Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-07-26
Mrs. w. w. Roberts of Portland Ia Wis
iting at N. G. Elders for week.

Mrs. w. w. Roberts of Portland ia Wis
iting at N. G. Elders for a week.
Fred N. Wright, who has been i'll will
fever for several weeks, is now gainin,
slowly.
Rev. Selden McCurdy of Moulmein
Burma, will occupy the pulpit at th'
Baptist church next Sunday.
Rev. E. A. Tuck, the Oxford Con
ference missionary, preached at tn,
Congregational church Sunday.
Refreshing showers. As it is the frs
rain of any amount we have had fol
three weeks, it is hailed with joy.
The Universalist Good Cheer Society
holds it's last meeting for the summer
Wednesday afternoon of this week.
Miss Towle, who has been in the Office
of W. j. Wheeler 4 Co. during Miss
Bakers vacation, returned to her home
in Dixtield Saturday.
Miss Maud Parkin of Lisbon Falls, a
graduate of Bates in the class of 1904,
is the guest of her classmate, Miss Alta
Walker, for a few days.
Miss Florence Richardson accompanied
her sister, Mrs. Peaslee, to her home in
Exeter, v. H., for visit, when Mrs.
Peaslee returned home last week.
Rev. J. II. Little, who with his family
is at his Harpswell cottage for the rest
of the summer, came up to attend his
services here and at the Hill Sunday.
The dry goods stores and milliners of
the two villages are to close their stores
Friday Moons until Sept. 1st. This
means Friday afternoon half-holiday.
The picnic of the Methodist Sunday
School will be at Penley's grove on We'd
nesday. The church bell will ring at s
A. NJ, as signal if the picnic can be
held. If stormy on Wednesday there
will be postponement to Thursday.
Miss Lucelia Crockett has returned
from visit to her sister in Assinippi,
Mass. She has engaged to teach school
for the coming year in Maynard, Mass,
the term opening early in September.
Advertised letters in South Paris post
office July 2Sd, 1904:
Augustus johnson.
Mrs. Mary 4. Daniels.
Mr.. W. +. Church.
ST. DAVIS, Postmaster.
The hay makers can't complain of
this spell of weather. Rarely is there a
year when we have as good n hay season
as from the 18th up to last Saturday. No
black hay has had to go into the barns
yet.
Rev. c. K. Tenney of Auburn will
preach at the Universalist church next
Sunday, on exchange with Rev. Mr..
Little. Sunday School aud Union meet
ing will be omitted. During the month
Of August the church will be closed.
In order to make some repairs on the
bulkhead at Shurtleff's dam, the water
was drawn off Friday night, and though
the gate was closed Saturday night the
pond is not yet full, so that Billings
mill and the toy factory are still shut
down.
Mount Mica Lodge, l. o. o. F., is to
celebrate its thirtieth anniversary Sat
urday, Aug. 9th, by picnic at Penley's
Grove, and it is said that the Odd Eel
lows have challenged the MasOns to a
game of ball as one of the features of
the day. 1t will be hot game.
A party including E. N. Haskell,
Misses Emma and Hattie Haskell, Mrs.
Y. G.. Elder, Miss Sweetsir, Miss Ruth
Tucker, Miss Carrie Hall and Miss Sue
Rounds, ate a shore dinner at New
Meadows Inn Saturday. The Haskells
and Miss Sweetsir remained with friends
in Auburn over Sunday.
A reception to Rev. w. f. Brooks, d.
d., and Mrs. Brooks, will be given at
the Congregational vestry Thursday
evening of this week. A general in
vitation is extended to members of the
church and congregation, and the pub
lie. Next Sunday DIR. Brooks will
preach the last sermon of five years
pastorate of this church.
Mrs. j. ii. Little of South Paris met
with painful accident at HarpSwell
Center, last week, by the pouring of
quart or more of boiling water over her
left hand. Although painful the hand
is doing well. Ii was hard beginning
of a vacation where one was seeking
rest and comfort. She has the sympathy
of host of friends.
A cottage prayer meeting, led by Rev.
Howard Clifford, was recently held in
the home Of an aged Christian, Mrs.
Merinda Cummings. BY request she
sang rs a solo an old hymn, The day
is past and gone" The song was much
enjoyed by the friends present. Another
meeting will be held Thursday evening
with Mr.. Benjamin Richardson.
Mrs. II. l.. Stetson of Kalamazoo,
Mich, will soon visit her brother, Rev.
Howard Clifford. Mrs. Stetson is a
writer of excellent articles in prose and
poetry. Her husband is a professor in
Kalamazoo College, and brother of w.
w. Stetson, State Superintendent OF
Schools. Rev. Mr.. Clifford and Mrs.
Stetson plan to attend the annual re-
union ut Monmouth Academy, August
10th.
This is on a busy South Paris house
wife. whose "men folks are away dur
ing the day, so that she gets her dinner
at night, and catches her midday lunch
at such times as is convenient, without
much reference to the clock. The other
day she got her work done up early in
the afternoon and thought she would
call on neighbor and take her some
flowers from the garden. So she put on
her glad rags and started out. As she
went through the Square she noticed
that it had peculiarly deserted appear
ance, but thought nothing of it until she
arrived at her destination, where again
she discovered that there was something
peculiar about the condition of affairs.
Finally she found that she had caught
the family at the dinner table. Without
expressing the modification which she
felt, she got out as soon as possible, and
when she got in sight of the town clock,
looked up, and the hands pointed to
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Paris Schools.
Ernest +. Clason, A. B., of Lisbon, is
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