Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-03-22
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Oscar 4. Bowker has been up Iron
Portland for few days on vacation.
A whole week without a zero morn
ing-and the first such week sine
November.
Communion service at the Methods
church next Sabbath, and also baptism
and reception of members.
There will be social dance at New
Hall Tuesday evening, March 22d
Music by Stearns' Orchestra.
Mrs. l.. NJ. Lunt and Miss Grace Ben
nett went to Boston Monday, Mrs. Lun
after new goods and Miss Bennett for
visit.
There will be a rehearsal of Mt. Pleas
ant Rebekah Degree team "Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30. Let all try and be
present.
c. W. Bowker and family are spending
a week with Mrs. Bowker's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley, at the Auburn
fish hatchery.
The interior of the store of +. A.
Shurtleff X Co. is receiving lots of new
paint and varnish at the hands of the
Stuart brothers.
Fred S. Pierce, who has been with his
parents, Rev. and Mrs. +. W. Pierce,
since Thanksgiving, returned to East
Orleans, Mass, Friday.
The Paris High School will reopen on
Monday, March IS. 1t is expected that
the repairs to the water system will have
been completed by that time.
Rev. G.. W. Hinckley of Good win
Farm will preach at the Baptist church
next Sunday. A collection for foreign
will be taken after the sermon.
Advertised letters in South Paris post
office, March 81, 1904;
Mrs. Gertrude Judd.
Mrs. Alice BOyce.
S F. DAVIS, Postmaster.
o. w. ROYAL and wife were called TO
Mass, about ten days since.
by the dangerous illness of their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Arthur b. JoSlin. At last ac-
counts she was improving.
Mrs. T. 5. Barnes and Helen are in
Portland for a week. They went Friday
night, and Saturday night Mr.. and Mrs.
Barnes attended the banquet at Riverton
given by the II. 5. Melcher Co. to their
employees.
The dancing school for young folks
will be held at Engine House Hall, Sat
lrday afternoon, March Goth, from to
| O'Clock. Six lessons seventy-tive cents
per couple; fifteen cents per couple tor
me lesson; forty cents for six single
eSSohS.
The noted hunter, trapper and guide
If Pooduck, Uncle John Martin, got a
OK last week in one of his traps which
ne had set in a chaff bed. Another fox
,arried off a second trap, and a snowfall
covered the tracks so that he has not
ret found him.
Mrs. E. A. Howe returned Saturday
rom her New York and Boston trip
With fine line of millinery and fancy
FOODS. Miss Lillian Waldron, who
5 employed by Mrs. Howe, spent few
laws in Boston with Mrs. Howe last
week, returning Friday. Master Henry
'eturned from his Waltham trip with his
mother.
The Republican County Committee
lad meeting at the court house Tues
Law, at which five of the seven members
we're present. Ii was decided to hold
he county convention at the court
house on Friday, July LIST, at 10 A. NJ.
The call will not be issued until few
weeks later. A. +. Stearns of Rumford
Falls was selected to act as temporary
chairman.
The crew thawing the Pine Street main
have had an Industrious week of it.
Their boiler was set in Market Square
until Thursday night, when they moved
L i'm front of Charles PrescOtt's house
On Pine Street. About fifty feet still
remains to be opened back toward
Market Square, and it is estimated about
$50 feet in the other direction. 1t is
very hard digging wherever the ground
has been opened, and the frost runs be-
low the main. In one place 1-2 feet of
frost was measured.
Mrs. Thomas +. StearnS of Cambridge,
Mass, formerly resident of Paris and
a frequent visitor here, died at her home
in Cambridge last Tuesday night. Death
came very suddenly, Mrs. Stearns retir-
ing in apparent good health and expir-
inc shortly afterward. The remains
were brought here and the funeral was
held at II A. NJ. Saturday at the Uni
versalist church, attended by Rev. j. II.
Little. Interment will be at Hillside
Cemetery, Paris Hill. Mrs. Stearns was
a daughter of Hon. Noah Prince of Buck
field, and was y years of age at the
time of her death. Her first husband
was Alexander Hamilton Thayer of
Paris. and they had one son, Charles ii.
Thaver, now of South Paris. She mar
ried Mr.. Stearns in 1873, and they have
lived most of the time since in Cam
bridge. Mrs Stearns was police matron
there for many years and up to the time
of her death.
Percy NJ. Walker, who has been in
charge of the numbering operations OF
A. w. Walker Il Son in Sumner this
winter, was injured there Tuesday morn
ing. While he was Shoveling out pile
of logs, one of them rolled on to him,
catching one leg above the ankle. As
they are several miles from any physi-
clan. il was some time before one could
be cot there, and meantime the leg had
swelled so much that it was impossible
70 tell whether the bones were damaged.
1t was necessary to reduce the swelling
before the condition of things could be
ascertained certainly, and it was not un-
til Thursday afternoon that it was found
that one bone of the leg was broken.
His father, A. w. Walker, being notified
by telephone, went to the camp Friday,
accompanied by DIR. Bradbury, with the
intention of bringing him home, but
they found the leg had been set, and ii
was thought advisable not TO move him
for a few days. He suffered severely
from it at first, but is more comfortable
now.
For the Legislative Nomination.