Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-07-23
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F. L. Perkins Of Mechanic Falls wal
with relatives in town over Sunday.
Adjourned meeting of the Board OF
Trade Tuesday evening of this week.
Mrs. Percy P. Allen and daughter are
|; visiting Mrs. Aliens sister, Mrs. Tirrell,
: at Turner.
Mrs. j. P. Richardson and Miss Marie
Newton have been visiting in Portland
for few days.
Miss Flora Ritner Harlow of Bridge.
port, Ct, is at Walter P. Maxim's for a
part of the summer.
Miss Phyllis Taylor and Miss Airline
Croker are at Old Orchard, at the home
of Miss Laura Deane.
Mrs. L. E. Bean, Miss Cora j. Mason
and Pauline are spending a few days in
Portland and vicinity
The friends of Miss Anna Morse gave
her a post card shower on the occasion
of her birthday Saturday.
Rev. Chester Gore Miller preached at
West Sumner Sunday morning, and at
Bryants Pond in the afternoon.
Minot L. Whittle and son Robert W.
Whittle left Monday morning to spend q
few days in Boston and vicinity.
A meeting of the Universalist parish
will be held next Friday evening, to
make arrangements for the organ dedi-
cation.
| The thermometer did stunts last week,
going into the nineties the first of the
week, and into the upper thirties few
days later.
Mrs. Frances Harlow and grandson,
Floyd Harlow, have gone to Worcester,
Mass, to remain with the family of Ar
thur T. Royal for time.
Albert F. Stevens, who is sergeant in
the Hospital Corps of the Maine National
Guard, is at Fort Williams with the
Corps on its tour of duty.
Mrs. c. E. McArdls left Saturday for
Schenectady, N. Y, where she will re-
main with her daughter, Mrs. r. Z.
Strickland, for two or three months.
Hamlin Lodge, X. of P, has accepted
an invitation TO work the rank of knight
for Pennesseewassee Lodge Thursday
night, July %. All members take notice.
j. Gould Spofford of Newton, Mass,
visited bis father, Edwin /, Spofford, a
few days last week, going from here to
Orono, where his family are spending
their vacation.
j. A. Noyes and family have moved
into their new home on High Street,
where good little house in bungalow
style, and a two-stall stable have just
been completed.
Frank A. Briggs is at home for
few days from Woodsville, n. H., where
be has been for some weeks working in
the interest of the International Cor
respondence Schools.
Mrs. Z. Z. Chapman, who underwent
a surgical operation at the Maine Gener
al Hospital in Portland about two weeks
since, is doing very well, and expects to
come home the last of this week.
C. Freeland Penley has purchased Of
o. X. Clifford the former n. d. Bolster
house on High Street, and will occupy
some rooms there. DR.. Leonard j. Neal
will continue to have his residence and
office there.
Mrs. C. NJ. Titcomb and son Chester
Easson, and Mr.. and Mrs. Howard w.
Shaw, with Sanger Maxim at the wheel,
made a trip to Poland Spring on Sunday,
the l4th, to call on Mr.. Titcomb and
Mrs. L. A. Shaw.
Advertised letters and cards in South
Paris post office July 22d:
Mrs. Walter Lunt.
5. Z. Camm.
Maria Agela Fotina.
hurry Jackson. (card)
George Porter (card)
Box AS. q letters.)
Miss Barbara Chapman and Miss Ida
Dean started Monday morning for South
port, Maine, where they will take four
weeks normal course in music OF Percy
Graham, of Lynn, Mass, in preparation
for the work of teaching music in the
public schools.
All members of the Ladies' Circle Of
the G.. A. r. who wish TO accept the in
vitation to go to Hebron on Aug. I'd to
attend a campfire, are requested to
meet at Grand Army Hall on Saturday
evening, July 9th, to consider ways and
means Of conveyance.
Changes are being made in the Uni
versalist church to accommodate the new
organ. The recess left for an organ
W hen the church was built will be en-
larged BY extending it back toward the
outer wall of the church about four feet,
and its height increased little more
than two feet.
The class of 1909 of Paris High School
and few invited guests held reunion
Wednesday evening at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Sturtevant, near
Paris Hill. The party went in hay
rack and carried picnic supper, which
was served under the trees in the door
yard. After the supper pleasant even
ing was enjoyed by all.
After long waiting we at last got real
rainy day Sunday-at least nearly ten
hours Of it, the first in four weeks.
While showers have gone around us IN
various directions, and Aroostook has
been we'll wet down and Boston has had
almost cloudburst, here We have had
only two or three light showers In the
four weeks. The sound Of rain was
about the sweetest music we have heard
for some time.
"You have no idea how much the
BURBERRY crop means to the residents
living in the vicinity of Streaked Noun
tsin," said Z. N. Haskell of the N. Day
ton Bolster Company to the Democrat
last week. The occasion of the remark
was an order that Mr.. Haskell had just
received from Pennington calling for
sixty quarts OF blueberries daily during
the season, and this will be only frac-
ton Of the berries that the Bolster Com
pany will handle. Add TO this the Der.
ries bought for local consumption and
the hundreds Of quarts picked by people
living near and far and you begin to
realize that "Old Streaked" produces
valuable crop.
DR.. James w. Davis of Fort Fairfield
died in a hospital in Melross, Mass,
Sunday night, following an operation for
gall stones performed on Monday pre-
ceding. DR.. Davis would have been 81
Years of age on the 10th of August. He
was born in Woodstock, and was for
number of years in the practice OF his
profession as q dentist at South Paris.
For the past few years he has been at
Fort Fairfield, where he was in the
practice of his profession. He leaves
widow, their marriage having taken
place only few months since, and three
children by a former wife, e. r. Davis
of Leominster, Mass Edith R., wife OF
DR.. G.. l.. Buckof South Paris, and Mrs.