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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
Hebron.

Mr.. and Mrs. Z. s. Durham came from
Boston to their summer home last week.
Mrs. Webster Turner Of Oxford spent
two days with Miss Trip recently.
Mrs. j. c. Donham 10 visiting relatives
in Auburn.
j. Z. Bartlett Of Boston is visiting his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Bartlett.
A new foundation 10 being put under
Grange Hall as She old one was not con-
sldsred safe.
Mrs. j. l.. Bumpus and Miss Grace
Bumpus were 10 Lewiston last week.
Mrs. Joseph Hibbs 10 failing and Mrs.
Ezra Marshall is still confined to her
bed.
We had news this week Of the death OF
Mrs. Addie B. Hawkes. Bray at Der home
in Dorchester, Mass. Mrs. Bray was
born In Hebron, and daughter Of the
late Calvin B. Hawkes.. She leaves a
husband and daughter. also . brother,
Calvin Bachelor Hawkes., OF Boston.
Prof. w. <. Sargent had = birthday
post card shower Tuesday and Mr.. S. A.
Bumpus had one Wednesday. Mr..
Bumpus was 50 years old.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
A Veqetarian Cat.

There is u cat In the seclusion Of
Hampton Court. England. which has
become strict vegetarian. certainly
on principle. since there Is plenty Of
ment to be had. This eccentric crea.
iure. black from nose to tall. has taken
for her chief diet scarlet runner beans
Cucumbera she also likes. and carrots.
II they are boiled. while she occasion
ally nibbles away at other vegetables.
But for some inscrutable reason this
singular cat will not touch fruit, and.
although she will drink milk. she re-
jects the bread that may be mixed
with It. Altogether there Is some talk
Of taking this queer animal to London
to have the philosophers talk over her
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
North Paris.

Fred Andrews sawed several fingers
quite badly last week In I. W. Andrews
& Sons mill.
Frank Beck and wife visited at his
fathers Sunday, the 21st, coming In his
new auto. John Reeves and wife came
with them to SEQ her folks, G.. Kimball
and wife.
Mrs. Trssk and son were ct Norway
the 26th.
A. B. Abbott Is quite sick, also Lewis
Abbott.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30

ANNOUNCEMENT ID tuduo tudt VI odeui-
day, June 10, Ringing Brothers Worlds
Greatest Shows will give two perform.
ances in Lewiston.
This is the greatest of American cir
cuses In every sense of tho word, and an
event not to be overlooked by the lovers
OF wholesome amusement
For many years the Ringing Brothers
have maintained the most popular a.
we'll as the best show. This year they
are more than ever giving patrons their
moneys worth. Among the many great
attractions under the twelve acres of
canvas are Prof. Emory's troupe OF
trained baby elephants, the wonderful
Schuman performing horses from the
Circus Schuman, Germany; "Toque" the
dog marvel OF England which does q
somersaulting performance on the back
of a swiftly running horse; the wonder
full Alex family of French aerialists; the
great Croker family OF Gypsy riders;
the Deltorelli family Of Hungarian
clowns, once entertainers In tho court Of
the Shah OF Persia; the Bonsetti family
of Italian acrobats, the Castrillion fam
lily of Spanish acrobat; the Hodgini
family Of Italian equestrians, and the
fifty greatest clowns on earth.
In tho menagerie is found Tiny Tom
Tinker, the smallest elephant ever seen
In America. In all there are forty ele.
plants and 1900 other wild beasts,
comprising the rarest OF geological
specimens. The morning parade is the
greatest street spectacle ever devised for
circus purposes. There are three miles
of It and every mile mile of wonders.
Ringing Brothers circus 10 tweDty-
eight years old. 1t began it's career as
one-horse affair In Bsraboo, Wis, when
the now famous brothers were scarcely
more than children. In the face of the
bittsrest opposition It grew into tho
greatest amusement Institution tho world
has ever known. Its field extends over
the entire earth. It has offices 10 every
capital of Europe and Asia and foreign
workshops near Liverpool. 1t employs
over 1000 people, 1926 Of whom travel
with tho show.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
Locke's Mills.

