Oxford Democrat., 1907-07-09
John Wsbber and wife are visiting In
Lewiston this week.

John Weber and wife are visiting Il
Lewiston this week.
Walter Richardson visited his parent
at Mechanic Falls over the Fourth.
Guy SWEET spent the Fourth at Bidde
ford as the guest of his uncle there.
Mrs. C. Il. Howard is spending few
days this week with relatives at Oxford
Charles Brett and Fred Lee are build
ing frame camp at Marshall Pond il
, Hebron.
A. B. Hammond, formerly clerk fo
w. L. Farrar, is driving the Norws,
Bakery team.
Arthur Clark and family spent July
4th with Mrs. Clark's brother, JohI
Gerry, of Lewiston.
Dan Fraiser has left the toy factory
to go to Berlin, N. H., where he vii
work as cook in a hotel.
| Miss Blanche Barrows is visiting rela
tives in Dover, N. H. She is to spend
several weeks from home.
Mrs. Walter Penley and Miss Alice
Penley of Greenwood visited relatives
in town few days last week.
Misses Bertha and Rose Pulsifer
cousins, of Natick, Mass, are visiting
their grandfather, Hiram Pulsifer.
Arthur E. Forbes, Mrs. A. T. Forbes
and Miss Maud Douglass have gone on a
two weeks camping trip to Shagg Pond.
Miss Crooker, who teaches school at
Minot Corner, has come to spend the
summer with her sister, Mrs. Walter
Bonney.
Harold Cannon and wife are spend
ing Mr.. Gammon's vacation from the
store of N. d. Bolster & Co., camping at
Stoneham.
Harry j. Fifield returned Saturday
morning to Boston, where he will at
tend summer session of Burdett Busi-
ness College.
W. K. Fletcher and children of Fitch
burgh, Mass, are guests for the summer
at Almon Churchill's. Mrs. Churchill
is Mr.. Fletcher's aunt.
Mr.. d. Casey, an old veteran of the
civil war, is welcome guest at Mrs. G.
G. Pratt's home. He was a friend of
her husband, Capt. G. C. Pratt, in the
army.
Gus Lord and wife of Auburn spent
the Fourth with Mrs. Lords parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Blake. Mr.. Lord is
associated with the Goodyear Last Co.
of Auburn.
Leslie l.. Mason of the Mason Manu-
featuring Co. arrived in town Friday
evening with his wife and two children.
They came from Portland in Mr.. Mason's
touring car.
Selectman Bowker has crew of men
and teams at work on the road between
here and Paris Hill. They will build
state road this year from Eben Chap
mans, where they left of last year, to
the guide board below the watering
trough.
From the crowd around the station
when the down train went Saturday
morning, one might have inferred that
either President Roosevelt was coming
through on the train or that it was the
Berlin excursion. 1t was only circus day
in Lewiston.
Harry T. Jordan of Philadelphia,
manager of Keith's Philadelphia theatre,
is here with his family, visiting Mr..
Jordan's mother, Mrs. FL. n. Boster. Mr..
Jordan will return TO Philadelphia next
week but Mrs. Jordan and the two chill
dren will remain here all summer.
VIM. X. Kimball Post, G. A. R., and
Ladies of the G.. A. X. held dinner in
their hall Thursday. Immediately after
dinner they marched to the grove on
Pine Street, opposite the Methodist
parsonage where short speeches were
made by several of the comrades.
w. S. Wight of Bethel now has charge
of the course ticket subscription list for
the Maine Music Festival in Portland,
Oct. 7-S-9, Madame Calve, prima donna.
Any one wishing for course ticket
should get their name on the list now If
they want good seat. Give your name
to Mrs. Cora Briggs or write Mr.. Wight
at Bethel, Me.
Harry w. Hunt OF Dexter was the
victim of an accident at the toy factory
FRIDAY afternoon which resulted in the
loss of one of his little fingers. Hunt
was working on a jointer and in some
way the piece of lumber slipped back
and Hunts finger was caught in the ma
chinery. Hunt has been employed here
less than a week, coming here from
Dexter only last Monday.
A Jolly party of South Paris young
people went Saturday to the Morton
camp in Woodstock, where they will re-
main week. In the party who went to
Camp Concord are Misses kittie and
Isabel Morton, Leona Stuart, Flora
Murch and Grace Penley. The party is
made up of members of the b. U. M. 5.
and the We Are Seven Clubs. Mrs.
Prentiss Crockett went as chaperone.
The Mermaids tried the new restaur-
ant at Norway Friday night and found it
very satisfactory. Five of them, Misses
Addie and Lottie Giles, Miss Alice
Penley, Mrs. Walter Penley, and Miss
Jessica Curtis broke bread together,
after which, they came back to j. j.
Murphy's, where Miss Alice Bisbee join
ed the party, and Miss Jessica Curtis wsB
presented with rug, which she will use
in house keeping in the near future.
Horace ]. Morton and wife of Chicago
are visiting Mrs. Morton's niece, Mrs.
v. ID. Bolster. Mr.. Morton is at South
Paris in the interest of the Morton Kiln
Co. of Chicago of which he is the head,
for the purpose of putting ip new dryer
at the mill of the Paris Manufacturing
Co. Mr.. Morton last year put in dryer
at the West Paris mill which was so sue
cessful that the company felt the need OF
having one in the mill here. The dryer
is one of Mr.. Morton's own get up upon
which he holds most of the patents.
A peculiar accident happened on the
grand stand at the fair grounds Fourth
of July day. Mrs. George Swift, who
lives between here and Norway, was
coming down from the grand stand,
when in some manner she slipped and
fell. When she was assisted to her feet
il was found that one leg was broken
Just above the ankle. The peculiar part
of the accident is that the fall was so
very slight, that none on the grand stand
suspected any injury whatever until 1t
was reported after she had been helped
from the grounds.
Superintendent Davis of the Oxford
County Creamery reports business so far
increased this summer that 1T has been
found necessary to hire an extra hand.
To meet this demand the services Of
Peter Kane have been procured. Two
new cream routes from Norway have
been taken from creamery, at Turner
Center and added to this creamery so