Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-12-26
NORWAY.
CHURCHES.

Tuesday evening.
A. n. Sabbath School, 1900; 7. &c. U. meet
Eethodist Church, Rev. G. A. Brooks, Pastor
Preaching service. 10 80 A. A.; Sabbath School
prayer meeting, Tuesday evening; class meeting
Friday evening. Epworth League Sunday
Baptist Church, Rev. e. 8. Cotton, Pastor
- 90 NJ; Prayer Meeting, Sunday evening . r
NJ, Wednesday evening, :SO.
STATED MEETINGS.
FLA N. Regular meeting Of Oxford Lodge
No: 1s, in Masonic Hall. Friday Evening on Q,
No. %, assemblies Wednesday Evening, on OF
before fun moon. Oxford Council, q. 8. N :.
Friday evening, after fullmoon. Oxford Lodge
No. l, Ark Mariners, Wednesday evening artei
10. o. F.-Norway Lodge.-Regular meeting
in Odd Follows Hall. every Tuesday Evening
.n So al d.y ESsn
ings of each month. Mt. Hope Rebekah Lodge
No. SO, meets on fret and third Friday OF each
month.
every Thursday Evening. U. r, A. o. Moves
Division, No. le, meets third Friday Of each
month. Lake Assembly, No. 80, p. g.. second
and fourth Friday evenings Of each month.
T. of H.-Norway Grange meets second ana
fourth Saturdays Of each month at Grange Hall.
G. A. R.-Harry Rust Post, No. 81, meets In
New G. A. R. Hall on the first Tuesday Evening
W. z. c.-Weets in New G. A. R. Hall. Mon
'f 4. 1 T. P-Lakeside Lodge. No III, meets in
New G. A. r. Hall, on the first and third Wed.
nesiay evenings Of each month.
No. 10, meets at g. A. R. Hall every Tuesday
evening.
U.O.P. Film Tree Colony. No. 1879. meets
second and fourth Wednesday evenings OF each
month.
q. o. G. C.-Norway Commandery, No. 47,
meets second and fourth Thursday evenings Of
X. G. E.~oxford Castle. No. 2, meets in Ryer.
May. fret and third Thursday evenings, May to
September.
Christmas was properly observed Sun
day and Monday.
Christmas trade with the home mer-
chants this year has been unusually
good.
c. B. Cummings & Sons have COM
menced to place pine on the ice at Nor
way Lake for next seasons work in their
village mills. Last season they had
about one and one-half million feet of
pine. II is expected that this seasons
work will be as large if not larger than
last. The last of the pine Is sawed into
clapbOards for foreign trade for which
there is great demand.
In the contest for Master of the Maine
State Grange at Bangor this week, in
which the retiring master, Obadiah
Gardner of Rockland, was reelected by
vote of 269, Hon. John A. Roberts of
Al. ko hno
the position several times before, receiv-
ed 80 votes. 1t was expected by Mr..
Roberts Norway friends that he would
this year secure the election as he would
make first-class master.
Merton P. Greene of Norway Lake has
undertaken an extensive numbering job
for G. B. Cummings & Sons near Nor
way Lake. He will deliver on the ice
at the Lake two hundred thousand feet
of pine.
The young people cleared away the
snow from the ice near Freeman's Peint
and enjoyed very good skating during
the week. There is talk of keeping the
ice cleared for skating during the win
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hal R. Eaton of Belfast
are visiting Mrs. Eaton's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles d. Sargent, during the
holidays.
MIR. and Mrs. James Goodwin have re-
turned from Bethel where they have
been during the summer. Mr.. Goodwin
will work for Charles A. Pride.
Sergt. w. W. Sheen has made arrange
ments to 60 into the hen business. He
is building modern hen house just
northeast from his house.
Mr.. and Mrs. John F. Swain entertain
ed Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel II. Ring Of
Bridgton Sunday.
Alice 1. Frost returned from Dexter
Saturday, where she has been teaching,
for two weeks vacation.
Robert F. Bickford, after an absence
of several years, returned the first OF the
week. He has been engaged in the sur
vey of a railroad line in Canada with
headquarters at Alberta. The line ex-
tends from that place to Lethbridge.
The tax collector gives notice that on
and after Jan. l, '08, town taxes will
draw interest at six per cent on all
sums unpaid on the 1905 tax.
Grand Chancellor of the Knights of
Pythias, NJ. l.. Kimball, went to Phillips
Thursday on official business.
During Carrie fuckers absence from
the shoe factory office Mrs. Beatrice
Newcomb takes her place. Miss Tucker
ia at the Maine General Hospital at Port
land.
The Tower concert tickets will be on
sale at F. P. Stones drug store Wednes-
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The delegation of about thirty from
Mt. Hope Rebekah Lodge, No. 81.
which visited Liberty Lodge of Auburn
this week, report a most pleasant trip:
Commissioners w. F. Jones and e.
lery G. Park gave hearing in the case
of A. D. Kilgore vs.. Alfred Shattuck es-
tate, A. j. Stearns and j. L. Partridge,
executors, at the cout house, Wednesday.
Tena Tubbs is clerking at the Fletcher
candy store.
Alvin L. Cotton of Colby and Edwin
Cotton of Newton Theological Institu.
ton are with their parents, Rev. and
Mrs. E. S. Cotton, for the holidays.
The new bridge will soon be opened
for the public. Upon its side will be
seen beautiful plate stating when and
by whom it was erected. An iron bridge
is without question the bridge to-day.
The old wooden structures should be
done away with and modern ones erected
with little delay. Tho cost would be
less in the long run.
The valuable colt belonging to Will
c. Horne that broke its leg Monday is
doing we'll. The colt was placed in
sings, the leg set and it is said by
those in charge that the leg will be all
right in a short time.
About forty tickets were sold at the
Norway station to parties who attended
the presentation of Romeo and Juliet at
the Empire Tuesday evening by Sothern
and Marlowe.
William G. Rand, of the Norway and
Western railroad, says the road will be
built In the spring. Let us hope that
Mr.. Rand is correct. He ought to know,
surely.
Owen P. Brooks, while cutting meat
Wednesday, inflicted a painful wound on
the back of his left hand.
How Elderly Women Should Dress
The eternal fitness in clothing fol
elderly ladies Is discussed in the New
Idea Woman's Magazine for January
The writer states truly enough that "any
failure on the part of the matron te
observe the boundary line between girl
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