Emery Cole. . former resident Of this
place. died at the homo of David LeBroke
at Waterford May 20. Funeral services
were held at the home OF Mont Abbott
at South Bethel, Monday, May 22d, con-
Quoted by Rev. C. L. Bspghsrt of Bethel.
Music by Abbie Trask, Lola Foster, and
Mrs. C. z. Stowell. Burial beside bis
wife in the cemetery here. "Uncle"
Emery will be missed by his many
friends.
Mrs. Bradbury was In town last week
with a fine line of millinery.
Sara aud Olive SWEET are the guests Of
DR.. and Mrs. Packard.
G.. l.. Cushman and family are at their
camp for the season.
The season bids fair to be . lively one.
All the camps will soon be occupied.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
Oickyale,

About 10 O'Clock Tuesday evening,
May %. E. NJ. Worthley's mill was dis
covered to be or fire. The alarm was
rung on the telephone and the people
promptly responded with pals, milk cans
and buckets. But everything was 60
dry and the fire had made such Roadway
that saving the mill was out of the ques-
ton, and the volunteer fire fighters de.
voted their time to saving the strip shed
and stock In the yard. Loss six thou.
sand dollars. Insurance ono thousand.
This Ia hard blow to Mr.. Worthley a.
he early this spring lost lumber mill
at Roxbury, with no insurance. The
Dickvsle mill was engaged In the manu-.
facture of speeders and bowels.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
Denmark.

Mr.. Fred Sanborn has been confined
to the house the past week with bad
cold.
Silver Rebekah Lodge, I. o. o. F., No.
10, worked the degree upon eleven can
didates Thursday evening. There was
large attendance. Mr.. Frank Bennett
and wife and three friepds were present
from Harrison, and Mr.. James Went
worth and wife from Brownfield. Ice
cream and cake were served after tho
meeting In the banquet hall.
Mr.. C. e. Cobb 10 to have q laundry In
connection with bis hotel.
Mr.. Morrill, of the firm Of Burnham &
Morrill,, Portland, was In town Saturday.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
East Bethel.

Most Of the farmers have finished
planting.
o. B. Farwell has been planting pOta-
toes for the farmers With . potato
planter, which 10 great improvement.
z. w. Bartlett visited Lewiston las,
week.
Miss Ella Farwell visited friends at
Berlin, N. a., the past week.
Mrs. q. o. Blake and Mrs. George
Swan Waited Gorham and Berlin, N. e.,
one day last week.
Miss Elsie Bartlett has gone to Cam
bridge, Macs, for few weeks visit.
Mrs. j. b. Swan 10 gaining and able to
be out In the sunshine pleasant days.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
West Paris.

Henry II. Tuell died ct the insane
asylum at Augusta Friday morning. Mr..
Tuell was taken to Augusta last Decen-
Der and since that time has been gradual
ly failing. He was the son of Biatha
and Charlotte (Holmes) Tuell and was
born in Paris on q farm situated In .
part of Paris known a. Tuelltown, where
he and his wife lived until few years
ago when be built house on Main Street
and moved to West Paris. Mr.. Tuell
was the last of q family Of eight children.
he married Melinda Crawford who With
their two children. Elmer E. Tuell OF
Walpole, Mass, and Lena NJ, wife OF Q.
Everett Chase, survives him. Mr.. Tuell
was So years Of age and has always been
an honest, industrious citizen, and bad
the respect of the community. The
funeral was held Sunday afternoon at his
late residence, Rev. D. A.. Ball officiating.
The interment was In West Paris GENE.
terry.
Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Ball are getting
nicely settled In their new home.
Mr.. and Mrs. L c. Bates are receiving
q visit from their brother, Henry b.
Bates, and their grandson, Theodore L..
Bates, of New Haven, Conn.
Miss Ella NJ. Curtis 10 visiting relatives
in Portland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alva Curtis OF Peru and
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Curtis of Norway
were guests at George w. Ridlon's last
Sunday.
DR.. and Mrs. F. E. Wheeler spent
day or two in Portland last week.
Rev. D. A. Ball attended the Oxford
County Association at Bridgton Thurs
day and Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Hall of Dixfield
were recent guests of Lewis M. Mann.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel johnson have
gone to housekeeping in W. H. Emery's
house. Several of Mrs. Johnson's
friends gave her little surprise party
and kitchen shower Thursday afternoon.
The sale, supper and entertainment
given by the Universalist Good Will So.
ciety met with good success, and good
sum was realized for the society.
Mrs. Cole and family, who have occu-
pied one of Mrs. Hattie MONEYS rents,
have moved to New Hampshire.
G. A. Smith Is quite i'll and 1t 10 fear
ed that he has the measles.
Died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. John NJ. Wood, at Shows Falls.
May 20, Mrs. Sarah J. Sparks, widow of
the late Hon. Reuben G. Sparks of
Provincetown, Mass, after q painful ILL
ness of several weeks following the
fracture of hip, aged 70 years. The
funeral services were held at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. John N. Wood,
and the remains were taken to Province
town, Mass, to be buried beside her
husband. She leaves two sons and two
daughters.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
East Waterford,

