Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-02-25

Mr. and Mrs. Hilton are spending q
few days in Portland.
The Modern Wooimen will NEE,
Tuesday evening-an early meeting.
The store of n. Dayton Bolster 4 Co.
will be closed Wednesday, Feb. 90, to
take stock.
Mrs. A. d. Park entertained the Bar
ton Club of Norway at her home Thurs
: day afternoon.
: The funeral of Lula Briggs will be
held at the Methodist church Wednes-
day at 80 p. NJ.
Mrs. DIR. Packard and son of West
Paris are visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lemuel Carter, for few days.
Mrs. George Cobb and two daughters,
Mildred and Gertrude, of Portland, spent
Saturday with Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. G..
Fletcher.
Mrs. Rice of Providence, r. l., who
had been visiting her mother, Mrs
Jewell, for few days, returned home
"Wednesday.
The Ladies' Relief Corps will serve
dinner town meeting day in G.. A. X.
Hall. Every member of the Corps is re-
quested to bring food.
There will be a sociable after the
Magnolia Minstrels Tuesday evening and
ice cream and cake will be on sale. All
are invited to stay and participate in the
sociable.
| The regular business meeting of the
Good Cheer Society will be held at En-
CINE House Hall Wednesday afternoon
of this week The announcement was
omitted Sunday.
Mt. Hope Rebekah Lodge of Norway
has accepted the invitation to visit Mt.
Pleasant Lodge next Friday evening
There will be work, and an oyster sup
per will be served.
The boys CT the high school base ball
team have a room fitted up for indoor
practice at the corn factory, and are
pntting in considerable time getting in
shape for the coming season.
j. Hastings Bean and George NJ. At
wood attended the annual meeting of the
Maine Savings Bank Association in Port
land last Saturday as representatives
from the South Paris Savings Bank.
There will be special meeting of the
Pythian SisterhoOd Monday evening,
Feb "a, at h p Hall for the purpose of
balloting on candidates, and other bust
ness which may come before the assem-
bly,.
The soliciting committee for the Re-
bekah supper Friday evening take this
means of asking all the members of the |
lodge who have not been solicited per- |
sonally to donate something toward the |
supper.
There will be Washington's birthday |
supper and entertainment at the Method |
ist church next Thursday evening, |
Feb. q, under the patronage of the Ep- |
worth League, the proceeds to be devot-
ed to the work of the church.
South Paris kept up its reputation as a
show town las far as anything but local
talent is concerned) last week. Howard
& Pitts gave their show in the hall
Tuesday evening, and Friday evening |
Ten Nights in Bar Room was played.
Both had very small houses.
The rehearsal of Mt. Pleasant Rebekah
degree team which was to have been held
Wednesday evening has been postponed
to Thursday afternoon at 2:3O p. NJ, on
account of the Magnolia Minstrels We'd
nesday evening. Members of the team
will please take notice and try and be
present.
Rev. Mr.. Hooper will preach again in
New Hall next Sunday afternoon at 2:3O
o'clock. Subject, What true Salvation
is. "Who then can be saved?" SIS the
Young man safe?" The meetings which
have been run under the auspices of the
Good Cheer Society will hereafter be
run by the parish committee.
Don A. Gates of Dixfield was at South
Paris several days last week. Mr.. Gates
is District Deputy Grand Master of the
sixteenth Masonic district, and while
making his headquarters here made his
official visitations to several of the lodges
in this vicinity, visiting Paris Lodge
Tuesday night, Granite Lodge at West
Paris Wednesday night, and Oxford
Lodge at Norway Friday night.
The quarterly conference of the Meth
odist church will be met this Monday
evening by the presiding elder, Rev. A.
5. Laid, ID. D., at which time the off
GERS of the church for the coming year,
commencing May l, will be elected. The
quarterly conference consists of the
pastor, trustees, stewards, superintend-
ent of Sunday School, president of Ep-
worth League and the class leaders.
The service pipe which supplies Nor
way water to Pythian Block having
frozen I'D last week, there was long
lob getting at it where the main is tap
ned. fifteen or twenty feet from the side
walk in front of Odd Fellows Block.
The ground is frozen almost as hard as
a rock, and a man put in over days
work, not to mention the valuable advice
and encouragement furnished by the
sidewalk committee, before the main
was reached. Then the service pipe did
not appear, and it was necessary to tun-
mel underneath nearly ten feet before it
was found
Friday was gala night with Hamlin
Lodge. X, of p, when the defeated side
in the recent contest furnished a supper
10 the winning side. The contest was to
enlarge the membership of the lodge,
and +. A. Taylor and l.. l.. Powers were
captains of the winning side, while Ros-
coe Gray and James +. Kenney were
captains of the losing side. The families
of the Knights were invited. A first
class supper, one of the best of the sea-
son, was served, and afterward quite a
long programme of music and readings
by local talent was given. 1t was very |
very pleasant affair.
The date of the concert by the Nor
way and South Paris Concert Band is |
fixed for Thursday evening, March 9th,
ut New Hall. The band has been doing |
good work at rehearsals, and individual
home practice already shows itself in
improved tone and tune. The new mel |
liphones, which replace the miserable old
alto horns formerly used, give to the
band that French horn quality SO much
needed in the harmony instruments.
Mr.. John A. Spencer. baritone of the
Lewiston Brigade Band, is engaged for
this concert, and for vocalists the band
has secured Co. Frank Monroe, tenor,
and the Partisan Male Quartette. Pro
gram and posters will appear later.
The event of the present week will
without question be the appearance of the
Ladies' Magnolia Minstrels, which will
hold the boards at New Hall Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings. Twenty-Five
funny coous from CoOntown and fifteen
/ I;..Ia n;ct,nipnies fresh from the cotton