Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-03-08

uoon AT three D CLOCK.
Two or three beautiful mornings latel,
our apparently early spring has givel
Us. Sunday was one of the best.
Mrs. Geo. B. Crockett arrived HON,
Monday afternoon from a visit of abOu
week to her daughters 10 Massachu
sets.
Miss Nellie Jackson went Saturda!
night from Portland to Boston, wher'
she will spend few days visiting bel
uncle, Col. VIM. B. White.
Henry Fletcher has purchased the
meadow and cranberry bog OF s. G..
Burnell, near the Hebron road, short
distance southeast of the village.
Thursday, March 31st, is the date fol
the supper at the NJ. E. church followed
by lecture by Rev. j. G. Rogers, a
former pastor of that church.
For the first time since it was estab.
lished, the mo school" signal doomed
out at s O'Clock Monday morning.
Certainly an appropriate time for it II
ever.
Walter W. Farrar of Auburn, formerly
of South Paris, now one OF the county
of Androscoggin County,
was in town Saturday to see his brother,
Wilbur l.. Farrar.
Oak Farm, a three. act drama, will be
given in New Hall Thursday and Friday
evenings of this week. Tickets now on
sale at Shurtleff's. The earlier you pur-
chase the better seat you will get.
Mrs. F. N. Wright and Mrs. Writ
Stanley entertained bridge party OF
three tables of lady friends Thursday
evening. Specially nice refreshments
were served, and the evening was very
pleasant one.
Miss Cartes X. Swartz, deaconess
from the National training school for
Deaconesses," and now associated with
the deacOness home in Portland, will
speak at the Methodist church on Tues
day evening at 7:S0.
Mrs. Charles Z. Brett went Thursday
to DR.. Kings hospital in Portland for
surgical treatment. Mr.. Brett and Miss
Georgia Brett of Beverly, Mass, accom-
panied her. Mrs. Brett has undergone
an operation, and reports from her are
favorable.
Good Cheer Jubilee at Good Cheer
Hall Wednesday and Thursday of this
week. Sale opens at 2 O'Clock Wednes-
day and continues until Thursday
night. Various articles, useful and
will be on sale, also articles
in the food line, and mystery booth for
all.
Another date has been set for Paris
Grange to be addressed on the subject
Of taxation by Howard Davies of Var
mouth, who was unable by reason of in
to fill his engagement a few
weeks since. The date set is Saturday,
he 10Th inst. The afternoon session, at
which Mr. Davies speaks, will be an open
,ne, and the grange will entertain guests
1t dinner.
Friday evening the member of the cast
u VALLEY Farm" recently played here,
jailed on Z. NJ. Durham, who drilled
hem for the play, and presented him
With a three panel toilet mirror in appre-
,iation of the work he did for them.
Mr.. Durham was entirely taken BY sur
Prise, and somewhat at loss for words,
,ut needless to say received the testi
nonial gracefully.
Spring is here, and the backbone of
winter is certainly broken-almost too
,arly, it seems to those who still have
eaming or numbering to do. The ex-
mild weather of the past nine
lays has done the business. The ground
4 now coming through the snow rapidly,
md unless great turn is taken in the
weather it will be only few days more
before most of the travel about the vii
age will be on wheels. Already the
ravel between this village and Paris Hill
s on wheels.
Tue Fairview Cemetery Association
leld its annual meeting at the assessors
,ffice Saturday afternoon. Starting in
90l with fund of 5000, solicited from
hose having a direct interest in the
cemetery, the association has kept the
cemetery in good ahape, aud the fund
has accumulated, so that it is now
rifle above $1,000. Officers of the asso-
,iation chosen Saturday are:
President-Hudson Knight.
Trustees-N. Dayton Bolster, Oscar w. Par
ons.
Secretary and Treasurer-Alfred II. Jackson.
Ray Thurlow, the seven year-old son
If Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Thurlow, while
sliding a number of weeks since injured
me wrist. Although he complained of
t more or less, his parents did not real
re that any serious injury had been
lone to it until il began to grow stiff.
Ii was finally necessary to take him to
The Central Maine General Hospital at
where he went about two
weeks ago. 1t was for time feared
hat the bone had been so affected that
he arm would have TO be amputated,
put an endeavor is being made to save it,
With hope of success.
BOLSTER DISTRICT.
Mrs. Ii. NJ. Wheeler arrived here from
Bangor last Thursday.
Sanford Brown is at home from Lake
tide, N. H., where he spent the winter
scaling lumber for Peaslee.
A. o. Wheeler is very i'll with pneu-
nonia, and has a trained nurse. Drs.
Littlefeld and Bradbury are attending
him.
w. T. Hitchcock of Granite, N. H.,
vas in this place last Friday selling
which would mend both tin
md agate ware without heat.
KING DISTRICT.
We hear that the whole of Scott Col
,y's family are sick.
Mrs. Charles Kimball does not seem
% gain as fast as she would like.
Mrs. Thibodeau is better and is trying
% do the work, but it is rather hard
'or her. Her sister, Mrs. Allen, had to
20 home. Mrs. Canwell has not been as
we'll for few days.
Eulogy for the Grand Trunk.
In the London "Times" of February
ith, an article appears from one of their
travelling correspondents descriptive Of
tour through America, in which the fol-
owing appears:
"By far the finest travelling l have
done so far in America was over the
Grand Trunk line from Montreal to To-
ronto. The Grand Trunk have admit
teddy a perfect roadbed. We ran at
about fifty miles per hour on the Inter
national Limited and none of the Eng
Iish Railways could beat it for steadi-
ness"
This anlnpy from one who ia q world