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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1898-02-08
STATEMENT OF THE
NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

AIlUNhl fIhe iNSUhhNIE COMrhNV,
OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.
Incorporated In Nov. ISL.
Commenced business In Dec, ISL
James Nichols, President
%. g. Richards, Secretary.
Capital paid up In cash. 100000 %
ASSETS DECEMBER 81, lsT.
Real Estate owned by the company,
uBincumberc.i. 252,Es 10
Loans on bond and mortgage first
liens, 3,0l5 W
Stocks and bonds owned by the
company. market value, s,I7i.lo 90
and in bank. aIe.is 70
Premiums in due course Of col.
lection, 3s5.es 20
-
A aggregate ~ NIL the admitted assets
OF the company nc their actual
value, tt3,0ls ~
LIABILITIES DECEMBER 81. IsT.
Net amount OF unpaid Losses and
claims. LEI $50 oil
Amount required 10 safely re-insure
all outstanding risks. l.7a.eti u
All other demands against the com
papy, via commissions, etc, l5o.0sa OF
Total amount OF liabilities, except
capital stock and net surplus. s.0o2 $50 ~
Capital actually paid up In cash, 100000 IA
surplus beyond capital. .S-osls -
-
Aggregate amount OF liabilities In.
Guiding net surplus, t,tB.ois .
W. J. WHEELER, 4 co. Agents,
South Paris. Maine.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1898-02-08
MARCH MEETING" MATTERS,

CHANGES IN THE LAWS WHICH WILL
AFFECT THE ACTION of TOWNS Al
THIS YEARS ANNUAL MEETINGS
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1898-02-08
wHrrrEMoRE DISTRICT.

There Is plenty Of snow 10 this vicinity
but the roads are very good, considering
We had very interesting meeting al
the school house last sunday part OF
the Norway praying band being present,
Sunday School AZ O'Clock and prayel
meeting AZ 3 every SUNDAY.
Oar school closed last Friday, taught
nv Miss Bertha Twi,chell. This va:
Miss Twitchpl's third term 10 this school
and we hope 10 have her with Us again
There Is 10 BE- a school exhibition Al
the school house Wednesday evening
Feb. 9, IL pleasant, IL not Saturday night
There will De recitstions, singing, and s
drama entitled the Rough Diamond. Al
are cordially invited.
VIM. +. Cooper and W. II. Cole arr
sending their cream TO the Turner
| Creamery for the present.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1898-02-08

Another act relates 20 the superintend'
ing school committee, fixing the number
of members at three. instead OF three
five or seven. as is now optional. The
act also specifies that no member OF The
school committee shall be employed a:
teacher in any public school in the town,
and an added clause gives towns The
privilege Of paying the committee for
their services IL they wish. The act Is
so constructed that 70 the ordinary non
legal mind IL is rather indefinite regard
ing the status Of those now members OF
school committees who hold over, but
the opinion Of lawyers i that the act
legislates out Of Office all who are now
serving. Every town will therefore, at
its meeting this spring, choose school
committee of three members, and al
their first meeting they shall decide by
lot which members shall serve one, two
and three years respectively. After that
one new member will De chosen each
year-that il, until another Legislature
meets and thinkers the law into some
different shape.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1898-02-08

Proceeds to be used for improving the
heating arrangement Of the building.
Admission Il cents. Let there be full
house.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1898-02-08
FUT1 FOURTH ANNUAL STATEMENT.
JANUARY I, 1898.
HolyoM MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF SALEM, MASS.
Incorporated lst3-

Contingent Assets -t5oe So 20
This Company Pays the Following Dividends
On Policies for one year. ~ per cent ON Policies
for three years. ~ per cent. On Policies for
i've years, "a per cent.
Al. LEWIS. Agent,
FTycburg.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1898-02-08
A. T.. SHURTLFYF.
A. T.. MAXIM.

south PATS, Jan. Is, Is.S.
MA. 4. Shurtlef informs all patrons Of the late
firm that he will continue the business at the old
stand. and viii keep FIRST CLASS STOCK oF
FLOUR, CORN, MEAL, OATS AND YEED. Same n
before.
Call and see my stock and get my prices. Mr..
Maxim will remain with me for the present and
hope to merit the continued patronage Of the
public.
A. r. SHURTLEFF.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1898-02-08
STATEMENT OF THE
PHOENIX INSURANCE CO..
or HARTFORD. CONN.
On the lat day OF January. isas.
THE ASSETS or THE COMPANY ARE As FOLLOWS

Tbs Capital stock Of the Company.
which IL all paid In. IL 100000 "a
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1898-02-08
NOTICE.

