Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-12-20
Christmas in all the store windows.

II 10y 80 Fs As
Frank b. Nichols of the Bath Time
was in town Monday.
The Seneca Club will meet this Mon
day evening with Mrs. Writ Stanley.
Miss Louise Davis of Nova Scotia i
the guest of her brother, T. M. Davis
for time.
Mrs. ii. A. Hilton is visiting in Port
land, and will remain there through tn,
Christmas season.
| Christmas will be observed by tn,
Baptist Sunday School with exercises b,
the children, and trees, in the vestry
Saturday evening.
Rev. Howard A. Clifford has been en-
gagged to give his lecture "a Ramble in
Europe" in the course at Oxford Wed.
nesday evening, Dec. %.
That half-inch of snow which we 90,
Sunday was merely rehabilitation. The
roads are so smooth that three inches OF
damp snow would make the best OF
sleighing, and yet we are on wheels.
Christmas sermon in the Universalist
church next Sunday at the usual hour of
service. Subject at the evening meet
ing, 1.-The Happiness that comes from
giving" Acts 20: 2S-SS. Leader, Mr.. A.
E. Shurtleff.
The Epworth League will meet at the
Methodist parsonage on Wednesday
evening. Each member is requested to
bring some recent item of progress in
science, and any facts or pictures of
Bethlehem.
A Christmas festival will be held by
the Congregational Sunday School Sat.
urday evening. The programme will
consist of the cantata, "The Charmed
Garden" and a Christmas tree. Exer-
cises begin at 1870.
The next Good Cheer supper will be
Tuesday evening, Jan. Sd. Will the AS,
BIS, C's, DIS, Els, and F's meet the chair
man at the circle Wednesday aft rnOOn,
Dec. 2lst, to decide about it. P,.ase do
not fail to be present.
The Methodist church will celebrate
Christmas on Saturday. The children
are TO meet at 10 A. NJ. for a ride. All
members of the congregation and Sunday
School are invited TO dine together at
II NJ, after which the Christmas tree
will be an object of joyous attention.
Sunday evening the people lighted the
Methodist church with lamps and will
appreciate the return of electric lights.
A very enjoyable missionary program
was rendered by the children, who gave
evidence of excellent drill by Mrs. II. A.
Clifford. There was generous offering
for missions.
All the pupils of the high school will
be pleased to learn that the principal. E.
+. Clason, wrote to Rev. Howard Cliff
lord that he had great luck in hunting.
On Monday last Mr.. ClaSon shot two
bucks each weighing nearly 200 pounds. |
It is we'll known that the talented princi- |
pal is pretty sure to get some game |
when he goes to the woods.
At the UniyersaliSt church there will |
De supper for the Sunday School next !
at o'clock in Good Cheer |
Hall, and Christmas exercises and tree
It 7:30. The committee having charge
If the trees would like TO have the Christ !
mas gifts that are to be placed on the !
rec brought in as early in the afternoon :
is possible, that there may be ample |
line to arrange the trees.
About the quickest time for his COM !
element of deer, during the hunting
season just closed, was made by Herman
Record One day just before dark he !
went up to the house of his father, j. II.
Record, near which he lives, after milk.
While he was in the house his mother
ooked out of the window and remarked,
There's deer in the orchard" He
oOked out and saw two, a buck and
loe Seizing rifle he went out and !
dropped them both almost in their
racks, only few feet apart and within /
thirty rods of the house.
Mrs. Catharine NJ. (Bemis) Woodbury.
lied Wednesday evening, aged So years. !
Mrs. Woodbury. was the daughter of !
David Bemis and the widow of Charles
She was always very |
active woman. Something like sixty /
;ears ago, when cloth mill was started
where Shurtleff'S grain mill now is, she |
aught the weavers who were employed,
having herself learned the trade in Low ,
III, Mass, and it is probable that she is
he last survivor of the laborers in that !
MILL She leaves two children, David b. !
Woodbury. and Mrs. Frank A. Farrar, |
both of Paris.
The new boilers at the power station !
It Steep Falls were connected Sunday. !
The work of moving the smoketack and |
making the connections took up all of
he day and part of Monday, the power |
being put on between and Monday |
morning. Meatime the lights were OF |
md the car was not running. Even the
xorkmen and clerks who travel regular
v two or four trips day, had to go on |
DOT Monday morning. Kerosene lamps !
.ook the place of electricity for the Sun !
lay evening meetings. We now have
hopes of better lights than We had for |
he past two years.
Order of service at the Baptist church,
Dec. %, 1904:
volurta Gloria, Mozart.
DoNolCgy.
Responsive Reading.
Anthem. at is the Blessed Christmas Morn"
Bartlett |
Scripture.
Pray CIR.
Listen to the Angels Song"
Mr.. Cutting. Mrs. Andrews
DIE, tory. Dienel
Anthem, "Hark, Hark, with Harps Of Gold"
Hanscom.
Sermon.
Hymn.
POstude Barnard.
Choir-Miss Sue Wheeler. soprano; Mr. Geo.
Cutting tenor; Mrs. Nellie Andrews, alto;
Mr.. Albert Dean, bass; Mrs. Agnes Fen
fold, o'ganist.
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