Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-12-25
yhs 0xfnrd Democrat.
SOUTH PARIS.

SOUTH PARIS POST OFFICE.
once Hours: 7SoA.M. o7:3OP.N.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Commencing Sept. 50. 1906.
TRAINS LEAVE SOUTH PARIS
Going down (east)-5:3 80 A. NJ. daily; IA A. NJ,
daily except Sunday; :S5 p. ~. daily.
Going up (west)-lO O7 A. NJ. daily; 5 &c p. ~,
daily except Sunday; IA p. ~, daily.
CHURCHES.
First Congregational Church. Rev. A. K. Bald
win. Pastor. Preaching service. loa5 A: y:
sunday school IL NJ: yespers 4 80 NJ; Y. P.
SC e. 6OOP. NJ; Church prayer meeting Wed
nesday evening at 80 O'Clock. All. not other
vice connected, are eordsi'y in M, p.,.,
On Sunday, morning prayer meeting 80 A: H.
preaching service l0:45 A. NJ; Sabbath School
IL NJ; Epworth League Meeting 6l5 p. n.
evening prayer meeting 90 p. n; prayer meet
Ing Tuesday evening; class meeting, Friday
Baptis, Church. Rev. j. Wallace Chesbro,
M: Sabbath school IL M; Y P. 5. C. E. 6i5 P.
NJ; prayer meeting 90 p. NJ; Wednesday even
Ing prayer service Z 80. Seats free. All are
Universalist Church. Rev. J. IL. Little. Pastor
Preaching service every Sunday at 10 As A. u.
Sunday School at IL n. Evening service, I
Pm.
STATED MEETINGS.
FSA, M-Pari4 Lodge, No. "a. Regular
meeting Tuesday evening on or before iSi Ia,
inys, Thursday evening OF each week.-Aurora
Encampment, first and third Monday evenings
of each month. ~,
So meets second and fourth Fridays of each
month In Odd Fellows Hall.
GA. R.-w. X. Kimban Post. No. las. meets
nrst and third Saturday evenings OF each
month. In q. A. X. Hall.
VIM. K. Kimban Relief Corps meets first
and third Saturday evenings OF each montn, In
p. Of H.EParis Grange, from May to Oct. l,
meets first and third Saturday; during the
remainder OF the year, meets every SATURDAY IN
Grange Hall.
U. 8. G. C.-second and fourth Mondays of
n. &. o. P.-stony Brook Lodge. No. Isl.
me Is second aud fourth Wednesday evenings
ROT P.-Hamlin Lodge. No. 81. meets every
Er tsy evening at Pythisn Hall
This is vacation week for the schools.
The thaw made it necessary to sand
the sidewalks Saturday.
Guy W. Farrar, 10, is at home from
Bowdoin for the vacation.
Earle E. Stuart is at home from Bos-
ton to spend the holiday season.
Principal 4. f. Clason of the high |
school spends the vacation at his home
in Lisbon.
Now is the time for the annual remark |
that the days begin to lengthen and the
cold-b-r-r-r!
Harry j. Fifield, who is attending a
business college in Boston, is at home
for the holidays.
Miss Maud Carter is at home from her |
teaching in Dorchester, Mass, for the |
holiday vacation.
Mrs. f. X. Witham went the first of
last week to DR.. Kings hospital in Port
land for treatment.
W.R. Fletcher, who teaches in Fitch
burg, Mass, is in South Paris to spend
the holiday vacation.
Miss Lucelia Crockett, who teaches in
Newton, Mass, is spending the holidays
with her parents here.
Ray <. Pomeroy, principal of the
grammar school, spends the weeks vaca-
ton at his home in Lewiston.
Miss Grace Bennett, who teaches IN
Amesbury, Mass, is at home for the
holiday vacation of two weeks.
Miss Purington, assistant in the high |
school, is spending the weeks vacation
at her home in Mechanic Falls.
C.S. Walker, superintendent of schools |
in Peru, was in town on business Tues
day, and visited the village schools while
here.
The annual meeting and roll call of |
the South Paris Congregational church !
will be held on Wednesday evening, |
Jan. 2.
Mrs Walter l.. Gray and Mrs. DR.. |
Stewart were in Portland Tuesday to see
Maude Adams in "Peter Pan" at the
jefferson.
Arthur C.. Thurlow is in the hospital
in Lewiston, where he has had surgical
operation for appendicitis. He is report
ed as doing well.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A Record and son
Miles of Abingdon, Mass, are visiting |
Mrs. Records parents, MIR. and Mrs.
Geo. B. Crockett.
The private skating party at New Hall
previous ones have been. Another Will
be held in two weeks.
Miss Bertha Merrill, eldest daughter of
Charles II. Merrill, is in the hospital at
Lewiston for surgical treatment. She is
reported as doing well.
Miss Mary II. Taylor, who had been
with relatives here for a while, returned
n
from there to California
All the University of Maine boys came
home Friday night for the holiday vaca- |
tion-Roy j. Bird, Grover Brown, Lewis
W. Keene, John T. Lindley, and Stanley
NJ. Wheeler.
Chandler Swift returned Thursday
from his visit of several weeks to his
niece, Mrs. Lunt, in Montville. He took
in the session of the State Grange at
Augusta on his way home.
EFF. Bassett and Frank Z. Kimball
returned the first of last week from
West Bethel near which they spent the
last part of the open time on deer They |
brought home three good ones.
Three of the younger classes of the
Methodist Sunday School were enter |
tanned by their teachers and the superin-
tendent, DIR. Charles l.. Buck, at social
svening in the vestry Tuesday evening.
The assignments of justices for the
1907 terms of court were made by
Chief Justice Emery last week. Judge
Peabody will preside at the March term
in Oxford County, aud Judge Strout al
the October term.
Here's sample of our wonderful New
England weather: Thursday morning,
from IA to 80 below zero at South Paris,
according to location and individual
thermometer. At the same time it was
10 above on Paris Hill. Warmer at
night, with rain, and Friday morning
caves dripping and mercury several de-
prees above freezing. A rise OF over
sixty degrees in twenty-four hours at
South Paris, which must come near the
record.
The old Pacific hand engine was taken
out for trial Friday, the first day since
the fire of three weeks ago, when she
failed to work, that has been warm
enough. When the brakes were manned
she threw q stream at first about thirty
feet from the nozzle, and then it gradual
ly petered out. A thorough examination
disclosed that the only trouble was that
the leather packing of the plungers was
not tight, although every endeavor had