The Partnership heretofore existing between u
under the name of shurtler 4 Maxim, l. this day
dissolved by mutual consent Mr.. Shurtlcr 4
alone authorized 10 collect all debts due the firm
and will settle all outstanding Indebtedness Of
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1898-02-08
THE OXFORD BEARS
THE DoiNcs OF THE WEEK m ALI
SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY.
PARIS HILL.

First Baptist Church, Rev. II. A. Roberts
Pastor. Preaching every sunday at II a.
Sunday School at II NJ. Sabbath Evening Ser
vice AZ SEQ P. N. Prayer Meeting "Wednesday
Uniyersaiiss Church Rev. X. W. Pierce. Pas
tor. Preaching every Sunday az II A. - sun
day School NJ I'm. Meeting of Young Peoples
Christian Union, Sunday evening n 90 o'ciock
\. :. Andrews has bought Of Charles
Gowell the Levi Tucker farm In the
Partridge neighborhood, and Is moving
there.
Those who attended the Universslis,
circle Friday evening had the pleasure
OF an evening with Mr.. 4. 4. Morse and
Mr.. +. l.. Stsrbird of South Paris, as
sisted BY Mrs. III. p. Hammond, who
sang two or three selections. Both the
gentlemen named gave some OF their
best selections. male and female imper-
sonations, In costume. Those who have
heard them know the fact, but for the
benefit OF those who have not II may be
well 10 say that they kept the audience
in a roar. IL wss great entertainment.
An adjourned meeting Of the Univer-
salist parish will be held at Hon. j. L.
Marbles Tuesday evening, and full at
tendance Is desired.
Thursday evening of next week, Feb.
Ia. Albert W. Dyer will give his IL
Illustrated lecture, From Sunrise TO sun
set Seas At the Baptist church In this
place. IL Is benefit for the wife OF Rev.
4. G.. Murray Of East sumner, who has
been In the hospital for long time.
The Baptist Circle will have no enter
tsinment this week, and their next en-
tertaiument will be held Feb. -, q,
which time they will have a colonial
supper and entertainment appropriate to
washington's birthday.
Advertised letters in Paris Hill post
Office:
Mr.. Melcn r. Macy.
Mr.. sanity Hannah
Cullen l.. Carter, who was very sics
saturday and sunday. is reported very
much better Monday morning.
Master Orlaud Daniels, son Of Prof. T.
A. Daniels, entertained a number OF his
young friends at s birthday party last
week.
Mrs. John Pierce entertained a num-
Der of her friends 90 the occasion Of hel
birthday last Thursday. Miss Mary
Pierce celebrated a birthday Saturday
and received some presents.
The students of Paris Hill Academy
will present at Academy Hall, FEB. llth
The Flower Of the Family" a comedy
in three acts, with the following cast o.
characters:
Mr.. Ahner Rowland. ..-.--..-- Charlie Ryer-on
| Tom Rowland. .-....--..-.-. Richard Eastman
O-car LOring. Percy Ryer~on
Policy >ewcOme. -.-...-- .--. VIII Pratt
| Spiccr Spofori. ...-..-...... Horace Roberts
| Mr.. Howland. .---. $500. Bertha Colhurn
/ Alice Rowland. Gee. ...- Georgia 1sriAnd
Lena How land, Katy Roy a.
Proceeds 10 be used for improving tn
heating arrangement Of the building
Admission Il cents. Let there be tal
house.
wHIrTEMoRE DISTRICT.
| There Is plenty OF snow 10 this vicinity
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r streets. I'M GNU
The exhibition was in charge of the fol-
lowing ladies': Mrs Provost. president
Mrs. Hodges, secretary: Miss Schneider.
treasurer: Mrs. Dimmiok, Mrs. knight
Mrs. De Shields. Miss Jenkins Miss
Wright. Miss Brockett and Miss BALDWIN.
A mouse social which was announced
to take place in the chapel Tuesday even
irg last was indefinitely postponed on ac-
count of the serious illness of the lady in
charge
A reception to Rev. and Mrs E. Bradford
LeaVltt which was planned by the mem
bers of All Souls Church. of which Mr..
Leavist is pastor, has been indefinitely
Leavitt.
Tomorrow evening. January 16. at O'Clock,
Mrs. ID. A. Mcknight will make an address
Eefore the Woman's Missionary Society of
the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church
on the late Bishop Crowther of West At
RIGA. Thursday night, January % the an
nual meeting of the church for the election
of officers will be held.
Rev. Richard P. Williams of the churS h
held the first session for mis- confirmat ton
class Sunday. These meetings will be held
in the parlorS Of the parish hall each Sum
day at o'clock. The rector has also
opened a Bible class for men. which he in
structs each Sunday morning at $50 in the
veStry.
The Epiphany conferences held at the
Church of the Incarnation by the Rev.
Father Dolling late of Portsmouth. Eng,
have been highly successful Father Dol
ling comes to this country most highly in
dorsed, not only by his own bishop but
also by other bishops of the Anglican COM
munion, and he is a most evangelical
preacher, as well as a most Catholic mind
ed priest. He will preach tomorrow Sun
day. in the morning at st. James Church
and at the Church of the Incarnation in
the afternoon.
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AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN.
Mission mt Trinity Church-Other
Special Services-Briefs.

