Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-04-03
NORWAY

Wagons are again used on our village
streets.
Summer will be the next in order.
Supreme Judicial Court is . thing OF
the past and all Is as 1t should be for q
time.
Arthur Plummer of Haverhill, Mass,
made his Norway friends call this
week. Mr.. Plummer, some ten years
since, was q Norway citizen. He ID DR..
Pixies wife's brother and we'll known BY
many.
A number of citizens are putting In .
supply of coal for next winter. They
fear q coal strike again.
It ia reported that Mrs. F. E. Drake
will lease the store occupied by Mrs. l..
NJ. Lunt after she has closed out her
goods, for millinery rooms.
Otto Schnuer contemplates moving
from the Noyes Block to the Bartlett
store.
Grace A. Snow and her mother, Mrs.
Tucker, who purchased the Abbie A.
Brown place on Water Street, have moved
from their Buckfield home into their
Norway residence.
Major Bal F. Bradbury, Capt. j..
Waldo Nash, LIST Lieut.. James n. Palmer,
who has been transferred from Co. G,
Auburn, to Co. D, and Priv. Harry R.
Farris attended the officers school at
Portland. Lieut.. Geo. A. Wilson has re-
signed and an election to fill the position
has been ordered.
The Smiley Shoe Store business has
been transformed into what will here
after be known as the E. N. SWEET Shoe
Co., stock company formed for the
manufacture Of shoes as we'll as the
wholesale and retail of the same. The
capital stock is $4,000, shares 500 each,
ali paid in. The business was started by
the Smiley Bros. by whom 1t was sold to
the A. 81. Berry Shoe Co. of Portland.
For about fifteen years the business has
been conducted by Eugene N. SWEET as
business manager, with marked success.
The business will be continued as hereto
fore. The organization of the new COM
pany was effected with the following
officers:
President-A. H. Berry.
Manager-E. N. SWEET.
Clerk and Treas.-H. l.. Berry.
The continued management by Mr..
SWEET insures the success of the new
company.
s. Eastman of Mechanic Falls is Free
land Howe's new clerk and office man.
Grace Bennett has left Hobbs variety
store to accept position with Mrs. e. A.
Allen in the millinery department.
The municipal officers have engaged
John Smith and wife of South Paris to
conduct the town farm business for the
present year.
DR.. Herman L. Bartlett succeeds DR..
IS. A. Bennett on the local board of
health by appointment of the selectmen.
The term Is for three years.
Mrs. George L. Noyes has returned
from very pleasant visit with friends in
Portland and Fryeburg.
Marguerite Finney is in Lewiston with
her brother, Jameson Finney.
J. w. Swan, we'll known to all Norway
people as Jack Swan, of Montreal, made
his Norway friends short visit the first
of the week. 1t has been some years
since Jack left Norway but he is little
changed.
1t is expected that several cars of
building material for the construction of
the Norway and Western Railroad will
soon arrive at the Norway station. Work
is soon to commence on the new railroad,
truly.
MIRANDA T. Sawyer, nee Mills, after a
short sickness, died at the Andrew
Mills place Monday morning of pneu-
monia. She was the daughter of An
drew and Olive Mills, born in this town,
Oct. 20, 1929. She came from Massachu-
sets some years ago to care for her
mother, after whose death she remained
as housekeeper for her brother, W. Clin-
ton Mills. Services Wednesday. Inter-
ment at the Centre.
The members of Oxford Castle, No. 2,
K. G. E., gave a most happy ladies
night at their hall Wednesday evening.
The excellent supper was served to near
ly two hundred members and their in
vited guests. The company then repair
ed to the hall in Ryerson Block where an
order of nearly twenty dances was car
ried out. All danced and all enjoyed the
"best time of the season."