Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-04-10
Mr.. Newell of Gilead was . guest at J.
j. Murphy's Sunday.

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j. Murphy's Sunday.
The Seneca Club meets this Monday
evening with Mrs. T. S. Barnes.
Miss Catherine Briggs was at home
from Lewiston Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Edgerly, who has beer
i'll for number Of days, is gaining
slowly.
Mrs. S. c. Ordway will attend the
Maine Methodist Conference in Portland
this week.
Mrs. Ralph E. Sturtevant, who has
been seriously i'll for several days, is re-
ported as better.
The w. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs.
Lucelia Morton Thursday afternoon,
April 18th, at 8 o'clock.
Good Cheer meeting Wednesday after,
noon of this week. 1t is hoped there
will be good attendance.
Mrs. Ira F. Murch has gone to the
Central Maine General Hospital at Lewis.
ton for surgical treatment.
n. Dayton Bolster & Co. will give
away, absolutely free, one sample can of
Jap-a-lac, Tuesday, April 10, at o A. M.
Mrs. Z. n. Anderson is spending two
weeks visiting her son, Harold G.. Ander-
son, in Boston, and other friends in that
vicinity.
Mrs. Hiram Chase, who lives with her
son, G.. D. Chase. in the Whittemore
District, is seriously i'll. She is quite
advanced in years.
Mrs. Z. A. Howe will have her Easter
millinery opening Friday and Saturday
of this week, and will be glad to see old
and new customers.
Rev. B. S. Rideout of Norway preach
ed stirring sermon at the Congrega-
tional church Sunday evening, April Sth,
in exchange with the pastor.
Miss Grace Bennett, who has been
teaching in Amesbury, Mass, but was
injured by the col apse of a chair some
weeks ago so that sue has since been
unable to teach, is at home.
On account of so much else going on
there will simply be the regular meeting
of Mt. Pleasant Rebekah Lodge Friday
evening of this week. The entertain
ment committee will hold over two
weeks.
The ladies of the Baptist church will
give an entertainment and supper We'd
nesday evening, April 18th. The we'll
known reader and impersonator, Edwin
j. Quinn of Portland, will be among the
There will be no prayer meeting at the
Methodist church Tuesday of this week
and no services next Sunday. The class
meeting will be held Thursday evening
10 accommodate those who wish to at
tend the high school contest on Friday.
Rev. and Mrs. II. A. Clifford plan to
attend the Methodist annual conference
IN Portland this week. They express
their pleasure to live in this good town
and to serve an excellent church. 1t is
also satisfaction not to move too often.
Mr.. Lyman Merrill retires from his po-
sition as jauitor of the Methodist
church much to the regret of his many
friends. He has rendered good service
in an important position. Mr.. W. w.
Payne, after several years of faithful and
efficient labor as church treasurer, is sue
,eeded by Mr.. Eben Chapman.
The prize essay and speaking contest
Of the high school will be held in New
Hall next Friday evening. The students
who have ESSAYS are Messrs. Robert
Wheeler and Edward Eastman, and
Misses Mae Field, Helen Porter, Addie
Lord and Rizpah Morton. The readers
are Clyde Hebbard and Misses Eva
SWEET, Helen Barnes, Leona Stuart, Rose
and Gladys Bonuey.
A new orchestra of South Paris and
Norway people has been formed, called
the Tschaikowsky Orchestra, with Carl
S. Briggs as leader. Members are Carl
S. Briggs and George L. Davee first
violins, Miss Grace Dean and Miss Sara
SWEET second violins, Carl Mason clari-
net, Douglass Farrar and Frank E. KIM
ball comets, Clarence DeCoster from
bone, and Miss Izah Pike piano.
II. n. Porter lost one cow early Friday
and had one or two others in
jured by the breaking down of portion
Of the tie-up floor. Water stopped over
from trough which runs in front of the
cattle had rOtted the wood, and the ten
ons at the inside end of the floor timbers
gave way. The noise of the break was
heard in the house about 2 o'clock, so
the matter was looked after at once, but
one of the cows could not be saved. The
others are not seriously hurt.
Mrs. Alton c. Wheeler on Sunday be-
gan an engagement as organist at the
Congregational church, in place of Mrs.
Cora S. Briggs, who has recently resign
ed after service of many years. Mrs.
Wheeler is an organist of several years
having played about two
years at the Park Street NJ. Z. church in
Lewiston, also at the Hammond Street
NJ. E. church, and longer or shorter
times at the Sixth Street Congregational
church in Auburn, at Bath, and at sever
al other Lewiston and Auburn churches.