Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-09-09

Ao NaSeOih ioicPuouc SoHlpduy al
stringing wires from South Paris t
Hebron Academy.
Misses Hattie Burnell and Carrie Hal
were at Old Orchard with A. d. Par
and wife over Sunday.
Charles |. Parker and wife of Dorches
ter, Mass, are visiting Mrs. Parker
; father, A. f. Burrows.
| II. E. Chase of Lynn, Mass, formerl
OF this place, made short visit to hi
old home over Labor Day.
II. II. Stuart and wife of Mechani
Falls were with the family of his father
j. II. Stuart, over Sunday.
Rev. j. IL. Little and family have re
turned from Harpswell, where the.
spent the month of August.
Mrs. VIM. p. Morton is visited by he
sister, Mrs. Vandervort, and three
children, of MOntrose, \. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. d. Park returned
Sunday night from Old Orchard where
they have spent the month of August.
Mrs. f. A. Howe and milliner, Mis-:
De Motto, are in Boston this week attend
ing the openings and will return will
| the latest styles in fall and winter MILL
merry.
Advertised letters in South Paris post
office, Sept. s, 1902:
Mrs. Mary Weber.
Miss Lillian Rogers.
Mrs. Rose LovejOy.
o. III. Toothaker, former principal
of Paris Hill Academy, was in town
Monday morning. Mr.. Toothaker is
now editor and proprietor of the Berlin
IN. H. Reporter.
the Rumford Falls and Grand Trunk
roads, to Rumford Falls, Bemis, and
Oquossoc, Wednesday of this week.
Particulars are given on posters.
Mrs. Warren SWEET, who has been
spending the summer with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Nichols, accom-
panied by her son Gilbert, returned
Monday to her home in Dorchester.
Miss Ollie Stuart started Monday
morning for Boston to spend week at
tending the millinery openings and look
ing for styles and will return with a
choice line of fall and winter millinery.
At the state fair last week, w. j..
Wheeler's horse Chubb won third money
in the 2:40 class, getting a record OF
> :23 -, and his roam mare Lady St.
Croix won first money in the gentlemen's
driving class.
AS the Democrat goes to press Mon
day noon the voting is progressing quietly
and at rather moderate speed. The
weather is all that can be desired. Full
report of the result will be given in next
week Democrat.
Mrs. John W. Carsley and two daugh-
tiers of Pennington made ''short stop"
here on Monday on their way to West
Paris for visit to Mrs. C.'s mother for
a few days. Mrs. CarSley will be re-
membered by large circle of friends in
this place.
Horace Knight. a well-known citizen
of Paris, died at his home in the south
part of the town Sunday, after long
illness, at the age of Ga years. The
funeral will be ut p, NJ. Tuesday, and
relatives and friends are requested to at
tend without further notification.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will hold their first meeting for
the season with Mrs. James r. Tucker,
next Thursday afternoon. Delegates to
the state convention at Waterville, Sept.
16-lS, are to be chosen. A good at
tendance and a pleasant time is antici-
pated,
While discussing the present cold sea
son with friend formerly of Piscataquis
County, we were reminded that one sea
son in the twentieS il was SO cold that no
corn came to maturity in that section
and that il was great calamity to the
people who SO largely depended upon
that product for living in those days.
One South Paris woman, when the
lights went off last Monday night, took
lantern and went across the street TO
make a call, putting on an ancient bonnet
and a Paisley shawl such rs was the pride
of former generation. She said if we
were going back 10 old times, she
thought she might as well be in style all
round.
Miss IsadOre Newhall of Waterville,
who with her sister has been at South
Paris visiting for two or three weeks,
sustained paralytic shock Wednesday
at Ansel Swift'S. She continues with
out material change, but her recovery is
expected. She will be taken to her
home as soon as possible, but is not yet
able to be moved.
The corn factory will start up Thurs
day morning, Sept. II. This is con-
siderably later than usual, and it is I'M
necessary to say that the corn will come
in pretty slowly for a while. 1t is GER
tainly to be hoped that we shall have
no more frost till the corn can all be got
in. The crop will be small enough if
all that is left of it is cut.
The Lady Minstrel show which
comes To Norway this week hung up a
number of pretty cloud" colOred posters
in the post office, and some of the gayest
of them disappeared over night. Whether
they were carried off by some youth TO
ahorn the walls of some stable or other
apartment, or were unOtficially removed
in the interest of public morality, this
paper does not know.
Mrs. Stowe wishes to say through the
Democrat that she feels herself one OF
the most highly favored of the shut-ins
if flowers brought in by kind neighbors
and friends are an indication. Such
lovely single flowers and bouquets of
rare beauty and profusion as she is re-
ceiving almost daily are delight and
inspiration To her In these she recog
nizes the love of friends and handiwork
of God.
| Mrs. Ida j. Dearborn, Deputy Grand
Commander of the U. 0. G.. c., who
visited our town one year ago in the in
terest of the order, is again in town and
will be at the commandery meeting this
Monday evening. and every member
is earnestly desired to be present to meet
her. Since leaving here Lady Dearborn
has been all over the state in the interest
of the order, and has met with marked
success wherever she has worked. This
year she hopes TO make the banner year
in her work The order was never more
prosperous then at the present time, the
increase in membership being far in ad
vance OF previous years.
Friday nights frost was a hard one OF
the farmers, though it might have beer
worse. Probably the hardest hit of an,
in this vicinity are o. G. Curtis and c
r. Penley, whose farms on High Stree
are particularly subject to frost. Thei,
sweet corn is reported practically ruined
In some other places the damage is no
SO great as was at first feared. Espe