Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-08-08
Mrs. L. ]. Briggs is visiting in PORT

Walter White, formerly at South Pari
now employed in the general offices Z
the Maine Central Railroad at Portland
visited here last week while on his vacs
. ton.
S. G.. Burnell has been visiting rela
!, tives in Baldwin for the past week o
> more, going there with his nephew
Arthur Burnsll, who recently visitst
here.
Mrs. W. o. rockingham and son
William L., left Saturday morning fo
Perry, where they will visit Mrs. Froth
a ingham's people for the rest of tn,
month.
| Miss L. Alice Wstherell, with bel
nephew and niece, Master Henry Weth
erell and Miss Lavinia Wetherell, started
Monday morning for two weeks visi,
: in Penfield, N. b.
Mrs. Benjamin SWEET was visited last
week by her two brothers, NJ. Fl. An.
drews of Bangor and Perley Andrews oil
Orono with his family, and her sister,
Mrs. Daniel SWEET of Bethel
Shaw's Orchestra furnished music at
Emery Brothers spring board dance at
Snow's Falls Saturday evening, Aug 5th,
and will also play for private dance at
Bryant's Pond Tuesday evening, August
Sth.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. S. Barnes. Miss Helen
NJ. Barnes, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy K. Cole
and Edward E. Shaw went Saturday to
Shagg Pond, where they will occupy A.
L. Holmes camp, Waldheim, for week
or more.
There will be dance at Academy Hall,
Paris Hill, Friday evening, Aug. IL. If
stormy, Saturday evening, Aug. u.
Everybody invited to come and have
good time.
A number of members of William X.
! Kimball Circle. Ladies of the g. A. r.,
visited T. l.. Packard Relief Corps at
Hebron Friday by special invitation
Guests from several other places were
also present.
4 L. Merchant & Co., who purchased
the Prince dry goods store at Norway,
will open it on Tuesday of this week,
after week of closing for taking stock.
Their announcement in the advertising
columns this week will be of interest.
Misses Florence Stiles, Lula Boswell.
Lu,tie Wing, Sadie Swallow and Ethel
Campbell were with Miss Helen Rogers
at Willard Beach, South Portland, over
Sunday. Miss Campbell will 60 from
there to West Falmouth, where she will
stay for two weeks.
Miss Nette Newell entertained about
twenty of her young friends last Monday |
evening, the occasion being her fifteenth !
birthday. Refreshments were served,
and pleasant evening was enjoyed. A
number of birthday presents were re-
ceived by the hostess from the guests |
and others.
Co. d, Second Regiment, n. G. S. NJ,
went into camp on the fair grounds Sat |
urday afternoon, and remained there |
until Monday morning, when camp was
broken, and the company started on the
express for Augusta for the annual en-
campment of the Second Regiment, |
which lasts ten days.
The family of Superintendent of |
Schools II. G. knight have been visited |
during the past week by Mrs. Knights |
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. K. n. Doubleday |
of North Dana, Mass, who came in their |
automobile. Mr.. Knight and family re- |
turned with them TO their home Monday |
morning, and will spend two weeks |
there.
Miss Isabel c. Morton, who graduated
this year from the department of design |
of the Art Museum School in Boston, |
will start Tuesday morning for Santa |
barbara, Calf, where she is engaged for
the next year. She will teach in state |
normal school of manual training and
home economics, and her department is |
that of applied design and crafts.
The Congregational church is closed |
for vacation during the month Of Au-
gust. Rev. Mr.. McWhorter spoke SUD- |
day morning at the Methodist church at |
Norway by special invitation, on the |
temperance issue, but does not intend to
accept any other engagements for the
month. He and his family will remain |
at South Paris, that is, they will not be
away for any extended. visit.
Work on the sewer has progressed so
that the pipe is now laid to point about
in front of J. p. Richardson's, and High |
Street is opened still farther. The deep |
est of the work is past, but in the loose
sandy material every foot of it has to be |
cribbed. At the place where the High |
Street and Pleasant Street branches join |
in the main line of sewer, just south of
the post office crossing, a manhole will
be put in, the brick and cement for
which have been delivered, and work on
ii is in progress.
While at South Paris for the day Sun
day, Willis S. Burbank of Livermore
Falls died very suddenly of valvular
heart trouble. He Was at Mrs. James
K. Coles, and was telling those in the
room of his heart trouble, for which he
had been taking treatment for some
time. He had just made the remark
that he thought his old heart was about
as good as any body's, when with brief
gasp or two he died. He was a stable
keeper at Livermore Falls, and was
about As years of age, single. he Is
survived by his father and mother. The
remains were taken to Livermore Falls
Monday morning.
Mrs. Albert E. Dean of South Paris
secured the King Kineo range, given by
Hobbs Variety store of Norway in a
contest conducted in the advertising
columns of the Democrat This contest,
which closed Last Thursday, was under
the auspices of the Hobbs store entirely,
the Democrat having no part in it e1-
cept to publish the advertisement. Mrs.
Dean presented $500 copies OF the ad-
vertisement, which had twenty-six in
sertions 10 the Democrat. These were
procured from regular readers, there
being no purchase Of papers In bulk to
secure them. As this is an average OF
243 copies of the advertisement for each
issue 10 which 1t appeared, consider
able amount of industry on Mrs. Deans
part is indicated.
Two men OF the sect commonly known
as the Israelites, with headquarters at
the House of David In Benton Harbor,
Mich, spoke in the Square Friday even
ing. They wear long hair, falling near
| ly to their waists, and long boards.
While their talk was rather discursive,
it appears that the peculiar tenets OF
their belief on which they lay stress, are
that the great upheaval which is to
presage the millennium-the third mil
lennium the world has seen-is now at
hand and that eternal life of the body