Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-09-12
Henry j. Merrill and family Of Cam
den are guests at l.. s. Msrrill's.

Il Miss Georgia Sheldon of Belfast was
guest at j. P. Richardson's over Sunday
Miss Fanny Chapman goes Tuesday I.
resume her studies at Gorhsm Norma
School.
| Mrs. A. A. Abbott and daughter Sars
OF Lynn, Mass, are guests at Benjamin
ISwett's.
Mrs. Harry Saunders and little sor
Elton of Woodfords are guests at A. C.
Maxim's.
Miss Mildred Maxim has returned
from . two weeks stay with friends II
Woodfords.
| Mrs. Alton G. Wheeler went Friday to
Boston, and will visit in that vicinity fol
about ten days.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Messer Of Haverhill,
Mass, are guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. z. n.
Anderson this week.
Miss Anna NJ. Barley, a missionary
in Cuba, will speak in the Baptist church
next Sunday evening.
Howard Shaw played the piano at
Miss Olive Thompson's farewell party at
Paris Hill Monday evening.
Miss Maud Carter started Monday
morning for Dorchester, Mass, to re-
sumo her work of teaching.
All the schools in town begin next
Monday, with teachers announced in the
Democrat some weeks since.
Miss Faith Davis has returned from
Kennebunk Beach, where she has been
employed during the summer.
Miss Leona D. Stuart went Friday to
Limestone, where she is to teach English
and French in the high school.
Mrs. George Wise left Monday morn
ing for visit to relatives and friends in
Rockland, Brockton and Quincy, Mass.
Miss Flora Rituer Harlow, who has
been at Walter P. Maxim's during the
summer, returned Saturday to her home
in Bridgeport, CT.
Miss Helen Luce and Mrs. Burleigh
Standish of New Portland are guests at
w. b. Strickland's. Mrs. Standish is q
cousin of Mr.. Strickland.
Miss Alice Barden of West Paris sang
a solo at the morning service at Deering
Memorial church Sunday which was
much enjoyed by those present.
At the state fair last week Oxford Co.
Creamery took three blue ribbons. LIST
for firkin of butter, for prints, and for
box of butter-almost all they asked for.
Miss Marguerite Elder returned Mon
day morning TO her home in Maiden,
Mass, in preparation for the opening of
the year at Smith College, in which she
is student.
Officers aud members of the degree
staff of Hamlin Temple are requested to
be present at the regular meeting Tues
day evening, Sept. 18th. Light refresh
ments will be served.
Mrs. l.. Z. Bean has purchased lot
next south of her house on Pine Street,
100 feet on the street and 125 feet deep,
which she will use as grove, and it is
now being cleared for that purpose.
Some forty or ffty new names were
added TO the voting list in Paris during
the three days that the selectmen were |
in session last week, and about the same |
number, of those who are dead or re- |
moved from town, were taken off.
William C. Cummings, who was Sc |
verely wounded in the ARRAY as conse |
uuence of which Movnette Cummings is |
now in Jail, is reported as gaining well
at the hospital in Lewiston, and is ex-
pected to make full recovery, except |
che loss of an eve
As the Democrat goes to press, little |
before noon Monday, the voting is pro- |
ceeding rapidly, with the prospect Of q
very large vote-probably as large as
that usually cast az regular election. |
The weather is perfect and the travelling
is good. All sections of the town are
turning out well. In the first three
hours after the polls opened at o'clock,
$50 votes were cast in the town OF Paris,
which is large number for the time.
Sunday evening the final meeting of
the prohibition campaign was held in
the Universalist church, and was union
meeting of the four churches. The au-
,iitorium of the church, and the vestry
which was thrown open, were filled.
Opening services were conducted by the
pastors of the four churches, with sever
al selections by qusrtette composed of
Mrs. Wilson, Miss Tolman, Mr.. Sessions
and A. K. Dean, and then there was
program of ive-minute (more or less)
speeches. Those who spoke were En-
voy Brown of the Salvation Army, Geo.
b. Crockett, Hon. James S. Wright, Rev.
K. A. Davis, Arthur Z. Forbes, Alton G.
Wheeler, Rev. A. T. McWhorter, Ii. w.
Denuison, Rev. T. n. Kewley, Albert D.
Park, Eben E. Chapman, j. A. Kenney.
Walter L. Gray read letter from Capt.
Richmond P. Hobson, written at Poland
Spring Saturday night to be read at this
meeting, in response to request from
those in charge. This letter fully cover
cd the question of control of the liquor
traffic, declaring national prohibition to
be the outcome of present conditions.
Rev. G. G. Miller with brief talk closed
the program, suggesting uniform SEN
tence of five years in state prison for ILL
cit liquor sellers. The meeting covered
two hours and quarter, and was en-
thusiastic from start to finish.