Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-12-03
The best sleighiug we shall have this

Saturday.
Miss Ruth Tucker is in Boston for
short time.
Mrs. C. G. Andrews is visiting rela
tives in Lowell.
j. +. Rowland has been at Mountall
View Farm for day or two.
Percy Allen and wife spent Thanks
giving with Mr.. Aliens family in Bridg
ton.
Miss Della McArdle of Portland passed
Thanksgiving with Mrs. N. F. Strick
land.
Mr.. Roy E. Strickland has gone te
Lincoln to teach the high school in thai
lplace.
). Mrs. A. D. Park is spending this week
with her sister, Mrs. Head, at East
Sumner.
| The Judge and Register of Probate
are holding court at Fryeburg, to-day,
Tuesday.
Miss May Beman has returned from
Mrs. Alice P. Thayer's to her home in
Waterville.
Mrs. j. r. Bennett and George spent
Thanksgiving with Mrs. Benefits rela-
tives in Buckfield.
Did you ever see a colder, rougher
week in November than last week, or a
colder Thanksgiving Day?
George A. Briggs is to move his meat
market back from Pythian Block to his
building on Western Avenue.
Mr.. Merton Sumner of Leeds has been
visiting his grandmother, Mrs. N. +.
Strickland, over Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Alice p. Thayer is i'll with the
measles, and is under the care of Miss
Monroe, a trained nurse from Lewiston.
Rev. C. C. Phelan, well known as an
interesting and eloquent speaker, has
been engaged for the Methodist lecture
course.
1t is one of the indications of general
prosperity that w. j. Wheeler has sold
five organs and four pianos in the past
six weeks.
The Universalist Good Cheer Society
will meet with Mrs. DR.. Littlefield We'd
nesday afternoon of this week. Let all
who can be present.
Paris Grange will give another So
caiable at Grange Hall Wednesday even
ing. Ice cream and cake will be on sale.
Admission 10 cents.
Paris Public Library has received from
Mr.. j. F. Rowland several volumes of
the Outlook, for which the thanks of
the association are extended.
Rev. r. j. Haughton of Weymouth,
Mass, it is expected, will deliver a
lecture at the NJ Z. church some time
within the next two or three weeks.
A family party of eighteen ate Thanks |
giving dinner at the home of Deacon 5.
r. Parsons, including the families of W.
X. Clifford and +. A. Shurtleff, and Mrs.
Hagan Of New York, who spends her
summers at Deacon Parsons.
The latest feature of the telephone |
situation is the appearance of an agent |
of the New England Company, who is |
offering to put in two telephOnes-one at |
a mans place of business and the other |
at his residence-for S24.0O a year.
The annual meeting of Riverside
Cemetery Association will be held at the
office of Wilson Il Gray on Saturday,
Dec. 7th, at 2:30 p. N. Lot owners are
invited and requested to be present at
the meeting.
II. n. BOLSTER, Sec.
Advertised letters in South Paris post
Office Dec. 2:
Mr. Royal the Snow Shovel man.
Mr.. NJ. II. Cummings.
Miss Jennie NJ. Brown.
MARY Hayes
Mr.. VIM +. Herrick.
Mr.. Wallace NJ. Larry.
Minnie Dow.
Mrs. Rizpah L. Whitman left Saturday
morning for North Abingdon; Mass,
where she was to spend Sunday with
Mrs. l.. c. Morton, and Monday after
noon she starts from Boston for Cali
fornia, where she will spend the winter
with her son, Lester L. Whitman, at
Pasadena.
Quite party from this place attended
the wedding of Everett Verrill and Miss
Melvina Maxim in Sumner "Wednesday
evening, including B. F. Hicks and wife,
Walter p. Maxim and wife, Henry Aus
tin. Misses Rose and Mary Austin,
Henry Merrill, Miss Lou Bryant, Arthur
Thurlow and Miss Gertrude Thurlow.
There was large attendance at the
Baptist missionary meeting on Sunday
evening. Recent letters from China
and Burma were read by Mr.. Lowell
and Miss Ethel Crockett. The pastor
gave An address upon the work of John
Williams in the South Sea Islands. The
solos by Miss Ethel Ellis and Mr.. George
Haskell formed very enjoyable feature
of the programme.
Mr.. Walter p. Maxim, the well-known
Junior member of the firm of S. P.
Maxim & Son, and Mrs. Edith b. Bige-
low were quietly married at Mr..
Maxim's residence Wednesday after
noon, Only few family friends were
present at the ceremony, which was per-
formed by Rev. W. Z. Brooks, ID. ID. Mr..
and Mrs. Maxim have the congratula-
tons and good wishes of every one in
the community.
Mrs. Frank z. Keen died Sunday
morning after a short illness at the resi-
dence of Frank Turner in this village,
where she and her husband were board
ing at the time. They were married
Oct. 10th, and had made preparations
to begin keeping house during the pres
ent week. Mrs. Keen was not quite 81
years of age. The funeral will be held
at the residence of her father, Edward
C. Slattery, in Sumner, Tuesday at 10
A. NJ, and interment at Buckfeld.
At the residence of E. n. Haskell on
Main Street an appreciative party par
took of an abundant and exquisitely serv-
ed Thanksgiving dinner. The guests were
and Mr.. Mrs. Wallace F. Atkins, Mrs.
Dora Green and Mr.. and Mrs. j. +. Plum
mer of this place, and Miss Mary Rideout
and her mother from Auburn, the last
named lady past her eightieth year,
whose clear, active intellect and erect |
figure many a younger person might |
envy. The rich red dining-rOOm was
charmingly and tastefully Ornamented
with graceful groupings of rare palms
and dainty ferns, making very effective
harmony of color.
A South Paris man a few days since
acquired a little knowledge in a manner
which brought profit to the Standard
Oil Co. His wife being somewhat indis-
posed for few days, ne assisted her by