Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-06-02
Ths Oxford Betmucrat.
SOUTH PARIS.

Nr and Mrs. George w. Rockingham
n here from Portland over Memoria
Day.
NJ Selden of Portland was the CUES
-, Miss Laura Burnell from Friday Il
sunday
Miss Helen NJ. Barnes visited at c. K
S,nveIr's LOcke's Mills, Saturday ant
sunday
Mis-. Wilma Morrill, of Westbrook wa
the Memorial Day guest of Mrs. Howard
". Shaw.
Pay J. II. Little delivered the Ne
,6ri,l Day address at Bryant's Pond oil
Saturday
Can, and Mrs. W X. Swan were her,
,,om E,s. Poland to spend Memoria
Day as usual.
Miss Josephine Waldron was the CUES
of Mrs. william Hersey of Lewiston
Memorial Day.
Mrs Mary Buruham of Portland was q
crsSt of her mother, Mrs. Miriam Stone
Memoyia. Day
leslie Barr0ws while running logs Fri
day bad the misfortune to get IN the
river aud get wet.
Mrs John J. Murphy visited her
daughter. Mrs. Walter Penley, of Green
Wood. over Memorial Day.
yr and Mrs. Lot Z. Keene of Buck
ssid visited their daughter, Mrs. Fred
". BUuuey, few days last week.
John Cayerly. formerly of South Paris,
who is now living at Newport, Maine,
has been here over Memorial Day.
William p. Morton and George f.
Eastman made a Memorial Day fishing
trip 10 Camp Concord and vicinity.
John Murphy was called to Lewis
ton Monday by the illness of his brother,
Cornelius Murphy, of Rumford Falls.
The family of Charles Z. Bennett have
moved 10 sanford, where Mr.. Bennett
has been policeman for some time.
Miss Isabel c. Morton, who is study
ing art in the Art Museum school in
BoS,ua. was at home over Memorial Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest u. Herrck visit
al Mrs. Herrick's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
E.W Peuiey, at West Paris, few days
last week.
Miss Helen Chapman, who has been
attending school at Bliss Business Col
lege. Lewiston, has returned to her
home here for the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Morton and
Mr.. and Mrs. Alton C. Wheeler were at
Camp Concord and the vicinity for two
or three days over the Memorial Day
vacation.
After the regular Mt. Pleasant Re-
bekah Lodge meeting Friday evening OF
thi, week the time will be devoted TO
making wreathS for the following me-
mortal sunday.
Mrs. George II. Fox has returned from
the Central Maine General Hospital at
Lewiston, where she underwent surgical
treatment for appendicitis and tumor.
She is doing well.
The Berlin Sunday excursion train
will begin its trips next Sunday, running
on the same schedule as in former years,
leaving here at 1922 in the forenoon and
al o o'clock at night.
By invitation Mr.. and Mrs G.. F. Pen
lev were at Bethel Saturday to the dedi-
cation of Bethel's soldiers monument.
Mr.. Peuley enlisted from the town of
Bethel, in the 18th Maine Volunteer In
iantry, and served until the close of the
war and participated in some of the
hardest fought battles of the war.
William p. Morton, of the Paris Ad-
verttSing Co., has purchased the bill
board plant and business at Rumford
Falls which was established by Sam Ross
about two years ago, and will run it in
connection with his billboard business
in several other towns. By the purchase
be acquires twelve locations in Rumford
Fall, with a total of 800 running feet of
stee. and 800 feet of wooden bill-boards.
Howard Ainsley, son of Mr.. aud Mrs
LAFAYETTE Waterhouse, Jr., years old,
died Wednesday morning after painful
illness from bronchial pneumonia fol-
lowing measles. The funeral was on
Friday. Although there have been a
great many cases of measles here, eighty
being reported at one time (-AJUgh this
may have been a too liberal count, this
is the only case where either the measles
or It's after effects has been fatal.
The two iron bridges for which the
town voted this spring have arrived, and
vii, be put in place as soon as practical
bic One of them goes across Stony
-. hA Of
Paris. aud the other crosses the Moose
Pond outlet short distance south OF
Trap Corner. The South Paris bridge is
IS feet long, and the Trap Corner bridge
. feet Each has l4-foot roadway.
An appropriation of $500 for the two
bridges was made. The bridges were
bought Of the Canton Bridge Co., of
Canton. 0 and the price without plank
Ing is somewhat below the appropriation.
One Of the abutments at Trap Corner
will have 10 be rebuilt.
The state assessors give notice of their
sessions % be held in Oxford County
next week, at Fryeburg Tuesday, the
9Th, at the court house at South Paris
Thursday. the 1lth, and at Rumford
Falls Friday, the 18th. The purpose OF
these sessions is general investigation
OF tue methods and manner of assess
ment by the local assessors in the towns
and plantations. The assessors of each
town are expected to present themselves
at one Of these sessions, with their valu-
alton books. These the State Assessors
will examine, and they will question the
town assessors quite closely in general
Way as u their assessment, and in some
particular instances may go into details
with regard to certain pieces of property.
The remains of Clarence Salisbury,
son Of j. X. Salisbury of Bar Harbor,
formerly OF South Paris, were brought
here last Tuesday, and the funeral was
held 10 the Congregational church, at
tended by Rev. A. t. McWhorter, the
pastor lnterment in the family lot in
riverside Cemetery. Young Salisbury
was 70 years of age. Death was due To
tuberculosis. His trouble began with a
spraln received while training for a
track team about two years since.
tuberculosis of the bone of the foot and
leg resulted, for which three operations
were performed, the foot being removed
IN one. lie died in hospital in Port
iand. He was member of the class OF
iSO9 at the Maine Central Institute,
Pittsfeld.
A piano recital was given by the "We
are Seven Glass;" pupils of Mrs. Cora s.
Briggs, at Highland Cottage Wednesday
evening, at which a good number oil
guests were present and enjoyed the
AFFAIR very much. Light refreshments
were served By members of the class
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