Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-07-31

| Mrs. Samuel Plummer of Sweden wa
guest at her sons, j. F. Plummer's, {
few days last week.
Miss Blanche Lane has returned from
a weeks outing at the cottage Of j. H
Little on Casco Bay.
A few friends visited Miss Jane Skill
ings last Saturday night, leaving useful
tokens of appreciation.
Mr.. Jason Smith and Miss Myrtle E
Coffren were married by Rev. Fl. A
Clifford Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Winslow Barbour Of
Portland visited Mrs. Barbour's sister
Mrs. j. A. Lovejoy, last week.
w. D. Clark, who has been seriously
i'll for some weeks and confined to the
house, is so he is on the street again.
The Poland camp meeting opens Aug.
10 and closes Aug. %. Rev. Bowley
Green will assist for week after Aug.
20.
Louis Clark, Howard Maxim and
Ralph Easson have been camping in a
tent at Gibson's Grove for the past few
days.
S. Barry Locke of West Paris and
Harry NJ. Wheeler left Saturday for ten
days camping at Shagg Pond in Wood
stock.
Mrs. ]. III. Little is getting slowly over
her rheumatic trouble. She is at
Harpswell, where the family will remain
through August.
Mrs. Harry II. Tolls and Mrs. William
Putnam of Brockton, Mass, and Mrs.
Charles Giles of North Wayne were
guests at George NJ. Giles few days
last week.
Mrs. T. ]. Ramsdell of Caribou, who
has been in the hospital at Portland,
came here from that place Friday, and
is with her sister, Mrs. NJ. l.. NOyes, for
the present.
During the month of August the post
office address of Rev. j. III. Little and
family will be Harpswell Center, Me-,
Box 50, and the telephone call Harps-
well Center.
DIR. w. S. Everett of Newton, Mass,
formerly of Hyde Park, visited at John
Benefits last week. He was Mr.. Ben
nett's family physician for forty years,
and much respected friend.
Capt. F. C. Tribou, who has recently
purchased a cottage on Pennesseewas-
see Lake, is having an eighteen-foot
launch built at Bath, to be fitted with
gasoline motor, for use on the lake.
Fifteen of the neighbors on Myrtle
Street enjoyed picnic at Penley's Grove
Thursday. A supply of ice cream was
taken along with the other refreshment,
and delightful day was passed in that
beautiful spot.
The work of drilling a we'll at the Ma
son Manufacturing Co.'S plant was
finished last week, good supply of
water being obtained. The drill was
put down l15 feet, about sixty feet of
which is in granite ledge.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. S. Dorr and son of
Mexico visited in town the first of last
week. Later Mr.. and Mrs. Dorr went
10 Lewiston, where Mrs. DOrr entered
the hospital for surgical operation.
The son meanwhile remains here.
A Democrat man took a walk about
the village the other evening, and dis
covered place within the limits of the
village corporation where he couldn't
hear photograph. This may seem like
a pretty stiff statement, but it can be
proved.
At the missionary food sale at the
Methodist church last Friday S5.75 was
received. Three dollars besides was
handed in TO Mrs. Clifford by friends
in the cause. The committee
in charge beg to thank all the ladies who
so kindly assisted.
DR.. King of Portland has purchased
the farm of A. l.. Holmes, about three
miles south of the village, on the East
Oxford road. 1t is not known whether
he desires it simply as a summer home,
or whether, as is thought possible, he
may have some larger plan.
Charles S. Stuart, who took the exami-
nation before the state board OF dental
examiners few weeks since, has been
notified that he passed, so that he is now
legally qualified to practice dentistry in
this state. He has another year in Tufts
Dental College, and will complete the
course.
Mrs. C.. A. Record, Mrs. Clarence G.
Morton, and Misses Isabel Morton, Ethel
Crockett, Flora Murch and Ethel Merritt
went Saturday to Camp Concord for
few DAYS stay. Mrs. A. T. Forbes and
Miss Hattie Hooper, who were with the
party there for twelve days, have re-
turned home.
THE Mermaids," new club, consist
ing of eight girls, the Misses Addie and
Charlotte Giles, Grace and Lisbeth
Murphy, Amelia and Alice Bisbee, Jes-
sics Curtis of South Paris, and Alice
Penley, of Greenwood, 60 to Falmouth
Foreside Wednesday of this week where
they will occupy cottage. Here's
hoping they will have n delightful time.
The Rebekahs have been invited to
Join the Odd Fellows in their basket pic
mic at Penley's Grove August 4th, and it
is asked that all who can meet at the
hall at $50 and all march up to the
grove together. Hot coffee will be
furnished. There will be various games
and amusements but the drawing card
will be game of ball between the mar
ried and single men of the lodge in Pen
ley's field above the grove.
Before Trial Justice Charles F. Whit
man at the court house Saturday was a
hearing on complaint against George
W. Fernald of Bethel, who has been
testing cows in this vicinity, for practic-
ing as veterinary without being regis
tered as such according to the statute.
County Attorney Barnes appeared for
the state, Hon. James S. Wright for
Fernald. The respondent was adjudged
guilty and fined $500 and costs. He APP
pealed to the Supreme Judicial Court.
A process which was watched with
much interest by a number OF spectators
last week was the raising of the iron
smokestacks of the Mason Manufacture
ing Co. There were two of these, which
came out of the mill which the company
bought. They are sixty feet in length,
and weigh four tons each, and as the
bottoms of them rest upon the brick
work twenty feet from the ground, it is
easy to see that it was no job for an
amateur to raise them. They were got
up all right, under the direction OF an
expert, most of four days being used up
in the operation.
Mrs. l.. l.. Whitman of California is at
George r. MortOn's. Mr.. Whitman
came as far as Syracuse, n. Y, and then
returned to California. Mr.. Whitman is
an agent for the Franklin automobile,
and holds the record from San Francisco
to New York, made by him and COM
panion two or three years ago, which