Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1898-07-26
Doe DAVIS are with IN IN earpe,t.

i Fred Fields Of Auburn spent Sunday
with relatives in the place.
Mrs. Hsckett Of Potsdam, N. ", Is
visiting friends In this place.
Miss Persis Staples Of Portland IL
visiting at Mrs. J. p. Richardson's.
I Mrs. Bacon and daughter Of Connect.
cut are visiting at Rev. |. A. Beans.
Mrs. ID. N. True Is spending a few
weeks at 1.-The Beeches" on Paris Hill.
Keith Spotford has been at home from
North Berwick since last Thursday on a
sick leave.
lydia T.. A. keene has returned from
Mansfield, Mass, to her sisters, Mrs. A.
+. Towssnd's.
Geo. W. Kimball, OF Boston, Mass,
has been stopping with j. A. kenney for
few days past.
Miss Lillia Stearns, Of the Partridge
District. has been visiting her sister,
Mrs. c. c. Colby.
Don Bean had very enjoyable lawn
party last Thursday evening at his home
on Gothic Street.
Mr.. Ausel Swift's sons wife from
Minneapolis, Mimi, has been visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Swift.
Installation of officers OF Hsmlin
Lodge, h. l., Friday, July 90. All
members requested to be present.
Misses Louise and Alice Kelley OF
Portland are spending their summer va
cation with Charles Flsgg on Western
Avenue.
After long confinement to the house
Mrs. VIM. Shaw Ia again seen out on the
streets. She has had serious trouble
with her eyes.
Joseph Clifford and wife OF Chapman,
Kansas, are visiting his brother, o. X.
Clifford. Mr.. Clifford has been on, west
about thirteen years.
10 YOU want 10 see the cutest looking
boy in town Just get your eye on Master
Henry Howe with his Admiral George
Dewey" uniform on.
4 '" ~ pTtcI anu Il. -. faTue- went
way M country" on = fishing trip las,
week. They say they'll tell how many
they got when they go again.
G.. e. Blake, ESQ, one Of the well
known citizens Of Bethel, and for twenty
two wears deputy sheriff Of Oxford
County, was calling on friends az South
Paris Saturday.
Rev. G.. e.. Hamilton preached ~
very appreciative audience in New Hall
last Sunday afternoon. He will preach
in the same place next Sunday after
noon at 3 O'Clock.
Miss Ollie Stuart gave five O'Clock
Tea. At her home on High Street, last
Friday, Ia n few friends. In her cousins,
Mrs. McDonsld's, honor. most en-
joyshle time was had.
Advertised letters In South Paris post
office July -, lS9S:
Miss Mary Durham, Mr.. Forest :. Rcn.on
Mr. Austin : Esty, Mr.. Rel. McCleasy.
Miss Mary Mann. Mr.. Charlie Patterson.
Miss Jennie r. stevens, :. II Wariwen,
Mrs Eunice Wing. Mr. John White,
| isAc Thorn Mr.. q. Written.
Undertaken +. A. Thaver WAS sum-
moned home from a carriage drive bv
the death OF Il. Il. Goodwin and Will
Edgerley. Mr. Thsver got his telegram
at Wilton at 6 80 Saturday afternoon
and reached South Paris AZ hslf-psst
two sunday morning.
Mrs. T.. \. Howe, who has recently
purchased Mrs. J. Il. Benefits stock OF
goods, was In Boston last week purchss-
ing new goods. She IL Offering the
millinery purchased Of Mrs. Bennett st
cost 20 close IL out. Read her advertise
ment in another column.
Proofs OF the death OF Capt. =. I.
Bartlett under policy in the MON
Mutual Life Insurance Co. Of Portland,
were sent 10 the company July 2lst and
check returned july I'D. Such prompt
ness will he appreciated by the many
policy holders in this company.
IfGeo. A. Wilson, Jr.. or Will Blake
invite YOU 20 have soda ~ their ex-
pense. it's because they went down TO
Marshall Pond fishing SATURDAY., and
you're not expected TO SAX anv questions
about the wsv that either they or the
Judges mare got home. Just drink the
soda and talk about the weather.
What two men can do having with one
horse and = woke Of oxen. Msrion Bes-
sew. 20 years old. and Hoses Bonnev OF
/ Paris. cut of twenty-six loads OF hsv
/ aud hauled Ia twenty-eight loads in six
DAYS. IL anv two men have done better
please report. Mr.. Bessey says that his
barn will not hold near all OF his hay
/ this wear and will have 10 stack some out
OF doors, what he can't give away.
| The last rose OF summer. On the
StternOOn OF July 23d, Mrs King, at
/ Kingleside Farm, picked the last she
could find OF the old-fsshioned red roses
and put IL in the neck OF her dress. She
was seated on the piszza with her sew
ing when a humming bird perched on
chair few feet away for moment and
then came and slipped from the rose 81
her throat. IL perched on the chair
again and again returned 10 the rose.
/ Miss Belle b. Goodwin requests the
/ Democrat 10 extend her most heartfelt
thanks 20 the neighbors and friends who
have so kindly assisted her, not only
through her recent bereavement, but
\ also through all the years or her fathers
declining health. She says: You can
not saw too much for i can never ex-
press 10 my many friends my sppreels-
ton Of the kindness they have constant
IN extended 10 me.
Two Young ladies who live at Norway
and are employed at South Paris con-
cluded one afternoon last week that u
looked pretty showery, and they had
better get home while they were sure OF
a chance. So they got aboard the 40
esr-and they stayed aboard: Inc
shower Was coming fast, and the cleo
tricsl people aren't taking any chances
NOWADAYS on the lightning striking
their srmstures and things. So they
tied the trolley pole down, and waited
ia front Of the Andrews House. Az
O'Clock John Haselton brought the shoe
factory employees over In n carriage. ana
the Young ladies who had been waiting
an hour and half jumped at the chance
10 20 back in the carriage. Iney got IN,
and when they were about half way the
car went by them. They have to stand
some good-natured chatting about the
, affair.
BENJAMIN b. Goodwin passed away al
his home on Church Street In South
. Paris, last Friday, st the age OF 20 years
Mr. Goodwin was born in Biliirica,
Mass in ls23, where his early life Was
snanr He WAS cabinet maker by