Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-03-05
Ten below zero honda, morpina.

Ten below zero Monday morning.
The factories were shut down Mon
day for town meeting.
| That crimp in winters backbone 90
Strengthened out some In he course O
the week.
Preparations are being made to adj
two stories to the storehouse of the Msso,
Manufacturing Co., and to install al
elevator In IL.
| Mrs. Ruth Ann Pratt, who makes hel
home with her daughter, Mrs. George q
Davis, observed her twentieth birthday
Thursday, when she became eighty year.
Of age.
Eight Boy Scouts from Oxford, under
the lead of their scout master, Rev. s. C.
Eaton, took hike to South Paris Satur.
day afternoon, and spent an hour socially
at Rev. A. T. McWhorter's.
/ Oscar Mason had a case of blood
poisoning started from q slight injury to
his finger, which gave him two or three
bad days last week, but by prompt treat
ment serious consequences were averted.
The Democrats of Paris will hold their
caucus at the assessors office next Fri
day at o'clock, to choose delegates to
the state convention to be held on the
10th at Augusta, also town committee.
P. E. Hathaway was laid up several
days last week and unable to attend to
his duties as principal of Norway High
School, on account Of blood poisoning
from slight injury to his foot, but was
able to get out with the aid Of cane
Monday morning.
A shamrock evening will be held at
the Congregational vestry on Thursday
evening, March 2lst The Pioneer Chorus,
which has been recently organized By
Mile. Scslar, will sing. A drill will be
given, also solos, duets, and sketch
entitled 1.-THE Modern Sewing Society,""
Remember the date, March 2lst.
Railroad traffic in one direction was
badly tied up here Thursday. A freight
train was off the rails near Gilead, and
no train from the west reached US until
we'll along in the afternoon, the three
east-bound trains for the day finally going
through here in the course of two hours.
The property damage from the accident
was not large.
Under the management of Frank Greg
DRY, the new moving picture theatre in
New Hall is advertised to open this Mon
day evening. 1t is named the Savoy
Theatre, and runs every evening and
Saturday matinee, with three changes of
films a week. Friday is amateurs night.
A booth for the picture machine has
been put in over the stairs in the hallway.
Ii is built of asbestos on steel frame, to
conform with the law.
Commissioner of Agriculture Buckley
is to make an investigation Of brOwn-tail
moth nests from different localities, to
fluid out whether they are frozen and
killed by the cold weather. 1t doesn't
take much of an expert in brown-tail
moths to know that more or less Of the
caterpillars freeze to death in this frigid
section of the country, and number of
nests have been specially observed in this
vicinity in which there seemed to be no
life left, but Professor Hitchings, when he
was state entomologist, stated here on
one occasion that he had never examined
nest where the caterpillars were all
dead.
The illness of Mrs. II. w. Tapley and
her son with typhoid fever in Boston
was noted in the Democrat last week.
Mrs. Tapley died on Monday, Feb. 20, at
the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospi
tai. The boy is living, and they are
hopeful though not yet sure of his re-
covery. The Tapley family formerly
lived in Paris, but for some years now
have been in Auburn. After the death
of the little girl Eleanor in January they
went TO Massachusetts, for a visit, and
decided to remain there. Mrs. Tapley
was the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. B.
Field, formerly of Paris, who now live
on the Norway side of Alpine Street.
Mrs. Tapley would have been 20 years
of age on the llth of this month. Be-
sides her husband, she leaves the one
son, Lee E., whose illness is above
mentioned. She is also survived by her
parents, and two sisters, Mrs. Lucinda
Spofford, recently in Milton, Mass, but
now in Somerville, and Ida May, wife of
WILDER II. Sturtevant, OF Paris. Mr..
Field has had pneumonia, and though
convalescent is not yet out, and neither
he nor Mrs. Field were able to attend the
funeral. Mrs. Tapley will be buried in
Massachusetts,.