Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-10-29

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: burn fish hatchery.
Mrs. Maria Rice is visiting her sister
Mrs. Chase, in Lynn, Mass. She wen
there two or three weeks since.
Almanac for 1902 is a reminder tina
there is only little Of this short yea
1901 remaining.
: @. III. Thayer and family are movin,
, from the Garland house on High Stree
to the upper tenement of the Chesley
house on Park Street.
| Mrs. j. X. Salisbury and son Clarenc,
have returned to South Paris from Hull,
!, Cove, where they have been since the
death of Miss Salisbury.
Advertised letters in South Paris post
office, Oct. %, 1901:
Mrs. Levi Russell
Mrs. Emr1 Twitchell
| Miss o. G. Pratt.
| The second dancing school will be
held at New Hall Tuesday evening,
Oct. Goth. The course is under the
management of Ira d. Shaw and Ora
Marston.
Mrs. VIM. p. Morton left Thursday
for Port Jervis, n. Y, to visit her sister
whose husband was i'll with consump-
ton. He died while Mrs. Morton was
on her way there.
Irving E. Andrews will cut some tim
Der this winter on the A. w. Pratt farm
in the Bolster district, which he has re-
Gently bought. His operations will not,
however, be extensive.
Mrs. Thomas who is at home from
| Connecticut to nurse her mother, Mrs.
Ellen WOrmell, is in very poor health
| and will remain for the winter. Mrs.
Wormell is gaining slowly.
Total number of pieces handled on
rural delivery routes from South Paris
post office for the year ending Sept. SOth,
1901:
,oute 10 pieces
A. A. Abbott and family came from
Massachusetts, few days since to spend
their vacation with Mrs. Swett's parents,
Benjamin SWEET and wife. Mr.. SWEET
and Mr. Abbott have gone "up country"
deer hunting.
Mrs. John Caverly has returned from
Marlboro, Mass, after month of very
pleasant visiting TO her three sisters.
Mrs. Caverly said there had been no frost
there when she returned home and the
flowers round about in the gardens were
beautiful
Ora Bumpus is getting out again
after his accident of some two weeks
since, when he was thrown off the
wagon which he was driving. A wound
in his hand threatened blood poisoning,
and he was otherwise injured so as to |
make il a cause for cOngratulation that
he is making so good a recovery.
George ID. Robertson is about to break |
up housekeeping, and will sell his house |
hold goods at auction next Saturday at |
2 o'clock He will go about January
LIST for some what extended visit to |
brother who lives in Tennessee. Mr..
and Mrs. Albert NJ. Hammond will
occupy his house when he vacates.
This issue of the Democrat is delayed |
by an accident to the press, which, while |
a little affair in appearance, required |
several hours to repair. As it is the first
time in several years that we have missed /
the Monday afternoon mail except on a /
holiday, we trust our subscribers Will
submit gracefully to the unavoidable.
Quarterly conference was held at the
Methodist church Saturday evening, and
on Sunday Presiding Elder A. S. Laid,
ID. D., preached before a good congrega-
ton. The meeting was also profitable
from the financial standpoint, the
special collection for the presiding |
elders claim being the largest on record.
What with the cider mill and the
stream of teams to and from, the load
ing of feldspar on the cars in addition to
the ordinary traffic around the railroad
station, Colby's apple business at the
shoe factory building, and the grading
work at the court house grounds, it's a
busy place at that end of the town now
adays.
The Methodists served first-class
harvest dinner and supper Friday, |
though they did not have so large
patronage as in some years, on account
of other things that were going or. The
entertainment in the evening included
readings by Masters Clyde Hebbard and
Henry Howe, and songs by Hal X.
Eaton, Miss Jessie c. Tolman and Miss
DeMotte.
The Seneca Club, which has resumed
its meetings for the season, met Thurs
day evening with Miss Mertie b. Maxim.
The subject of study for the evening was |
Sir Robert Peel. The next meeting will
be with Mrs. Barnes in about two weeks, |
when a study CT parliamentary law will
be made under the direction of Judge /
Wilson. The officers of the club are:
Presidept-Mrs +. A. Taylor.
Secretary-Miss Mertie x. Maxim.
Treasurer-Miss Olive NJ. Stuart.
Programme Committee-Mrs. II. +. wilson.
Lester DeCoster and wife of Bridge
port, Conn.,, have been visiting the fam
ily of Mrs. DeCoster's father, 0. w.
Royal, for the past two weeks, and Mr..
DeCOster has put in most of his vacation
hunting. He spent most of the first
week in Buckfield, his native town, and
as the proceeds of the week showed ten /
partridges and a very large hen hawk |
which was so little injured by the shot |
that he is still alive in cage and in |
good condition. Last week MIR. DeCoster
and Mr.. Stone of New York spent |
three days in Gilead deer hunting, and
Mr.. DeCoster brought in handsome |
spike-horn buck weighing ITO pounds.
Ii is the first deer that has been brought |
here from that region this season. Mr..
DeCoster will take the deer and the
hawk home with him this Monday after |
noon.
The X-Rays Bazaar to be given by the
ladies of the Congregational Circle this
week Thursday and Friday promises
to be one of the most attractive and en- |
tertaining ever given by them. There
is great curiosity on the part Of the pub
lie to know what will be offered for sale
at the various booths designated as
X-otic, X-quisite, X-cellent, X-change,
X-commisary, X-enodochy, Annex and
Elixir well. This curiosity can only be
gratifed by personal attendance at
New Hall sometime during the Bazaar.
Eptarta;nmente each evening No admiS-