Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-16


Work on the state road will be post
poned until August.
Miss Lizzie Kane is at Lewiston for
few weeks with relatives.
Mrs. Emily Cook il visiting friends IL
Plymouth, N. H., this week.
Carl Sawyer of Lewiston, visited a,
Rev. A. K. Baldwin's recently.
Ruth Bolster visited at CLAYTON
Churchilps, North Paris, last week.
Marshall A. Baldwin has been VISITING
his grandparents this week at West Paris
Rodney Hall 10 widening his piazza
When finished it will be eight feet wide
Frank A. Shurtleff and wife have gone
to the Parsons farm to live for the sum
mer.
Miss Blanche Barrows, who has been
visiting in Dover, N. H., has returned
home.
/ The evening services in the several
churches have been changed to half past
seven.
Ellery C.. Park and wife of Bethel
were in town last week as the guests OF
5. Porter Stearns.
= Carl Briggs, with party of friends
started on fishing trip up the Megal-
loway River last Thursday.
| Miss Vida JENNIE, who is in the hospital
at Lewiston, is reported as improving in
health, and is expected home soon.
! Edwin Stearns, a former resident of
this town, now residing in Bethel, spent
q few days last week visiting relatives
here.
Mr.. Horatio Bumpus, superintendent
of the Massachusetts, State Prison at
Charlestown, called on friends in town
4 Thursday.
Mr.. Harry T. Jordan, who has been
visiting his mother, Mrs. Angie w.
Bolster, returned to his home in Phila-
delphia, Friday.
Mrs. Samuel Plummer and daughter,
Miss Mary, of Sweden, have been the
guests of Mrs. Plummer's son, j. F.
Plummer, this week.
Mrs. Mertie Maxim Sprague of Chicago
will return West next Wednesday. She
is to join her husband in Wisconsin,
where he has camp.
The Epworth League Of the Methodist
church held food sale at the church
Saturday afternoon, from which they
realized good profit.
n,rt,. ,,,Lo ,rant 60 Co,oorJ Don1
this week includes Miss Julia Morton,
Miss Hattie Hooper, Miss Thompson
and Miss Eunice Fobes.
Mrs. j. F. Sprague, Mrs. Nathan
Chase, Miss Florence Jewett and Miss
Sue NJ. Wheeler went to New Meadows
Inn Saturday for a shore dinner.
Mr.. N. d. Bolster takes his vacation
from his store this week, and accom-
panied by Mrs. Bolster, Ruth and Philip,
will spend the two weeks at Old Or
chard.
Miss Maude Carter. who has been
camping at Locke's Mills, returned Fri
day night to attend the Seneca Club
party at Miss Iva McArdle's on that
evening.
Several children have been baptized
recently at the Congregational church.
Among them are Helen Patterson,
Roland Howard, Edward Bean and
Eleanor Clifford.
Rev. A. X. Baldwin is to close his work
with the Congregational church August
lst He will dispose of some of his
hofnra 1aayinn Can oAyarfisa-
ment elsewhere.
j. Fl. Stuart has been employed by
Walter ii. Sawyer of the Union Water
Power Company, Lewiston, to do survey
work at Livermore Falls and Chisholm
Cor this corporation.
Miss Edith Maxwell and Mrs. c. A.
Frost, who have been visiting their sis
ter, Mrs. d. NJ. Stewart, have returned
to their respective homes in Wales, and
South birmingham, Mass.
Gerald Clifford, D. d. S., son of Mrs.
II. A. Clifford, arrived Thursday to
work in the office of DR.. II. p. Jones at
Norway. Mr.. Clifford received his de-
gree from Tufts Dental College this
summer, graduating with high honors.
j. II. Bean has started to build an ex-
tension on to his piazza to widen it.
Mr. Bean has made numerous improve
ments on his place this summer, among
them being new cement walk and new
grading about the grounds.
The body of Miss Olive q. Shaw, a
former resident of Paris, was brought
here for burial from Lewiston Wednes-
day afternoon. Miss Shaw was eighty
years of age, and lived at Paris when
she was young. The body was buried at
Riverside Cemetery.
A. ]. Penley sold his fancy matched
pair of Robinson ID. mares last week to
William b. Russell of Leeds, formerly of
this village. Mr.. Penley raised and
broke this team and as they are very
stylish and nice drivers, they attracted
much attention from horse fancierS.
Miss Bessie Haggett, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. f. III. Haggett, who is working
at the Poland Spring House this SUM-
mer, met with serious accident last
Sunday. In attempting to open bottle
of Poland water she broke the bottle
and cut the main artery in her wrist so
that seven stitches were required to
close it. After the wound was sewed up
it burst again making necessary further
operation. She is confined to the bed.
Mrs. Haggett went Friday to Poland
Spring to care for her.
One of the pleasantest social affairs of
the summer was given Friday evening,
when Miss Iva McArdle entertained
about twenty of her young lady friends
at her home. The party was originally
intended for lawn party, but owing to
the rain this idea had to be abandoned.
The house and lawn we're prettily
decorated with Japanese lanterns. Many
samples of Miss McArdle's handiwOrk
with the paint brush were in evidence.
Several games original with Miss Nc
Ardle were played and dainty refresh
ments were served.
A very pleasant occasion was the
birthday party given in honor of Mrs.
Rodney Hall at the home of George A.
Briggs, Tuesday evening. The occasion
was in the nature of strawberry party
as the supper was in every sense OF the
word strawberry supper. Strawberries
in all shades, sizes and shapes were
served in every conceivable form and
compound. There was everything from
lust plain, common, everyday straw
berry, to straw berries on the half shell,
and everything between including,
straw berry preserves, strawberry cake,
short cake, and music favored with
Strawberries. IL was without doubt