ORGANIZE GOOD TEMPLARS LODGE.  

ON FEB. 13, 1883 MRS. ESTES ORGANIZED A GOOD TEMPLARS LODGE AT MEXICO CORNER.

ON FEB. 14, I.E. GLEASON BOUGHT AND HAULED A BARN FROM DIXFIELD TO BE PUT UP WHERE THE OLD TAVERN STABLE BURNED AT MEXICO CORNER.  CHARLES GLINES, BADLY HURT IN THE FLYWHEEL OF LEWISTON STEAM MILL ON OCT. 16, 1882. "WAS STOPPING" WITH J.O. KIDDER AT AN EXPENSE OF $8.75 PER WEEK.  " THE JOURNAL SAYS THERE WILL BE A LAW IN THIS CASE," ROADS WERE "ALL VERY BAD." DESPITE BAD ROADS H.W. PARKS GRAY HORSES WALKED FIVE MILES AN HOUR, GOING AND COMING FROM CANTON, LOADED BOTH WAYS. "WHOSE HORSES CAN BEAT THIS?"

W.S. RICHARDSON HAULED OUT THE TIMBER TO BE USED BY KIMBALLS IN ERECTING A MILL ON SWIFT RIVER AT KIMBALL FALLS.  AND, ON MARCH 7, POSTMASTER D.O. GLEASON OFFERED FOR SALE, BY AUCTION, HIS STAND AND STORE AT MEXICO CORNER, AND A FEW WEEKS LATER IT WAS NOTED THAT LESLIE HARLOW HAD BOUGHT GLEASON STORE AND WOULD OPEN A PUBLIC HOUSE AND RUN THE POST OFFICE.

ON APRIL 11 IT WAS REPORTED A "LARGE COMPANY IS BUYING UP RUMFORD FALLS AND ALL THE LAND THAT JOINS THEM.  HOPE WE SHALL HAVE A CITY."  BY APRIL 14 IT HAD BEEN PROPOSED THAT THE RAILROAD BE EXTENDED FROM CANTON TO RUMFORD FALLS AND  "MANY TOWNS COULD BY PROFIT THIS."

J.O. KIKKER BUILT A NEW HOME AT THE CORNER. L.M. BARLOW OPENED A GROCERY STORE, AUG. 22, 1883.  S.M. LOCKE OFFERED $20 TO ANYONE WHO WOULD GET THE BIG BLACK SEVEN FOOT BEAR THAT LEFT PART OF HIS FOOT IN ONE OF HIS TRAPS.
JUNE 1883, MR. EDMUNDS OF ROXBURY WAS DRIVING OVER A SMALL BRIDGE IN BYRON, HIS HORSE BROKE THROUGH THE BRIDGE AND FELL, THROWING MR. EDMUNDS OVER THE HORSE, THEN THE HORSE SPRANG TO GET UP AND HIT EDMUNDS IN THE STOMACH, HURTING HIM VERY BADLY.