Mission Mt Trinity Church-Other
Special Servtces-Briefs.
The mission at Trinity Catholic Church
will commence tomorrow and will continue
until Sunday, January 80. The two weeks
of prayer and preaching will be inaugural
ed at the solemn high mass tomorrow
morning at 1890 o'clock. The fathers of
the Society of Jesus will have charge Of
the mission. Tomorrow evening services
will be held at the church for women only.
The whole of next week will be for women,
special services being held in the evening,
with additional masses in the morning.
The following week, the services will be for
men only. and the last night both men and
women will be admitted.
Special services are also scheduled at sew
eral of the other churches. The service of
the forty hours devotion Will commence
after the late mass tomorrow at the chapel
in the House of the Good Shepherd, on the
New Cut road. >
The regular monthly meeting for men
only, under the auspices of the Brother
hood of st. Andrew, will be held Sunday
evening at ST. Johns Church.
Beginning tomorrow the services Of the
Dumbarton Avenue NJ. e. Church will be
held at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at the
chapel of the West Street Presbyterian
Church. The Sunday school will be held at
? o'clock in the afteFIoon.
The entertainnaenttf for the benefit of St.
AIMS Church wtH b@given Monday even
ing at the PARISH ha3. in Tenleytown. The
fore part of ths evdning the members of
the Lnthicum Dramatic Club will enter
tain the audiende With several comedies.
ed and dancins Atl6e inaugurat tee ' .eoa-
tinuing until midnight. Supper will alsoibe
served in the lower part of the building TO
those who desire, it. Especial arrangements
have been madelWith the car line for the
benefit Of the people from the city who
may care to attend and remain until the
close Of the affair
Jesse H. Colevile, executor and trustee.
has sold to George G. Henderson sublot -
of square 1888. In return the purchaser has
10 81 ifie same sqdale. The ;br s3 is To-
Gated on the east side of 10Th street be-
tween @ and u streets.
A good deal of complaint has arisen late
ly from residents Of this section over The
alleged failure Of the cars of the Metro
politan railroad to stop at the proper Places
when signaled by those who want to ride.
In some cases the moterman would inform
the people to take the next car, which, per-
haps, would be Immediately following. 1t
has happened, and Is becoming more fire.
quent, that passengers thus referred to the
next car would wait three or four or per-
haps five minutes. The delay causes q
good deal of annoyance to those who are
in hurry to get down town.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-15