Winfield French and son Perley of
Oxford are building barn for Sidney
Hall on the Whittier farm.
Irving Green's little girl has been
spending week with her aunt, Mrs.
Herbert Walker.
Mrs. Hattie Merrill, who has been In
Ipswich, Mass, since the middle Of
March, returned home Saturday.
Will Olmstead, wife and daughter, are
visiting In Bangor.
Mrs. Martha Pride visited in Yagger,
Norway, this week.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
North St0neham.

Josie Adams has been at work for Ina
Hilton at North Lowell.
Alvah Cannon of North Lowell laid
the chimney in John Adams now house
last week.
Ethel Wilson and son Henry visited
Mrs II. B. McKsen last Saturday.
Nell Allen and Dennis Adams are
working their horses together, as ono OF
Denuis' horses 10 lame.
I. A. Andrews has sold his horse to
Ned Fox OF Lowell.
Mrs. John Adams worked for Mrs. H.
r. Andrews Of North Lowell few days
last week.
Fl B. McKsen went to Norway on
business Monday.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
SuIclde At Rumford Center.

Charles Arthur Woods of Rumford
Center hanged himself In bis barn Wed.
nesdsy. It 10 believed bis act was com.
mitted In . At Of dependency over III
health. Coroner Il. l.. Elliott was call.
I'd, but decided there was no need OF an
inquest. Mr.. Woods was 81 years old.
A widow and two children survive.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30

According to the latest reports, assert
cd to DO with authority, the lumber has
been ordered and the contract closed to
put Names famous covered bridge In
repair on the 6rst Of July. From that
time till Sept. l1th, not drop 10 to get
through. II 10 calculated that that 10
long enough to get people thirsty, 90
that they will want to thirst no more.
Meanwhile few patches have been put
on the bridge ahead Of the contract.
Kenne6sc County 10 one OF the spots,
and the sdict has gone forth that II
must be dry from nov on.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
Here and There.

New York's new public library, dedi-
Gated Wednesday, has cost about ten mil
lion dollars and before ii is complete
may cost two million more, and holds
three million and half books. That
makes it easy figuring that the cost Of
housing those books is approximately
three dollars volume. Not many small
towns could afford such Q rate.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
ATWOOD & FORBES,
GEORGE NJ. ATWOOD. A. Il. FORBES.

TERMS 50 year II paid strictly In advance.
Otherwise $500 year. Single copies cents
ADVERTISEMENTS: - All legal advertisements
are given three consecutive Insertions for q 50
per Inch In length Of column. Special con-
tracts made with local. transient and yearly
advertisers.
mower eInerienceS gortmen And low prices
combine 20 make this department Of our busi-
ness complete and popular.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
West Sumner.

