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Paris Grange To Hold Fair Saturday Horse Pulling And
Drama Are Planned South Paris. Oct. 2O—Final arrangements were
completed Saturday night for the annual Paris Grange Fair. Saturday
on the grounds adjoining the Grange Hall. Horse-pulling contests
will feature the morning and afternoon programs and a tour-act
drama. My Old New England Home, will M presented Saturday evening by
members of the East Hebron Grange. Dinner and supper will be served
in the Grange Hall dining room by the women of the grange.
Committees are: Dinner, Mrs. Maude Ames, Mrs. Marion Shaw and Mrs.
Dorothy Martin; horse pulling. Harold Shaw and Curtis Thayer;
country store. Alexander Stearns; aprons, Mrs. Grace Plummer; parcel
post, Mrs. Arline Buck; pop corn and candy. Ralph and Ruth Sampson;
grab bags. Mrs. Frances Gammon; publicity. Mrs. Mary Abbott; white
elephant. Mrs. Myrtle Gates and miscellaneous, Mrs. Marjorie
Penley
The horse pulling program will be open to all
farmers owing teams weighing 3,000 pounds and under, and 3.300
pounds and under. The rule states that these horses can only compete
In the Saturday program If they have not been entered In any pulling
contests at the fairs this Summer. The committee announces that the
sweepstakes class is open to all teams.
Portland
Press Herald | Portland, Maine | Thursday, October 21, 1948 | Page
32 submitted by Janice Rice
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Rumford. Oct. . 20.. Oxford County Deputy
Sheriff James A. McMennamin said late this afternoon no action would
be taken against James Duran of Newry. in the fatal accident of
5-year-old Betty Jean Bartlett. who was struck Tuesday afternoon In
front of her home at East Rumford. McMennamin said parents o the
child felt she ran in front of the approaching vehicle without
looking. Betty Jean was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Bartlett East Rumford She was a first year student
at Virginia Grammar School and had returned home in a station wagon.
As she left the station wagon she darted around the front end and
started across Route 2 when she was struck. Funeral services will be
at 2 p m. Friday in the Meader and Son Funeral Home.
Portland Press Herald | Portland, Maine | Thursday,
October 21, 1948 | Page 32 submitted by Janice Rice
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Mrs. Dr. Pyrum, of Fryeburg, is a connoisseur of
curious, especially vases. She has a pair of them that
General Lafayette brought over from France in 1777.
[source: Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, Nov.2, 1894
edition]
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HIGHWAY
ROBBERY:
The Portland Advertiser
states that Daniel Young, Jr. a Deputy Sheriff from Oxford County
while passing over Tokey's bridge on Monday evening, was attacked by
two men and robbed of his wallet containing near $600.00. He
received a blow on the right side of the head which rendered him
senseless and on his recovery found himself in the water, where he
supposes the robbers, after rifling his pockets, had thrown
him.
[source: Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, July 26, 1838
edition]
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A
Beastslayer:
Daniel McAllister, of
Stoneham, Maine, aged 45 years, has killed or captured
83 bears on or about the range of mountains separating the
Oxford and Andrescoggin
valleys
source: Defiance
Democrat,Mar 24,
1860
submitted by: Linda
Dietz
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Shaw, Barny
Barny
Shaw, of Sweden, was arraigned in the Norway municipal court last
week, charged with the larceny of a horse from one George H. Ward,
of South Waterford.
Shaw was seen to go into the stable and the horse was found
in his possession. His
defense was that he was intoxicated and didn’t know what he was
doing. He was bound
over for the action of the grand jury and in default of bail
committed.
[Source: Bangor Daily Whig and
Courier, August
6, 1896 edition]
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Frost,
Winifield
A
successful method of discovering a suspected thief developed at
Norway Tuesday. Mrs.
Winifeld Frost had recently missed clothing, and suspected a
neighbor in the same tenament.
Under the instructions of the municipal judge she marked
clothes with a court seal and put them in the place from which the
other articles had disappeared. Tuesday the marked clothes
were missing. Officer
Fassett with a search warrant found them under other clothes in Miss
Lillian Flint’s room.
[source:
Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, August 6, 1896 edition]
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