Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-07-28
West Paris,

laugh! 1t sounded ike some OF tne
family we used to ''spar" with In argu-
mont. II you take another trip to South
Paris, brother correspondent, come
around BY West Paris on your home
ward way and We promise you our best
rocking chair while We exchange notes
and opinions. And II you will stay to
dinner We promise you custard pie OF
our best make. When they have a big
dinner in town they invariably solicit US
for one or two, so perhaps that Is sufh-
cient recommendation. And you may
smoke in peace Con the front stoop, for
we hate tobacco, 1t hasn't even the merit
of uovslty.) To be sure we are only .
woman and we are pretty sure We can't
talk quite 80 fast on long stretch as
Brother Park, we kno,o we couldn't think
of SO many things to say at an auction,
and we don't particularly aspire to polit-
ical office; but we have sometimes
wished we could make pie for the Gus
tard Pie Association at Hartford.
We have asked John several times to
come over, but in spite of his boasted
admiration of the opposite sex he seems
afraid to accept; and we haven't been
invited anywhere, and we should like to
talk it over with somebody.
Perhaps out of a wider experience
some one could suggest q solace for q
wounded spirit. p. S.-We are in an
intermediate state. both as to age and
opinions, not knowing whether the fool
ishness of the wise or the wisdom OF
fools is most worthy of emulation.
But it is often to the innocence and
inexperience of childhood that we turn
for the comfort of merry heart. While
we are not sure that we would wish to
return to the ignorance of youth, yet
there is an indescribable charm and
sweetness in winning child with their
artless questioning and penetration OF
thought into life's mysteries. And their
quaint plumbers! A bright little maid of
four summers who lives next door,
neighbors with US good deal and usual
ly informs us of the news. The other
morning she appeared with the informa-
ton that her immediate family had gone
to the Buffalo Bill circus and she was
staying with Auntie. After minute OF
thought she remarked, swell, anyway,
am going to a circus some day, and l
did 90 to the fair last summer and rode
with papa on the Fairest wheel while the
rest of the family sat up on the Grind
stone" (Grandstand.) After all she re.
members about as we'll as the average!
People are always forgetting the lessons
they do learn, and they have to go to
the foot of the class and learn to spell
all over again.
On account of unfavorable weather
conditions Onward Rebekah Lodge
twice changed the date of their lawn
party, but the affair was finally held
last Thursday evening with Mr.. and
Mrs. David Emmons. Although 1t was
rather damp to be out Of doors about
seventy-five were present. The lawn
was gay with Japanese lanterns and
lights and altabe was arranged at which
ice cream, cake, and fruit punch was
sold. The free entertainment was as
follows:
| /. Either music, Mr.. Frederick Miller.
2. Reading, A woman's Devotion r. u,or
s. Music. Violin and Organ.
| The Suphower,
b Dorothy Vernon,
,., Miss Brown and Mrs. War d ',,al
5. Dialogue, Taking the Census,
Ellsworth Curtis, Mrs. Mildred Davis.
z. Reading, The Pants Jem,ma Made.
| Ellsworth d. Curtis
| The last service for the present at the
| Universalist church was Sunday, the
Goth. There will be vacation in all de-
partments of the church work through
the month of August. The pastor, Rev.
l. S. Macduff, goes Monday, July q, to
her old home in ClaremOnt, n. H., to
visit relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. Howard Lane made a
two or three days trip to Andover last
week. Last Saturday they went to
NJ echanic Falls to visit Mrs. Lanes
sister and spend weeks outing at
Trip Pond. Mr.. and Mrs. G. Il. Lane,
Jr., are keeping house for Mr.. and Mrs.
Lane during their absence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Miller OF
Washington, D. c., and Miss Nellie Ide
of Philadelphia, Penn. have been recent
guests at David Emmons'.
G. L. Briggs and G, F. Marshall each
lost a piece of corn with frost on the
cold night a week ago Thursday.
Mr.. Woodbury. K. Dana of Portland
visited his relatives here one day last
, week.
Harry B. Holden was at Camp Com.
fort in Woodstock one day recently and
caught a pickerel out of North Pond
which weighed four pounds. Camp
Comfort is the property of Mrs. j. F
Reed and was gift from her sister,
Mrs. Ella Pearson, recently deceased.
Mrs. Marietta Fuller is recovering
from her recent injury remarkably well
considering her frail health. She has to
lie in bed constantly with weight at
tached to the foot on the right side
where the neck of the femur was fractur-
ed. She is very patient and many
friends hope she will continue to gain.
Miss Alice Durham has been spending
several weeks vacation visiting her
father at Lynn, Mass, and sister in
Portland
Mrs. Mary G.. Bradbury and two
daughters will work at Maxim's berry
farm at Locke's Mills during the rasp-
berry season.
Mrs. Emma w. Mann went the middle
of last week to Cape Cottage, Old Or
chard, for two weeks.
Mrs. Josephine A. Bates has returned
from Connecticut.
Mrs. Mamie Ellingwood Harmon and
little son OF Milford, Mass, are visiting
her father, o. D. Ellingwood. Mr.. Har-
mon is expected later.
Mr.. Elmer Hammond has sold his
stand at Trap Corner to Wallace An
drews of Sumner.
Mr.. John E. Brock, while at work at
one of the machines in the mill of the
Paris Manufacturing Co., cut off the
end of the little finger on his right hand
last Thursday and probably will be laid
off from work for a week or two.
Mrs. Alliston Sessions and Mrs. Edith
Coffin Jackson of Milton visited in town
last Wednesday.
L. M. Irish and family have been hay-
ing a weeks vacation at Bailey's Island.
Mrs. Elmer E. Tuell and family of
three children visited relatives at West
Sumner several days last week.
FIJI. Hills family has been spending
two weeks at Camp Evergreen at Round
Pond in Greenwood.
Mr.. Clarence G. Morton and family
have gone to Camp Concord at Wood
stock where they will spend two weeks
in company with friends from South
Paris.