Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1898-02-15

At the Methodist church next Sunda!
the pastor viii preach on the seventh
commandment.
The high school students had snothe
very interesting lyccum Friday evening
IL was opened with Scripture reading
and prayer by Dean Tolman. tn
question discussed was, Resolved, Tha
steam has been more beneficial 20 TN
United States than electricity" Wendell
Rounds and Bertha shaw were dispu
tints Ia the Affirmative, Keith Spoffort
and Lucinda Field In the negative. Th'
Judges, Miss Jennie Tr-ell, Miss
Gertrude MeArdle, and W. B. Strickland
decided In favor OF the negative. Ths
paper for the evening Was edited By
Roy Strickland. A very pleasing feature
Of the programme WAS an excellent
violin solo BY Principal Gerrish. Tx
last lyeeum for the term Will be held
Thursday evening Of next week.
The Springfield Union Of January S0tt
contains the following notice Of = lecture
by Prof. G. Is. wilson 81 that city, for.
merry Of south Paris. Prof. Wilson is q
nephew Of Judge Geo. A. Wilson and has
MANY friends here.
lone of the most Interesting talks
given here this winter was that OF Pro-
fessor c. Il. Wilson Of the normal school
faculty the other evening, before the
Young Mems Christian Association, on
Jamaica, as seen by him during his
several weeks stay there last summer
as a member of the Johns Hopkins
University scientific expedition.
Excellent stereopticon views illustrat-
ed the graphic word picturing by the
lecturer of the wondrous tropical veg
citation Of that beautiful island of the
Caribbean sea. and its people and Gus
toms.
The party made its headquarters at
Port Antonio. from where are shipped
nearly all the bananas which are brought
to Boston, and from there excursions
were made into the surrounding country
and to Kingston, on the south side OF the
island, and up among the Blue Mountains,
whose peaks loom 5000 feet above the
sea, and on whose sides and sequestered
valleys grow oranges, lemons, gusvas,
cocoa beans and other tropical products.
Nearer the sea level are produced CO.
coznuts and bananas, and the culture and
growth OF the latter VAS most interest
ingly portrayed. Prof. Wilson told his
hearers that a banana plant or tree IL u
six-mon;h growth, bears but single
bunch Of fruit on its twelve TO twenty
foot stalks, somewhat resembling corn
stalk and IL cut down when the fruit Is
sufficiently mstured for shipping, and
the land cleared for another crop.
1T WAS lecture free OF pedsntry, full
OF information, useful a. well a. inter-
esting. and IL TO be delivered before the
normal school pupils in couple OF
weeks. when probably the public will
again be invited TO enjoy It,"
ELM HILL.
School closed last Friday.
VIII Jackson has new horse.
John Beckett OF Massachusetts, ia at
A. J. Fosters.
Frank DeCoster went to Lewiston by
team last Wednesday.
HIP. Ellis has had the misfortune TO
lose n good team horse.
Fred DeCoster has flock Of hens
that laid - % dozen OF eggs during
January.
Freeland Swan had shock last Mon
dsy evening which psralyzed his left
side and rendered him helpless. This
Was his second shock. having had a
slight one the previous Friday.
While Howard Swan was driving from
South Paris to Norway with Mrs. Emma
Swan and a small boy, the whiifletree
broke, frightening the horse so that he
ran, throwing out the occupants OF the
sleigh near the Grand Trunk Hotel.
Howard and the boy escaped serious
injury, bat II il feared thst Mrs. Swan
l. badly hurt