Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-12-09

Miss Luella G. Hayien of Haverhill
Mass, is the guest of friends here.
| This is vacation at Bates College, ant
the several South Paris students are a
home.
Rev. ]. Fl. Little was called to PERI
last week to attend the funeral of Mr.
Abel A. Davis.
After confinement to the house with ;
severe cold and complications attending
it for three weeks, +. Z. Merrill is abl'
to be out again.
Clarence G.. Morton came home Fri
day night, bringing good deer, from ;
hunting trip of few days, with head
quarters at Camp Concord, on Concord
Pond.
| There will be rehearsal of Mt. Pleas
ant Rebekah degree team Wednesda,
evening of this week at 80 sharp. Ii
is very important that the team shoulC
be present.
Howard W Shaw left Monday morning
for visit to his sister, Mrs. p. d. Hig-
gins. at Costigan, where his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. W. NJ. Shaw, have been for sew.
eral weeks.
By request. the sermon delivered at
the Universalist church last Sunday on
the Scripture Foundation for the Uni
versalist Faith, will be repeated next
Sunday, Dec. II.
After a serious illness for several
hg A
to be taking permanent gain. She is
now able TO take a little simple nourish-
ment daily with no i'll effects.
H. D. McAister will return from Lew
iSton TO South Paris about the first of
January. and resume the management of
the Ideal Laundry, which has been run
by c. NJ. Keene under a lease for the
past year.
Advertised letters in South Paris post
office, Dec. s, 1902:
Mrs. Agnes p. Bishop.
Mis-. May Porter.
Mrs. r A Durham.
Miss Hammond.
Mr.. Edward :. Heene.
Members of Hamliu Lodge, X. of P.
are most cordially invited with their
wives, mothers, sisters or Sweethearts
TO meet Mizpah Assembly Wednesday
evening, Dec. 10th, at X. of p. hall.
Supper will be served at 6:45 after which
a social will be held.
Myron ". Maxim, who went to Gilead
the day before Thanksgiving to stay
until ne got deer, came home Sat
urday night with his game, and it
was worth waiting for 1t is a buck
that dressed 2O4 pounds, in good flesh.
with magnificent set of antlers having
eleven points He shot it in the woods,
about three miles from Hastings.
The committee in charge of the Mag
nolia Minstrels wish 10 take this oppor-
tunity to thank one and all, and par
ticularly Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hall, who
took part in the MINISTRIES or helped in
any way in making them such success.
Also they wish all who have belong
ings of the Good Cheer TO return them to
the committee and those who have bills
IN present them Immediately.
November was remarkably even
tempered month. The weather report
of the Maine Experiment Station at
Orono shows that the average tempera-
ture for the month at that point was
about three degrees above the average
for thirty-fOur years, aud that the ex-
treme variations were between IS and Is
degrees. The highest is ii degrees be-
low the highest record in thirty-four
years, and the lowest is 81 degrees above
the lowest on record.
Mrs. Phebe W. Hall, who had been a
little i'll for several weeks, sustained a
paralytic shock Tuesday afternoon, and
in state of Inconsistencies or
semi-conSciousnesS until her death about
> O'Clock Saturday morning. Mrs. Hail
was "a years of age, and was the Oldest
person in South Paris. She was the
daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth
(Warren) Bumpus, and the oldest child
in large family, of whom she was the
last survivor. She married Ora Hall of
South Paris, who died in 1878. They
had three children. One daughter, Au-
gusta, wife of Charles Walker of Lewis
ton, died some years since. The two re-
naming children are Mrs. Charlotte Z.
Howe and Rodney y. Hall, both OF
South Paris, with the latter of whom she
made her home. In spite of her ad-
vanced years, Mrs. Hall, until within a
few days of her death, retained her
faculties very fully, read considerable,
enjoyed general good health and took
an interest in affairs. She was ALWAYS
cheerful and pleasant, and in that re-
spect set a good example for many much
Younger people. The funeral is held at
, O clock this Monday afternoon.