Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-03-31

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,peudeD, 9 80 A. NJ, 44OP.M. Sunday only
o1 sSo,ns nm ,vestl-lO 90 A. NJ. s:ss p. NJ, s,4I
", DAILY. sundays includeD. Sunday only
g1s2 A. N.
CHURCHES.
y,-.t Congregational Church. Rev. W. E
Brooks, ID. D.. pastor. Preaching services, 10 A'
N AMI : 90 p. NJ; Sunday School IL NJ; Y.
: c. T. st6P.A.; Church prayer meeting on
rIssisy evening at 80 o'clock. All, not other
- con uected, are cordially invited.
Nethodist Church, Rev. A. W. Pottle, Pastor.
% Spnday, morning prayer meeting, 80 A.
- nresrhiny service 10 AS A. NJ, Sabbath School
~: Epworth League Meeting, 6l5 p. NJ;
evening prayer meeting P. NJ prayer meeting
rDe..lay evening; class meeting, Friday evening.
Bspiist Church, Rev. II. 5. pinkham, Pastor.
On Suniay, preaching service 10 AS A. NJ; Sab
Sstb school l2 NJ; PRAYER meeting 4 90 P. NJ;
pT4yer meeting Tuesiiav evening.
FTn,versalist Church, Rev. j. III. Little, Pastor.
p,ssrblng service every sunday at 80 P. NJ, In
New Hall Sunday school AT 8 30P.A.
STATED MEETINGS.
rtA M.-Paris Lodge, No. ~. Regular
meeting Tuesday evening on or before full moon
o. o. E-MOunt Mica Lodge, regular meet
,,,. Thursday evening Of each week.-Auror4
Encampment, first and third Monday evenings
% each month.
a. meets second and fourth Fridays Of each
month In Odd Fellows Hall.
GAR.-w. X. Eimbsll Post, No. las. meets
sr,, and third Saturday evenings of each
m K Simban Relief Corps meets first
AMI thlri saturday evenings of each month, In
Relief Corps Han.
meets second and fourth Saturday; during the
remainder Q: the year, meets every Saturday, In
grange Hall.
Is. q. P.-Stony Brook Lodge, No. Isl,
meets second and fourth Wednesday evenings
o. each month.
OF P.-Hamlin Lodge, No, 81, meets every
Frfav evening at Pythian Hall.
Modern WOOdmen Of America.-South Paris
Camp. No 1886, meets second ami fourth Tues
,isv evenings In Golden Cross Hall.
Fyuer'n soon feel lazy
Where cOOlin' breeZes stray;
Ruther be daisy
Than a tOiler by the way
Bees, In tangles may
They kin hum all day;
Rulher be a daisy
Than a toiler by the way!
Atlanta Constitution.
Assembly in New Hall, Tuesday even
ing Of this week.
The iir>t sugar snow" of the season
saturday, and not much of it at that.
Paris Grange will give an apron sale |
and supper at Grange Hall on Wednes-
day, April ed.
Mrs.. J. D. Haynes entertained party |
Of Young lady friends at her home last
Friday evening.
The Rebekahs have in preparation a
drama. The Cheerful Liar, which they |
will soon present.
A delegation of the Modern Woodmen |
visited the camp at Oxford Friday night, |
and returned in the early morning.
The trustees of the Riverside Cemetery |
Association have engaged p. E. Wheeler
as care,aker of the cemetery for the 1
present wear.
Farmers institute at Grange Hall,
Tuesday Of this week. Sessions at 1880
A. NJ. and 80 p. VI. Subjects TO be dis
euSSed. Dairying, Orcharding, Potato
Culture, Small Fruits.
An error in type-setting in the last
Democrat left George Clifford ten cords
Of wood short of full justice. 1t is fifty
five cords Of wood, not forty-five, that
he has sawed during the past winter.
This is forward season in some
respects. 70 be sure, and the arbutuS IS
not the first spring flower to report.
Jailer Tucker picked full-blOwn dan
dehon on the court house grounds Tues
day, March 24th.
Blanchard Stuart is canvassing the
two town 10 secure members of club
Of the BookloverS' Library. If he is
= 10. ra1l
number, these places will be established
as distributing stations for the library.
He is doing well so far.
The next supper of the Good Cheer
Society will be in charge of the men OF
the society, on the evening of April 18th.
The men are going to strike out of the
rutS a little and have a maple syrup sup
per, for which they have already engag-
ed several gallons of syrup.
Charles ". Bowker is quite i'll with
typhoid fever under the care of ply
sicianS and trained nurses. Mrs.
Bowker's parents, John +. Stanley and
wife Of Auburn, are with them, and Mr..
Bowker's brother, d. F. Bowker, and
wife, of Portland, were there Sunday.
AlutIL ~. L HAS IctClHCu an
usual if not an entirely attractive gift
from Senior Juan Escarra, OF Sancti
SpirituS, Cuba, who was here for quite
while with Mr.. Park studying English.
1t is the tanned skin of maja, a large |
snake. The skin as tanned is fairly |
heavy, firm appearing piece of leather:
With the head and portion of the tail
removed, it is over nine feet long, and is
thirteen inches wide at the largest part
Of the body,
Not less than fifty members of Mt.
Pleasant Rebekah Lodge accepted the
invitation of Mt. Hope Lodge of Norway |
to visit them Thursday evening, and
filled two cars going and coming. About
the same number of visitors were also |
present from West Paris, and the mem |
berS of Mt. Hope Lodge had good big
contract on their hands. A good enter
tainment was given in Odd Fellows
Hall, and firSt-class supper was served |
in Masonic Hall above.
The premium list of the Oxford
County Agricultural Society has been
issued for the fair to be held Sept 10,
10 and II. A somewhat hasty review OF |
~ ulcNlOScs q rev CuduScS iiOin PhO'io"'
years Provision is made for exhibition
Of premium stock on the track at A. NJ.
of the last day of the fair-something |
that has never before been done. Purses |
of 800 are offered for trotting in 2:oO, |
240 and 2:35 classes; $3.50 in $50 class;
$500 in 2:27, 2:23 and 2:20 classes; and
$3.50 in free-for-all. All races are open
to all horses wherever owned. The
grange exhibit purse is placed at 500
with four or more oranges competing,
$3.50 with three oranges competing, TO DE
divided by superintendent of hall.
The selectmen have purchased OF Mrs.
s. f. Briggs the lot accepted by the town
for the new high school building on
Pine Street. The price paid was 500,
the price asked being $3.50, or $500 per
foot for the frontage of 800 feet on Pine
Street. While it is felt that this is
pretty good price for the lot, 1t was
thought better to pay little more than
to have the possible delay, expense and
trouble of condemnation proceedings.
The building committee chosen at the
town meeting, consisting of the school,
committee, Judge Wilson and \. ID.
ROlster have eupaped A. w, Walker x