Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-02-28
THE OXFORD BEARS.
THE DOIN0S OF THE WEEK IN ALL
SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY.
Paris hill.

First Baptist Church, Rev. g. W. T. Hill. pas
tor. Preaching every Sunday at l0,45 A. II.
Sunday School at l2. Sabbath evening service
at SO. Prayer Meeting Thursday evening at
the LIST Sunday of the month at 2 80 p. u. All
not otherwise connected are cordially invited.
Mrs. j. C. Cummings has been spend
ing a week in Auburn.
Mrs. L B. Merrill attended the Bap-
fist quarterly meeting in Mechanic Falls
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George N. Atwood are
visiting the family of Clayton K. Brooks
| in Cambridge, Mass, for few days.
Pr. Ripley and Raymond l.. Atwood
attended the auto show in Portland last
week.
Mrs. Lester o. Jones and son Thayer
of Highwood, CT, have been visiting at
10. A. Thayer's.
Miss Elizabeth A. Eastman died at her
home in this place on Tuesday, after
only a short illness with pneumonia.
She was nearly SO years OF age, but had
up to her last illness been very brisk and
active for one of her years. Miss East
man came to Paris from Conway, n. H.,
with the family of her brother, the late
q. B. Eastman, thirty or forty years ago.
and has ever since resided in town,
where she enjoyed the esteem of all
The funeral was held on Thursday, at
tended BY Rev. G. w. F. Hill, and burial
will be at Riverside Cemetery, South
Paris.
Richard Eastman of Somersworth, n.
a., was called here on account OF the
illness of his aunt, Miss Elizabeth A.
Eastman, reaching here just before her
death.
News has been received of the death
at her home in Salem, Mass, last Tues
lday, of Mrs. Harry G.. Wright. Mrs.
Wright was formerly Miss Mary A. Doe
of Paris, daughter of the late Benjamin
Is. Doe, and has relatives and many
friends here.
There was an attendance OF between
forty and fifty couples at the poverty
ball Friday evening, about half OF them
being in costume appropriate to the oc-
casion. A number of the old-timers
were included in the company, who en-
tered into the affair with much zest, and
enjoyed it as we'll as the younger ones
did
Mark p. Shaw, E. B. Curtis, c. L.
Shaw and f. f. shaw attended the
Pythian Jubilee in Lewiston Wednesday
Il New books added to Hamlin Memorial
Library;
The Rosary, by Florence L. Barclay.
The Mistress OF shenstone, by Florence L. Bar
L clay.
Max, 6y Katherine Cecil Thurston.
Molly Make Believe. by Eleanor Hallowell Alb
II bott.
/ III ll,>ha I'm, nv
An Admiral's Log, by Robley ID. Evans.
Marion Hsrland's Autobiography, by Marion
Harland.
MARY E. SHAW, Lib.
: A New York newspaper contains the
following report of the estate of Miss
, Caroline Phelps Stokes as filed in the
surrogate's office:
The report showed that at the time
of her death, April 20, 1909, the personal
estate of Miss Stokes amounted to
81, 476,56l. while the real estate was
valued at sll2,50 The net value OF the
entire estate, after the deductions fol
administration and other expenses,
} amounted to 81, $780, 10.
, Among the securities held by Miss
/. Stokes were 653 shares Albany & Sus
auehanna Railroad, Sl44, 957; 10 shares
Central Trust Company, Sl47,0OO, ano
4, 254 shares of the stock of two mercan
tile concerns, valued together at 1910, $3.50
The household furnishings were valued
at $1,000, paintings $1,000, jewelry
S, 900, wearing apparel $4,000, and auto
graphs and letters $500.
Miss Stokes left to her sister, Miss
, Olivia f. P. Stokes, $4,000 in cash apd
the 1910, in stock of the concerns
!, above referred to. To her brothers, An
son P. Stokes, William E. D. Stokes
: James Stokes and Thomas Stokes, she
left $4,000 Harvard University re-
ceived S25, 900 and Columbia University
$4,000 There were several other pub
Ilic requests, after which the residue
which the report shows amounted to
about 81 100000 was left in trust for the
erection of model tenements in New
York for poor families, for the education
of negroes in Africa and the United
, States, for the education of the North
American indians. and for needy and de
serving white students.
, The legatees under the will Of Miss
Stokes went to the Supreme Court some
/ time ago to have part OF the will con
. s,rued, but declared that they wished the
original intentions of the testatrix car
ried out, and all legal obstacles in the
way removed.