dam.
age done by that frost in this state at
one million dollars.
The hay harvest cannot be spoken OF
as wholly in the past, since there is more
to be cut when the weather becomes fair.
When D. o. Davis sold his farm last
spring in Minnesota, he bought place
for his daughter near Osakis village, and
as it was somewhat out of repair he has
been fixing it up for her benefit. He
wrote us the other day that while he
wishes to return and spend the remain
der of his days in his native state, she
refuses to give him up, so that as yet his
mind is unsettled. Mr.. Davis says the
crops are looking well, but about 6
month late the same as they are here.
We have all heard of a tempest in a
teapot, but one occurred here recently
of somewhat different form. Wher
the oats were cut, a woodchuck's hole
was found in the field, so trap was SCI
and soon the occupant was caught anC
duly disposed Of Thinking he nigh
have a companion with him, the tral
was again set as at first, but nothing
more disturbed it until day or two
ago, when the family cat came to TIT
house with it clinging tightly to hel
foot. 1t was a small, one spring trap, Sc
that pussy was not badly injured, Blu
the little kids thought she was, an(
hence the Juvenile tempest mentioned
above.
A clipping to which reference wa
made in this column recently was omit
ted by mistake. 1t is given below
From the Saturday Globe:
When man can look back across fou
score years of life and find the image o
the same woman still enshrined in hi
heart he surely knows the full meaning
of the word love. That ia exactly wha
John B. Bundren, of Tate Springs, Tenn.
can do. Mr.. Bundren, who is now TO-
years old, is to be married to his old
| time sweetheart, Miss Rose MCGUIRE
who is exactly a centenarian, on Angus
20, the anniversary of her birth; and tn
ceremony will take place on the exac
spot where they plighted their troth S,
many long years ago.
Back of all this is rare romance deep
ly touched with tragedy. The TRACED.
of their lives grew out of the family op
position of Miss Mcclure. 1t took tn,
latter back to her home in England ant
kept her a spinster all her years; Bun
dren it led to cut adrift from his boy
hood surroundings in Tennessee ant
seek his fortune in the gold rush t
California. Their coming togethe
again was a mere accident.
The Mcclure family came to Americ;
from Lancashire, Eng, in 1920 and set
tied in eastern Tennessee. Bundren
then a youth, impulsive and eager, fel
in love with the daughter, Rose. TIL,
Mcclure family frowned upon thei
meetings and refused to consider tn
boys suit. The girl promised that sh
would never marry unless she coult
marry Bundren. He was equally certain
of his mind.
Despairing of being able to break III
the meetings of this young couple, tn
girls family sent her back to England
and there she has lived in her nativ
town of Preston, Lancashire, ever since
The rural SWANS of England came ant
went, but none of them touched he
heart.
Bundren went to California and hi
fortunes prospered. After a period o
years he returned to his home town il
eastern Tennessee and purchased an es
tate which included among its acres tn
ancient trysting place. Here he had in
tended to pass the remainder of his lif
| with the constant reminders of hi
vanished happiness about him.
Recently he hit upon the idea of Civ
ing reunion. One of his old friends il
England mentioned by chance the ad
dress of his former sweetheart. Bun
dren wrote to her. He found her still
single and still waiting for him. Letter
were exchanged. He again asked her t,
marry him and she consented, aud tn
bride-to-be's hundredth birthday was Sc
as the wedding date.
A unique feature of the ceremony will
be the fact that all of the 200 wedding
guests invited will be over 80 years Of
age. Seventeen of them will come from
England. The bride is now preparin,
for the ocean trip and will arrive in thi
country this month.
Mr.. Bundren despite his great age is
we'll preserved man. He is more thar
six feet tall and weighs 100 pounds. Fl,
is broad shouldered and in almost perfec
health. His hair, which is long ant
snow white, falls over his shoulders, ant
together with his long, snow white
beard, he resembles patriarch. Men
tally, he is alert, and physically b,
moves about as actively as the average
man of 60.