Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-07-19
Ny Neighbor.


~ P.-Hamlin Lodge. No. 81, meets every
g- 81 evening at Pythian Hall.
Ny Neighbor.
"Set down." said he,
When greeting me.
utr -.a.. 20 see sc back. Bring up cheer,
And set down here"
Straightway did
A. was BID.
,r.tr..fng up the most convenient chair
INV q niga the genial stove, and set down
l..-e-
We talked and laughed,
And grinned and chHtfed.
Hs ,gl with me and TIL the light grew dim
jDked with MIN.
And when twas Ger
( sought his door,
An .,slsed home through the evening clear.
Convinced that he did well to call chair
'Twivt you and me
That's what they De
w.. whOle,sOued neighDors such as he.
-Blakeney Gray, In success Magazine.
vs. Efie Hardy of Haverhill, Mass,
is .fs guest Of friends here.
Kiss Helen NJ. Barnes is attending the
t- hers summer school at Gorham.
Ell, Dora b. Greene is visiting rela-
t...s ia New Gloucester and Auburn.
Dr. D. NJ. Stewart and family went
Saturday to Orr's Island for stay of
week
Ms, Ida Bouney is visiting her grand
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Lot Z. Keene, IN
Bugsdsid.
~ " Walker and Master Harold of
Wa5iurds visited relatives in town
few DAYS asst week.
Lester A. West is driving the cart of
the Grand Union Tea Co. which Leon
I. Moves has heretofore had.
Mrs. pr. Tuell of Bethel and Miss
Bessie Mason from California have been
guest, q J. II. Beams for few days.
Walter T.. Bonney and family and ii.
" DeDuiSon and family are occupying
cottage a, Bailey's Island for two weeks.
Mr. aud Mrs. E. Y. Haskell and Mr..
and Mrs George G. Fernald have been
spending tue past week at Mr.. Haskelis
camp.
Nr and Mrs. George d. Robertson
and daughter Miriam are spending
week or two at cottage at Falmouth
FOresde
A party of the Camp Oxford boys were
through here Thursday on tramp to
Noun, Mica, and again Friday on their
way back.
South Paris people who were in the
camps at Shagg and Concord Ponds
sunday night, the 10th, are all agreed
tba, the thunder shower of that night
was the worst one in their experience.
The afternoons aud evenings are mu-
steal in the middle of the village. Re-
hearsals for Esther begin at l O'Clock
in View Hall and continue with sufficient
iutermission for supper until 10 or later.
Work has begun on the repairs on the
Stowe house, purchased by A. l..
Holmes. Besides general repairs, the
work done will include the raising of the
roof of the house a few feet, the addition
Of a bath room, and various lesser items
According to the Kennebec Journal,
blSl zberries, raspberries and blueberries
are now ripe in Maine. Well, Maine is
great state, especially when the ber-
ries are ripe, but it would bother the
journal mao TO find any considerable
quantity Of ripe blackberries as yet.
Advertised letters and cards at South
Paris post office:
Mrs Annie Frost
AphOnsO Grant (card)
Mrs.. A. +. Le4Viu (card).
Mrs. Mary Jordan (cari).
william Perktns.
Mrs. Jose Wheeler card
S. +. DAVIS, P. NJ.
Tue Democrat was not alone in its
sentiments regarding the doves, and war
began on them early last Tuesday morn-
Ing. The great number Of the birds
were shot that morning, and an occasion
al one has since been knocked over. 10
all about seventy have been disposed OF,
and there are but few il any left. Incl
dentally they have furnished good
meal for number of people.
Charles Robinson, W hO was formerly
OF Oxford, but has for some time been
with the Cummings Manufacturing Co.
as blacksmith, met with a bad accident
Monday morning of last week. He went
to Norway on an early car, and IN Nor
way village, seeing a man TO whom he
wished to speak, he got off the car rath-
er suddenly, and did not wait for It to
stop fully. He stepped off at a dis
Advantage, and went down and broke
his hip. lie was taken to his home
IN the Williams house, so called, and is
doing fairly well, though suffering some
what from the shock Of the accident as
well as the fracture itself.
Dr.. Walter |. Merrill OF Portland, who
will settle in South Paris and engage in
practice in a short time, has bargained
with committee of the Congregational
parish for the purchase of the parson-
age which the parish now holds. IL Is
understood that as far as DIR. Merrill and
the committee are concerned an agree
ment has been reached, and the matter
will be submitted to the parish for
action at special meeting to be held
THIS Monday evening. DR.. Merrill
graduated from the Maine Medical
School last year, and has since been In
the Maine General Hospital, where be
finishes his term on the last day OF this
month. He is cousin Of j, Arthur Col
ley OF Hotel Andrews IL is understood
'hat DR.. Merrill will make improve
ments in the house IL the purchase is
eonsummated.
Don't share in the delusion which they
are eherishing in some Of the Maine
cities, and possibly some here are doing
toe same, that the worst OF the brown
tall pest is over. Because there was one
night that few II any were seen around
me lights in Lewiston, a shout went
up That they were past for this year, and
Sneir numbers were so much less than
last year, that they were undoubtedly
Increasing, and would no longer need to
oe reekoned with. II Lewiston, acts on
S1at hypothesis there'll be trouble.
mere the moths haven't been as thick al
any time as they were last year, but
mere are nevertheless lot OF them
Hound every night, and II you will
ehamlne the trees, especially in the
m ny Of the arc lights, 1t viii be sur
prlslng II you don't find lot of them
og their eggs. They are not done
Win yet, probably NV soma vaors