Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-12-02
Rev. Messrs. 81. 81. Bishop and A. W.
Pottle exchanged pulpits Sunday.

The Epworth League will hold socis
at the church vestry on Wednesda
evening.
The Rebekahs are planning an enter
tainment to come off some time i
January,
Mrs. Charlotte Howe has returne,
from Waltham where she has spent tn
last two months.
Charles R. Elder, Esq, of Boston
visited his mother, Mrs. Roxanna Elder
over Thanksgiving.
Mrs. j. A. Record, accompanied b.
her granddaughter Stella, is visiting he
daughter, Mrs. Charles Edmunds, il
Auburn.
Mrs. Hannah Ordway and Mrs. Waite
0rdway of North Woodstock and Mr.
George Cook spent Thanksgiving a
S. c. ordway's.
The Universalist Good Cheer Societ,
will meet Tuesday afternoon of thi.
week. Please all notice the change fol-
this week only.
Rev. A. W. Pottle will be in attend
ance on the Maine Conference ItinerantS
Institute at Westbrook Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week.
The Seneca Club meets this Monday
evening with Mrs. Frank Taylor. The
evening will be spent in reading Gold.
smiths "She Stops to Conquer"
Rev. j. II. Little being absent Sunday
his pulpit was supplied by Rev. C. E.
Angel of Norway, who preached an
eloquent sermon to large congregation.
Advertised letters in South Paris post
office Dec. l, 1902:
Miss Bertha Howe.
Mrs. Mile kimball.
Mr.. Charles Everett.
The subject at the Universalist church
next Sunday will be: docs Universal
ism rest on few isolated texts of
Scripture? The Scripture foundation
for Universalist faith"
Clayton K. Brooks and family ate
their Thanksgiving dinner with ,, his
parents, Rev. DIR. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks.
MS ANtuhtAs -nisS ANOUhUc
were also entertained there.
Harold Briggs, Colby 'O6, was at home
for the Thanksgiving vacation, and was
by Henry Abbott of Water
Vile. They spent a portion of their
time at Stoneham hunting, but brought
in no deer.
Mayor Joseph A. Warren and wife
and their two daughters, Sally and
Martha, of WeStbrook, spent Thanksgiv-
ing day with Rev. A. W. Pottle and wife.
Miss Sally Warren is spending her va
cation with her grandparents.
The tickets for the Magnolia Minstrels
went with such rush the management
have decided to give second perform
lnce Saturday evening. Tickets for the
Saturday night show will 60 on sale at
Parlin's drug store Wednesday morning.
A course of assemblies is TO be given
in New Hall this season in charge OF
some of those interested in dancing.
Albert d. Park is floor manager, Fred
Il. Evans and II. c. Fletcher aids. The
first assembly is on Tuesday evening,
Dec. Q.
In noting the death of Mrs. Lorenzo
Dean last week, the Democrat erro-
neously stated that she left two sons,
Frank E. Gowell and Charles Z. Gowell,
IF this town. A third son, Clarence
Sowell, who lives in Massachusetts,, was
omitted.
To make Thanksgiving little more
cheerful, number of the neighbors and
friends Clipped in and gave Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. c. Libby little pound party
Wednesday evening. The affair started
n an informal and modest way, but be-
lore il was through two chickens and
quite stock of groceries had been accu-
nulated for the benefit of this worthy
elderly couple, who received the dona-
ion gratefully.
The snow of Wednesday afternoon
started out quite number of deer
hunters who went "up country" but up
20 the time of going TO press no venison
mas appeared in the village. James Por-
er of Norway, who had been in the
region, came home Friday
bringing his full complement of big
,ame, two deer and a moose weighing
about 500. No other lucky hunter has
showed up here.
Tax Collector Alfred II. Jackson on
Monday morning made the annual sale
II lands for unpaid taxes, as required by
aw. This was of course for the tax
assessed in the town of Paris in 1901.
The total sales comprised three parcels
# real estate, of resident owners, the
.otal amount of taxes on the three par
els being little less than twenty-four
dollars. That's pretty good showing,
,ut of an assessment of over s25, 900.
One of the largest family gatherings
IN Thanksgiving Day was at the home
If 5. Porter StearnS, where twenty-one
people were seated at one table. Be
sides Mr.. and Mrs. Stearns there were
present of their children, Austin p.
stearns, wife and five children, of Paris;
Frank p. Stearns of Shawnee, Oklahoma;
Henry K. Stearns, wife and two chill
iren, of Hebron; William e. Stearns,
wife and child, of Paris; Ellery c. Park,
wife and child, and Miss Joan Stearns,
IF Bethel. This comprises the entire
family of Mr.. and Mrs. Stearns, except
Mrs. Frank p. Stearns and two chill
1ren.
Ralph Penfold had streak of hunters
uck Friday, and as consequence is the
DossesSOr of the first carcass OF deer
that has come into the village from the
near vicinity this season. Penfold and
Don Briggs were partridge hunting, and
had gone up by Swasey BurnelPs into
the edge of the swamp some distance
south of the village. Penfold heard
coming through the bushes
which he supposed was Briggs. Then
a head was stuck out of the bushes
which struck him as the head of calf,
but il was almost Immediately trans
formed into the flag" of deer. Pen
fold had one shell loaded with buckshot
in his pocket. Hastily throwing it into
his gun in place of the partridge charge,
he blazed away. The deer was hit in
the rump, and bled profusely, but ran
about half mile before dropping, and
then jumped up and knocked Penfold
down the first time he came up to her.
Herman Record and another hunter were
on the deer's track, but had not got a
shot. The animal was doe, weighing
l03 pounds with the entrails removed.
Herman Record, who was after this deer,
shot good sized buck Thursday, some
where in the same vicinity.
The Peoples Course closed Friday
evening with the lecture at the Methodist
church by Rev. C. c. Phelan. In the
absence of Rev. Mr.. Pottle, Rev. DR..
Brooks took the chair, and opened with
prayer. A vocal solo was given by Miss
Jessie Tolman, with Mrs. Penfold at the
ORGAN. Rev. Mr.. Phelan was then in