Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-06-25
The Epworth League will have bust
mass n,aatipcy "Wednesday eveninp

Knights, attention, Election of Off
GERS at Hamlin Lodge next Friday even
ing.
Miss Catherine Briggs and Master
Carl Briggs are visiting friends in New
ton, Mass.
James d. Haynes begins his vacation
this week from the store of N. d.
Bolster Il Co.
Miss Maud Carter is at home for the
summer vacation from her school in
Braintree, Mass.
Plummer Libby of Chicago is visiting
his sister, Mrs. 5. G.. Burnell-his first
trip east for six years.
Miss Mertie b. Maxim attends COM
mencement this week at Bates College,
of which she is a graduate.
Don III. Bean is clerking at N. D.
Bolster Il Co.'S, while the regular clerks
take their annual vacations.
The Baptist Circle will have lawn
party at Deacon George b. Crocketts on
Pleasant Street Wednesday evening.
J.H. Bean and wife and George A.
Briggs and wife go Tuesday to Camp
Comfort in Mason for a few days out
ing.
Master Henry Howe goes Monday to
the farm of Charles Edwards, where he
will spend the vacation and work his
board"
Hon. Geo. A. Wilson attends the Col
by commencement at Waterville this
week. Judge Wilson is one of the
trustees of Colby College.
Rev. j. c.. Snow, d. D., who is pastor
of the Universalist church on Paris Hill
for the summer, will preach in New Hall
next Sunday afternoon at O'Clock.
The degree team of Mount Pleas
ant Rebekah Lodge will have a rehearsal
this Monday evening. All are requested
to come out, as there will be work Fri
day evening.
Miss Alberta Davis visited in Auburn
last week, and attended the graduating
exercises of Edward Little High School.
Her cousin, Miss Beatrice NJ. Rawson,
was a member of the graduating class,
and stood third in rank in the class OF
fifty-eight. She came back with Miss
Davis for a visit To her South Paris
relatives.
The work of filling the hollow in front
of the railroad station was begun Friday
morning with good crew OF men.
Previous TO that the necessary drains
l.. l,ai hpIn1
laid from the upper end of the hollow to
the mouth of the culvert at the lower
end. Something like 100 car loads of
gravel were put in, and the surface is
being smoOthed down to an even grade.
The difference in appearance is all that
has been anticipated.
Mrs. Julia A. Ripley, who broke her
hip several weeks since, while ut work
at III. l.. Swans, died early saturday
morning. She had been cared for at
Mr. Swans since the accident, not being
able to stand moving. Mrs. Ripley was
a member of Mount Pleasant Rebekah
Lodge. She leaves one son, Perley A.
Ripley, and one sister, Mrs. Burnell OF
LYNN, Mass. The funeral is at p. NJ.
Monday from the school house in the
Partridge District.
There was a peculiar fire Sunday at
the house of Everett Farrar, in the pines
beyond the Park Street bridge. VIII
Marston, who lives little beyond, was
coming TO the village about half-past
one, when he discovered that the back
side of Mr. Farrar's house was on fire.
Mr.. Farrar's family were at home al the
time, and the blaze was extinguished
without much difficulty. There is no
doubt that the fire was set, as birch bark
was found which had been soaked with
kerosene. As Mr.. Farrar has not an
enemy in tie world SO far as anybody
knows. it would seem under all the cir
cumstances that the fire must have been
set by some one too young or too foolish
20 know better.
One of the mogul engines used on the
gravel trains was derailed Saturday a
little before noon, between the switch
and the frog, on the siding at the upper
end of the yard, in front of the sled
factory. The accident was caused by the
spreading of the track. Ninety tons or
metal down on the ties makes n very
homely thing to handle, but by the help
of other engines that were here and such
wrecking outfit as was at hand, the
engine was back on the rails before the
middle of the afternoon. Although it
was the siding from which the engine
went off, it was so near the switch that
the main line was blocked; but fortu-
nately there was time to get things
Strengthened out before time for the
afternoon passenger trains. At about
the same time of this accident, another
mogul, handling gravel train, narrowly
escaped similar accident at the switch
in front of the station, but did not leave
the rails.