Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-05-06
Mrs. DR.. Smell Is visiting her people q

Alton Cook is employed as clerk In th
grocery store of A. Il. Jackson.
Miss Ella S. Heald of East Sumner /
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Albert D
Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. W. Walker have beef
visiting Mr.. Walkers parents in Harri
son for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Jordan of Port
land have been guests at Walter L
Gray's for few days.
Miss Marjorie Hodgkius and Miss Mil
dred Hodgman of Maiden, Mass, ar,
guests at DR.. F. W. Rounds'.
All interested in tennis are requested
to meet at Rev. A. T. McWhorter'l
Thursday evening at Z O'Clock.
Alton C. Wheeler, Esq, has been en-
gagged to deliver the Memorial Day ad
dress this year at Mount Vernon.
Miss S. Z. Porter, who teaches in
Portland, has been with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. II. Porter, for the past
week.
Chandler Swift, who has been in the
hospital at Lewiston for the past few
months, is now with his niece, Mrs. Z
b. Lunt, in Belfast.
About a dozen members of VIM. K
Kimbsll Circle, Ladies of the G. A. r..
attended a campfire of Burnside Circle
at Auburn Thursday.
Miss Euuics w. Fobes, who has beer
spending a week at her cottage at Lake
Pennesseewassee, returned to her teach
ing in Wakefield, Mass, Saturday.
Mrs. o. Z. Barrows is at Eliot with
her daughter, Mrs. NJ. V. McAlister, who
recently sustained uncomfortable though
not serious injuries BY fall down stairs.
Col. William T. Eustis and family
came Friday to the summer home in the
south part of the town which they have
occupied for a number OF past seasons.
Rev. j. A. Betcher and Miss Dorothy
Betcher were guests at F. A. Taylor's
Thursday and Friday. Mr.. Betcher was
en- route to Berlin, n. H., to take charge
of his new pastorate.
Charles r. Cutler and Miss Gertrude
Burgess were married by Rev. Chester
Gore Miller at HE home Saturday even
ing. They will reside here, Mr.. Cutler
being on the electric road, where he has
been conductor for some years.
The work of building concrete side
walk has begun, the first piece now
going in, on Pleasant Street in front OF
the Stowell house at the corner of
Church Street. The next piece will go
in al Hotel Andrews, and following that
in trout of the K. n. Hall homestead on
Pleasant Street.
The Joke may be on the Democrat,
which last week in the rush OF the make
up got a marriage announcement under
the wrong head, but il is certainly joke
on an esteemed contemporary, which
transferred the announcement to its
columns, consigning the young couple to
the same melancholy prospect.
Miss Mary Briggs. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. II. T. Briggs, celebrated her
fifth birthday Saturday afternoon with a
party to which eleven of her little
friends were invited. They had q very
lively time with a variety Of games and
plays, and of course there was birth
day cake with five candles, and other re-
freshments.
The water in Cooper Spring dam and
Stony Brook dam will be drawn off this
week, and they both will have thor
Ough cleaning, strainers cleaned and
painted. The Hooper concrete reservoir
will be cleaned of sediment, the auto
matte controlling valve will be cleaned
and painted, also the iron ladder ano
strainer in the reservoir will be painted
Rev. and Mrs. T. n. Kewley went tc
their new charge in Bath on Monday Of
last week, and on the same day Rev. C.
I. Spear, the new pastor of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, and his family
arrived from their former station al
Monmouth, and are now established IN
the parsonage. Mr.. Spears family
consists Of wife, three sons and daugh
ter, the oldest son Is years of age.
At the Baptist Church, next Sunday
the 1lth, will be Mothers Day, which ii
nov quite widely observed throughout
the United States. All will wear carna
tions-red or pink IL mother is living
and white If she 10 not living. The pas,
tor will preach at the morning service
on the subject, mother in the Home. y
In the evening there will be specia
service in the large vestry. The subject
will be "Orgsnized Mother Love-" Both
services will be as suggested by the
splendid W. C. T. U. paper, 1.-THE Unior
Signal. Special music at both services
Rev. Hannah j. Powell of the Maine
Sea Coast Mission will speak at the Uni
versalist church next Thursday evening
telling of her work on the islands of oul
coast. Miss Powell will bring with ber
a set eff lantern slides illustrating many
interesting phases of her work. Nc
missionary effort is more needed OIL
comes nearer home than this, where The
ignorance, poverty and immortality OF oul
own people are so surprising and SC
shocking. A cordial invitation is ex
tended to all to come and hear this inter
esting address. No admission fee will
be charged, but a collection will b
taken.
Tuesday evening, May IS, is the dat'
set for concert to be given under th'
auspices of Mt Mica Lodge, No. II, |
10. o. 4. The entertainment will bt
high class in every particular. Mrs
Wyuifred Staples Smith will appear al
the soloist and Miss Maude Andrews o
Augusta will De the reader. Mrs. Smith
is we'll known here and is one Of tn,
most popular soloists that ever appeared
in this village. Miss Andrews, tht
reader, Is one Of the best in the stat,
and her reputation has reached beyond
the state limits so that she Is called 4
dn engagements in Massachusetts, ant
New York. The proceeds OF the enter
tainment will be Mt. Mica Lodges con
tribution toward the fund for an ODD
Fellows Home for aged Odd Fellows
Rebekahs and orphans which Is soon t
be built at Auburn.
Portland Board of Trade Visitors
On it's regular tour this year the Port
land Board of Trade will make sbor
stop in Oxford County. This tour Is al
annual affair, designed to give the Port
land men an opportunity to study tn
commercial and industrial development
of the places visited and to meet person
ally the progressive business men OF tn
several communities. The party travel
by special train of Pullman cars, includ
ing a dining car where all meals ar
served, and is limited to one hundred i
number. The number rarely fails {
fill, and the members of the party ar
representative and leading business me
OF Portland.
This years tour is made over tn