Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-08-30
Dry and dusty again.


Miss Ethel Farwell Of Bethel was tn,
guest of friends here Tuesday.
Miss Mamie Flynn of Lewiston spen
last week with Miss Alice Wstherell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jehn Yates of Colebrook
N. e., are guests at Ernest Herrick's.
Miss Carrie Mathews of Bridgton is 8
guest at w. j. Wheeler's for a few days
DR.. and Mrs. Packard and children
Frank and Helen, are at l.. B. Carriers
Angelo Cavaliere, who has just sold
out his business here, will go to Boston,
Mr.. aud Mrs. III. A. Hilton were with
the Parks at Shagg Pond over the week
end.
W. K. Holmes and family will return
on Tuesday to their home in New Britain,
Conn.
Donald a. Bean and family have been
spending a weeks vacation at Millett-
vile.
Mrs. Mary Shurtleff and Miss Dora
Parsons spent the past week at Old Or.
chard.
Mrs. Guy Cole is visiting at Mechanic
Falls while Mr.. Cole is at the maneuvers
with Co. d.
Bradley Barnett is building a house,
in bungalow style, on the south side OF
Gary Street.
The Baptist Ladies' Aid will hold a
sale of aprons, food, vegetables, ETC.,
October goth.
Mrs. L. B. Carter went Monday morn,
ing to DR.. Kings Hospital at Portland
for treatment.
The Methodist service next Sunday
and thereafter will be held at two O'Clock
in the afternoon.
Mrs. George +. Eastman has returned
from her stay at the camp of her father,
DR.. Hubbard, at Lowell.
Miss Bertha l.. Penley and Master
guests of relatives here Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. 1. 1. Young of East
Weymouth, Mass, were guests at j. j..
Murphy's from Saturday until Monday.
Miss Taylor, a trained nurse from
Lewiston, is caring for the infant child
of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl II. Robinson, who
is very i'll.
Miss Marion Sturtevant, who has been
visiting relatives here for some weeks,
returned to her home in Waterville Mon
day morning.
All interested in the Y. P. C. U. are
asked to attend a business meeting at the
Universalist vestry next Sunday after
Sunday School.
Mrs. Leonard Whitman has been en-
PERTAINING her uieces, Mrs. Fl. 4. Leavi;;
and daughters of Abingdon, Mass, for
the past two weeks.
Socialism will be discussed in Market
Square on the evening of Sept. lst. The
speaker is REV. Clinton Simonton, the
man from Arkansas"
Mrs. A. c. Wheeler entertained a
party of seven at tea Friday evening.
Games were INDUCED In after tea and an
enjoyable evening passed.
Misses Marguerite and Katharine
Andrews of Portland and Miss Beatrice
Andrews of North Paris are visiting
their aunt, Mrs. Chas. Edwards.
Saturday afternoon Fred L. Berry was
drawn as grand juror for the October
term of court, and Ernest F. Clason and
Charles A. Young, I'd, as traverse jurors.
Miss Grace A. Thayer is taking her
from the store of the n. Dayton
Bolster Co., aud Mrs. Z. n. Haskell is
meanwhile taking her place as cashier.
A number of the members of Wm. K.
Kimball Post, G.. A. R., and Wm. K.
Kimbal Circle attended the campfire
given by Brown Post and Corps at Bethel
Wednesday.
September is approaching, and the
tide of travel begins to turn again tow
ard the cities, though there are still
many remaining in the country, and will
be for some weeks yet.
Mrs. NJ. p. Gerry and children of Lis
bon Falls are with relatives here for a
few days. They are on their way to
Oregon, where they expect to make
their home in the future.
Donald p. Chapman thinks be comes
pretty near the record for an early lay
ing pullet. He has a Plymouth Rock
pullet which began laying when four
months and twenty days old. Next!
The Baptist Mission Circle will meet
l. H. or
p. NJ. for mite box opening. All women
having mite boxes are urgently request
ed to be present. If not able to attend
please send boxes.
By the recent death of George Berry,
the Boston Post cane goes to the next
oldest man in town. Abner Benson of
North Paris is 81. III there is an older
man in town the selectmen would like
TO be informed of it.
For the next four weeks Rev. c. A.
Knickerbocker of Arlington, Mass, who
breaches during the summer at Paris
Hill, will occupy the pulpit at the
Universalist church. Service at 2:30
NJ. The Sunday School will be held
at l O'Clock.
F. A. Heidner and Maurice L. Noyes
started Monday morning for Sour Lake,
Texas, where Mr. Heidner is called by
business matters. Nr. Noyes will make
only short stay. Mrs. Heidner will
remain here for the present. 1t is not
certain whether Mr.. Heidner will return
here this season.
No false forecast about that cold wave
for which people were iuquiring all last
week. From a hot, muggy morning
Friday to cold Saturday morning that
made people shiver with apprehension If
no, with chill, was quite change. 1t is
possible that tender plants might have
suffered Saturday morning on low lands
if a thick fog had not come in. As /,
was, there was certainly close squeeze.
Rev. Carl <. Petersen gave his lecture,
"Uow to choose wife," at the Univers-
alist church Sunday evening" very
direct and practical talk to those who
are contemplating matrimony. A double
quartet choir gave special music. An
unusual though pleasing incident was
The appearance at the church of couple
who desired to be married, and after the
lecture the ceremony was performed in
the vestry by Mr.. Petersen, with some
twenty witnesses.
Word has just been received from Les,
ter l.. Whitman of Pasadena, Calf, OF
his safe arrival from his record break
ing trip across the country in an auto
mobile. This is Mr.. Whitman's fourth
trip across the country, between San
Eranciacn md Naw York E0ur wears