Mrs. Frances Rowe is keeping house
for w. E. Chandler.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horatio Chandler are
keeping house for their son Frank while
his housekeeper is In Lewiston.
Mrs. Ann West had astroke Of paraly-
sis last week. The doctor thinks she
will recover unless something else "sets
in"
Rev. G. W. +. Hill and wife were in
town Wednesday. Mrs. Hill came to
consult her dressmaker. Mr.. Hill called
on q number of friends.
Mrs. Harry Jacobs, who has been Ill
some time, 10 fast regsining her health.
Mrs. Rachel Psrlin of South Paris is
spending few weeks with her daughter,
Mrs. ID. ID. Small.
James Buck went to Lewiston last
week and returned with stylish looking
Young horse. He has traded his old
horse for this one.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester West and two
children of South Paris were in town
Sunday, called here by the illness of Mr..
Vests mother.
Born. to the wife of Ernest Farrar,
Nav 20, q son.
Born, May q, to the wife of Emery
Ryersou, a son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. A. Chandler were
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Lo-
throp Sunday.
After Mondays fierce heat when the
glass registered 9S in the shade we were
all shivsring over the fire Tuesday,
when the glass took sudden drop. We
were all grateful for the refreshing rain
of Wednesday. The first in about three
months.
The cemetery society are having new
board fence built on the back of the
cemetery and other Improvements are
being made.
<. E. Field and daughter Ora took din
ner with Mrs. E. G. Small Sunday.
Mrs. Amy Farrar, who has been Ill
with liver trouble, is very much i'm
proved.
Miss Wentworth, who Is teaching here,
spent Saturday and Sunday of last week
with friends in Hartford.
The mill shut down Wednesday for
lack of water. Earl Brown, who runs
the saw, has returned to Buckfield. Only
small quantity of logs remain to be
sawed and II the water had held out
they might have finished in few days.
The S. b. K. club met Thursday after
noon at the club room. Author, Words
worth. Then followed study Of Brazil.
The black clouds and distant mutterings
of thunder proved too much for the
ladies' ner, %, they broke of In the mid
die Of their exercises and went home
fearing thunder shower.
Mr.. and Mrs. George o. Chase have
sold their farm, known as the Vernal
Bates or Curtis farm, to Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred C. Cummings of Freeport. Mr..
and Mrs. Chase have no definite plans as
yet regarding their movements, but will
remain On the farm until July. Mr.. and
Mrs. Cummings have three children.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30

The new British airship, just complet-
ed, has been named the Msyfiy. OF
course there's nothing in name, but
think of the ominous sound Of IL.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30

Hon. Psyson Smith, state superin-
ssndent of schools, while as little
spectacular in his methods ss any one
who ever held the office. has made good,
as every one knows. The school board
Of Portland unanimously requested him
to take the position of superintendent OF
schools in Portland, with an increase OF
salary Of $500 over what has ever before
been paid, but Mr.. Smith felt that be
was 50 tied up with his state work that
ii was not best for all concerned that he
should leave the position, and he de-
clined the call.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
M.nufactures In Maine.

A nreliminary statement Of the general
results of the thirteenth United states
Census of Manufactures OF the state OF
Maine was issued to-day BY Acting Cen
sus Director Faulkner. it includes =
summary comparing the figures for 1914
and 1909, by state totals, prepared under
the direction of Mr.. William N. Steuart,
chief ststistician for manufactures, Bu-
resu of the Census. The figures are
subject to such revision as may be neces'
sary after a further examination OF the
original reports. -,
The Thirteenth Census, like that OF
1904. differs from the Twelfth Census OF
1900, with reference to manufactures, ~
that the two later censuses exc'udca toe
hand and the building trades and the
neighborhood Industries, and TOOK &C,
count on,v of establishments conducted
under the factory system. In the last
census, also, as In that for 1904, statistics
were not collected for factories having q
product for the census year OF value
less than $500, except that reports were
taken for establishments idle during a
portion Of the year 1909, or which began
operation in that year, and whose prod
ucts, therefore, we're less than 500.
The word establishment" as used IN
the Thirteenth Census, Is defined az
meaning one or more factories, mills, or
plants owned, controlled, or operated
by . person, partnership, corporation,
or other owner, located In the same
town or city, and for which one set OF
hooks of account Is kept.
The reports we're taken for the cal
endar year ending December 81, 1909,
wherever the system of bookkeeping
permitted figures for that period to De
secured; but in case the fiscal year OF an
establishment differed from the calendar
year, a report of it's operations was OBJ
tanned for the fiscal period falling most
largely within 1909.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30

A bill appropriating s40O, 900 for new
post Office at Bangor has passed the
United States senate.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

White Sale.
Carriage Umbrellas.
Wash Dresses.
Trade 3. the Blue stores.
Probate Notices.
Aged Owners Big Sacrifice.
Geraniums.
Notice OF Foreclosure.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30
SINGLE COPIES.