Miss Frances E. Willard. who has been attend
ing the worlds convention Of the W. c. T. L.,
Gays that better health for women is today more
urgent matter than woman's suffrage.
She says: What women present most need
is better supply Of red corpus..,es.''
From every section of the country. from Maine
to California come weil-attested reports of wo-
men, bloodiess, dyspeptic, nervous, seriously run
down, and in many weak as to be bed
ridden. who have been enabled resume their
places in the family circle and in social life
healthy, ruddy, welcomed women by the aid of
c.lery compound.
Mrs. f. A. Ward is one of the fortunate wo-
men whom Pane's celery compound has saved
from an ailng. unhappy invalid condition as her
letter shows:
213 Michigan ave, Mason City IaD
VIM Sept. H. 1871
Wells & Richardson Co.:
Gentlemen-My greatest trouble seemed TO hc
u general Weakness and all-over tired feeling
ar 90 years of age and I did not expect TO be-
ever strong again, but I used four bottles %.
Paine's celery compound and WAS greatly strength
ehed ana my cough seemed better SO that stop
ped using the remedy and have not since felt the
Iced OF any further help whatever.
Very respectfully yours
MRS E. A. WARD
persons Of large experience among nervous wo-
men, whe, as rule, are thin and lack blood rec.
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ommend raine's celery compound as beyond an
question the remedy that be depended
on TO renew the vitality OF feeble persons.
This settled confidence In Paine's celery COM
pound is not hearsay belief. but rests in nearly
every personal or acquaintance with
men, women who have been restored useful
health by other means. The rapid change for
the better in color. flesh and expression OF the
face is unmistakable that repair of the wasted
Tissues might well be called a renewal Of life.
The process by which Painc's celery compound
is able TO build up health In the rundown body
is not hard 10 understand when one observes how
surely IL dispuses the bowels to act regularly how
IL increases the capacity to take and assinlilate
food, and regulates the nerves all the body.
The heavy. alarming pain in the back and lons
disappears, the growing paleness and loss of
flesh Is stopped and bright. buoyant feeling
gradually takes the place Of that un.nding
Of tire and depression.
faines celery compound is the exact remedy
for that large class of feeble. thin blooded. often
hysterical persons whose greatest need is a thor
",:gh refurnishing II their blood with the red
puscies upon which health and happiness in such
large depend.
The extraordinary virtue Of Paine's celery COM
pound increase the proportion Of red corruscles
In the blood is the Of It's great power over
all blood diseases. rheumatism. neuralgia. kidney
diseases, back aches, loss Of flesh and general
rundown condition.
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VIII Receive Consideration.

The Journeymen Plumbers and Gas Fit
ters Association. through it's chairman,
Mr.. VIM. f. Marsh. several days ago re-
quested the District Commissioners to give
that organization representation on the
plumbing board. Today the Commissioners
Informed Mr. Marsh that the request will
receive their careful consideration and will
be complied with if possible. The Com
missioners also Informed Mr.. Marsh that
they do not deem it advisable, under eX-
istirg circumstances, to examine journey
men plumbers in the District at the pres
GLt time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-15

Corp. William McQueeny, Privates John
Orr, c. Wallace, Thomas Chick and O.
Hart. lut. 8
The following havebeen elected members
Of the companys FJnhn Murray, G. w.
Swink and Samuel johnson. The executive
committee has beenOinstructed to provide
Monday evenings next, and also to make
arrangements fori the celebration of the If
teenth birthday OF the company, February
% next ri
First Sergt. Roy Villages has been elect
ed second lieutenant fof Company c. En-
gineer Battalion, He has been directed to
report for examipatiqp Wednesday next.
General STAFF sergt. Ben G. Davis has
prepared a very artistic pen and ink COPY
Of the general orders announcing the death
OF Gen. Ordway. Tide copy is, indeed, q
thing of beauty 1t lis now at headquar-
tiers. but will be forwarded to Mrs. Ordway.
The organization of Troop A has been
ing forty-three. 1t is understood that If an
available site can be secured the troop will
erect an armory and riding hall.
First sergeants will hereafter not wear
the sword, as they have been doing for sew
eral years past. Orders have been issued
from headquarters directing that such nom
commissioned officers use only the rifle.
Gen. Harries yesterday appeared before
the subcommittee on appropriations of the
House of Representatives and explained
the militia items included among the Dis
trict' estimates for the next fiscal year.
Because of the presence at Fort Wash
ington of a battery Of artillery of the army
it Is probable that the District Guard will
not again go into camp at that reservation
Fort Myer is among the possibilities as a
site for the next encampment of-the local
brigade.
From present Indications 1t appears that
the repairs at Center Market building will
not permit Of the occupancy thereof by the
guard until about the LIST of March. A pc
Rod of inactivity on the part of the troops
for about thirty days will, Of necessity, en-
ste.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-15
HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING.
Calvary Baptist Church Chooses Of
Rcers and Receives Reports.

