Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-12-26
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CHURCHES
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AMI - ?. n. 80 y,rnyer meeting on
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TUESDAY 49, a. cordially invttsa- y
wise ,S,.i,.t Church. Rev. l. A. .ss,s~ ~ a
ON suniay, NORM, ~ tsA n sabbath school
n; PreIen,hs .,se League Meeting. SIS =. ~
u N, .lprsxer mestinS p N, srsSSes nsse,.s
r's.isv evening: class % p ~ .nsfe1 Pastor
Baptist Ia--.sehinx service 10 ~ A n. sac
on Sgn.As AZ b n. PRAYER meeting 40 r. ~
oasv mecsipS Tuesday evening
STATED MEETINGS.
"a ps4. Lodxe, No. ~. Regular
= rr'.,t.v evening on or osfore tuii noon
y an ~ g-M0uns Mica Loase, 49, n-,,-s
- Tbnr.iAy evening % eS.s 49, .-sainss
EscsHpHent, frsi and thiri hon1ss
Of each @on NJ, Pleasant Rebekah Lodge. No
u. ol .. y ....ors and fourth Fridays OF each
,',,ts I'M Osid fellows' Hal. ,,s ,,s...
&. A R-w h, Aimeas s. 49,, sveninxs Of
Al Thurscay and third ss1ofN~t
ssrb month. In q. A, y hA.- -. ron.t. Ara
" n KimhAn Relief CoTps mes 80
rNur-lsy ant Thru saturday evenings ~
month. In henei .1 800 second Saturday Of
- Month. The grange store Il opeA '"' '~''s
Ws,inss.iNy AMI SATURDAY SfterneoHs 81
u %. o. C.--Sooond and foar'a
eASh E'I ~ F-ssony Brock Lotse, No; li'
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nesiAy evenings % each NOAH =, ,...,. .ve-v
IA. fP-HAmlin LOtge, No, VI, me''s e'e''
Frilsy evening Al Masonic HAL
Carl GRAY Is At nome from Boston, Tor
aChristmss vacation.
Percy Hathaway Is At home from
Colby College, for the Christmas Ns'A
ton.
Master Frank Miller Of Westbrook =
spending his school vacation at u T.
Brett's.
Miss Mabel G. Hathaway Is Al home
for the holidays from her sehooi al
Quincy, Mass.
The white mans burden has rested
heavily upon AL postal officials for the
past few days.
NJ and Mrs. Hiram W. Fifeld, for
,,srlv " Bethel, viii spend the winter
~ The home OF their daughter, Mrs.
Elmer o. Mllett.
FL. Moore, the grocer, has moved
his family from West sumner into the
upper rent IN George W. Cooks house
on Western Avenue.
The county commissioners meet f9es-
day OF this week for their regular De
cember session, to close up the county
business for the year.
J.F. Stanley and wife Of Lake Auburn
fish hatchery, and |. y. Stanley ana
wife OF Portland, spent Sunday and ptft
81 Christmas with &. w. BoNker'
Misses Hattie Burnell, Carrie Hall,
Gertrude Hall and Maud Douglass spent
Christmas with Mrs. Arthur Hall IN
Buckfeld. A very pleasant time was
had
S.P. Maxim and son have put into
their mill the ten horse power electric
motor tNsen out OF the grin mill OF A.
= SburtIef. Mr.. Shurtlef put 10 ~
horse power motor In lie place.
Evangelist Gale hiss been Invited 10
hold = series OF union meetings with
the churches in this place, ana hss se
cepted the Invitation. The meetings
viii No held shout the first Of February.
Advertised letters 10 South Paris post
Office Dee. -, ls9s:
Mrs Flint
Mr. James Gray.
MIS- Florence smith.
W. y. Mason
Collector A. III. Jackson wishes the
Democrat 20 call the attention OF Paris
tsx nsyers TO the stubborn fact that IN
terest commences on the lsys taxes,
January lst. Mr.. Jackson can be found
AZ the assessors office each Saturday
afternoon.
A wsinsco,ing OF hard pine has been
sased above the dsdo on the vest eide
OF the post office waiting room, along
that norton Of the wall where the
shoulders Of the waiting throng, as well
"a divers and sundry other more de-
structiye weapons, have done violence
70 the plasteriDs.
HI. Bean. ESQ, Who has been IN OK
ford County for several weeks, visitins
his sister, Mrs. L. r Bryant OF South
Paris. and other relatives AT Locke
Mills and Bethel. returned 10 his home
IA Peudleton, Oregon, the first OF last
week, accompanied by his mother, Ars'
+. T.. Bean, OF Bethel.
some good sap weather during ths
mast week. y on may never nave no'i0eu
IN. but the sap viii run ~ this time OF
wear as well sc in the spring, II the
weather Is right III, on some morning
last week, you had happened on oroKsn
tWiz on a rock maple tree, you would
have found hanging from the broken
end little sweet icicle.
Tx Collector jackson relates that
man RECENTLY paid his TAX who did sn
enormous amount OF grumoling last
wear az the size Of the Dill, but TINS year
he was so quiet and ACCOMPANYING
about IL that the collector mArveieo
Alter he had gone the collector looked
the matter up, and found that through
an error 10 listing one piece OF real ss-
tate belonging 20 the taxpayer, with the
buildings thereon, hsd not been H1eu'
No wonder he didn't kick.
Leonard whitman's horse was kicked
In the blacksmith shop last Monday, oy
another horse which hsd just been sharp
ened. One caIk OF the shoe struck
Whj,man's horse on the upper part
Of the fore leg, cutting sn
artery. from "a hich the blood spurted-
A nhysicsn Was called IS hastily a. pos
sihle. who consent to attended the
horss. and took up the artery. de
sid the horse would have oled TO
death 10 a very few minutes IL the dow
had NOT been checked. The horse Il now
doing as well ~ could be expected.
The Christmas exercises at the Baptist
church were attended by sn audience that
6lled the house. A very interesting
programme was rendered by the chill
drsn In a most ereditsble manner. Much
credit Is also due 10 the committee, MS
Walter BOnney, Mrs. Thomas fiavin
and Miss Luella Hayden, for their hard
and faithful work 10 preparing for the
exercises. In the lstter part OF the even
inc santa Claus appeared and began the
distribution Of the presents much 10 the
low OF the little folks. After he had sur
viewed the two huge trees and the long
tsble All loaded with gifts, 10 say noth-
49,: % ,ha various chairs, sleds, &c, re-