Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-12

guest of her daughter, Mrs. j. d.
Haynes.
Wendell Rounds and his chum, Mr..
Briggs, of Caribou, were up from Bates
College over Sunday.
DR.. C. L. Buck and daughter Myrtle
spent Saturday and Sunday with his
parents at SHOWS Falls.
Mrs. Pratt of Portland and Mrs. Gray
of Boston, sisters of Mrs. Fred Hall, are
making her little visit.
A. D. Park and wife have gone to
Rumford Falls where Mr. Park attends
Probate Court Tuesday.
Mrs. George Berry and daughters, who
have been visiting relatives in Massa-
chusetts, returned home last week.
Paris Lodge, F. and A NJ, will have
a special meeting Tuesday evening, to
confer the F. c. degree on three candi-
dates.
F. A. Pingree and wife have moved
from the Bryant house on Park Street to
the Ethan Willis house on Church
Street.
Rev. Francis Grovenor visited his sis
ter, Mrs. Capt. Pratt, the past week. He
is supplying the Methodist pulpit at
North Yarmouth.
Miss Carrie Hubbard, who has been
here with her sister, Mrs. Geo. Eastman.
through the winter, returned Saturday
To her home in Lowell.
Miss Bertha Andrews is in Portland
for treatment for bad trouble of the
eyes, which has kept her out of school
for the past week or more.
Sunday, May "a, the G. A. r. and Re
lief Corps attend service at New Hall, at
2:3O p. NJ. The memorial sermon will be
delivered by Rev. j. II. Little.
Good Cheer meeting Wednesday after
noon at p. NJ. Several matters of inn
portance will come before the meeting
and full attendance is desired.
Advertised letters in South Paris post
office May 10:
Miss Grace Turner.
Miss Elizabeth NJ. Ryerson.
Mrs. Ella Libby.
Rev. Judson w. Shaw of Portland |
field secretary of the Young Citizens |
Loyal League, preached a most accept. |
able sermon at the Methodist church |
Sabbath morning.
Opera in the air. Cast of over forty |
voices. Best local talent in South Paris |
and Norway. Go and help buy an organ
for the new church. Lovely music.
Beautiful costumes.
Mt. Pleasant Rebekah Lodge voted at
its last meeting 10 extend an invitation
to the lodges of West Paris, Buckfield
and Canton To visit them on their second
meeting in June, which will be June 26.
The W. C. T. U. will hold their
meeting Thursday afternoon
of this week at > p. NJ, with Mrs. Albert
Dean. 1t is their annual meeting for
the election of officers and full at
tendance is desired.
Spanish girls in handsome costume,
Spanish students, Spanish soldiers,
canoe boys and girls, sailors
fishermen. Come and enjoy good
laugh. You will see all of these in the
opera, Princess Bonnie.
The members of the Bach Club, who
are on Miss Lottie Giles side, are re-
quested to meet at the home of Mrs.
Cora Briggs, Thursday afternoon, at
four o'clock, to make plans for the final
meeting, when they are to entertain the
other side.
William J. Wheeler sold three pianos
last week including nice one TO one OF
our popular business men, Mr.. William
o. Rockingham. Mr.. Wheeler's piano
and organ business is large and impor-
tant branch of the various enterprises in
which he is engaged.
Mr.. George A. Briggs and family ex-
pect to start for Minnesota, June 9th.
They will be away about three months.
Mrs. Briggs is to study musical kinder
garten methods, while in the West, and
will be ready in September to form
classes for the little folks.
We are obliged To admit the fact that
the man who set a hen on boiled eggs
and the man who declared that he had
"a nice heifer calf until Informed by a
neighbor that it was of the other gender.
both reside in the historic town of Paris,
Maine. where two tlouriShing Oranges
are labOring to educate the farmer.
Work on the new Universalist church
is progressing quite rapidly. The
shingling is well along, and another
,lay or two will see the roof of the build
inc completed. 1t has been remark
ably favorable time for outside work,
almost no rain having fallen since the
building was started portion OF the
lathing has also been done.
Mt. Pleasant Rebekah Lodge thank
one and all who took part and assisted
i'm the music for their entertainment last
Thursday evening, and invite them, with
their wives and sweethearts, to join the
Rebekahs in a social time after lodge,
Nav 22d. Meet at odd Fellows Hall at
; 80 p. NJ, May I'D. If you receive no
other invitation please consider this one
The Oxford Blacksmiths' Association
held its annual meeting here Saturday, IN
Engine House Hall, with good at
tendance. some over thirty being pres
ent. Although the speaker who was eX-
pected disappointed them, very pleas
ant and profitable day was spent. Dim
ner was served in Grand Army Hall by
the Good Cheer Society, and they all
saw il was first-class. Following are the
officers of the association chosen:
President-H z. Perkins, South Paris.
cePresident-F. II. Hurd, Norway.
Secretary-A. +. Cloutier, Buckheld
Treasurer-pavid tmmOns, West Paris.
Door Guard-E. II. Marshall, South Paris.
Mrs. Elvira Barrows, who lives with
Mrs. C. +. Morse, had her S7th birthday
Friday, and Mrs. Morse observed the
occasion and surprised Mrs. Barrows by
inviting in three of her friends for the
afternoon. The guests were Mrs. Merln-
da Cummings, not quite IS, Mrs. LYDIA
Stuart, So, and Mrs. VIM. c. Libby, ~.
1t was a very lively party, and showed
that the old friends had lost none OF |
their conversational powers with advanc'
ING years. The social intercourse was
varied with some songs by Mrs. Cum
mings. Tea was served early, and the
guests went home about O'Clock, de-
claring that it was one of the pleasantest
occasions they had ever enjoyed.
A Violin School.
A school for violin playing, in all
grades and branches, from the youngest
beginner to the finished soloist or bust
ness PLAYER, is dream of musical
culture about to be realized in the estab-
lishment of just such a school in South
Paris and Norway There is, without
donht hidden talent in the community