Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-07-18
NORWAY

The farmers are hard at work haying
Mrs. Fred Morse and daughter, Jennie
May Morse, and company. are stopping
at their Pike Hill cottage for July and
August.
4 Collector Frank E. DsCoster present.
d ed each taxpayer with tax bill last
Q week. The tax rate for 1911, town, Is
; $50 per thousand, with corporation
tax OF IS so per thousand; town poll
3 tax 81 80; corporation $3.50.
: Capt. N. P. Stiles was at bis Portland
! Office during the week. BE was one Of
the rife team at Wakefield, Mass, and
did some very good shooting as usual.
Rev. and Mrs. n. G. Ward, children,
! and Mrs. Freeman, left Tuesday for
Buxton. Rev. Mr.. Wards vacation
J takes the month Of August.
The village stores, dry and fancy
goods and millinery stores, are closed on
, Friday afternoons. The blacksmith
shops are closed on Saturday afternoons,
and as some one has said, certain public
places of business most all the time.
Mrs. w. W. Whitmarsh experienced q
very painful and somewhat serious acci-
dent Wednesday morning. She went to
the refrigerator for the Ice mans supply
of Ice. As she lifted the top bottle of
ginger ale exploded. The fragments of
the bottle were thrown in all directions.
A piece of glass hit her on the right
wrist, severing the artery and cutting to
the bones. The flow of blood was stop
ped by those present and q physician at
once called. The severe cut was dress
ed and Mrs. Whitmsrsh is rapidly re-
covering.
Several Norway attorneys will attend
the banquet given Hon. Lucilius A.
Emery at the Bangor House, Bangor, by
the Maine State Bar Association on the
9th Of July.
Don G. Seitz of New York made his
Norway friends visit the last of the
week.
Milton Harrison Merriam, after long
sickness died of Bright's disease at bis
Main Street home Saturday morning,
July 8. He was born in this town Jan.
les, 1910, the son OF Silas and Mary Co.
burn Merriam. Ho resided on the old
homestead farm at North Norway until
a few years ago, when he moved to the
village. He married Mrs. Lucelia An
drews Cummings Jan. IA, 1894, who sur
wives him. Services at the late residence
Sunday. Interment at Norway Center
Cemetery.
Ed Cummings and wife of Bemis are
in town for few days. Mr.. Cummings
is in charge of the Bemis end of the
firms business and spends most of bis
time there.
q. Price Webber's Boston Comedy
Company will visit Norway Saturday,
July 20, In "The Honeymoon" This
will mark the re.opening Of the opera
house.
Mrs. NJ. l.. Kimball and son Houghton
are at her former home in Ellsworth for
her annual visit.
Frank Cox and wife have returned
from a visit with their daughter, Mrs.
Edward z. Harris. in Cliftondale, Mass.
James N. Tubs horse was frightened
Wednesday morning by something In
the street and made quick time on Beal
Street, Lynn and Main Streets. When
captured he was not injured but the
wagon was somewhat damaged.
The temperance meeting at the Congre-
gational church Wednesday evening was
we'll attended. Rev. R. j. Bruce opened
the meeting with prayer and Scripture
reading by Rev. B. c. Wentworth. Mrs.
L. N. N. Stevens of Portland gave very
Interesting discussion Of the subject.
The installation of the officers of Pen
| nesseewassee Lodge, No. IS, K. of p,
will take place Thursday evening, July
Goth. They are:
Gee. J. Sharon.
V.C.-O. L. Pingree.
PHI. d. Tubbs.
| NJ. at "A. A. Melvin.
I.G-H L. Kimball.
O. G.-Jesse P. Edwards.
| X. Of R. S.-W. A. Lewis.
NJ. of F.-Otto Schnuer.
| NJ. of E.-HOsea Abbott.
NJ Of W.-Geo W. Wood.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Paret of Phila-
delphia, Pa, are at their lake cottage.
G. L. Hathaway, wife and Miss Clara,
are at their lake island cottage.
Frederick Moffatts family of Dor
chester, Mass, are at their cottage for
the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Luck, Harry,
Homer and Alton, Mr.. and Mrs. Cor.
della Smith, Nettie Smith, Ethel Flood
and Myrtle Millett are stopping for q
week at Pinehurst at the lake.
Randall 0. Porter has been with his
grandfather at Damariscotta Mills for
few days. The grandfather is in his
92d year.
I'll. Merchant of Randolph, Vt, who
| is one of the purchasers of the Prince
Sisters business, has leased the tene-
meut over the savings bank.
John Hutchins and crew have just
finished painting the high school build.
ing. The building Is we'll painted and
L.; droca
Mrs. q. L. Bartlett and children were
with relatives In East Stoneham last
week.
Ethel Lapham, the little girl who has
lost her eyesight, Ia attending school at
the Perkins Institute for the Blind at
Boston, She is just now enjoying her
summer vacation with her aunt, Mrs. Ed
z. Witt, at the Center.
L. D. Cummings, for some time at
work for E. A. Greenleaf at Sugar Island,
has returned to Norway.
The lawn party at Susie Walkers was
a most pleasing affair. There was a
large attendance. Refreshments OF Ice
cream and cake were served.
Mrs. Agnes Brown of Hopkinton,
Mass, is the guest of her mother, Mrs.
Cyrus Tucker. :,
At the next regular meeting OF Oxford
Castle, K. G. E., the officers will be in
stalled. They are:
SPEC. NJ. Bennett.
N.C.-william Durell.
| V.C-W. e. Everett.
H.P.-H. L. Cleveland.
V.H.-Urshal Cannon.
8. Nv. A. Rich.
The Universalist church will be closed
from July 18 to Sept. 8.
Fire in the kitchen Of the Elm House
called out the fire department about
midnight Sunday night. The blaze was
handled by the department without e1'
teusive damage, not more than $500 or
$500. 1t was burning In two separate
places.
The wedding of Alton Noyes of Harri-
SON and Miss Gladys Frost of Norway
took place at the Methodist church at
$50 Sunday morning, Rev. B. G. Went
worth performing the ceremony. The
bride is . graduate OF Norway High
School In this years class, and both she
and tho groom have been employed OF
late In the Mason Manufacturing Co.'s
factory at South Paris. They have gone
to Harrison to spend the summer.
Born.