Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1909-03-30
Am ,chool. began ,s,iu Monday morn.

Spectai meeting OF faris orange next
Thursday afternoon at 1870.
Miss Susie e. Porter ia at home for
the vacation from her teaching in Port
land.
Clinton Park of Presque Isle, stu.
dent in Bates College, is at Albert D.
Parks.
Some maple syrup in the market,
though the season 80 far has been about
as poor as possible.
Most of the students from Bates and
the University of Maine are at home for
the Easter vacation.
There will be a rehearsal of Mt. Pleas
ant Rebekah degree team Friday even
ing of this week.
Rates have been secured for Oxford
Pomona, April 9th, at South Paris.
Tickets good to return the 7th.
The Congregational church are pre-
pairing very pretty Easter exercise en-
titled, "The Triumphant King"
Miss Nellie Austin of Buckfield and
Miss Annie l.. Paris of Paris Hill were
guests of Miss Lila Farrar last week.
The next meeting of the Seneca Club
will be with Mrs. Barnes Monday
of next week, April 9Th, the regular
night.
IL is hoped that there will be large
attendance at the covenant meeting at
the Baptist church Friday evening as
there is some i'm portant business TO
come before the church.
At the Congregational church next
Sunday evening, Rev. Mr.. McWhorter
will speak upon 1.-THE Songbird in the
Dark" giving the life story of Fannie j.
Crosby, the blind song writer.
Supper and entertainment at the
Methodist vestry Tuesday evening un-
der the auspices of the mems class. T.
j. Fessenden has been engaged as reader
for the evening, assisted by local talent.
A good audience was at the Congre-
gational church Sunday evening, not
witbstanding the more than dubious
walking, to hear Amanda S. Hiwale, the
Hindu. Mr.. Hiwale, who has worked
his way through Bangor Theological
and is now in his last year at
Bowdoin, will return to bis native land
10 aid in the missionary work there.
He talked of the life and customs in
India, and of the work which he plans
to do after his return. His address was
not only interesting and entertaining
but inspiring.
Special attraction at Paris Grange Hall
evening, April Sd, by the
scholars of South Paris Grammar School,
by a sociable. Music for the
evening will be furnished by Howard
Shaw and Ralph Penfold. First will be
specialties: piano duet, Florence Nc
Ardle and Hilda Chandler; second, Ray
mond Penfold, tambourine solo; third,
Doris gilbert, song; fourth, Ray New
ton, snare drum, accompanied by How
ard Shaw, followed by the childen's
drama so acceptably presented at Good
Cheer Hall few weeks ago: 1.-THE Long
Lost Nephew" with the following cast:
MIR. Alexander Calamus, Chester Easson.
Miss Belle Bashful, Marie Newton.
Arthur Dauntless, Ralph Andrews.
Andy Evergreen, Harold Merrill.
Patty Blossom, Eva Andrews
Admission for the evening 10 cents.
BOLSTER DISTRICT.
j. S. Brown was in Minot last Monday.
Eva SWEET is at home from Simmons
College for her Easter vacation.
Mrs. G.. Z. Grover of Norway and Miss
Ruby Smith of Bethel were guests at j.
S. Browns last Wednesday.
1t is reported that Mrs. F. r. Witham,
who has been critically i'll for the past
three weeks, is slowly improving.
Berthe Wheeler has destroyed about
fifty brown tail nests which he found in
his fathers and other nearby neighbors'
orchards.
BIsCOE DISTRICT.
Miss Marie Jackson visited on the Hill
Tuesday.
w. T. Knightly and wife drove to Nor
way to church Sunday.
W. T. Knightly and family visited at
Z. L. Porter's Tuesday.
Mrs. Warren Farrar was visiting at
Fred Farrar's last week.
Geo. Chapman got his ice at W. I.
Knightly's the first of the week.
Thomas Jackson is staying few days
with his brother, Fred Jackson.
They have given supper, breakfast and
lodging to so tramps at the Paris town
farm through the year just ending.
Miss Hazel Prosser, a nine-year- old
miss from Groveton, N. H., is spending
the week with her aunt, Mrs. F. Damon,
and cousin, Mrs. p. A. Ripley.