Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-06-16


phia is guest at Wallace Ryerson's.
George Hargrave and wife of Portland
were with relatives here over Sunday.
% E. L. Durham left Saturday to Join q
party at Bemis for few days. fishing.
Mrs. Elizabeth Edgerley of Portland
visited her relatives here few days last
week.
8 Mrs. c. A. Record and SON Miles of
!, Assinippi, Mass, are visiting the family
of her father, Geo. B. Crockett.
. Ralph Penfold took the place of George
A. Briggs in the Partisan Male Quartette
at the Congregational church Sunday.
Miss Florence W. Lowell of Auburn. a
. former assistant in the high school here,
a has been the guest of Mrs. Walter l..
Gray.
: The Odd Fellows are requested to
meet at their hall at 80 Tuesday after
!; noon, to attend the funeral of Brother
Henry Fobes.
: The Berlin Sunday excursions on the
Grand Trunk were started on the l4th,
and will continue from now until the
end of October.
The theme of the Methodist pulpit
next Sabbath will be THE Relation of
children to the Church, and the Ground
and Obligation of Infant Baptism"
| Advertised letters in South Paris post
Office, June Is, 1908:
Miss Sadie Hyman.
S. F. DAVIS, Postmaster.
Mrs. Parks Sunday School class are
requested to meet with her Wednesday
afternoon at 3 o'clock, to transact a
little business and enjoy little social
time.
| The Lewiston District Epworth League
Convention is invited to hold its annual
meeting with the Methodist church in
South Paris Wednesday and Thursday,
July SO.
Rev. A. W. Pottle and wife were in at
tendance at the commencement exercises
of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and |
Woman's College at Kent's Hill return |
ing home Thursday afternoon.
The Ladies' Circle of the Methodist
church will give supper at the vestry |
of the church Wednesday evening, it |
being the occasion of the opening |
and dedication of the new kitchen and |
church parlor. All are invited to be
present and to inspect the new additions
and improvements.
The state assessors will be in Oxford
County to meet the assessors of the
several towns in the discharge of their
duty next week, and will hold meetings
at the Oxford, Fryeburg, Tuesday, June
23, the court house, South Paris, We'd
nesday, June "a, and the assessors
office, Rumford Falls, Friday, June 20.
The meeting of the Universalst parish
on Tuesday evening of this week will be
held in Engine House Hall instead of at
the church as announced on Sunday,
as there are no arrangements for light
ing the church. The meeting is at 7:30
to see what action the parish will take
toward raising funds to complete the
whole building, and provide for the
same.
The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs OBJ
served their annual memorial day on
Sunday, going to Riverside Cemetery at
1 80 p. NJ. and decorating the graves of
members buried there. An excellent
address was given at the cemetery by
Rev. III. S. Pinkham. The music for
the occasion was by a male quartette
consisting of MessrS. Blanch Stuart, j.
w. Chute, Albert Dean and l.. w. Hollis.
The summer train schedule on the
Grand Trunk went into effect Sunday
morning. The early and late trains
show the principal changes, the early
train now going down at Ash A. NJ, and
the late train arriving at 1915 P. NJ,
about as in previous summers, The
afternoon train down is twenty minutes
earlier, leaving now at ago. Other
trains run rs under the winter arrange
ment. II
Misses Lucelia E. Crockett and Susie
E. Porter of this place were members
of the class which graduated from Farm
ington Normal School last week, and
number of the relatives of both went to
Pennington TO attend the graduation.
Both Miss Crockett and Miss Porter
were chosen by their classmates for class
parts, Miss Crockett having the essay
and Miss Porter the valedictOry, and
both are among those selected as teach
ers in the model SCHOOL, for the coming
year. is
A party of Oxford County people who
are shareholders in the four-masted ]
schooner, John p. Biemiller, Capt.
Charles Adams, by special invita-
ton, attended the launching of the ship i
at Bath last Saturday afternoon. The
party interested, most of whom attended
the launching:
DIR. f. H. Packard and wife.
III. II. Cushman and wife.
$. l.. Russ and wife.
i. w. Andrews and wife.
q. W. q. Perham and wife. IL
+. X. Andrews and wife.
G. L. Cushman and wife.
A. NJ. Andrews and wife.
A. 4. Herrick, and others.
Everybody knew it would rain some
time, and it did. For the first few days
of last week we had a succession of dull |
DAYS and sprinkles of rain, which laid
the dust, checked the ravages of the
drought and prepared the surface OF the {
ground to receive more water. Then on
Friday the drought broke, the flood
gates were opened, and in twenty-four
hours we had more rain than had fallen
in two months. 1t was the most beauti- =
1ul QdN We UdNt III WOOho, "hN ~"e" l..
ed everybo to rejoice. 1t is unneces-
sary to enumerats the long list of bene-
fits which will result, for every one
realizes them. 1t has been record
breaker for a spring drought, at least
within the memory of the proverbial
oldest inhabitant.
After an illness of some two weeks,
Henry Fobes died Sunday morning, at
the age of ~ years. He was the son OF
Capt. Billings Fobes, and lifelong resi-
dent of the town, having resided until
within few years on the old homestead
farm on the Stony Brook road. Mr..
Fobes was a man highly esteemed by
every one, an earnest member OF the
Congregational church and one of its
deacons since 1888. Three daughters
survive him, Mrs. A. W. Pratt of East
Orange, n. j., Mrs. Walter Fl. SWEET of
this town, with whom he had made his
home since the death of his wife some
wears since, and Miss Eunice w. FObes.
The funeral will be held at 2 P. NJ. Tues
day in the Congregational church.
PRAYERS at the house at Pm.
The change of the afternoon train
going east twenty minutes earlier max es
it necessary that the forms of the Demo-
crat shall be closed little more prompt