Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-01-07
The Oxford pemucrat.
SOUTH PARIS.
SOUTH PARIS POST OFFICE.

SOUTH PARIS.
SOUTH PARIS POST OFFICE.
Oniee Hours 90 to : 90 A. NJ; s 90 A. N. to
>'UIP.N.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Commencing November 8, 1901,
TRAINS LEAVE SOUTH PARIS
Going down-6NS A. NJ, daily, Sundays In
Going up-l0 O1 A. NJ, S:Ss p. NJ. sOOP. NJ.
daily, sundays included. Sunday only, sl6
A. NJ.
CHURCHES.
First Congregational Church. Rev. W, +.
Brooks, ID. D., pastor. Preaching services, 10 20
A. ". and : 40 p. NJ; Sunday School IL NJ; \.
PS. c. +. ate p. NJ; Church prayer meeting on
Tuesday evening at 80 o'clock. All, not other
wise connected, are cOr'ially lnviteu.
Methodist Church, Rev. A. W. Pottle, Pastor.
ON sunday morning PRAYER meeting, $3.50 A.
approaching service l0:45 A. NJ; Sabbath School
~ M: Epworth League Meeting, els p. NJ;
TSesiay evening; class meeting, Friday evening
Baptist Church. Rev. t. j. Ramsdell Pastor.
On sunday, preaching service lo4S a. NJ; Sab
bath school IL M; PRAYER meeting 800 p. NJ;
prayer meeting Tuesday evening.
STATED MEETINGS.
"A. M.-Paris Lodge, No. "a. Regular
meeting Tuesday evening on or before null moon.
10. .. F-Mount Mica Lodge, regular meet.
ngs, Thursday evening OF each week.-Aurora
Encampment, nrst and thiru MONDAY evenings
D. R.-Mount Pleasant Rebekah Lodge, No.
80, meets second and fourth Fridays OF each
month In Odd Fellows Hall.
q. A. R.-W. h. kimball Post, No. las, meets
nrst and third Saturday evenings OF each
month, In q. A. K. Hall.
wm. K. Kimball Relief Corps meets first
and third Saturday evenings OF each month, In
Relief Corps Hail.
p. ofH.-Paris Grange, from May l to Oct. !,
meets second and fourth Saturday; during the
remainder Of the year, meets every Saturday In
Grange Hall.
.. g. G. C.-second and fourth Mondays of
each month.
v L. o. P.-Stony Brook Lodge, No. Isl.
OF each month.
X. P.-Hamnn Lodge, No, 81, meets every
Friday evening at Pythisn Hall.
Carroll Edwards spent Sunday at
Bryant's Pond.
Mrs. j. r. Bennett is visiting her rela-
tives in Buckfield.
Miss Annie futile of Rumford was
the guest of friends here a few days last |
week.
Maurice Noyes, who went into the |
Empire Laundry at Lewiston with III.
D. McAlster, has given it up and return
ed to Paris.
Miss Grace A. Thayer is in the Nor
way post office temporarily, taking the
place of the assistant, Miss Paragard,
during the latter's illness.
Special train and very low fares from
South Paris and Norway to "Uncle
Terry" at Music Hall, Lewiston, We'd
nesday evening, Jan. 18th. See bills for
particulars.
The patrons of the assembly Tuesday
evening danced the old year out and the
new year in, and enjoyed themselves so
well that the party did not break up
until late hour.
Mrs. Kate Under of Mankato, Mimi,
arrived here Wednesday morning for a
short visit TO her mother, Mrs. Ellen
Skillings, and sister, Mrs. George A.
Briggs. Mrs. Skillings will accompany
her when she returns home.
At the annual meeting of the South
Paris Baptist church, last Monday even
ing, the following officers were chosen:
Deacons-Percy E. Lowell Emery E. Bonney.
Clerk-GeOrge Il. Crockett.
Treasurer-Percv +. Lowell.
Soliciting COmmfttee-t. W bOnney.
Rev. W. W. Hooper preached an ex-
cellent sermon to large congregation in
New Hall Sunday afternoon. He will be
here again next Sunday afternoon and
his text will be, Is 1t Worth While? Mr..
Hooper will also answer briefly the ques-
ton: What will become of the man {
who lives good life for years and yet c
dies without joining the church?''
Miss Florence W. Lowell of Auburn,
formerly assistant in the high school,
has been the guest of Mrs. Walter l..
Gray for the past week. "Wednesday
afternoon they gave a four O'Clock tea. ,
The dining room was prettily decorated
with evergreen. Mrs. Barnes and Mrs.
c. W. Bowker poured tea and chocolate
and served sherbet, which were dis
pensed to the guests by Misses Elsie :
Bolster and Ruby Clark. .
The field secretary of the United So {
ciety of Christian Endeavor, Rev. Clar-
ence E. Eberman of Pennsylvania, is to
spend a week in Maine in about G
month, and his first date is at South I
Paris, where he will speak on the after c
noon and evening of Jan. 2Sth. His !
other appointments are at Lewiston,
Waterville, Bangor and Portland, with
a single meeting each at Good Will
Farm and Yarmouth. Mr.. Eberman is {
said to be a magnetic speaker and of I
great power as an organizer. C
George A. Bolster of Albion, Mich, has i,
been here visiting his father, Capt. III. !
\. Bolster, his first visit to South Paris 4,
in seventeen years. Mr.. Bolster is a Z
successful commercial traveller, and this :
is the opinion, sincere in both tone and .
wording, if somewhat unconventional, /
expressed TO the Democrat by one of the In
older citizens of South Paris: "And I'll +,
bet YOU that the house he travels for
get correct returns from him every time,
for knew him as boy, and | could I
tell something about what was in him. |
A. W. Walker & Son began cutting ice
Wednesday, on the cove beyond the :
Park Street bridge, which is the only !
place on the river where good clean ice
is TO be had. They are supplying the
farmers there, and filling thir house in
Walkerville. The field is not large
enough to fill their house at the bridge, g.,
so they will let it freeze up again for that.
The ice taken out is sixteen to eighteen :
inches thick. With twenty or thirty
teams hauling, the ice field and the
roads in the vicinity have been lively
places the past few days.
During the year 1901 there were re- {
corded in the town clerks Office the |
births of 43 living children in the town '
of Paris. For the same year 30 mar !
riages were recorded as solemnized in :
town, besides . sOlemnized in other \
places, but recorded here because one or T
both of the parties resided here. There 5
were A. deaths. OF four of these the |
age is not recorded OF the other Al the S
average age is 40, there being % above |
that age and 10 below. There are in !
addition recorded the names of per-
sons who died elsewhere and were bur-
led here, but only two or three of these {
were residents of this town at the time
of death. |,
The officers of Mt Mica Lodge, |. o.
o. F., who are to serve for the coming
year, were installed Thursday evening
by A. Z. Shurtleff, ID. d. G. NJ. The
full list is as follows:
n G-Ellis Do5le.
v.G.-C l.. Buck.
T. Sec. III. Howard.
Rec Sec.-En J. Swan. II
Treas Horace L. Swan.
K s y. CT. T.. kimban.