Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-07-16

Rev. Henry D. Thayer of New York is
the guest of Mrs. L. G. Morton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter L. Bonney have
been spending few days at West Minot.
Mrs. Fl. A. Hilton has been with her
mother at Garland for the past two
weeks.
The walls of P. NJ. Walkers cement
block house on Pleasant Street are now
going up.
Miss Florence McArdle of Worcester,
Mass, is a guest at T. NJ. Davis and c.
Z. McArdle's.
Rev. c. G. Miller attended the funeral
of Mrs. Thurzs Crockett at West Sumner
last Wednesday.
Harold and Carroll Cutting of Lynn,
their people here.
Mrs. Dora b. Greene has returned from
a visit of two weeks to relatives in New
Gloucester and Pownal.
Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Robertson and
daughter Miriam were with friends at
North Paris over Sunday.
Irving o. Barrows is taking vacation
from the Paris Trust Co., and is visiting
his sister, Mrs. NJ. V. McAlister, al Eliot.
A business meeting of the Tennis
Club will be held this Monday evening
at the home of Rev. A. T. McWhorter,
at 1870.
Mrs. II. Fl. Glidden and children of
Auburn have been the guests Of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. h. Ripley, for a
few days.
Guests at Geo. G. Fernald's are his
mother, Mrs. Frank 4. Fernald, and his
sisters, Mary b. sndMadeine F. Fernald,
of Ellsworth Falls.
Stanley, son of Mr.. and Mrs. B. +.
Cummings, died Thursday at the age of
Y years. He had been an invalid all his
life, with little hope of improvement.
The whistle of the Paris Manufacture
ing Co. g factory, which has been silent
since the Sd, was heard again Monday
morning, and the factory is again run
ming.
A party of about fifteen were at the
Prrk farm Saturday afternoon, when
Mrs. Park and Miss Mason entertained
Mrs. Parks class in the Universalist
Sunday School.
w. K. Holmes and family went to
their camp at Shagg Pond Thursday, to
remain probably for month, and Mr..
and Mrs. A. l.. Holmes will 60 some
time this week for a stay of two weeks.
Miss Hattie Smell, daughter of DR.. F.
w. Smell, sails on Tuesday from Boston
for Liverpool, and will visit Chester,
on Avon, London and Paris.
She expects to be gone about five weeks. |
Misses Marjorie Penley and Florence
Sanborn have opened a store and
lunch room at Old Orchard, back of the |
Boston i Maine station. Misses Penley |
aud Ssnborn report the week of July 4th
as very busy.
An all too brief shower in the small |
hours of Sunday morning temporarily
relieved the situation somewhat, and in |
the mugginess of the hours which have |
the surface of the earth has not |
of the blistering days of last week.
Miss Hazel Faunce, who is employed
in the insurance office of w. j. Wheeler |
Il Co., was summoned to her home in |
Mechanic Falls Friday night on account
of the drowning of her only brother,
fourteen years of age, who lost his life
while bathing in the river at that place.
J. Gould Spofford, formerly of South
Paris, has been promoted from the posi-
ton Of assistant director of the Newton
Independent Industrial School to the
position of Director of Vocational Edu
cation for the city of Quincy, Mass. He
will enter upon his new duties Sept. LIST.
About thirty were present Tuesday
afternoon when the children of Mrs. G.
A. Youpg's kindergarten class in the
Universalist Sunday School were enter |
tanned in Mrs. Beans grove on Pine
Street. Very nice refr, shments were
served, and the little ones enjoyed them |
selves as well as could be considering the
intense heat.
Hon. Frank P. Stearns and his son
aud daughter of Shawnee, Oklahoma,
are visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. 5.
p. Stearus. Mr.. Stearns is now on bis
fifth year as mayor of Shawnee, town
having now nearly forty thousand in
habitants. He served four terms of a
year each, and last spring was elected
for three year term.
About $50 from the Methodist Sunday
schools of this place and Norway attend
ed the union picnic at GibsOn's Grove
Thursday, the younger element predomi-
mating. There were no organized sports,
nor any formal program, but plenty OF
boats for everybody, croquet sets, horse
shoes, and other amusements, and the
day was spent quietly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry NJ. Wheeler of
Mass, arrived here Saturday
and went directly to Shagg
Pond, where they will for two weeks &C.
cupy a new cottage just completed for
them. This cottage is on a wooded
knoll on the north shore of the pond, a
few rods from the cottage of Alton G.
Wheeler. Accompanying the Wheelers
were Mr.. and Mrs. Eaton of Wakefield,
who will occupy Mr.. Parks cottage for
the next two weeks.
Miss Libby, the talented Norway pho
tographer, accompanied the Pioneers on
their picnic to Camp Oxford recently.
There she took some post card pictures
of the party of which she made generous
souvenir gifts to the Pioneers. Especial
ly good was the face of the popular
driver of the tally-ho, Mr.. b. futile.
The Pioneers wish to thank Miss Libby
very warmly for her kindness. Very
hearty thanks the Pioneers desire also
to express to the delightful host of Camp
Oxford, Mr.. Caldwell. This charming
gentleman entertained most royalty the
South Paris party in his lovely camp
Long live Camp Oxford.
Notwithstanding the heat and sultri-
ness, there was q fair audience at the
union service Sunday evening at the Con-
gregational church, when the meeting
was addressed by Rev. II. D. Kneeland,
d. D., secretary of the Lords Day
League. The pastors Of the four
churches participated in the services,
and there was music by the Pioneer
Chorus aud Orchestra. DR.. kneeland's
address was devoted to the work OF pre-
serving the Christian Sabbath against
the attacks of those who would destroy
II. He treated the Sabbath as the
Gibraltar of Christian civilization, and
analysed the forces of infidelity, indif-
ference and greed, which are tending to
destroy 1t, and the forces of righteous
ness, God and his church, which are ar
rayed on the other hand. The work OF
the League was explained in some de-