Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-06-06
The Oxford Democrat.
SOUTH PARIS.

Mrs. LouiseJ. briggs ~ Visiting !
Portland.
Hon. Henry Fl. Hastings Of Bethel wa
a. South Paris on business Wednesday
The Lumley Castle Band played TO
The exercises at Norway con Memoria
Dag.
Mr.. and Mrs. FL. A. Morton have spen
few days at Ramp Killooleet at Shagl
Pond.
Byron A. Evans of Rumford was a
Souib Paris for short visit the first o
last week.
Mrs. Mary II. Tolls OF Brock,ou, Mass
isa guest in the family of her brother
George NJ. Giles.
The reception given by the junior class
NJ the high school to the seniors will be
in New Hall next Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Herrick will
move into the down stairs rent in Mrs.
Alice Tbayer's house vacated blythe East.
mans.
Donald 5. Briggs has gone to Range
Law. where he will be employed this year
as last as clerk at the Rsngeley Lake
House.
; Clarence Curtis and family Of Bos-
TOP. who are spending vacation in
Maine. have been at Arthur Z. Clark's
for q few days.
The NJ. G. Gowell farm has been sold
% Henry <. Judd of New Hampshire,
for occupancy, through the Dennis Pike
Rea Estate Agency.
Mr and Mrs. George T. Eastman will
move into the rent over the store of j,
=. Plummer which was vacated by Mr..
Plummer and family.
Tie month of May, with it's counting
and weighing of mail, has become
memory, like horrible nightmare, to
the post Office people.
A number of the veterans and their
ladies took advantage Of the offer OF Mr..
B4sse.t Of free entertainment at Central
Park On the evening of Memorial Day.
Twenty-eight members of Mount
Pleasant Rebekah Lodge visited Wood
land Lodge at Harrison by invitation
last Thursday evening, and report very
pleasant time.
J. + Plummer and family have moved
into their new house on Pine Street,
which las been under construction for
nearly year, and is one Of the finest
houses in the village.
A small band Of Gypsies passed
through the place few days since. The
women we're willing TO tell fortunes, but
did little business here, and the band
passed along without the customary
orders % "mOve on"
Mount Mica Lodge, No. II, /. D. o. f.,
will observe their annual memorial Sun
day services June 18th. Meet at the hall |
att o'clock. Leave at 2:30. All Odd
Fellows and Rebekahs in this vicinity |
are cordially invited to attend.
The sunday excursion train to Berlin |
was put on June 4th, and will run every |
Sunday until well into the fall. Times
and prices are precisely as in past years.
Leaves South Paris going west at 1922
A. NJ, aud going east at 600 NJ.
During a very lively little thunder
shower OF five or six minutes duration
last Monday noon, a maple tree In front
Of the house of d. FL. Bean on Pleasant
Street was struck by lightning, and
large limb, partially dead, was broken
Of
George II. Clark is at home from the
Massachusetts, Institute of Technology,
but will return in a few days to Boston,
where be will be employed through the
summer vacation in the East Boston re-
pair shops of the Boston and Maine Rail
road
Harold T. Thayer, who has finished
bis engagement in the Oxford County
Citizen office at Bethel, has been at home
for the past week. He has now gone to
Old Orchard, where he has position in
the job printing office Of Postmaster NJ.
Z. Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Porter arrived |
here from Chicago the last of the week.
Mr Porter, who is a son of the late G.
n Porter, has conducted drug store in
Chicago for some thirty years, but has
sold out his business and he and Mrs.
Porter will spend the summer here.
The baccalaureate sermon before the
graduating class OF Paris High School
will be given by Rev. G. G.. Miller OF the
Universalist church. The service will
be in the Congregational church, next
Sunday Q, ening, June IL. The gradual
ing exercises will be held in New Hall
Thursday evening, June Is.
l.. K. ScrutOu was here last week to
make some arrangements for the work
on the sewer contract He expects to
begin work in about two weeks, and as
be has several other contracts on hand, |
will put on a large crew and push the
work to completion. Mrs. Scruton &C
cOmpanied him here last week.
Advertised letters aud cards in South
Paris post office June 8:
Mrs Francis Beauchane.
Miss Rebecca Baker.
Mrs. j. l.. Bennett.
Miss Carrie Libby.
Regis Indian Basket Co.
DR.. MOulton.
Elmer c. Parker.
Arthnr ID. Poland.
Harry Montgomery.
John Burgess.
Fred Martin.
The work of clearing up and grading
around the Deering Memorial Church
was begun last week, and good progress
has been made on il. The outside of the
building is now practically complete.
Decorators are still at work, but the YES
try IN the basement is about finished,
and il is hoped that it may be ready so
that the Methodists Can hold their
service there next Sunday, at the morn
ing hour.
An attempt is being made to increase
the interest in attendance at the Gram
mar School. The following record shows
what per cent of the number enrolled
were absent last week:
Fifth and sixth grades, 5 1881 per cent.
Seventh grade. 9l6 per cent
Eighth grade. 3 1886 per cent.
Ninth grade, l-s per cent
The total number absent was 71-78 per |
cent Of the total number enrolled. This
week the pupils will try to decrease the
number of cases of hardness.
Ripley & Fletcher, agents for the popu-
lar Ford cars, have made sales so far
this season to the following:
$. J. Record. Norway.
Z. T. Smith. Norway.
Or Truiant, Norway.
Dr. Stewart, South Paris.
Harry ID. Cole, South Paris.
samuel Z. Davis, South Paris
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