Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-03-12
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Bethel.
Quin Bartlett and his father, Him
Bartlett, have finished working for Ned
Carter and have come homo. They are
hauling cord wood 70 the Hill for Id
Smith. $780,
Hal Stanley, who has been working for
Baker Thurston for the winter. came
homo Saturday night. he 10 planning
to resume his meat business In the
spring.
profitable school March 1st at Locke's
Mills. She il one of our successful
teachers. We need her In our graded
village school.
Ned Carter with his crew came home
Monday from Enrol, N. b.
Miss Nellie Whitman, one OF our be-
loved teachers Ut Gould Academy
slipped and fell % she Was going to
prayer meeting Sunday night, March s,
and broke her leg below her knee. She
was carried at once to the dormitory,
and the bone was set. In day or two,
she was taken to the Sisters Hospital at
A0WIobOus WAOA0 VIC nOk0 on0 - t9a0OA-
ly cared for, as she deserves 1t. Miss
Pratt, another teacher, went with her.
Miss Whitman will be much missed at
Gould Academy, as she 10 very pains.
taking teacher, and all loved her.
We have been having Chautauqua
week this week, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday afternoon and evening. It is
too early to learn the net results of tn Q
week, but it is good course, and all
ought to be benefited by going to It. We
hope the men who financed the move
ment will get whole out of II. Such
things are an uplift to the town and
more ought to 20.
MIDDLE INTERvALE.
Ned Carter and horses have returned
home from Enrol, N. H., where he has
been logging.
E. E. Whitney was here recently.
Alton Colt is working for Carey
Stevens.
Mrs. d. L. Powers has bought driv.
ing horse of Charles Stevens.
Mrs. w. N. Moody from Norway 10
with her daughter, Mrs. d. L. Powers.
Mrs. j. b. Carter and children are
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. w.
Kilgore, at North Newry.
Marjorie Farwell and Louis Tirrell Of
Locke's Mills were weekend guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. W. w. Farwell.
Mrs. s. Strout and son of Rumford are
keeping house for Charles Stevens.
James Bartlett and son are hauling
wood for Ed Smith.
Ernest Buck also h hauling wood to
Bethel.
q. S. Stanley is working for Baker
Thurston at Enrol, N. b.
Doris Davis, after spending q week
with her mother, Mrs. Earl Dutton, has
returned to Norway.
Archie Buck is at home from Portland
for vacation.
B. W. Kimball Is building q camp for
q. L. Powers, where he can keep his
horses.
Sam Badger has gone to Lewiston.
Charles Glidden Is hauling logs up
country with E. N. Carter's team.
Ned Carter has sold some horses. he
has only seven now. Mr.. Carter takes
good care of his horses and they show
that they have good master to feed and
use them we'll.
Reading otthe death OF Private Earl
L. Maxim, who died in France, reminds
as Of bis mother, when q pupil some
years ago on Bird Hill near Locke's
Mills, when her father and mother lived
there at the old house where she az
child spent happy days, and after mar
riage to Mr.. Maxim still lived there
where her children were born and spent
their first years, then when quite
higher school. We remember this fam
lily az one of the best In that vicinity and
they we're all good people.
We have just received an interesting
letter from our cousin, Ida May Briggs
of Roxbury, Mass, where she says she
Is justly proud Of the part her family
1.-THE Packarda) has taken In the military
affairs of this country. In the Boston
Post we read: "Dear Observant Citizen:
I would like to call your attention to my
military ancestry, which is as follows:
Samuel Packard, Jr., was an officer In
King Philips war 10 1879; Joseph Pack
ard, grandson of Samuel Packard, Jr.,
was soldier In the French and Indian
ware, and served under General Winslow
in Nova Scotia in 1855. Daniel Packard,
son of Joseph Packard, served In the
Revolutionary war in many battles. he
was at the storming of Stony Point by
General Anthony Wayne's forces. Three
sons of Daniel Packard served In the
war Of 1912. Joseph Penley Packard,
son of Stephen Packard, Jr., and great
grandson of Daniel Packard, was SOL
der in the Civil War. Captain Frank
Coffin, 7th battalion, 184th brigade, and
Private Harold R. Austin, Battery A,
101st Regiment, who are now in France,
and whose mothers are descendants OF
Daniel Packard, and Frank Stephen
Packard, Battery D, Fifth Field Artil-
lery, who is in France, and Cecil Smith
OF Brooklipe, Mass, grand:nephews of
Joseph Penley Packard, complete the
seventh generation of soldiers beginning
and ending with Packard, and con.
tributed four soldiers in this war for
world. wide freedom"