Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-12-29
The 0xfnrd ge1mnrrat.
SOUTH PARIS.

Once Hours: 80 A. M. to Z 3oP.A.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Commencing Oct. 4, 1893,
TRAINS LEAVE SOUTH PARIS
Going down (east)-S 80 A. NJ, daily, sunday
iucIudet), 3 80 A. NJ, 4'iOP.M. Sunday only
Going mn tyesO-lOOO A. NJ. SIS p. NJ, 81
PM, daily, Sundays inclu6ed). Sunday only
g-22A.M.
First Congregational Church. Rev. w,
Brooks p D. pastor snnssR sshoo is
P.S. Z. Z. at p. M; Church prayer meeting o
Tnes,isy evening at 80 O'Clock. All, not Other
wise connected, are cordially invited. p...o,
Methodist Church. Rev. A. W. Pottle, Pastor
ON sunday, morning prayer meeting, SaS' A
NJ: preaching service l045 A. M; Saooatn sehoo
II NJ; Epworth League Meeting, 61o z: n.
syening PRAYER meeting p. NJ; prayer meetin
Tuesday evening; class meeting, FRIDAY evening
Eaptist Church, Rev. II. S. Pinkham, Pastor
On sunday, preaching service ~ a os a. esr
bath school II NJ; PRAYER meeting 'No r n
praver meeting Tuesday evening.
Irpiyersalist Church. Rev. j. III. Little, Pastof
Preaching service every Sunday nc $50 2.
sunday School at 8 80 ?. NJ. Evening ser'ce'
IN.
STATED MEETINGS.
A M.-Paris Lodge, No. -. Keeulal
meeting Tuesday evening on or before tuII moon
IO o. F.-Mount Mica Lodge, regular meet
ings Thursday evening of each week.-Aurori
Encsmpment, first and third Monday evenings
pf each month. - NJ
70 meets second and fourth Fridays OF eact
month in Odd Fellows Hail 80 ..
R-W. X. Kimban Post, NO. las, meets
frst and third Saturday evenings oil esei
Wm K Kim6an Relief Corps meets drs'
ami third saturday evenings of eseh month"; II
Relief Corps Hail. 4. ~,
y,ssts second and fourth Saturday; during tn'
remainder OF the year, meets every SATURDAY !"
.. s. &. C.-secoud and fourth Mondays OF
=, o.. P.-stony Brook Lodge, No. Isl,
meets second and fourth "Wednesday evening"
of each month. q, oo.s a,,or,
X P-Hamliu Lodge, No, 81, meets e'erH
Friday evening at Pythian Hall g, Dat
Modern WoOdmen OF America-South rarls
Camp- No 1885,, meets second AMI fourth tues
dav evenings In Golden Cross HAN; ,e,,
ROYAL Arcanum.-Parris Council, No. lo-i'
meets first ana third Monday evenings al ~
Eli J. Sw. has been at home for a
few days.
Miss Julia z. Morton is at home from
Arlington, Mass, for the holiday Saca-
ton.
Mrs. c. A. Bessey and daughter, Miss
Lenora Bessey, of Waterville, are spend
ipg a week with their relatives here.
Miss Maud Carter, who is teaching in
Braintree. Mass, arrived home Thursday
evening to spend the Christmas vaca-
ton.
Harry NJ Wheeler is at home from
Harvard for a vacation of ten days, ana
* assisting in Shurtleff's dnring the
holidays.
RN Hall and family and Minot l.;
Vbittle and family and Miss Mauu
Douglass were entertained at FREQ h@li
on Christmas day.
The l.. X. Cole meat market has been
sold 10 Mrs. George A. HusSey, ana VIII
be run in charge of Mr.. Hussey' MI;
Coles health is poor, and he Is out ol
business at present.
Mrs. l.. NJ. Lunt has been visited
through the Christmas season oy her
husband. Oscar Lunt, and her daughter,
from Pennington, and her brother,
Adelbert Y. Locke of the University oil
Maine law school.
Albert l.. Holmes, carrier on rural
mail route No. =, has certainly won tue
GOOD will of his patrons on his route, as
i evidenced by one of the pieces OF mat
ter which he found in one of the boxes
last week, and which was in the form Oh
a check for something over twenty-one
dollars.
A family reunion was held at the home
H.,..,- ~, Christmas uay.
The whole family, parents ana chliaIen'
were present, with the exception oil Mrs'
Archie Curtis and her youngest chiid;
The gifts were unlOaded from a Smali
tree. and the afternoon was spent III
merry-making.
At a meeting of Aurora Encampmeht'
10. O. F., held Dec. 2l, the following
officers were elected:
P.-Eugeue u. Dorr.
H. P-GeOrge u. Crockett
:. W.-Carl Mason
J W-SanfOrd NJ Brown.
Scribe-Ge2. W. Haskell.
Treasurer-A. r. Shurtlen.
A number of our most sedate citizens,
more or less on the shady side OF forty,
put in quite lot of time in real OLD
fashioned eoasting Christmas day, ana
one of them was heard TO remark en-
Enthusiastically that he hadn't been slid
ING before for twenty years, and that he
hadn't had so much fun in twenty years
either.
The Universalist Sunday School en-
loved a pleasant Christmas observance
at Good Cheer Hall on Christmas eve. A
supper was served at the usual supper
Il - axareiSaS nv the
children, terminating with the appear
apce of the modern St. Nicholas, who
was promptly elected and his place
taken by the old fashioned Santa ClauS.
After this scene well-tilled tree was
unloaded.
Mt. Pleasant Rebekah Lodge elected
the following officers at its regular meet
ing last Friday evening:
MEMS. Clara NJ. Howard.
V G.-Niss Carrie Wall.
R.S.-Miss Hattie NJ. Leach
r S-Mrs. Sophia Clark.
Treasurer-Mys Hattie Dean.
Trustees-Mrs. Hannah Wright, Miss Anna
Morse, Mrs. Hattie Bonney, +. T. himbau anu
Albert +. Dean.
The officers will be installed the first
meeting in January.
There will be something doing at the
court house this week. On Tuesday the
county commissioners and treasurer
will meet in annual session to close up
the years business, and on "Wednesday,
as announced elsewhere, the special
legislative committee on salaries and
fees will meet to investigate the salaries
paid Oxford County officials. 1t ought
to be easy for this committee to decide
that none of our officials draw grossly
excessive compensation.
A good word is due the Eastern Argus,
the prospectus of which appears else
where. Come TO think of it, though,
there are few good words that can be
said that haven't already been said by
the Democrat regarding the Argus. The
Argus is as well known TO all the people
of Maine as Dave Pratt is to old trav
elers on the Grand Trunk. Everybody
knows what it is, even to its polltics-o
which, by the way, little coneealment II
made. Age does not wither the Argus
A. w. Walker Il Son had to abandon
their ice field above the Park Stree
bridge, which they plowed the day be
fore the rain. The storm left 1t II
rather bad shape. Wednesday mornin:
they began taking out ice from anothe
field farther down the river, near Gal
Lodge. The roads were good for haul
-. and mr. a