Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-06-20
Schools close this week.

Mrs. Hattie Selden of Portland is The
guest Of Miss Laura Burnell.
. Miss Alberta Thompson of Portland
is again at Charles Edwards.
Miss Nellie Preble of Bryant's Pond
visited at Harry ID. Coles last week.
\ Mrs. Herbert Robinson of Yarmouth
is spending week at Albert d. Parks.
/ Mrs. Clark wayland of Portland Is a
guest at K. N. Auderson's for few days.
Miss Carrie Kneass of Philadelphia Ia
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Nelson /.
} Mixer.
Fl. c. Taylor from Colby College was
] here few days last week coaching the
high school ball team.
j. q. Cole of West Paris is doing car
penter work for N. L. Noyes on his
several houses in the place.
Rev. Charles Hall, D. D., of Buffalo,
In. Y, and daughter, Miss Elizabeth
Hall, are guests at Fl. ID. Fields.
Gilbert SWEET of Winchester, Mass, is
with his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob Nichols, to spend the summer.
Rev. A. T. Mcwhorter was at West
Paris Sunday afternoon to deliver the
sermon for the Odd Fellows OF that
place.
Rev. Chester Gore Miller went to Bry-
ants Pond Sunday afternoon and gave
the annual sermon before the Knights OF
Pythias.
| There will be a social dance at Acad
envy Hall, Paris Hill, Friday evening,
June %. All cordially invited. Ad-
mission % cents.
Mrs. Harlan Andrews and Miss Eva
Andrews of South Woodstock were
guests at Z. F. Shaw's for the high
school graduation.
o. K. Clifford has recently sold the G.
C.. Dearborn house on Pleasant Street
near the Catholic church to Mrs. Horace
Starbird, who is occupying it.
The closing day exercises to be given
by the pupils of the grammar school
will be in the high school building FRI
day afternoon, June %, at 2 O'Clock.
A pile of lumber for the sewer crib
work is stacked up beside Plummer's
store, and Contractor Scruton is expect
ed here to use it about the first of July.
Mrs. Mary NJ. Tolls of Brockton,
Mass, who has been with the family OF
her brother, Geo. NJ. Giles, went Satur-
day TO Wilton to visit relatives there be-
fore returning home.
The w. C. T. U. will observe field day
on the grounds of Mrs. I. NJ. Davis
Tuesday afternoon. All members cor
daily invited to be present. Bring your
lunch and enjoy an afternoon in the
open.
A piece of rowdyism for which there |
would seem to be not the least explana- |
ton was the kicking in of the screen |
door at the Congregational parsonage, |
which was done about midnight Thurs
day night.
There will be horse races and ball
game, possibly other features, at the
fair grounds on the Fourth of July.
James Pledge has secured subscriptions
in small amounts sufficient to guarantee
a ball game Paris and Norway.
A union Sunday School picnic, in
which the Congregational, Methodist
and Baptist Sunday Schools will unite,
is planned to be held at Gibson's Grove,
on Thursday, the 10th, and committees
to have charge of the various features
have been chosen by joint committee
from the several schools.
The boys celebrated their base ball
victory over Norway Saturday night by
parading with brass drum, circular saw,
trumpets, and other noise, and made
quite a racket. They confined them
selves to this village, and refrained from
going to Norway. 1t is said that visit
from them had been expected at Nor
way, and plans made accordingly.
Advertised letters and cards in South
Paris post office, June 10, 1911:
G. ii. Chaplin.
Miss Carrie Cushman.
ID. ID. Edwards.
A. Flood (cardl.
O. L. Foss.
H. s. Plnkham.
Robert II. Hamilton.
Austin whitman. =,
Two South Paris boys were among
the graduates of the University Of Maine
at its commencement last week, when
degrees in course were received by a
total of IA. Lewis A. Keen OF South
Paris received the degree of B. S. in
electrical engineering, and was one OF
seventeen TO receive general hOnors for
work 10 the college course, also being
elected to the honorary society of Phi
Kappa Phi. Merton r. Sumner OF South
Paris received the degree of B. s. in
civil engineering, and had the address to
undergraduates in the class day exer-
cises.
A party of six young ladies have been
guests at Geo. K. Morton's for the past
week. All are classmates of Miss Isabel
C. Morton in the department of design OF
the Boston Art Museum School, from
which they graduated few weeks since.
They are Miss Marion Hardy of Newton
willie, Mass, Miss Anna Humphrey OF
Boston, Miss Nettie Rice of Worcester,
Mass, Miss Alice Bradt and Miss Mary
Holmes of Lowell, Mass, and Miss Helen
Wales of Beverly, Mass. On Saturday
the birthday of Miss Katherine Morton
was observed, and a number of other
friends were invited in. Saturday alter
noon they visited Mount Mica. This
week if the weather is suitable the party |
will spend few days at Camp Concord.
MerriIl.Merrill.