Single copies Of THE DEMOCRAT are four cents
each. They will be mailed on receip: of price by
the publishers or for the convenience OF patrons
single copies Of each Issue have been placed on
sale at the following places In the County:
South Paris, Towards Drug Store.
Shurtlefs Drug Store.
Norway, Noyes Drug Store.
stones Drug Store.
Buckfeld, Alfred Cole. Postmaster.
Paris Hill. Mrs Harlow. Post Once.
West Paris Samuel T. White.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30

It is said that under the new govern
msnt of Msdero In Mexico, gambling and
bull fighting are to be abolished. Prob
ably, when base ball is abolished in the
United States.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30

Something little different from the
usual news item Is the paragraph which
states that the town of Rsadtield 10
about building a school house near the
former site OF house which was aband-
oued twenty years ago because there
were no children to 60 10 school there.
Now there are Is or 20 scholars there,
all In native American families, and the
town thinks IL advisable to maintain
SCHOOL rather than transport them to
the village as il has been doing.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30

1t is serious thing for a judge to In
woke the unwritten law, but when Judge
Connolly of the Cumberland Superior
Court was walking down the street the
other night, and drunken hummer
kicked his dog, the judge proceeded to
land him one and lay him out-and there
isn't one man In ten thousand who
blames him.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30

The American who was digging In an
English river to find the proof that Bacon
wrote Shakespeare has learned that the
chest he was uncovering was the founds-
tion of an old bridge, and though he was
sure In advance that he was at the right
place, he has started digging somewhere
else. This Shakespeare Bacon business
10 funny fad. any way. Perhaps some
future generation will be discovering
that President Eliot wrote "David
Hsrum."
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30

The Standard Oil Co. has been ordered
to dissolve, and right on the heels Of that
il 10 announced that by-and-by, in due
time, after the vacation 10 over and the
courts get around to il. probably about
the time the dissolution nominslly goes
into effect, the trust 10 again to be tried
for accepting rebates. The maximum
penalty of its alleged offences Is about
three million dollars.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30

President Pena Of Argentina ASSURED
the congress in bis message that order
and peace have been established In that
country for all time. That's pretty
confident statement.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30

That the danger in aviation is not all
to the aviator was demonstrated in
France the other day, when the French
minister of war was killed by q mono
plane, and others were injured.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-05-30

Nothing more satisfactory In Sum-
mer hosiery has ever been manufac'
tured than the line of Yankee knit
hosiery we are showing. They are
soft and fine as silk and much more
durable. All colors, black, blue
and tan in several shades, plum, hello,
OK blood, green and other nice colors'
Yankee Hose, 25c
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-03-16
REVIEWS ANTIQUE WASHSTAND
Long islander Sells Piece of Furniture
for Fifty Cents and Buys It
Back for $40.

An elderly Long Islander once at
tended an auction of old furniture.
Among the articles for which bids
were asked was heavy marble
topped washstand. The Long Island
er bid ten cents for it, and as he was
the only one who spoke the wash
stand was knocked down to him
rather to his dismay, as he had to
have it conveyed to his distant home.
For several years this ten-cent antique
was an occupant of the barn, its mar
BILE top being removed and the interior
of the stand serving as receptacle
for cans Of paint.
One day clerk from furniture
store in the neighborhood called at
the Long Islanders and accidentally
caught sight of the unappreciated
washstand. He made some inquiries
concerning it, and eventually pur-
chased it for so cents. The clerk took
his purchase to the store, gave it
thorough renovating and it became
handsome piece of hardwood furni-
ture, the marble top adding the fin
fishing touch. Not long after this
Transformation the elderly Long
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-03-16
EXPORTING the Ducks.

There are two tiny boys in this town
whose mother sings often to them at
their request, and as she is an ardent
church woman, the children hear as
many hymns as anything else. The 9th
er day they were playing with their
wooden ducks in the bathtub, and
strangely enough the ducks were more
inclined to float sideways than in the
approved manner. After several at
temps to keep the misguided ducks
straight, the older boy shouted:
STAND up, duck, stand up!" Then
two-year-old, noting the familiar
phrase, leaned over the tub and ex-
ihorted: "'Tand up, duck! 'Tand up
for Jesus!"