Oxford Democrat., 1921-03-08
Here and There.

In connection with the school houses
mentioned by AQuarius In q recent
Democrat presided over by prominent
men In their youthful days, Is one in
Cornville, q little town In Somerset
County, In which no less Q perso mage
than General Benjamin r. Butler taught
two or more terms Of school. Butler
va, Q native of New Hampshire but was
educated at Colby College. Being poor
he worked his way through college by
teaching school. That In how he came
70 be resident of Cornvills. Ben was
Q picturesque character even In bis youth
with the same lop-eye he carried In old
or life, which gave an uncertain, quiz
xical expression to his facial landscape,
and kept the college from being dull.
Calvinism held full sway at Colby when
he WAS Q student, and absence from
prayers or sermons was heinous Of
fence. The faculty consisted of nine
doctors Of divinity and with the student
body numbered about one hundred
The president one Sunday In preaching
about the elect calculated that only
about six out Of hundred souls could
enter the Kingdom of Heaven, where
fore Butler petitioned TO be excused
from further attendance on divine serv-
Ice, because be said with the nine doc
tors OF divinity In his hundred he stood
no chance. Only the andacious sarcasm
for which he was always noted saved
him from expulsion for suoh saorilsgs.
There may be new industry launch
cd In Oxford County st Q no distant
date. The rapid disappearance Of native
woods In the United States has led TO an
extensive use of veneers. Articles which
until within few years have been made
Of solid wood are al the present time
frequently made of common wood We
neered. By vensering ID Ia possible to
get ten times a much surface measure
from timber as when sawn into the
usual lumber,-that is sawn into lum-
Der yielding 1000 board feet would pro-
duce 10000 square feet Of veneer .06 of
an inch thick. Not only are the more
expsnsive woods sawn into veneers but
the more common kinds,-osks, naples
and birches. This item is written be-
cause the supervisor of the White Noun
tain Forest at Gorham, N. b., has made
0 report on this matter and thinks his
forest would yield many good venesrs
and has suggested that two mills be
built, one In New Hampshire and one In
Maine, the latter ct Gilead, this state
and county, where the Wild and andre
scoggin Rivers join and give an outlet TO
the hardwood growths Of the two val
leys. The Forest Service holding this
region have recommended that 2S nil.
lion board feet be cut and sold during
the next i've years.
The late DR.. Edwin Cortlandt Bolles
for many years professor at Tufts Col
legs left bis valuable library on England
and English literature 10 this Boston
college. 1t comprises over six hundred
volumes, oil Of which are very rare, and
collecting. There are many maps and
prints among them also, these number
Ing over six thousand. There are en-
cravings Of Oliver Cromwell, Charles III,
William III, Godalphin, Montague, Sam
uel Pepys, Richard Baxter, Q fret sdi-
tiop Of "Tom Browns School Days"
etc. There are several miniatures on
ivory, and o great seal OF England to
aflx to documents, bearing the sigma
tures of James and Lord Bacon; also
O collection OF coins. OF course this In
formation 10 OF general interest, and II
may be of particular interest TO residents
of Maine and Oxford County. IL will
be remembered that DR.. Bolles In bis
younger years WAS . Universalist clergy |
man and preached for some time In the
Congress Square Church, Portland; also
some three decades ago, when the late
j. Wayland Kimball, who was brother |
in-law OF DR.. Bolles, was running chair |
factory st West Paris, that divine and
scholar used TO pass his summers In
that village.