Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-10-10
THE OXFORD BEARS.
THE DOINds OF THE WEEK IN ALL
SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY.
Paris Till.

First Baptist Church, Rev. e. O. Taylor. pastor
Preaching every Sunday at 10a5 A. n. Sunday
School at l2 II. Sabbath Evening Service at
Prayer "a En- Meeting Thursday evening at so. Cove
nant Meeting the last Friday before the Let
Sunday Of the month at 80 p. II. All not
otherwise connected are cordially invited.
Sunday at 10 AS An.
DR.. and Mrs. Augustus S. Thayer of
Portland were guests at Elmhurst few
days the past week.
Ex-Gov. Perham and family left
Thursday for their winter home in
Washington, d. c. 1t is gratifying to
know that the Governor returns to
Washington much improved in health
for his summer at Paris Hill.
Work has begun on the rebuilding of
the Paris Hill water company's storage
reservoir at Croker Hill. The water
has been drawn off and the reservoir is
to be repaired, bricked and cemented.
The supply for the village while the
work is going on is taken direct from the
south spring.
Apple picking is the chief industry
Just now and those who have apples to
pick are fortunate this year. Although
far from full crop, Paris Hill and its
immediate vicinity will supply the mar
ket with a few thousand barrels of
very nice apples this year.
DR.. and Mrs. A. S. Thayer of Portland
and Thomas Z. Stearns of Cambridge,
Mass, are guests at o. A. Thayer's.
Three deer were seen near the guide
board on the South Paris road one day
last week, and some of our hunters i'm
mediately started out. One of them
thought he heard them crashing through
the brush in the thick growth in the
Mellen pasture, but that is the nearest
any one has come to them.
Hon. Edward l.. Paris and wife made
a driving tour last week to Rumford,
Dixfield, Canton and Buckfield.
Mrs. w. B. Lapham was the guest of
her brother, Ex-Gov. Perham, and
family, at their summer home here last
week.
Kimball C. Atwood, Esq, of New
York, was the guest of his brother,
George NJ. Atwood, Sunday and Monday.
Mrs. Horace Cummings has greatly
improved the former Jail house by the
addition of a two-story piazza on the
west side, commanding fine view OF
the White Mountains.
Hon. PrentisS Cummings arrived al
his summer residence, 1.-The Owls Nest,
Saturday.
| Those of the summer guests who have
been fortunate enough to remain into
October are quite sure that Paris Hill
in the glorious days of autumn is about
all that can be desired.
Miss Eliza A. Butterfield, until re
Gently resident of this place, died in
Norway Tuesday morning. Miss Butter
field entered the Home for Aged Women
at Norway Immediately after it was
opened, and after it was closed remained
with Mr.. and Mrs. Page, who had beer
in charge. The funeral was held here in
the Baptist church Wednesday after
noon, attended by the pastor, Rev. E. O.
Taylor. Miss Butterfield had been a
member of this church for several years.
Interment was in the old cemetery.
Hon. Prentiss Cummings of Brook
line, Mass, whose summer home is in
this place, was last Wednesday renomi
mated by reclamation as state senator
from the Second Norfolk District. By
his action in the present Massachusetts
Legislature, in opposition to special street
railroad legislation, Mr.. Cummings haG
reused the hostility of certain street rail
road interests, but the threatened oppo
Sition to him vanished before the open
ing of the convention.
Prof. w. S. Ripley of Wakefield,
Mass, b. F. Ripley of Weston, Mass,
A. o. Adams of East Jaffrey, n. H., and
Apopka, Florida, were recent guests OF
10. A. Maxim.
Advertised letters in Paris post office,
Oct. I'd:
/ Mr.. Eernard Alexander.
i MIR. and Mrs. Abby Grover.
/ Miss A. Stowell.
/ Arthur Dutton.
Miss j. A. Davis.
Miss Alice Griffin.
The Woburn, (Mass.) Journal of Sept
90 contains the following reference to
Paris Hill: "During his late stay there,
with his estimable spouse, DIR. j. Foster
Deland, Manager of the Hammond Il
Son Co. became greatly enamored OF
the good State of Maine, and praises
those sections of it which they visited
in no stinted measure. The beautiful
rural village of Paris Hill, Oxford coun-
ty, possessed espec ial delights for them,
and they stored their minds with good
deal of its interesting and famous his
tory. Paris Hill has been the birthplace
and cradle of larger number of dis
| tinguished statesmen of National repute
than any other New England town, and
some of their homes are still standing
within its delightful confines, carefully
preserved as historic landmarks. Mr..
and Mrs. Deland ask for no more beauti-
full or pleasanter place to spend quiet,
restful vacation at than Paris Hill.
They also visited northern Penobscot
county and tarried at the only dwelling
in township miles square, with wild,
unbroken forests of primeval pines
stretching away as far as the eye could
reach in all directio ns; and did they, or
did they not, enjoy it? Those silent
solitary woods and immense sweeps of
densely pine covered lands possessed
charms for the pair of temporary Massa-
chusetts Sojourners which will not be
easily or hastily erased from the tablets