Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-08-02

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Mrs. Georgie Keough Of Lewiston has
been guest at L. B. Carriers.
Mrs. William B. Hayes of Providence,
X. l., Is guest at Alton c. Wheeler's.
. Mr.. and Mrs. W. d. Clark of Portland,
formerly of South Paris, were in town
Sunday.
Misses Addie and Lottie Giles return
ed from their vacation Sunday night and
are at their work again.
Mrs. E. N. Anderson returned some
days since from her visit to her son and
family in Providence, r. /.
Mrs. Arthur T. Royal and three daugh-
tiers, of Worcester, Mass, are visiting
her mother, Mrs. Frances Harlow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nahum Moore Of Rum
ford have been guests for few days of
Mr.. Moore's sister, Mrs. Wallace Ryer-
son.
Russell Blanchard and Miss Hester
Swan of South Weymouth, Mass, were
guests at Albert Z. Deans last week for
a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Neumann of
Chicago have been the guests Of Mrs.
Neumann's brother, DR.. d. n. Stewart,
for few days.
There will be a social dance at Acad-
envy Hall, Paris Hill, Tuesday evening,
August 9. Admission % cents each. All
cordially invited.
Z. n. Haskell is taking his vacation
from the store of N. d. Bolster Co. and
with Mrs. Haskell will spend the time in
Portland and Denmark.
Mrs. Theodore Thsyer is visiting her
son, Harold +. Thayer, at Rumford, for
a few days, and is accompanied by Miss
Gladys Keen OF Norway.
The woman's Missionary Society hold
its meeting in the small vestry of the
Baptist church Thursday, at 3 O'Clock.
All the ladies cordially invited.
A. Fl Newton of Boston, who has
been conducting Queen Esther" left
here Saturday morning for Londonderry,
VT, where he is to prepare the cantata
for presentation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert d. Park were at
their camp, Monticute, at Shagg Pond,
over Saturday and Sunday. This week
they 60 to their Old Orchard cottage for
a stay of few days.
n. d. Bolster has been in Portland for
the past few days. Mrs. Bolster, who
has been visiting in Massachusetts,, join
cd him in Portland, and they are expect
ed home Monday night.
DR.. and Mrs. j. w. Davis of Fort Fair
field have been at DR.. q. l.. Bucks for a
few days, and Monday morning they and
DR.. and Mrs. Buck went to Cliff Island,
where they will spend the present week.
The Oxford County Pomona Grange
field meeting will be held at the county
fair grounds on Tuesday, August Esd.
The speakers will be the state master,
the state lecturer and a speaker from
Vermont.
C. w. Shaw and family and Mr.. and
Mrs. Z. FL. Herrick, with Mrs. Herrick's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Penley of
West Paris, left Monday morning for
Bailey's Island, where they will spend a
week or more.
The old miner, Napoleon Bonsparte
Jackson, who has been digging gold for
thirty years, was in town Saturday. He
has dug more gold out of the earth in the
Swift River region than any other man,
and is always ready to talk mining.
Mt. Mica Lodge, 1. o. o. F., will OBJ
serve the anniversary of its organization
on Thursday evening, at the time of its
regular weekly meeting, with exercises
appropriate to the occasion. The Re-
bekahs have been invited to join In the
observance, at O'Clock.
Joseph A. Noyes has sold bis house
on Hill Street to Mrs. Waterhouse, wife
of George Wsterhouse Of Bryant's Pond,
and Mr. and Mrs. Warehouse will come
here to live. Mr.. Noyes has purchased
the Briggs house on the Stony Brook
road just at the edge OF the village.
U.G. Wheeler came out from his camp
at Shagg Pond on Friday, and left to
assume his duties as superintendent of
schools in Paterson, N. j. Mrs. Wheel
or and daughters will remain at Shsgg
Pond for some time longer, and Miss
Smith of Portland, a teacher in Everett,
Mass, is there with them.
The month of August is as usual va
cation at the Congregational church.
The Christian Endeavor Society will hold
its meeting regularly every Sunday even
( ing at $3.50, and the prayer meeting will
( be held Wednesday evening each week,
but all other services will be omitted
until the first Sunday in September.
At the meeting of the fire department
Friday evening the members voted to 60
to state fair with the Pacific engine and
com pete for the prizes on Monday, Sept.
5th, Labor Day. The foreman of each
company is 20 find out just how many
of his company will 60 and report to the
committee that was elected to have
charge of the affair-Harold Cannon,
Merton Millett, Geo. Clark. The next
meeting, Aug. 9th, 7:S0.
| Rarely do we get so much rain in
twenty minutes as fell in that lergth Of
time in the shower of Saturday after
noon. The roads ran brooks, and on
the hills some damage was done as we'll
as lot of good. There was some light
ming and little hail, some quite large
stones falling. Here no damage was
done by it, but towards Number Four
Hill there was hail enough to damage
the corn and other crops.
'I've got my barn 80 full of hay that /
can't work the carrier" said farmer
Saturday, land two more fields to cut
yet. I've filled up the place that l was
going TO fix up for my chickens this
winter, and the scaffold where l wax
going to put two acres Of oats that are
about ready to cut, and where I shall
put the rest of my hay and oats / don't
know" And that is not very unusual
condition this year. Nothing to find
fault about in that, for our hay crop Is
really our biggest asset. The weather
has been good for haying, and the hay Is
in good shape As rule.
Rev. Chester Gore Miller preached his
last sermon at the Universalist church
on Sunday, and left with bis family on
Monday for their new home 10 Montana.
They are to be on q ranch at Huntley in
The prairie country, seventeen miles from
Billings, and only short distance from
two transcontinental railway lines. Mr..
Miller and his fanny have made many
friends here whose best wishes will
follow them on their journey, and who
hope that Mr.. Miller may find the i'm
provement in health that he is seeking.
dis passionate with the church here has