Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-12-19
The Oxford Democrat.
SOUTH PARIS.
SOUTH PARIS POST OFFICE.
Once Hours: 7:30 An. to 80 P. 4.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Commanding Oct 1911.

commencing OcL i, 1911,
TRAINS LEAVE SOUTH PARIS
Going down (east)-5:S6 AN, daily; 9;4S An
daily except sunday; 4 :Se Pm. daily.
Going up (west)-9:+S AN, daily; :35 Pm
daily except Sunday; SAT Pm daily.
VIM. Dunn of Buckfeld is visiting hi
sister, Mrs. Pauline Soper.
Not much time left now to shop early
but shop as early as you can!
This is the week that makes you glat
you haven't got government job in tn
post office.
Stores and shops of South Paris viii
be open every evening this week, bu
will close all day Christmas.
Mrs. Ella Pray, after visit of som,
weeks with relatives here, has returned
70 her home in Providence, K. |.
The Ladies' Whist Club was entertain
ed Thursday AFTERNOON by Mrs. P. Z
Hathaway at her home on High Street.
Mrs. C. G. Miller spent few days in
Portland last week, and Mr.. Miller was
there for a day to attend the poultry
show.
As Christmas comes on Monday this
wear, the next issue of the Democrat
will not be out until Tuesday. This
will not be allowed to happen again for
some years.
This mild weather would have been an
excellent time to destroy few thousand
brown-tsil nests in the orchards and
elsewhere. They're there all right, at
least as thick as ever, If not thicker.
Miss Martha Wyman of Lynn, Mass,
has purchased the house built by Maurice
L. Moves this season on the west side of
High Street, near the upper end of the
village, and will occupy it within few
days.
The ladies of the Good Cheer Society
are making preparations for their an
nusl fair which occurs this year on Feb.
rs and 20 and March LIST. The entertain
ment will be the last two evenings OF the
fair as usual.
Harold C. Fletcher, who has had
previous attacks of appendicitis, suffered
a sewers one last Monday night, and on
Tuesday underwent an operation at his
home here. He is thought to be max
Ing a SoOu recovery
Pretty good sleighing on the few
inches of snow which has been driboiing
down for several days past, and an ex-
cellent foundation for more snow. Nor
are autos out of commission yet, but
they get around with ease.
On account of the fact that the next
regular meeting of the Seneca Club
would fall on Christmas day, az we'll as
for other reasons, that meeting will be
omitted entirely, and the club will not
again assemble until the Sth of January.
News was received by relatives and
friends here last week of the death in
Manchester, Y. H., of Mrs. Sarah Young
of LYNN, Mass. Mrs. Young was sis
ter-in.law of Mrs. o. Fl. Bumpus, OF this
town, and formerly resided in Bucktield.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank l.. Porter, who
have been at South Paris since the first
of the summer, left Thursday for Chi
cago, their former home, where they
will stay this winter. They may return
to South Paris in the spring, and settle
here.
Miss Isabel C. Morton, who is teach
Santa Barbara, Calf, underwent an
operation for appendicitis last Tuesday.
She is at the home of her uncle, l.. l..
Whitman, at Pasadena, and reports from
her are favorable.
An advertisement for bids on trans
portatiou of scholars for the winter
term made the Democrat appear TO an
uounce that the term would begin on
the I'd day of January. This was an
error of the types The term begins on
the Sth Of January.
An attraction in one of the show win
dows of j. +. Plummer, which has
drawn the attention of the grown-ups
almost as much as the Santa Claus in
the other window did the children, is a
lay figure wearing the rich costume
worn by Mile. Scalar as Elsa in Lohen-
grin.
Justices for the terms of Supreme
Judicial Court for the year 1912 are
assigned. For Oxford County these
assignments are: March term at South
Paris, Judge George F. Haley; May term
at Rumford, Judge Leslie c. Cornish;
October term at South Paris, Judge A.
r. Savage.
As you have probably seen by this
time the Seneca Club have placed on
sale at various of the stores the Red
Cross seals Buy a few for your Christ
mas packages and help along the tuber-
culosis movement In the state. The
law 10 such that you can use them any
where you like on your packages.
I'M -. "a IL .,oo;ol r,aat;pgS M the
Baptist church was held Sunday even
ing, with a we'll filled auditorium. Rev.
F.M. Lamb Of Buckfeld gave the ser
mon, and sang number OF solos during
the evening. There was also an after
meeting well attended in the large yes
try. The week of meetings has proved
valuable and helpful.
There was a Wholesale Jail delivery
Friday, when nine men who had done
sixty DAYS from the October term OF
court were discharged at one time. This
reduced the Jail population to the low
number of eight, but by the same train
on which the nine left, two more arrived,
in care of Deputy Sheriff Niles OF Rum
ford. Both were DRINKS, aud here for
the steenth time.
The new dam is completed, all cleaned
ND. and the crew gone. After II was
finished, and the water had partly filled
the pond, a place was found where the
water worked through, not in the new
work, but above it, at the end OF the old
wooden dam, under l.. S. Billings mill.
Some work will be necessary TO stop
that up before the water power will
again be in commission.
The warm December wave which
broke more or less records reached
height Tuesday last, when the coolest
thermometer to be found, in shady
nook on the north side Of buildings,
showed an even go degrees. Lilac leaves
mistook the season and started to un-
fold, and mnsy other signs of spring were
seen. The frost came out OF the top OF
of the ground, and roads and streets
were one unbroken surface Of mud.
Some of the hunting parties which
came back from the woods at the end o.
the open season reported hunting condi
lions 30 hard that they came home
skunked. Frank and Leslie Bennett
came down from Wild River Saturday
morning with one good deer. ID. 4
Dresser, D. s. Briggs and Fred Record
who had been at Upton for two or thres
weeks, arrived home Friday night will