Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-11-04
SOUTH PARIS.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Beginning Sept. IS. 1913.
rpArSs LEAVE SOUTH PARIS

ID yyV ,
%s ~. local. daily except Sunday; S6 p. m. =,
e1lT '-., ma 'swesD s,4S a. m. express. daily
IN M. local daily except Sunday; s;52 pm.
express, dal'y'
Mrs J. P. Richardson has returned
from visit TO Waterville.
William l.. buckingham is attending
Gray's Business College, Portland.
Espianin SWEET is on hunting trip
IN Haypssville, Aroostook County.
Mr. and Mrs II. P. Brett of Beverly,
Mass. are guests at Charles <. Brett's.
Miss Ruth T. Csswell of Auburn is the
cpesr Of her cousin, Mrs. George r.
Morton.
Dr. and Mrs. F. W. Smell have recently
visited Mrs SMELLS parents in Canton
for a few days.
The Ladies' Whist Club met Thursday
afternoon with Mrs. DR.. Littleteld on
Pleasant Street.
Mrs. l.. C.. Morton returned the first of
las week from a visit Ut some weeks TO
relatives in Massachusetts,.
ocular NONtmocE ucCNiuS VI bhc
Board OF Trade at the assessors office
Wednesday evening of this week.
Mrs. A. A. Kendall of Portland will
give parliamentary drill to the Seneca
Clrb on the evening of Nov. 10Th.
Fg,u Z. Chapman and family have
moved from the farm 10 their new
hons, recently completed on Highland
Avenue.
Mss Julia Millett has returned from
the antral Maine General Hospital,
wb--- she has been for several weeks for
,res;ac1t.
The Alpha Zstas met Thursday even
ing wth Miss Lena Everett. A pleasant
time was enjoyed with general sociabili-
~ su6 .etreshments.
Asr, William Horatio, was born
in Maa,tield, Pa, Oct. Gath, to DR.. and
Ms Leonard J. Neal of Boston, Mass,
formerly of South Paris.
Mis- Mearle Monk is at home from
Rome where she has been teaching, her
sch. having been closed on account of
the ureyslence of meningitis.
canister Chapman shows the Demo-
crsts carrot which he thinks is pretty
nearly entitled to the prize. 1t is OF the
0s heart variety, is Is inches in circum-
ference at the largest size, and weighs
tvCrty-One ounces.
railer John A. Titus spent few days
hunting Last week at his camp in the
Wild River Region. Saturday morning
be- brought home good fat four-pOint
buck. Mrs. Titus meanwhile visited in
Portland, and Nr. and Mrs. Harry ID.
Cole kept the Jail.
Meeting of the South Paris Village
Corporation in Engine House Hall Tues
DAY evening at 7:30. There is just one
matter TO come before the meeting-to
see what action the corporation will take
in regard 10 payments of the judg-
meuts Of Almira j. Kenney and the
Cummings Manufacturing Co., and TO
raise money TO pay the same.
This Monday evening the Seneca Club
is entertained by Mrs. Wilson and Mrs
Stewart at Mrs Stewards. Peru is the
topic of the evenings program which is
in full as follows:
Roll call ..... Tidbits OF wit and wisdom
The Conquest OF Peru.------------M Mrs. Eastman
Peru and Its Capital -. Mrs. Morton
The Railways Of Peru---...-----.-M Mrs, smiley
In attendance on the state teachers
convention at Bangor last week were
Superintendent Burr r. Jones, Principal
John s. Carver, Miss Jeanne TOwle and
Mrs. Al Ia Rankin of the high school,
Miss Lena K. Franck of the fourth grade
and Miss Sylvia Weare OF the Pleasant
Street Primary. Those schools whose
teachers were absent were suspended
Thursday aud Friday.
A car of the United States Bureau of
Fisheries went through on the afternoon
train Thursday, bringing large quaint
ty.of Young trout and salmon from the
Green Lake hatchery. Sixty cans of
81 were unloaded at this station for
Norway waters and the Five Kezars in
Waterford, and a number of cans were
taken of at West Pars to 60 10 Shagg
Pond and other streams and ponds IN
that section.
About the handsomest freight train
that ever passed through South Paris
went east Thursday afternoon. What's
that? You didn't know there was such
thing as a handsome freight train?
Well. this was. IL was drawn by one of
the largest engines used on the road, one
of the 500 class. OF its forty cars the
first rhirty-five were brand new box cars,
Of steel frame and all of one type. The
effect was damaged BY hitching mis-
csllaneous collection of five old cars on
the tail end, but they were not very no
ticesble.
Two handsome monuments have re-
Gently been set in Riverside Cemetery,
on the Garland lot and the Garland Mer-
rill LOT, which are side by side on the
river bank at the east aide of the GENE
terry. The monuments are massive
pieces of the old Westerly granite, which
isa handsome stone Of light color and fine
texture. On the top Of the Garland Mer-
rim monument is polished ball which is
OF dark Quincy granite. For this monu-
meut the design was made by Loren b.
Merrill, who did not find in the regular
designs ANYTHING that was just what he
wanted, so he made this, aud furnished
an exact model to the maker OF the mon
ument-
Nov. 90 and 81 are the dates of the
comic drama. The Doctor" which will
be- presented in New Hall under the aus
pices of the men of the Universalist par
ish. Rehearssls are already in progress
The cast Is:
Duungton Hopper, a New York stock
broker, who wants some fun-an gets IL,
Ralph Andrews
Thomas Pictou. his friend. who wants peace
and doesn't get it.--.---.--. Eugene Lowell
Crumley Chuggs, nice old man, who waats
the wid6w-snd gets her..---A: l.. Holmes
Napoleon b. Plunker. an Inventor. who wants
f. j. Record
Mrs. Fanny Mayfair, a dashing young widow.
Miss Maud Martin
Mrs. Anastasia Billowby, another widow, who
wants to elope-snd Is disappointed
Ellie Picton, Toms wife, who wants revenge
Miss airline Croker
Good Cheer Hall and its vicinity were
very spooky places Friday evening, when
the Halloween sociable was given under
the auspices of the Universalist ladies'
Ghosts in white and witches and COLLINS
In black wandered about the street,
greeted the guests with outstretched
hand, or paraded the hall in the dim
light Of jack % lanterns. The ghost drill
by dozen young ladies masked In white
each carrying a jsck-o-lautern, was ex
ceedingly we'll done. An orchestra FUR
nished fine music for the entertainment
and the program OF games which fol
lowed, and appropriate decorations OF
n. hall oIIal 40 fha uanaral affect