Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-04-09
The Oxford Democrat
SOUTH PARIS.

Walter l.. Gray is the owner Of new
Ford touring car.
Morse read at an entertainment,
NJ Bethel Wednesday evening.
Y. Cairns has sold his milk route in
the village to Lester A. West
"a Clifford of Mexico visited his
mothsr, Mrs. Wealthy Clifford, last
week.
urs T S. Barnes and Miss Helen
Rarnes are spending the week visiting
relatives in Portland.
II Nichols arrived home Tuesday
tom winchester, Mass, where he spent
,be winter with his daughter. Mrs.
Nichols will come later.
Mr. and Mrs. 5. p. Stearns, who have
.nept the winter with their daughter,
Mrs. Park, in Bethel, have returned
home and opened their house here.
percy NJ. Walker, who recently sold
his house on Gary Street, plans to build
a concrete house this sun.mer, on the
s,utb side Of Pleasant Street, near the
house Of J. J. Emeley.
General pleasure is felt at the return
M Rev. T. y. Kewley by the Maine
Methodist Conference TO the South Paris
church Mt Kewley has already been
With this church five years.
Mrs Harry SWEET, who is about lsav-
Ing for California, was recently present
~ with a tourmsline ring by
the girls in the room where she has
worked at the shoe factory.
Following the meeting of the Ladies'
Wbis, Club With Mrs. Mixer Thursday
afternoon, a dance was held in the even
ING A, Grand Army Hall. Howard Shaw
AZ the piano furnished music. The party
was small but enjoyable.
Rev. and Mrs. A. W. Pottle visited
friends here short time after the close
Of the Conference. Mr.. Pottle, who has
been &C RumfOrd for the past year, will
not take any church this year, but will
live al his home in Wsterville.
Charles r. Newell, while at work on a
swinging drill at the Paris Manufacture
iug 90 5 factory last Monday, straight
ened up from STOPPING position and
got his head against the drill, with the
rssult that hole was drilled into il for
some distance. The injury required
surgiCa. treatment but was not serious.
Tweuty.two candidates from Paris,
Woodstock, Norway, Lowell and other
towns took the civil service examination
for rural letter carrier Saturday. The
examination was held in the grand jury
room al he court house, and was in
charge 90 p0stmaster Samuel r. Davis of
south Paris There is at present only
one vacancy, because of which this ex-
animation vas held at this time.
There vii! be few changes 10 the
teaching fOrce of the Paris schools,
which open for the spring term next
week Miss Iona Littlehale will have
the King school and Miss Eva r. SWEET
the SHOWS Falls school. Miss Ruth
Doughty of WOOdfords, a Farm ington
Normal school graduate, will have the
North Paris school in place of Miss
Lucy Everett, who will attend Gorham
Normal School. Miss Rose A. Murphy
will resume teaching in the Pleasant
Street Primary.
hia1h PARIS lux lilo oCuiOi StoSo III tuC
high school have been selected. The
class which will graduate consists of
seven young women. Miss Lois E Hol-
lis has the vsledictory and Miss Ethel
D Brock the sslutatory, these two parts
being assigned on the rank for three
years sud half The other parts, elect
ed by the members OF the class, are:
history. Miss Gladys /. Damon; proph-
ecy, Miss Marion j. Everett; class
ESSAY, Miss Ada l.. Turner; presentation
Of gifts, Miss Clara j. Kerr; address TO
undergraduates, Miss Grace A. Howard
The South Paris Board of Trade held
is annual meeting at the assessors office
Wednesday evening. The report of the
secretary showed forty-five members in
good standing. Herman G. Knight was
elected member. The board voted to
make an endesvOr to secure an express
Office in the center Of the village for the
convenience of patrons. Election of
officers resulted in the re- election Of the
entire list, as follows:
President-Geo. b. Crockett
Vice Presidents-N. Dayton Bolster, A. w.
Walker.
secretary-Arthur Forbes.
Treasurer. +. Plummer.
Practice of the high school base ball
team on the school diamond is likely to
begin in few days, il the Arctic condi-
tons do not prevail too long. Rae l..
Newton is captain of the team this year,
and Sumner NJ. Davis manager. Al
schedule of games has been arranged as
follows:
O G.k
20. Hebron Academy at Hebron.
2, Buckfied High School At Paris.
May 4. Open.
IS, Hebron Second at Paris.
p. Buckfed High at Buckdeld.
June !, NJ. +. ii. 5. at Mechanic Falls.
5, Hebron Second at Hebron
Is, Norway High School &c Paris.
p. Alumni, at Paris.
A little section of q rock maple tree
cut on the farm Of Z. Z. Chapman re-
Gently was of some interest. Ii was
taken out near the butt Of tree about
two feet and half in diameter. In the
cross section and in the surfaces where IL
had been split there showed six or eight
places where the tree had been tapped.
Some of them were at q long distance
from the outside of the tree trunk, and
showed by actual count of the rings out
aide Of il that IL was made not less than
sixtythree years ago. An interesting
fact was that some Of the oldest of the
taps had been plugged with cobs, and
che cobs were we'll preserved, and there
was less discOloratiop and decay around
them than where a wooden plug was
used, or where it bad been left without
plugging
Perhaps you might have thought that
the sloppy weather Of last Tuesday
night, together with recent plethora Of
church suppers, would have worked to
make small crowd at the mems supper
of the Good Cheer Society. II so, you
misjudged the drawing power Of mems
supper, for il was about the record null
titude. A second table had to be set for
about q hundred, and including the
help" just about three hundred ate
their supper 10 the hall. There was an
abundance Of food for every one provid-
ed by the men, who were In full charge,
aud the supper WAS highly compliment
ed. On account Of the large number the
entertainment was late in beginning.
Mrs. Wynifred Staples Smith Of Car
thage, the singer, was given an appre-
ciative greeting on her appearance, and
her sweet singing gave great pleasure, az
II has when she has been hero before.
bennett Of Lewiston, the reader, gave
mostly humorous selections, and they
were immensely entertaining to tho large