Oxford Democrat., 1908-02-18
THE OXFORD BEARS.
THE DOIN0S OF THE WEEK IN ALL
SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY.
Paris Hill.

Mrs. James l.. Chase and son have
been visiting friends in Portland the
past week.
Mrs. S. W. Treworgy of Lewiston, a
gifted speaker and evangelist, will speak
at the Baptist church next Sunday.
Bert Gibbs goes to the hospital this
week for an operation for appendicitis.
Masters Thayer and George Quinby
returned to their home in Newton,
Mass, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jarvis NJ. Thayer drove
to Lewiston Saturday, returning Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albion w. Andrews re-
turned last Saturday from West Sumner,
where they have been running the
boarding house for Cummings &. Filing,
woods numbering operations.
Many friends at Paris Hill are glad TO
learn that Mrs. Lewis NJ. Brown is max,
ing good recovery from a critical surgi-
cal operation recently performed at
New York hospital.
Daniel Winslow returned last Satur-
day from visit of a week in Boston.
Edwin Long, a native of Prince
Edwards Island, died at w. H. Cum
mings' Saturday. Mr.. Long was taken
sick at the lumber camp of the Paris
Manufacturing Company in Greenwood,
where he was employed. He supposed
he had the grippe, and came out to Mr..
Cummings house last Wednesday where
a physician was called, who pronounced
the case pneumonia. Mr.. Long was
sixty-three years old and has been en-
ployed by the Paris Manufacturing co.
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about here for the past eight years. de
was a quiet and well informed man and
well liked by those who knew him. be
has sister in Boston, whose address is
unknown here, and brother in Michigan
The body has been placed in the receiv-
ing tomb at South Paris until commune
cation can be established with his people.
A book given in October last to the
Paris Hill Library Association by the
Rev. Henry o. Thayer deserves more
notice than the mere mention OF ITS
title, which is biography and Writings,
Rev. Caleb b. Davis" Mr.. Davis was
the second pastor of the Baptist church
at Paris Hill and died in Portland in
January, 1855.
The book is made by pasting the ac,
counts of Mr.. Davis life, work and
death, with selections from his writings,
in a small book, the printed pages OF
which are fully covered by the width OF
the newspaper column. This work is
most carefully done. Mr.. Thayer has
placed this little book inside larger
covers in an ingenious way, and has add
ed two pages in script by way of intro
duction, as follows:
First, "The enclosed biographical
notices were cut from the columns oil
the Zion's Advocate and in this manner
preserved by Mrs. E. F. Thayer.
at is qualification to her son to seek
permanent preservation of them by
deposit in the new Paris Hill Library.
at is presumed that excepting what
NAV have been published iu the Baptist
Association Minutes, they form the only
biography of that excellent and devoted
minister whom remember inviting me
little boy. to my first Sunday School
as also the first on Paris Hill. Henry
o. Thayer, Brooklyn, N. Y, 1906"
Second, "Ziba Thayer, born 1901, Nov
IL. died 1898, Aug 26. Elmira (Fobes
Thayer, born 1904, Oct. o, died 1874,
April s. Faithful members of the Bap
tist church, Paris Hill, Maine"
| 1t has been decided not to allow thi!
book to go out for circulation, but i
can be read easily in an afternoon o.
evening opening at the library.
Strangely enough there was given tt
the association in October, 1907, anothe
biographical sketch of Mr.. Davis, II
some respects identical with Mr.
Thayer's gift. This is to be found il
DR.. Ricker's personal Recollections,
donated by DR.. Edward w. Hall, Libra
rian of Colby College. This book is TO
i free circulation.