Oxford Democrat., 1914-09-29
Miss Bertha Wight is attending Bliss

ousiuesS OOileBo at LeWi3tOn.
Did you ever see the woods colored so
little on the 2Sth OF Septemberp
Mr.. and Mrs. d. A. Wheeler and two
daughters Of Auburn are guests at DR..
c. l.. Bucks.
The district convention of Pythian
Sisters will be held in October with
Hamlin Temple of this place.
Our few little showers have laid the
dust, but have not been sufficient to
soak in much, and the ground Is still
very dry.
The campfire of VIM. K. Kimball Post
and Circle, G. A. R., on Wednesday, will
be held at Grange Hall. Nine posts and
corps have been invited.
Mrs. Hattie King Of Clinton, Mass.
and Albert Blood Of Aver, Mass, were
here last week to attend the funeral OF
their brother, William L. Blood.
Professor W. S. Ripley of Boston, the
well known musician and composer, has
been visiting relatives here for few
days, returning home Saturday.
All ladies of the Congregational
church interested in missions are invited
to meet with the pastor at the church
vestry Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Eugene Lowell has gone to Colby Col.
lege TO resume his studies. He has al
ready taken one year of the course, and
will continue with the class of 1917.
Rae Newton has also gone to enter Colby.
Donald S. Briggs, who has been in a
summer hotel at Westport, n. Y, for
the season, has been at home for few
days, but will return to Westport for a
few weeks, where he will have a position
in a national bank while the cashier is
recovering from surgical operation.
The orcbardists will soon begin the
harvesting ofa good crop of apples.
Although the fruit is about the finest
that has grown for years, there is as yet
little sight for anything for the growers.
Prices so far offered by buyers are hard
ly more than enough to pay for barrels
and labor of picking.
The ladies of the Baptist church and
society are requested to meet with Mrs.
L. e. Morton next Thursday at 2 p. NJ.
to tie comforter for the missionary bar
rel. Any article for the barrel may be
brought there at any time within two
weeks. Any garments or articles OF
household use, new or old, II in good re-
pair, are acceptable.
The Tubbs families are shipping their
household goods to Florida, and will fol-
low them on Saturday of next week. |
sx,f 3 ka ~ uar ri ON
Tubbs, Mr.. and Mrs. George NJ. Tubbs
and daughter, Miss Nellie Tubbs, Mr. |
and Mrs. A L. Tubbs and Miss Nellie
Yeaton. Their location is at Boyett, !
Hillsborough County, few .piles from
Tampa, where they own land.
A caller at the Democrat Office on
Wednesday was Alvah Eastman of st.
Cloud, Mimi, who has been spending a
short vacation at his old home in Lowell. !
Mr.. Eastman learned the printing trade
in the Democrat Office on Paris Hill in /!
the seventies, and then went west and
started in journalism in a modest way
with small country newspaper. He
has made good, and is now at the head
of the Journal Press of st. Cloud.
Alton c. Maxim now has the elevator
section of his grain mill on Skillings
Avenue closed in. This mill, which
takes the place of the one burned last
Nav on the same site, will be when COM
pleted nearly 200 feet In length Quite
part of it is a single story building, with
a high elevator section in the middle. !
The outside of the building is all covered
with corrugated galvanized iron, so that
80 ha ar
The concrete sidewalk on the south
side of Maple Street has been continued
by the house of Fl. B. Holden and Bill
ings Block, so there IS u continuous
walk on that side four and a half feet
wide from Market Square TO the eastern
boundary of the Grange Hall lot. The
town appropriation having been exhaust
ed, the abutters are paying the full bill
for this walk with the hope of getting
the customary allowance from the
town another year.
Some very nifty" furniture has been
installed in the Grand Trunk station.
Mission settees in dark oak take the
place of the old seats along the walls In
both waiting rooms. In the mems room
heavy double settee is placed in the
middle of the room, while in tho wom-
ems room there are a number of individ-
ual chair and rockers. No Persian rugs
on the floors as yet. A steam heating
plant is also being put in TO take the
place of the hot water heaters.
Rev. C. G. Miller, who put in an irri-
eating plant for his market gardens last
spring, is satisfied that he has secured
| large results from il this season. For
one thing, he is securing big yield of
handsome potatoes from seed planted
the 9Th of July, from which he expected
to get only some that would do to cook
for his chickens. On his pea field, after
the early peas were off, he raised sweet
corn which brought him s45 for the ears,
the corn being planted late ia June:
water did that" says Mr.. Miller, and
the effects of il were to be noted on all
his crops.