Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-11-07
The Oxford 9e,mncrat,
SOUTH PARIS.

SOUTH PARIS.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Commencing October /. 1895.
TRAINS LEAVE SOUTH PARIS
Going down east)-53 80 A. NJ, daily; 8 sc A. N
daily except Sunday; ;SS p. NJ, daily.
Going up (we,t)-9:5 so A. NJ, dsily; 8 &c p. N
daily except sunday; SAT p. NJ. daily.
SOUTH PARIS POST OFFICE.
Office Hours: 80 A. N. to 80 Pm.
CHURCHES.
First Congregational Church, Rev. A. h. Bald
win. Pastor Preaching services, 10 As A. NJ an,
7OOPM.; sunday School IL NJ; \. Z. s. C.
atsOoP. NJ; Church prayer meeting on Tuesds.
evening at o O'Clock. All, not otherwise con
nec.ed, are cordially invited.
Methodist Church, Rev. III. A. Clifford. Pastor
on sunday. morning prayer meeting s;So 4; N,
p VI; tpwOrth League Meeting 6l5 p. ".
evening prayer meeting 90 Pm; prayer meet
ing Tuesday evening; class meeting, Frida.
Eaptist Church. Rev. j. Wallace Cheshire
Pastor. ON Sunday, preaching service 10 rs A
NJ; Ssbbsth School IL NJ; Y. Y. 5. e: E, . -
NJ, Prayer meeting P. M; Tuesday evening
PRAYER service at 30. Seats free. All arr
Tniyersalist Church, Rev. j. II. Little, Pastor
Preaching service every Sunday ut 10 45 A.
Sunday School at II n. Evening service,
Pm.
STATED MEETINGS.
3 Z A M.-Paris Lodge, No. "a. Regular
meeting Tuesday evening on or before full moon
/. o. D. T.-Mount Mica Lodge, regular meet
in-s. Thursday evening of each week.-Aurors
Encampment. first and third Monday evenings
OF each month.
80, meets second and fourth Fridays OF eacf
month In Odd Fellows Hall.
q. A. R-w. h. Kimbar Post. No. las, meets
first and third Saturday evenings of each
VIM X. Kim6aIl Relief Corps meets first
and third Saturday evenings OF each monin, ID
Relief Corps Hall.
P.ofH.-Paris Grange. from May to Oct. l.
meets first and third Saturday; during the
remainder OF the year, meets every Saturday, IN
Grange Hall.
L. o. G. C.-second and fourth Mondays Of
each month.
\. Z. o. P.-Stony Brook Lodge, No. Isl,
NE IS second and fourth Wednesday evenings
OF sch month.
Il. OF P.-Hamlin Lodge, No. 81, meets every
Pr cay evening a. Pythian Han.
IA. Heiduer of Springfield, Mass, is
in town.
Hon. and Mrs. James 5. Wright are
spending few days in Boston.
Mrs. Hiram n. Porter has returned
from visiting for some weeks in Boston.
Mrs. DIR. Packard and son of West
Paris have been visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. l.. B. Carter, for a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs DAME E. Dresser, who
were in the corn factory at West Minot
during the run, returned home last week
The Ryerson house is closed for the
winter. Mrs. Ryerson is TO spend the
winter in Norway and Mrs. Andrews in
Boston.
Miss Ethel c. Crockett, who had been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Record, in Abing-
ton, Mass, for six weeks, returned home
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Cutting are
keeping house in portion of the w. +.
Morton rent in Mrs. Lovejoy's house on
Pleasant Street.
Albert ID. Park is selling off a bank
rupt stock of millinery at low prices at
the Howe store. Open every afternoon
until the stock is disposed of.
All roads this week lead to the South
Paris Opera House where Samantha Al
len at the Court of Fame will be pre-
sented Tuesday and Wednesday even
ings.
Mrs. W. l.. Farrar and Mr.. and Mrs.
+. ii. Dorr, with relatives from Mexico,
went TO BemiS last week for few days.
Mr.. Dorr got deer on one OF the first
days of his stay there.
J.H. Stuart returned last week from a
hunting trip in the region of Scraggly
Lake, in northern Penobscot County.
He brought home deer, besides secur-
ing other game on the trip.
A full attendance is desired at the
meeting of Mt. Mica Lodge, |. o. o. F.,
next Thursday evening, as important
business is to come before the lodge. Let
every member plan 10 be present.
The Seneca Club meets this Monday
evening with the Misses Walker on
Pleasant Street. The club now has a
new president At the last meeting Miss
Rounds resigned and Mrs. Walter Gray
was elected to fill the position.
Every other man and boy in the place
is sporting new jack-knife. When the
burglars raided the store of +. 4. Shurt-
left Il Co., they carried Oft an invoice OF
knives, most of which were recovered
and put into the burglar sale at low
prices, and a great many took advantage
of the opportunity to stock up.
Mrs. Francetta Fletcher, widow of
Eugene Fletcher, formerly of South
Paris, died Friday at the home of her
sister, Mrs. G.. A. Chandler, in West
Sumner, where she has been for some
years. For number of years, dating
from time previous To her leaving
South Paris, she had been in failing
health One son, w. X. Fletcher, sur
wives her.
A recent number of the Philadelphia
Evening Telegraph contains an article
describing the thorough system with
which b. +. Keith's theatres are man.
aged, illustrating it by incidents of visit
TO Keith's theatre in that city, and in-
cidentally paying high compliment tn
the manager of the theatre, who, as is
well known, is Harry T. Jordan, for
merly of this place.
Samantha Allen at the Court of
Fame" on Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings, is the event of the week
locally. The sale of seats has been one
of the best ever known. On Friday, the
day the sale opened, there was long
line waiting for the sale to begin at 8
O'Clock, and before the day was over about
two-thirds of the house for the first
night, and half the second, had been
sold. There are still some seats left, and
none of the seats in this hall are bad
ones.
A good house was out for the Novem-
Der supper and entertainment of the
Universalist Good Cheer Society We'd
nesday evening. The supper was first
class with baked beans as the staple.
1.-The Old Country Store" the enter
tainment which afterwards occupied
about an hour, is largely explained by
it's title. The scene is laid in Jackson's
time, and the characters represent the
various types of buyers and the people
who make the country store a resort to
talk politics, gossip, and tell stories. II
made lot of laughs aud kept the au'
dience pretty well entertained, the anti
auated costumes adding to the effect. As
the wind-up to the play, Albert ID. PARK
as sheriff attached the goods of the store
and proceeded to sell them out at auction
The audience were not very sharp bid
ders, nevertheless fair sum was realized