Rcers and Receives Reports.
At the annual meetings this week of the
Calvary Baptist Church and Sunday school
the following officers were elected. Dea-
cons. n. S. Fawcett, S. s. Everett, Frank
A Swartwout, j. r. Mothershead; church
clerk DR.. ID. s. Foster; treasurer, John FL.
Olcott; trustees. William III. Hoeke, T. r.
Jones' II. q. Jacob; members of advisory
committee. D. A. Chambers, W. +. Evans,
W. c. Morrison, ID. S. Foster. clerk Of
church and congregation, Samuel B. Evans:
Sunday school superintendent, Pierson III.
Bristow.
Thursday evening last instead Of the usu-
al evening prayer service the members OF
Calvary Baptist Church listened to short
reports from all the departments Of church
work The church contains Az members,
with a Sunday school organized into six de-
partments and comprising a membership,
including the home department, of 1850
persons 1t also has a branch church, a
mission school. Chinese school. ladies' mis-
sion and social circles and three Christian
Endeavor societies.
Rev DIR. Samuel II. Greene is in his nine
teenth year of service with this church.
The average attendance of the Sunday
school during 1897 was .AS, the largest in
the schools history, and the average at
tendance of the Bible Club, which studies
the Sunday school lessons, was 1oi in its
forty-nine meetings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-15
Alaskan Bear,

There has lately been received at the
National Museum the skin of a species
of bear found in Alaska known as the
glacial bear The animal is found In
the Mt. st Elias region. 1t is practically
the same species as the black bear of the
south, but is perhaps smaller.
The glacial bear by reason of its sur
roundings, has a coat of a grayish color
so that it is difficult to distinguish it from
the snow or ice on which it may be found
1T subsistS on berries, roots and vegetable
matter. The specimen was killed by the
Indians of the Mt. St. Elias locality
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-15
BACON WROTE DON o,r,xorr,
DOnnclly's Latest Discoverx
In the Literary Field.

dispatch from st. Paul, MIMI. saws.
Isnauus Dol nelly is at work upon a new
Baconian cryptogram, which he expects IN
put in the hands OF his publishers In a few
weeks. II it he will. take even wider
grounds than he did in his first book.
He says he has discovered a new rule
governing the cipher, and will assert that
Bacon not orly wrote the plays and SON
nets of Shakespeare, but that he was Dos
sibly responsible for Don Ouixote" AS
Il result he expects another castigation at
the hands of the critics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-15

The District Commissioners have called
the attention of Representative Grout,
chairman of the House subcommittee on
appropriations. to the fact that the item
on page % of the book of estimates of
appropriations. For paving East Capitol
street from 18th to 18th, $3.50" should
read: For paving on East Capitol street
from 18th to 18th. south side of Lincoln
Park 5000" Also that the item Immediate
ly following the above should be amended
so as to make IL read. For paving with
vitrified blocks asphalt 9TH street be-
tween Z and q northwest, 5000"
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The Funds Insufficient,

Mr. b. II. Warner has been informed by
the District Commissioners that, owing to
the insufficency of funds for repairing
county roads ana suburban streets. they
cannot comply with his request for the re-
pair Of streets in Petworth.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-05-27

June i, next Wednesday. the W. G. T..
L. viii meet al the \ NJ g.. A. par.ors a.
3 O'Clock
The Bible lesson viii be- continued with
a section Of DR.. GLADDEN. sermon on the
Lord prayer
The county convention will begin Thurs
day al Bellows Falls The delegates
nominated are requested to be at the meet
ing next Wednesday Tor directions, etc.
The parents meeting, which was pos.
ponei last evening OIL accouu, of the
storm. will be held Thursday evening of
ne>, week a; $ O'Clock .a the Concrecs-
tona chape. Mr. Temple will speak or
wDa. the pareu. may d. Tor Oh, child.
Miss Govuc OH what The teacher may d.
f., Oh. child: Nj, ~ Belle smith on
wu5- the playmate mas D.. Joy the ca...
and J.. W HawIav on what society may oo
for ;Ae cl.. Mis- Greg. v SING dur-
ing tae evening. !. D.. urged tina. father
and mothers make a speea effort 90 mee.
with the teachers Tn, teachers Zee thai
"a. ouch, 20 be Interested .a ,A.- program