Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-01-21

CHURCHES.
gt-.. Congregational Church. Rev. W. Z.
Books. u. D. pastor. Preae hing services, 10 ~
a. AMI 80 P "; sunday school IL NJ; Y.
p a. : att p. ~, Church prayer meeting OF
T..-..v evening AZ ~ o'clock. Al, not other
W-s cynnected are c0Iilsi.y invited:
i- SUNDAY, morning prayer mteung, 30 A.
n.pr,arh!ng service 10 70 M; saobath school
sreDing prayer meeting P. N; prayer meetins
rs.Ilav even! *; class mes ting, Friday evening
g.rti.t church, Rev. T. j. Ramsdeil. Pastor.
IA Sgp- az, preaching service l0;t5 A. NJ; Sab
b,,s school u NJ, PRAYER meeting 90 p. ~;
gr4ye. meeting Tuesday evening.
STATED MEETINGS.
"A M-Paris Lodge, No. a. Regular
---e,,Dy Tuesday evening on or before full moon
10. -. E.-MoUnt Mica Lodge, regular meet
=. Thursday evening Of each week.-Aurora
% fR.-Mount Pleasant Rebekah Lodge. No
g. meet, second and fourth Fridays of each
-5u,a 10 odd Fellows Hall.
a R-w. h. Eimbau Post, No. las. meets
~ ant third Saturday evenings Of each
WI. <. EimbaII Relief Corps meets ar.t
a1 ihiri saturday evenings Of each month, IN
L.eIet Corps Hal.
gets second and fourth Saturday; during the
lander o. the year, meets every Saturday, In
o-auge Hall
\. Z. o. P.-stony Brook Lodge. No. Isl.
-eets second and fourth Wednesday evenings
each month.
n. Of P.-Hamlin Lodge. No. 81. meets every
:-iAy evening al Pythian Hall
Probate Court this Tuesday.
Mrs. c. NJ. Howard is visiting relatives
2 Portland.
DR.. B. A. Swasey of West Peru was at
south Paris on business two days last
week.
L. l.. Jackson of Gorbam, Y. H., Wis
red his brother, A K. Jackson, last
week.
A supper was given by the Congrega-
,ional Circle at the yestry Thursday
evening.
The Jail population is getting con-
,iderably reduced. Only twenty there
saturday.
such sleighing as we have had for the |
-a,t week is pretty sure 20 be improved. |
The roads have been lively.
Loring r. Starbird of Brockton, Mass,
i, spending few days here with his |
,arcnts, W. s. Starbird and wife.
The Herman Fuller stand on Hill
street has been sold 10 Mrs. Jeffrey |
Hardy. and the family have moved in.
Miss Lulie Tuell of West Paris has
been assisting in the office of the Paris /
Manufacturing Co. for the past two
weeks.
CLAYTON Churchill has bought the farm
of Calvin B. Keene at North Buckfeld,
buc will probably not move on 10 it be-
fore spring.
What Universalists Believe" will be
tie subject of Rev. w. W. Hooper's ser
mon at New Hall, South Paris, next
sunday. Jan. 20, at 2:30 p. NJ.
Elliott E. Record, who is now oyerseer
of the Paris town farm, will move back
on 10 his own farm when his years con-
tract expires next month, and the Sc
l-c,men are advertising for a farmer
and wife to take charge for the coming
year.
A pink tea was given by the ladies of
the Baptist Circle at their vestry Thurs
dav evening. Following the supper
there was short entertainment OF
songs and Rotations. There were some
songs by Miss Leach's pupils, and reel
tations by Miss Grace Record and Henry |
Howe.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. W. a.
Porter. whose critical illness was noted
in the last Democrat, began to show i'm
provement early in the week, and al
though his life was for while despalred
Of he seems now TO be fairly on the road
4, l. e, laas M n
10 Mr. and Mrs. Porter's friends.
The South Paris Public Library &C
cupies a room in the second story OF
Masonic Block over Farrar's grocery
store Ii is open every Saturday alter
noon and Tuesday and Saturday even
ings. The rates are Sl.0O year, %
cents for six months, % cents for three
months. or one cent day for transient
subscribers. ANY person can have free
use Of books while remaining IN the
library. Your patronage would help.
Elsewhere in this issue of the Demo
crat is published the brief story of the
Revolutionary record of Seth Sturtevant,
who was one of Washington's Life
Guard, and who, some years after the
Revolution. settled in Sumner, where he
lived for more than half a century, and
died at a ripe old age. This sketch was
sent 10 the Democrat by our regular
correspondent, being furnished him by
Mr.. Sturtevant's granddaughter, Mrs. IL.
Il. Maxim. Comment on the sketch is
unnecessary, as il tells its own story. 1t
will be of interest 10 all readers.
The Paris Manufacturing Co. are
about to put on night crew at one oil |
their mills in Greenwood, as they are
cutting lumber faster than the mill can |
handle il by working daytimes. They
have now three camps in the woods, ana |
three mills, employing in all about sixty
men and more than sixty horses. Ihelr
total cut for the season Will DE ABOUT
two million feet which is about hair the
lumber they will consume for the year
-Four million feet of lumber, in the high
ly finished form in which the company's
product goes out, represents a pretty
large yearly business.
The Methodist lecture course was
opened Wednesday evening by Rev. III.
r Dunnaek CT Augusta, subject I'm
thusiasm." Mr.. Dunnack is young
man who not only prOclaims the doctrine
THAT enthusiasm 10 htttco1hf ~ ANsN' SNN
cess. but also exemplifies his subject IN
his manner of communicating his mes
sage, and undoubtedly as well In the
way he undertakes his life work. The
lecture was interesting and inspiriting,
While there was fair audience, the sale
of tickets has not been as large as the
quality of the attractions offered in the
course would lead one to expect.
The Universalist Good Cheer Society
furnished supper to some more than
hundred and fifty people Tuesday even
ing, and the supper was pronounced ex-
cellent. The decorations were very
pre- tty and artistic and were much APP
preciated. In the entertainment which
followed, there were solos by Miss De
Motto, Ralph Penfold, and Mrs. V. III,
Whitman of Norway, duet by Mrs.
Whitman and Mrs. Kimball of Norway,
and readings by Miss Fannie Cummings
Of Norway. Every number on the pro-
gramme was given an enthusiastic en-
core The concluding number was the
farce, 'The Rough Diamond" in which
Mrs Writ Stanley as Lady Evergreen
and Albert ID. Park as Cousin Joe, play
ed leading parts and had good support.
The farce pleased everybody, and was