Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-07-17


Alice OF Salem, Mass, are visiting rela
tives here.
Mrs. DR.. Hubbard of Lowell is tn
guest of her daughter, Mrs. George I
Eastman.
| The w. F. NJ. s. will meet with Mrt
Fl. A. Clifford in the grove opposite tn
parsonage Thursday at 8 P. NJ.
Miss Isabel Morton entertained tn
boys and girls of her Sunday Schoo
class at her home Wednesday afternoon
Mrs. Lula Phelps and Mrs. Charlie
Morgan of Portland have been guests a
Mrs. Alice P. Thayer's during the pas
week.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Harry A. Morton ant
Mr.. and Mrs. Alton c. Wheeler, VIII,
have been camping at Washburn Pom,
| for the past week, expect to return
home Wednesday of this week.
Miss Abbie Starbird, who has been a
home for q number of weeks, stsrtet
Saturday on her return to Fort SlOcum
N. Y, where she keeps house for hel
brother, Capt. Alfred A. Starbird.
Charles II. Bolster of Chicago, who i,
at Poland Spring. came by automobile
Wednesday to call on his brother, Capt
II. n. Bolster. He was accompanied by
E. p. Kicker of the Poland Spring
House.
The officers elect of Hamlin Lodge
h. of p, will be installed Friday even
ing, July 20, after which the rank Of
Knight will be conferred on two candi
dates. All members are requested to bs
present. Lunch will be served.
The Women's Social Circle of the
Baptist church will give lawn party a,
the parsonage on High Street Thursday
evening if fair, or the next fair evening
Ice cream and cake, home made candies
and other good things will be for sale.
Mrs. G. C. Pratt was welcome guest
at the Methodist parsonage last Tuesday
and on account of the rain remained over
night. Mrs. Pratt is not in vigorous
health and greatly enjoys seeing her
friends. Her memory is unimpaired and
she relates many interesting and historic
incidents.
A reception was given at their home
Thursday evening by Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles +. Ware, who were recently
married. A good number of their
friends were present, and the evening
was pleasantly passed. Nice refresh
ments were served. Several gifts were
presented to Mr.. and Mrs. Ware.
Mr.. and Mrs. 10y S. Eyster, who have
been spending week at Hotel Andrews,
returned Saturday to their home in Bos-
ton. Mr.. Eyster, who was formerly of
this place and has been here on business
more or less during the past two or
three years, was married June 9th to
Miss Ethel Louise Rideout of Cambridge,
Mass.
Miss Beulah F. Purington of Mechanic
Falls, a graduate of Colby College this
year, has been elected teacher in the
high school to succeed Miss Jewett
Miss Purington comes of scholarly
family and took very high rank in her
college course. Her father is a lawyer
and her uncle, George Purington, is
of Pennington Normal School.
William X. Holmes is with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Holmes, for the sum-
mer vacation. During the past year Mr..
Holmes has been taking special course
in the Massachusetts, Institute of
For the coming year he is
to be instructor in chemistry in Natick
High School, Natick, Mass. l.. E. Pulsi-
fer, formerly of this town, is member
of the Natick school board from which
he received the appointment.
A Socialist meeting in the Square Fri
day evening was addressed by NJ. w.
wilkins of California, national organizer
of the party. He spoke for an hour or
more, to a fair sized group of hearers.
His time was devoted mainly to an argu-
ment for a change in the order of things,
based on the assertion that the labOring
class produced the wealth of the world.
and ought to have il instead of the boss
getting it. The programme of the
Socialist party, which is to furnish the
practical remedy, was not set out with
great clearness.
Two small dogs and cat gave an in
teresting exhibition in the square the
other evening. The dogs were apparent
Nv in the preliminary stage of scrap, on
the ruffied edge of bad temper and max
ing a manifestation OF it, when the cat, a
gray tiger which makes her home in the
basement of Odd Fellows Block, butted
in and mixed up in the melee, and in
three seconds the dogs were dispersed
and hurrying toward their respective
homes, while the cat calmly sat down in
the middle of the street and smoothed
down her ruffied fur, which was stand
ing on end, like quilts upon the fretful
porcupine, so called.
The downpour of rain Tuesday night
made it out of the question to give the
concert which Professor Wight had
arranged for the close of his singing
class, and it was postponed to Thursday
evening. A pleasant evening was thus
secured, and very good audience assem-
bled in New Hall. The programme was
we'll varied with solos, duets, quartettes
and choruses. Mr.. Tower, Mr.. Dunn,
Mrs. Bradbury and Mrs. Fifield of Nor
way, and some of the best local singers
had numb ers on the programme. None
of them are strangers to South Paris
audience, and all seemed to be at their
best. An interesting number which was
not down on the printed programme
was a class exercise, which showed
something of the thorough rudimental
work done BY Professor Wight with his
Younger scholars, while the choruses
demonstrated his ability in training fol-
more advanced work. One of the most
taking features of the evening was the
chorus of little girls with dolls-a6out
forty little girls all in white, each with a
doll also in white. Professor Wight has
done good work with his class, which Is
fully appreciated by those who have
taken advantage of 1t.
The factory of the Mason Manufacture
ing Co., now under construction, is q
busy place. Carpenters, masons and
plumbers, with all their helpers and
general workmen, are working for dear
life, and the work is making consider
able show. While a portion of the
main building is up only one story as
vet, a portion is up to full height OF
three stories, with the roof timbers on.
The walls of the boiler house, which is
entirely of brick, are up to the top of the
two boilers. Several machines have al
ready been unloaded into the mill, and i
is proposed to get portion of the mil
to running as soon as it is possible to dc
so, without waiting to get the whole
building flushed. Work has not beer
begun on the south end of the building
which will be eighty feet in length
separated from the other portion by
brick wall, but what already shows looks
like doing lot of business, and the mil
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