Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-05-20
Be sure and see Dick Deadeye.

L Dc sure Anu see OlCk DcoQcyo.
Miss Stockbridge, who is staging
Pinafore, is stopping at the Andrew
House.
Advertised letter in South Paris post
office May 10:
Master Willie Clifford.
Rev. B. F. Turner, pastor of the Bap.
fist church at Buckfield, with Mrs.
Turner, was at South Paris last week.
DR.. j. w. Davis of Mars Hill, formerly
of this place, and DR.. Golf of Rome,
n. Y, made short visit here last week.
Rev. VIM. Z. Gaskin of Mechanic Falls
will preach for the Universalist society
here next Sunday, at 2:S0 p. NJ, in the
hall.
Have you ever heard Pinafore? No,
never; What, never? Then be sure and
go Thursday and Friday nights, May y
and %.
b. +. Hicks and Myron W. Maxim
made trip to Gilead last week to try
the brook trout. They report an e1-
cellent catch.
All the schools were closed Friday,
and the teachers attended the meeting
of the Oxford County Teachers Asso-
citation at Bethel.
The Prohibition caucus for Paris will
be held at the residence of Benjamin
SWEET on Western Avenue, next Satur-
day evening, May "a, at $50 O'Clock.
There will be supper and entertain
ment at the Methodist vestry Wednes-
day evening under the patronage of the
Junior League, Mrs. Pottle, president.
The Oxford Club hold their monthly
meeting to-day with Rev. b. +. Pickett,
Norway. Rev. A. w. Pottle, President,
Rev. r. A. Rich, West Paris, Secretary.
A particularly valuable silver dollar
has been lost, and the owner will pay
reward enough for it to make honesty
literally the best policy. See advertise
ment.
The Baptist pulpit will be supplied
next Sunday by Evangelist Harry Tay-
Tor of Hallowell, and it is expected that
he will continue to supply through the
month of June.
The Ladies Circle of the Methodist
church hold their annual business meet
ing for the election of officers Tuesday
afternoon, at 5 o'clock, at Mrs. Clara
Stuart's, Western Avenue.
Mai. Holman F. Day of Auburn read
some of his best selections at the Bap-
fist church Friday evening. The
Schubert Quartette assisted in the enter
tainment. There was a good audience.
The marriage of Miss Ida May Brooks,
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. W. Z. Brooks,
to Mr.. Elmer Ellsworth Rouse, is an
nounced. They will be at home at 34I
Pipestone Street, Benton Harbor, Mich.
Miss I.uella Hayden, of Haverhill, |
Mass, formerly of South Paris, men,
Der of the graduating class of Farming |
ton Normal School, has been offered a
position to teach the intermediate grade
in the model department at Pennington,
the ensuing year.
During the forenoon ball game at the
fair grounds Saturday, some of the
spectators discovered fire near the
lower end of the cattle sheds. 1t was !
soon got under control, but burned two !
or three lengths of fence and damaged /
the sheds somewhat.
The sermon of Rev. c. c. Phelau of
Lewiston before Hamlin Lodge, h. p, !
afternoon, is generally conceded /
to be one of the most effective and elo-
quent ever given in town on similar oc-
in, hn
church, which was well filled.
Prentiss T. Crockett is hauling lumber
to use in rebuilding on his farm near the
Biscoe school house, where his buildings
were burned last fall. The new build
ings are not on the site of the old on the
upper road, but on the other side of the
farm, few rods back from High Street,
and a short distance north from L. K. /,
Penley's.
The supporters of Rev. C.. 5. Cum =
mings in Androscoggin County are put
ting up a vigorous fight to nominate
him for sheriff. The Cummings men
carried the Auburn caucus about two to .
one. but lost the Lewiston delegates. :
The Lewiston caucus was hot time, !
and the Cummings men claim it was
carried by Democrats. The result Will !
be protested. 1t seems to be square (.
contest between rigid enforcement and
liberal enforcement.
For several days fire has been running
in the wood lot of the Paris Manufacture
inc Co. in Albany. where their mill was
burned few weeks age. Several hun
oil hAAp hnrnRn
over. The pulp wood was cut off three
or four years ago, and the tops make
hot blaze. The company's direct loss is
not large, though their camps are
burned, but it will of course be nee
essary to cut off all the growth in the
burned area within year or so, in order
to save it.
Mrs. Lucinda (Bonneyl Richardson,
after an illness of some length, died at
her home in this village Friday night,
aged nearly 50 years. Mrs. Richardson
was born in Turner, Aug. 20, 1918, the
daughter of John and Lucinda (Bearce)
Bonney. She married stephen Richard
son. one of the best known of the citi-
Zens and business men of South Paris in
the last generation, who died some years
AGO. Mrs. Richardson leaves one son,
j. Percival Richardson of South Paris,
proprietor of the hardware business
which his father established. She is
also survived by one brother, j. E. Bon
new of Auburn. Mrs. Richardson was
Universalist in religious belief, and the
funeral at o'clock Monday afternoon is
attended by Rev. Miss Angel of the
Norway church.