Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-04-12
Irving Barrows is clerk 10 the store Of

Il IinoE oWlhL VI ncNcIcs haeo', udo ooc
visiting bis father, N. 7. Swift, for tn
last two weeks.
ii. G. Fletcher is making repairs o.
bis stable on Gothic Street. j. S. Bul
bank is doing the work.
There will be a mems supper at tn
Baptist vestry the last week in April
Further notice will be given later.
Mrs. Lydia E. Swift, Miss Lora Swift
and Mr.. Linwood Bailey of Auburn call
ed on friends and relatives Sunday.
Quimby Abbott and family, who hav'
lived at South Paris for number o
years, are moving to Whitman, Mass.
Henry Fletcher is putting up the new
/ building at the rear of his barn for which
he put in the foundation wall some tim'
since.
Mrs. W. F. Durham of Lynn, Mass.
spent a part Of the day Saturday with
Mrs. Geo. D. Robertson on Church
Street.
Miss Maud Carter, who teaches il
Dorchester, Mass, is spending her vaca
ton with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L.
b. Carter.
Miss Fannie S. Bisbee returned Friday
| from the Central Maine General Hos
pital, where she had undergone an opera
ton for appendicitis.
Station Agent G.. A. Doran and family
have moved from Mrs. Lovejoy's rent or
Pleasant Street into the g. +. Chase
house on Western Avenue.
Mrs. c. III. Howard and two sons have
been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Omar b. Mer'
row, in Auburn, for few days. MT.
Howard was there over Sunday.
Edward d. Selden, whose wife was
Miss Hattie Curtis, formerly OF South
Paris, died at his home in Portland on
the Sd inst. Burial was at Fairfield.
The ladies of the Congregational Cir
Gle will serve their last supper of the
season next Thursday, April 18th. Sup
per will be followed by an entertain
ment.
There will be a rehearsal of the degree
cam of Hamlin Temple after the regular
meeting Tuesday evening, April II. All
mem ers of the degree team are request
ed to be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. G.. Wentworth, who
have been at Glen Station, n. H.,
through the winter, have gone back to
the Glen House, Gorham, n. H., where
they will be employed as last year.
The new sutos are coming in. Thurs
day Curtis Remission bought new forty
horsepower Interstate from Portland.
DIR. Little6eld and DR.. Bradbury have
each bought Mitchell, but have not yet
got the cars.
Next Friday is the day when the some
thing like ninety millions of people IN
the United States are to be numbered.
The work of taking the census begins on
that day, aud the work must be COM
plsted within thirty days.
Mrs. Herbert league, who has been
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison
Farrar. for a few weeks, has returned
to her home in Madison. She was called
here on account of the serious illness OF
Mrs. Farrsr, who is now improving.
Emulus C. Benson has been at home
for few days from Georgetown, where
he is at work numbering, on account OF
his health. He left with the Democrat
bunch of fully blossomed MaytJwers
which he brought home with him, and
says that the flowers are coming out
quite rapidly there.
Speaking of smart old people, one OF
= an
Woodstock, who is 81 years old. MIR.
Whitman walked nearly five miles ore
day last week to take the train at West
Paris, and came to South Paris on busi-
ness, where be spent part of the day,
returning on the afternoon train.
A special meeting of the Universalist
parish will be held on Tuesday evening
of this week to elect trustee to MI the
vacancy caused by the death of w. l..
Farrar, and to see what action the parish
will take in regard to giving the Meth
odists the use of the church building ior
afternoon services while their new
church is being built.
Rev. Z. A. Davis, the new pastor of
the Baptist church, was called to Bur
liugton, VT, the first of last week by
the serious illness with pneumonia OF
his father, who died on Tuesday. Mr..
Davis has not yet returned to South
Paris, but is expected early this week.
His pulpit was supplied on Sunday by
d. l.. Joslin of Norway.
Rev. w. r. Manley and wife left South
Paris on Thursday evening for Boston
and the West where their children are.
They will spend Sunday with relatives
in Cambridge, and by special request Mr..
Manley will speak in the evening in
Grace Methodist Episcopal church on
the subject of foreign missions. Mr.. and
Mrs. Marley greatly enjoyed their visit
at South Paris and Bethel, and only re-
greet that it had to be so brief.
Graduation parts of the class of 1910,
Paris High School, are as follows, the
first two assigned by scholarship:
valedictory-MissG Gertrude Howard.
Salutatory-Miss Geneva Young.
History-Albert King.
Prophecy-Miss Cora Wight.
Address to Observation-Disclosures Haggett
Presentation of Gifts-Ralph Easson.
Glass Essay-Miss Honora Martin.
Oration-Earle Kimball.
The class consists of eleven members,
the Others, additional to those having
parts, being Miss Jessie Jackson, Will
bur Swan, and Philip King.
There was a pleasant gathering last
Saturday at the home of Mr.. VIM. Morse
on Park Street to celebrate the 74th
birthday anniversary of his mother, Mrs.
Ann Gould. The guests were the
elderly girls" of Class No. Q of the
Baptist Sunday School with few other
invited ''girls" of corresponding age.
An unusual feature of the occasion was
the fact that it was q complete surprise
TO Mrs. Gould, although ample prepare
tons had been made in the house for
the entertainment of the guests.
Miss Gladys Buck died on Friday al
the home of John l.. Brigham in North
Rucktield. She was the adopted daugh
| ter of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Jabez Buck
of Paris, taken by them when an infant
For the past few years until within
short time she had been in Massachu
setts. The remains were brought Il
South Paris, and the funeral was held a
Miss Thayer's after the arrival OF thu
morning train Monday, with services
conducted by speaker of the Christa
delphian church from Boston. Buria
was in the cemetery in the Porter dis
trict. Miss Buck was A years of age.
o. The remains of Mrs. Nellie Hard,
were brought here last Wednesday iron
Haverhill, Mass, where she died on tn
Monday preceding. Mrs: Hardy was tn