Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-07-19

AUGUSTA.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smart of woodfords hav,
been guests at Geo. R. Morton's for {
few days.
Misses Addie and Lottie Giles arr
spending portion of their vacation al
Bailey's Island.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert D. Park have
been spending a few days at their camp,
Monticute, at Shagg Pond.
| Ray z. Pomeroy of Lewiston, a forme or
principal of the South Paris Grammar
School, and graduate of Bates College
this year, was here few days last week.
Rev. Z. A. Davis of the Baptist church
and Rev. A. T. MeWhorter of the Con-
gregstional church made an all-day ex
change on Sunday-morniug and evening
services.
Mrs. L. S. Woodbury. wishes to ex-
press her gratitude to the firemen and
all others who assisted in saving her
property when it was SO seriously
threatened in last Tuesdays fire.
Miss Olive C. SWEET and Miss Sara |.
SWEET are tenting at Pennesseewassee
Lake, and expect to spend most of the
remainder of the summer there. Miss
Florence NJ. Richardson was with them
over Sunday.
1t was reported in the Lewiston Sun
last week that the selectmen gave orders
to have the doves killed in South Paris.
The selectmen wish to state that they
have had nothing to do with the killing
of the doves in South Paris whatever.
day morning to Bsiley's Island, where
they will occupy cottage for week or
two. The party includes Mrs. Grace
Plummer, Miss Helen l.. Chapman, Miss
Blanche Barrows, and Miss Josephine
Cole. Others will join them later.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank E. Cotton have
sold their stand on Park Street to
Thomas Mahern and will return to Blue
hill this week where their relatives re-
side and where they lived before coming
to this village. The change is made on
account of the condition of Mr.. Cotton's
health.
There will be series of tent meetings
held by the Seventh Day Adventists at the
corner of Paris and FAIR Streets begin
ming Tuesday evening, July 10, at 1870
p. M The public are very cordially in
vited to attend and bring their Bibles
with them, that We may study the word
of God together.
The town has been awarded the con-
tract to build this years section of the
state road, and the road commissioners
of the town will attend 10 the matter as
soon as possible. The work will be con-
tinued toward the Square from the point
where it stopped last year, at the Nor
way Branch crossing.
The handsome Scotch collie Laddie,
which has been at Franklin Maxim's for
I he past few years, and which belonged
10 his daughter, Mrs. Sprague of
Chicago, died Monday morning. He
was not only valuable dog, but was a
favorite with the family, and needless to
say, they mourn his loss.
l.. z. Scrutou, having completed his |
contracts on water works and sewer with |
the village and the town, is shipping his |
tools and implements and the lumber |
which was in his shacks here to Wolf |
bOro, n. H., where he has contract to |
put in cement dam and water works, |
and will use the lumber there.
Not at all scared by the shower of |
forenoon, which was just a |
good dust-lsyer here, niue members of |
the Fan-Tan Club and two guests went |
on their field day trip to Lake Auburn |
They enjoyed a good shore |
dinner at the Lake Grove House, put in |
a part of the afternoon shopping, and |
had very enjoyable day, returning on
the evening train.
1t is now a month since any rain has !
fallen here, except on two or three occa- |
sions just enough to lay the dust for the |
day, and the drought is getting severe. |
1t is very dusty, and the crops are suffer |
ing. This has been remarkably good |
season for getting the hay, and lot of
it has gone into the barns. What grass
is still standing, and there is quite lot |
of it, is ripening fast.
The Universalist parish meeting Fri |
day evening voted not TO accept the res |
ignalion of Rev. Chester Gore Miller as
pastor, but instead to give him indefinite
leave Of absence. mr.. Miller and his
family will start for Montana the first of
August. he occupying the pulpit for the
next two Sundays "a usual. During
August the church will be closed, and |
later some one will probably be heard
with view to possible call to the pull |
pit of the church.
Their friends will be interested to |
learn that Rev. II. P. Forbes, d. D., and |
Mrs Forbes, of Canton, N. Y, sailed |
from Boston on Wednesday last for
Europe. Both of them 90 az delegates |
from UniversaliSt bodies in America TO |
the World Congress of Free Christianity |
and Religious Progress to be held in Ber- |
lin, from Aug. @ To 10. They will be |
gone about two months, much of the |
time being spent in travel and sight |
seeing. Their itinerary takes them |
through parts of England, France, Ger
many, Switzerland and Italy. They |
will sail from Naples on their return, |
and are due to arrive at New York Sept. |
18th.
A committee Of Paris Grange are in |
vestigatiug the question of securing a
lot somewhere nearer the middle OF the |
village than the site OF their present hall |
with view to building on it at some |
future time This does not mean that
there is any present prospect OF building |
q new hall, but simply that there is
disposition to look out for possible
future needs. The hall now owned by
the grange is farther from the business
center of the village than would be pre-
"a h.n Ia at,tE oin fn
ordinary occasions, is rather small for
Pomona and special meetings where
there is large attendance. In the
natural course of events new hall will
come some time.
BOLSTER DISTRICT.
Abbie Bryant of Auburn is spending
the summer with Mrs. |. d. Cummings.
Mrs. Alfred King is at Kingdale where