Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-11-19
Mrs. Arthur 8. Hall of Buckfield wa
in town Saturday.

Mrs. Arthur 8. Hall of Buckfield was
in town Saturday.
Miss Grace Thayer is convalescing
from severe attack of the measles.
Mrs. Emerton of Auburn spent Sun
day with her sister, Mrs. Fred Scott.
Rev. E. w. Pierce has arrived home
from Vermont. His family will come
later.
Miss Catherine Briggs is inSkowhegan,
serving in the capacity of trained
nurse.
/ Station Agent Fred Scott has put
Electric lights in his house and stable on
lSkillings Avenue.
Miss Gertrude Hall is spending few
days in Buckfield, the guest of her
friend, Mrs. Arthur s. Hall.
Mrs. Samuel Greenwood of Pressure
Isle was guest of Mrs. A. d. Park and
Mrs. j. F. Plummer last week.
Charles z. Bennett has increased the
capacity of his ice house on Oxford
Street by raising it five or six feet.
About twenty-five members of Paris
Grange were in the class which took the
seventh degree at Lewiston Friday.
Harry Ross of Auburn spent Sunday
with his mother, Mrs. Jane Ross, and
called on other relatives and friends in
town.
Wendell Rounds entertained small
party at crokinole Saturday evening in
honor of his guests, Messrs. Briggs and
Lewis.
Paris Grange will have an all-day
meeting next Saturday. Norway Grange
has accepted an invitation for the day.
Professor Bateman will be among the
speakers.
Mrs. Z. n. Anderson is in Portland
for few days after her mother,
an invalid confined to her bed and chair, |
and who will make her home with Mrs. |
Anderson in the future.
The ladies of the Congregational |
church will serve supper in their vestry |
followed by a sociable Thursday evening |
of this week, Nov. 2lst. Prices as
usual. Everybody invited.
Rev. W. W. Hooper preached to
very large audience in New Hall Sunday
afternoon. Mr.. Hooper will be here
again next Sunday, and will preach in
New Hall at 2: 80 p. NJ. His subject will
be, my Religion, What is Yours?'
Advertised letters in South Paris post
Office Nov. IS:
Francis York.
L. Z. kimbail
Harry Faunce.
May Goliath.
4. Z. Chase.
Mrs. Jane Ross, who has occupied the
rent over Coles meat market and done
for the past year, has
given up her rent and gone to Norway
to spend the winter with her sister, Mrs.
David Knapp. She will be glad to at
tend her customers there.
In addition to the illness Of Capt. G.
c. Pratt, his son, o. G. Pratt, is now
seriously i'll with pneumonia in the same
house. willard Pratt came home from ,
Saturday, and Mrs. W. A.
Porter is spending much of her time ,
with her father and brother.
The storm of Wednesday made the
earliest sleighing in number of years,
and for day or two the bells Jingled
merrily. Sleighs still come into the
village from Hebron way, and in some
other directions, but the sleighing in
general was not of long duration.
OF course the snow started out the t
hunters. A party of four-Myron Il
Maxim, Mark Richardson, Earle Stuart, u
and W. S. Ripley, Jr., of Wakefield, lii
Mass, went to the Wild River region. I
night they came down with c
two deer, small does. One of them be-
Ionged to Maxim, the other to Stuart.
As was stated in last weeks Democrat
the Methodist social Wednesday even 7
inc, Nov. 20, will be in charge of the
of the society, who will I
prepare and serve the supper in the a
latest Paris fashion. After which, there S
will be an entertainment, during which
4 Fur Opening viii be introduced. "
Admission 10 cents.
The first supper and entertainment of
the Good Cheer Society will be held in
6. A. r. Hall Thursday evening of this ,
week, Nov. 21st. Supper at $50. Adj :
10 cents for supper and enter
-ainment, 10 cents for entertainment
alone. Everybody cordially invited.
The entertainment will be very pleasing !.
md the supper one of the best.
VIM. B. Russell, BENZ. Y Russell, AL S
ton Maxim and Guy Buck went deer c
hunting over at Albany Basins last week. 4
Ben shot one of the hand
soonest bucks that you ever saw. He 8
weighed over two hundred and stretched !,
up eight feet. After Ben hit the deer
he ran and Ben threw off coat and hat S
and started in hot pursuit. The heat
was about mile and quarter but Ben
won the race. Il
The largest consignment ever made
from the Rumford Falls Municipal
Court to the Jail arrived Friday night
eight of them, the result of the weeks
work up to Friday in that court. They
were all DRINKS, and the number OF
them would seem to justify what the
Times has to say about the condition of
the liquor traffic in Rumford Falls. Five
Of the eight are thirty-day men, two OF
them have sentences for ninety days,
being old offenders, and one has appeal
ed from fine, and will stay until the
March term of court unless he secures
bail in the meantime. Deputy Sheriff
Elliott brought the men over, having
them handcuffed by twos. The Jail
held thirty-two Friday night, and still
has thirty-one.
MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA.
H.. C. Reed of Richmond is in town in
the interests of the Modern Woodmen OF
America. This society is the largest
and strongest fraternal beneficiary Or
ganization IN this country, having over
CSC, 900 members.
The order is eighteen years old, run
on the representative form of govern
ment plan. 1t has the jurisdiction of
thirty-three healthy states, it bars out
all extra hazardous occupations and
cities of 100000 population, insuring
only those between the ages of Is and
As. 1t is gaining at the rate of 10000
members per month. The WOodmen
have been doing business in this state
two years, and have forty-tive camps
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