Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-02-27
Spring IA almost In sieht


Only q week TO town meeting, and
: two weeks TO court.
Everybody" was out Sunday, enjoy
ing the weather.
Miss Mildred Parlin visited friends In
Portland last week.
j. P, Richardson is repairing and paint
ing the inside of his store.
Miss Doris gilbert is visiting her aunt
in Lewiston for few days.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Charles 81. Bonney OF
Sumner are guests at ]. D. Haynes
The Economical Whist Club will meet
with Mrs. Theodore Thayer Wednesday.
Mrs. John Murphy was a guest at D.
K. Murphy's in Lewiston, one day last
week.
Miss Edith Maxwell, who teaches 10
Maiden, Mass, is at home for short
vacation.
Mrs. T. S. Barnes and Miss Helen
Barnes spent Thursday with relatives in
L4ewiston.
Miss Charlotte Giles spent Saturday
and Sunday with her sister Addie at
Lewiston.
The last few days haven't broken the
backbone of winter, but they almost
seem to have put crimp in it.
Mrs. Percy Rankin of Leominster,
Mass, is with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. w. Walker, for short time.
| Il. A. Morton of the Paris Manu-
featuring Co. made short business trip
to Boston and New York last week.
Mrs. Walter E. Penley and son Albert
are spending week with Mrs. Penley's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Murphy.
Mr.. and Mrs. William j. Wheeler
attended the ball of Kora Temple, Mystic
Shrine, at Lewiston Thursday evening.
two weeks stay with her brother,
Arthur Holman, and family, at Auburn.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Briggs leave
Wednesday morning for Boston, where
they will spend vacation of two weeks.
j. Hastings Bean and George NJ. At
wood attended the annual meeting of the
Maine Savings Bank Association, in
Portland, last Thursday.
1t is expected that Norway Lodge will
work the Third Degree on candidates
from Mt. Mica Lodge at their meeting
Tuesday evening of this week. Those
who 60 from here will take the tbs car.
Misses Laura and Hattie Burnell en-
tertained the Merry Eight Bridge Club
Friday evening. Bridge was enjoyed,
delicious refreshments served and the
last of the evening enjoyed socially until
late hour.
Paris High School will have its debate
with Buckfield High School during the
week of March IS. The debaters on the
part of Paris High will be selected from
those who debated at the meeting of the
Forum Friday evening, when good pro-
gram was given, with particularly
lively debate.
This is the week of the Good Cheer
fair. The sale will be held Wednesday
afternoon and evening and Thursday
afternoon in Good Cheer Hall. Thurs
day and Friday evenings the play, "The
Coloneps Maid" will be presented in
New Hall. Shaw's Orchestra will play
all three evenings.
The Ladies' Whist Club met Thursday
afternoon with Mrs. DR.. Stewart, and in
the evening the ladies OF the club and
their gentlemen, with a number OF
invited guests, assembled in Grand Army
Hall and enjoyed the evening with dane
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and it was a very enjoyable affair.
The annual meeting of the village cor
poration comes on Tuesday of next week.
Among articles in the warrant which are
outside of the regular annual business
are, to locate another hydrant on Pine
Street near Robert Paterson's, to place
street lights on Wheeler Street, and to
buy five hundred feet of new hose.
The firm of Fasrar g Dean, which has
for some time run the grain business at
the Shurtleff mill, has been dissolved,
Albert E. Dean retiring from the firm.
Everett II. Farrar, the other partner, has
taken into partnership his brother, Carl
Z. Farrar, and the business will be con-
tinued by them under the name Of Farrar
Brothers.
Lawrence Spiller, q boy Of u years,
who lived with his sister, Mrs. Benjamin
Dyer, at Oxford Park, suffered severe
attack of appendicitis while at school
one day last week. He had had one or
two attacks before, but none 80 bad as
this. he was taken to the Central Maine
General Hospital at Lewiston, where an
operation was performed Friday. 1t
was an advanced case, but prospects are
good for favorable recovery.
NJ. Mica Lodge, 1. o. o. F., together
with other lodges on the line of the
Grand Trunk in this county, has accepted
an invitation from the Lewiston lodges
to visit them on the 7th of March. At
that time a district meeting will be held
iu Lewiston City Hall with work in the
Third Degree by Fraternity Lodge of
Woodfords, one of the richest and best
working lodges in the state. Special
train arrangements will be announced
later.
Friends of the family of II. W. Tapley
of Auburn will be sorry to learn that
both Mrs. Tapley and her son are i'll with
typhoid fever in Massachusetts,. The
family went to Massachusetts, for visit
soon after the death Of the little girl
Eleanor in January. The boy, Lee E.,
came down with the fever at the home of
Mr.. Tapley's brother, Z. N. Tapley, in
East De6bsm, and later Mrs. Tspley
came down with the disease. Mrs. Tapley
is in the Massachusetts, Homeopathic
Hospital in Boston, and the boy in the
Children's Hospital in the same city.
From Joseph r. Parrott the Democrat
receives two handsome brochures, giving
the history and q number of Illustrations
of the Key West extension of the Florida
East Coast Railway, which was opened
on the 22d Of January. As is generally
known, this piece of railroad is really
unique, and it's building was astupendous
undertaking. 1t Is a sea-going railway,
built across and between the Florida
KEYS. OF its 12S miles of length, seven
teen miles is actual bridge work. On a
part of the route, passengers are out of
sight of land. Mr.. Parrott, who 10 an
Oxford man. and regarding whose work
short sketch recently appeared in the
Democrat, Is president of the Florida
East Coast Railway, and In the building
of this Key West extension has been at
the head of the enterprise, which was
projected and financed by Henry N.
Flaglsr, the Standard Oil magnate.
News was received here Saturday by
telephone that Mrs. Alice F., wife of
A Of oil