Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-08-10
The Oxford 8e1murr1t


Miss Alice fenley OF west fariS visit
ed relatives here Saturday.
Mabel Kicker of West Paris was tn,
guest of friends in Saturday.
Miss Carrie Bean of Rumford Falls il
guest of Mrs. Lizzie Morse.
Frank Baron of Orono has been visit
iug his sister, Mrs. Carl Mason.
Miss Edith Ryder of Malden, Mass.
isa guest at Charles r. Elders.
Walter Jones is having the barn raised
al his residence on Highland Avenue.
Miss Elsie Holman is enjoying two
weeks visit with relatives in Portland.
Blueberries are being gathered in larg.
quantities in the pastures on the farm OF
j. F. King.
The Misses Edna and Ina Edmonds, Of
Dixfeld, were guests at Albert Deans
last week.
Mrs Verne Walton and son have been
al her sisters, Mrs. Fred Edgerley's a,
Greenwood.
n. Stuart was at Harrison las,
week relocating town road by order OF
commissioners.
Cyrus Campbell has returned from the
bospital az Augusta, in an improved con-
dition of health.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gerry and son Les
fer. of Lewiston, visited at Arthur
Clark's last week.
Miss Sadie Z. Curtis of Lewiston is at
work at the Democrat office as compost
tor through vacation time.
Mrs. A. c. Hall will hold an auction
sale of household goods and farming
tools at her home, Saturday, August q.
Mrs. W. A. Porter, Mrs. George Il.
Davis, and Mrs Linwood Powers, with
their children, spent Friday at Old Orch
ard
A. L. Robbins has moved his family to
Lewiston. Mr. Robbins is in the employ
of the International Correspondence
School.
Mrs. Nancy Whitman celebrated her
birthday Tuesday and received shower
of post cards from her many friends
about town.
Ernest Harlow of Worcester, Mass,
who has been spending his vacation with
his sister, Mrs. B. P. Adkins, returned
home Saturday.
Misses Florence W. and Elizabeth A.
Lowell of Auburn were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Walter l.. Gray few days dur
ing the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Z Kenney are visit
ing relatives in town. Mr.. Kenney is
manager of the Maine Telephone Com
pany's office at Houlton.
Arthur K. Shurtleff is taking his vaca-
ton from the store of F. A. Shurtlef Il
Co, and he and Mrs. Shurtleff are camp
ing at Trip Pond in Poland.
Miss Bessie Raggett will leave Tuesday
for three weeks visit at the home of
her cousin, Mrs. Charles Colwell, at
south Hancock, near Bar Harbor.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Holmes, Mir. and
Mrs. William K Holmes, and Mrs. l.. j.
heim," Shagg Pond, Redding, enjoying
camp life.
Quite a number attended the band
concert given by the South Paris Band
at Central Park Tuesday evening. These
concerts will be given every Tuesday
evening for the present.
DR.. W. l.. Gatchell and wife, Mrs.
Ella +. Gatchell, who is also physician
OF Chico, Cal, Miss Ina l.. Twitchell of
Wheaton Seminary, Norton, Mass, are
visiting w. Z. Twitchell at the old
home.
While at work at the Mason Manu-
featuring Co.'s plant Tuesday morning,
c. E. MeArdle received injuries to the
fingers of his left hand by coming in
contact with saw. The second finger
is cut and the third finger is badly man
gled and may have to be removed.
A statement in one of the Portland
papers that Portland was the first place
in Maine to receive the new Lincoln pen
MES is not quite correct. On the same
day that the new pennies came to the
Portland banks the Paris Trust Com
pany received quantity Of them, which
are being distributed to its patrons. The
new penny is quite change in design
from the old one and is good looking
coin.
Rumford has one of the Boston Post
canes for it's oldest citizen and the Times
says: "If man born in the town is
meant, it is generally conceded that
Uncle John Martin, who is S4 years
old, is the one to whom the cane be-
longs. II the oldest man now living in
RumfOrd is meant, it is said that Nahum
Moore, who will be Sc years of age in
few months, will get the cane"
A lawn tennis club has been lately or
4 .;th he Col tpn nffi
President-Guy Farrar.
Vice. President-Isabel Morton.
Secretary-Ethel Crockett.
decentralization V. Bolster.
Chairman Of Executive Committee-Louis A.
Keen.
court has been marked out in the
brick school house yard and considerable
interest is shown in the new organiza-
ton and tournament will soon be held,
confined to Oxford County. For further
particulars inquire of the secretary.
The remains of Alba NJ. Gerry, who
died at his home in Lisbon Falls Aug.
LIST, mention of which was made in last
weeks paper, were brought here for
burial in the family lot at Riverside
Cemetery Wednesday. A funeral was
held at the home OF bis sister, Mrs.
Arthur Clark, at 80 o'clock, under the
charge of Paris Lodge, +. and A. NJ, OF
which Mr.. Gerry was member, full
burial services of the order being used.
Harry W Rowe of Lisbon Falls, neigh
Dor and student, preaching at the Bap-
fist church where Mr.. Gerry attended,
was in attendance.
The experimenting School Committee
Of Paris have elected Professor Frank
Merton Hammond of Phillips, Me-, prin-
eipsl of the Paris High School. Mr..
Hammond was born in Lincoln, Maine,
in 1880. He attended the graped schools
of that town, graduating from the Mat
tanarocook Academy in the class of 1900.
The following year Mr.. Hammond
entered Bates College from which insti-
tuition he was graduated in 1904. The
first year after completing his college
course Mr.. Hammond was principal OF
Somerset Academy, Athens, Me. The
following year he resigned his position
to accept the position as principal OF the
grammar school in his own town. After
remaining there one year, Mr.. Hammond
was elected principal of Phillips High
School, Phillips, Me-, which position he
has filled to the satisfaction Of every one
concerned for three years. We believe
that his e,c,aas xusll cNnkipna m his naW