Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-07-12
Miss Kthslyn Beeds of Phillips 10 .
guest at Rev. T. N. Kewley's.

Miss Verna Howe Is visiting the famil
OF Rev. j. 81. Little at Bethel.
Maurice L. Noyes has purchased ih
farm Of Clayton A. Churchill in Tuel
Town.
w. X. Fletcher, who teaches in Wol
cester, Mass, is spending the summer a
South Paris as usual.
There will be social dance a
Academy Hall, Paris Hill, Friday even
ing, July 10. All are welcome.
Great weather for haying the pas
week, except that it was too hot fol
comfortable work most of the time.
Rev. t. N. Kewley of the Methodist
church exchanged pulpits with Rev. b
c. Wentworth of Norway Sunday morn,
ing.
Quarterly conference will be held a,
the Methodist church this Monday even
ing, and District Superintendent Holmes
will be present
Mrs. Z. NJ. Curtis has been at Fal-
mouth Foreside for few days, getting
her cottage there in readiness for the
summer season.
Mrs. w. F. Durham (nee Brown) OF
Lynn, Mass, who was visiting at her
friend Mrs. George d. Robertson Thurs
day.
The Ladies' Aid of the Methodist
church will have lawn party on the
church lawn next Friday evening. Ice
cream will be for sale and The Lumley
Castle Band will be in attendance to
furnish music.
Rev. DR.. Charles NJ. Hall, pastor of
the Linwood Avenue Methodist Church
10 Buffalo, \. Y, preached at the Con-
gregstional church Sunday morning, by
special request. He is the guest of his
cousin, Henry Muzzy.
Leon f. Noyes is in the Central Maine
General Hospital at Lewiston, where he
underwent severe surgical operation on
Saturday. Troubles resulting from a
previous operation for appendicitis were
the cause of operation, but it was found
that there were other troubles and COM
plications which made it a severe case.
He is reported as comfortable as could
be expected.
Mrs. U. G. Wheeler and Misses Esther
and Marion Wheeler of Everett, Mass,
arrived here Saturday. Mr.. Wheeler
joins them later, and on Tuesday they
90 to their camp at Shagg Pond for
stay Of few weeks. Mr.. Wheeler, who
has been superintendent of schools in
Everett for some years, has been chosen
10 Passsic, Y. j., and the
family will move to that place on their
return from their vacation.
Every night now the brown-tail moths
iutter around the arc lights, and in the
some numbers of them may be
seen on the poles and the ground in the
vicinity. They were first here in notice
able numbers Thursday evening, but
here has not as yet been any such flight
IF them as we had on two nights last
summer. The English sparrows, what
,f them now remain in the place, make
war on them, and destroy large numbers.
The contract to build the new Meth
idist church has been verbally awarded
10 Albert Z. Littlefield of Portland, and
The forma! contract will be signed when
certain changes are made in the plans
md specifications. Mr. Littletield is
here the first of the week to
make preparations for the work. The
church will be built of Bryant's Pond
granite, and while it will not be finished
his season, it is expected that it will be
closed in so that work can continue
through tho winter. A man is expected
here Monday afternoon to take charge of
the organ from the old church.
The hot wave reached its elimination
Sunday, when thermometers in different
parts of the village registered at various
points 10 the nineties, some of them even
1t the hundred mark. There was very
little stirring for the day. Even the
were less plenty than usual,
md the Sunday excursion trains carried
rather light loads Thunder showers
delayed but with accumulated
Intensity began to gather about noon, but
hey failed to fulfill the Scripture, as all we
got here was few drops of rain, while
i few miles north of us there must have
been heavy fall. The display of fire.
works in the north for about two hours
N the evening was something not equal
I'd in years, and the movements of the
shower kept us guessing, but We are as
Try as ever.
A party of the Shurtleff family from
Portland and South Paris made an auto
rip from this place Saturday. The
party included Sylvan Shurtleff, Mrs.
Pierce, Mr. aud Mrs George A. Shurtleff,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Shurtleff and daugh-
ter Marjorie of Portland, Mrs. Nancy
Whitman and Miss Nellie l.. Whitman of
South Paris, and Miss Margaret V.
Wright of Nova Scotia, who is with Miss
Whitman. Starting after the arrival of
the forenoon train, they first went to the
old house in the King district where
Mrs. Whitman and Mr.. Shurtleff were
born 81 and 80 wears ago respectively,
thence TO Paris Hill, where they dined
at the Hubbard House, and in the after
mon TO West Paris and back to South
Paris by way of High Street in time for
the afternoon train,