Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1897-06-15
NORWAY.


CHURCHES.
uuivcrsallst Church, Rev. Caroline e. Angcll
| Pastor Preaching service on Sunday. NJ 10 50
A. NJ; Sabbath School. ii - A. u; I. +. y. u
Second Congregational Church. Rev. b: s.
| Rideout, Pastor. Preaching service Sunday,
Mectine, ! 90 r. n; regular weekly Prayer Meet
ing, Wednesday evening; Young Peoples
Meeting Friday evening.
Methodist Church. Rev. =. Grosycnof, Pastor
| IL 90 NJ; Social Evening Meeting. 100 r. n;
prayer meeting. Tuesday evening; class meet
Ing, FRIDAY evening. -
Preaching service, 9 90 P. y; Sabbath School,
90 P. u. Prayer Meeting. Saturday evening"
STATED MEETINGS. A.,
F.AA. M.-Union r. A. e.. No. 80, assemblies
Wednesday Evening. on or before fun moon, at
Masonic Hall. Regular meeting OF OXFORD
Lodge, No. Is, In Masonic Hall, Monday Even
ing on or before full moon. Oxford Council. X
10. 3. Irregular meeting In Odd Fellows
Hall, every Tuesday Evening. wildey Encamp:.
ment, No. u, meets In Odd Fellows. Hail. second
and fourth Friday Evenings OF each month; Mt;
third Friday Of each month.
X. Irregular meeting In Hathaway Block,
f Division, No. Il, meets third Friday of each
month.
p OF H-Norway Grange meets second and
fourth Saturdays OF each month nj Orange Han.
GA R.-Harry Rust Post, No. 81, meets In
New G. A. r. Hall on the third Friday Evening Of
W.R. C.-Mec.s in New G. A. R. Hall. Mon.
'S To- 'o. P.-Lakeside Lodge, No. III. meets In
New @. A. r. Hall, on the first and third Wed
nesday evenings OF each month.
No one complains about the lack OF
rain.
A large company Of Chapter Masons
will visit Rumford Falls Chapter, Friday
evening, June 18th.
The town assessors attended the meet
log Of the state board Of assessors We'd
nesday of last week at South Paris.
j.. j. Fuller has his tenement house
nearly plastered. II will be finished at
once. There will be four tenements In
the block.
About forty from this town visited
Pomona Grange at Bolster's Mills Tues
day, June Sth.
Surveyor Austin Is filling In and
widening Beal Street between the shoe
factory and Danforth Street about ten
feet
A petition has been filed with the mu-
nicipsl officers asking them to locate
Dsnforth Street between Main and Beal
Streets. No record Of the location Of
the street Is to be found, although II has
been used for twenty or thirty years.
Frank Danforth Is pushing work on
his new store. corner Main and Danforth
Streets. The dirt from the cellar is be-
Ing hauled TO Beal Street TO be used TO
widen the street.
The old Watson house near Grange
Block, Main Street, Ia being painted by
It's present owner, ). /. Millett.
Wires for incandescent lights have
been put up on Pleasant Street to the
Jones residence.
II Is reported that Mrs. Jonathan
Blake, who has been very sick for sever
al months, Is improving. Hopes are en-
tcrtained for her recovery.
Mr.. Frank X. Taylor Is In Brooklyn.
y. Y, visiting his parents. Mr.. Taylor
has made Norway his home for several
years and has become greatly attached
to the people Of Norway.
The Episcopal church will be built on
Paris Street In the near future. Ground
has been broken for the foundation al
ready.
Albert Csnwell is building an addition
to his house on Water Street.
Rev. Caroline +. Angel. Mrs. C. s.
Tucker and Carrie Tucker Of this village
are Norwsv's representatives TO the Uni
versalist State Convention at Rockland
this week.
Eugene W. Bartlett IL ut work for
Freeland Howe In the office.
Will wnrH Ia ppnauaI In Tya vnas' |
laundry learning the business.
The upper mill privilege owned nv the
Oxford Light Company has been leased
bv c. b. Cummings & Sons for term
OF five years. New machinery IL to be
put into the mill and the dam IL TO be
repaired between now and
fall.
On Tuesday morning, after pro-
longed sickness, Mrs. Olive s. Ford Hill
lier died at her home on Fair Street.
Mrs. Hitler was native Of Gloucester,
Mass. After her marriage to William
II. Hitler she moved to Norway where
she has lived forty years. Her husband
and two children survive her. The son,
Herbert W. Hitler, resides at South
Paris, and the invalid'dsughter, Isabelle.
lives with her parents. Mrs. Hitler was
4 member of the Congregational church
and most estimsble lady.
After an absence OF twelve years,
Edith Verrill, daughter OF Prof. A. +.
yerrill, OF New Haven, Conn, Is visiting
her uncle, c. NJ. Smith, OF this village.
Charles F. Body, at the end OF six
years service at the shoe factory as
foreman OF one room, closed his engage
ment with the firm Saturday. Mr.. and
Mrs Body are now visiting in Hallowell,
and Augusta.
The last rehearsal Of the chorus until
September will be held Monday evening,
June 18th.
Fannie Warren of Rochester, n. H., IL
visiting her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
+. II. Brown.
The annual session Of the Oxford Con-
ference OF Congregational Churches was
held at Norway Centre, Tuesday and
June and o, at the First
Congregational church. Moderator II.
n. Bolster called the meeting to order
Tuesday morning. Services were con-
Quoted by Rev. Arthur Marley. The
following churches were represented
Andover, Berlin, Bethel, Gilead, Cor
ham, Norway, lst and I'd, Oxford, Ran
dolph, Rumford, South Paris, East
Sumner. The attendance was very large
and the session most interesting.
George Lewis of Bethel, VT, formerly
foreman at the shoe factory, visited his
Norway friends and looked over the
town, few days this week.