Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-05-13
SOUTH PARIS.


"a Tuesday evening, May 18th.
#, and Mrs. A. E. Estes have moved
=, Wast Paris into a rent in George /.
nnO.abam's house of Pleasant Street.
Ma Kate Skilliugs Under of Msnkato,
Nm arrived Saturday forenoon for a
visit Of some weeks at George A. Briggs
Mater Philip Maxim Of Portland is
- ,,nsst of bis grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs franklin Maxim, for two or three
weeks.
The twsntg.eighth anniversary of the
c,rtb Paris Baptist church will be OBJ
.s,yed by a special program and social
OCCASION on Monday evening, the 10th.
v,, Carrie A Briggs, who has been
,o- some weeks With her son, Frank A.
R,isrs az s.. JOhnSbury, VT, has been
here Tor a few days, but returns to st.
JOhnsbury.
Ms Elizabeth Edgerly has gone to
ns,rr,,. Mich. TO attend the meeting Of
ne Ladies' Auxiliary to the Order of
Pai,say Conductors She will be away
nr two or three weeks.
Mrs Harry Adams, fOrelady in the
v,son Manufacturing Co.'s factory, is in
Nav Hampshire for vacation of two
vssks and Mrs. vernal Edwards is TAX
ing her place in the factory.
Nr. T.. Z. Bean, Miss Cora ]. Mason
.,4 Mss Pauline, who have been In
p,.aisna. Calf, during the winter, ar
rived here Wednesday, and are again
settled % their home on Pine Street.
IA. Porter has made quite change
in hi. store By the substitution OF a
number Of silent salesman" showcases
IN be used for confectionery 10 place OF
the counters and old-style showcases
formerly 10 use.
p. Evans u Dover, editor and pub
r.ber nj the PSca,aquis Observer, made
ali AZ the Demucra, office Wednesday,
while 10 Norway 20 attend the Congre-
oa,ioDal Conference 1t was pleasant
call. although the sporting editor, who
was partly the object OF It, was out OF
town for the first time in some weeks.
The water pressure on Tuesday and
Wednesday viii be less than usual, as
The Hooper reservoir will be emptied and
sastsi cut clean. The two dams have
been cleaned the past week. This will
take .ua whole week to get the pressure
back 60 standard. We have plenty OF
water Tor - hours fire, six streams,
Wish0u. The Hooper reservoir.
o. X Clifford has been doing quite a
rsa. estate business over on Highland
Avenue recently, having sold two house
lots one was purchased by Eben
Chapman, who has already begun work
on ,wo story house and ell which will
have all the modern improvements. This
20 c5n,sined one acre of land. The
other lot on the same street was sold TO
Daniel C.. SWEET OF Bethel.
Henry Fletcher is putting in the
i0undation for a house on the Hebron
nad, about opposite his cranberry bog.
The house will be for rent when COM
ple,ed except that Mr.. Fletcher will
probably put in a cranberry cellar in the
basement to handle bis berries, and will
reserve one or two rooms for his own
uss when caring for his berries or doing
other work in that vicinity.
Ten Colby College students, in charge
of Professor II. P. Little, were here last
week doing field work in geology. On
Thursday they visited Mt. Mica, and in
spected the mineral collections of l.. B.
Merrill of Paris Hill and others Later
they saw the collections of George r.
Howe and others of Norway, and on Fri
day went to Auburn, where they were to
visit Mount Apatite, and then make a
stop at Litchfeld on their way back to
Waterville.
Harry G.. Cole of Paris Hill has gone
cut of the Paris Manufacturing Co.'S
factory to have outdoor employment for
the summer, and is at present engaged
on the sidewalk construction. He has
been employed in the factory of the
Paris Manufacturing Co. practically con-
tinuOusly during the more than twenty
seven years that il has been at South
Paris, and before that worked in the
factory when il was on Paris Hill for
some three years.
10 addition to the sidewalk at the
Stlwe.l house at the corner of Pleasant
and Church Streets, q concrete crossing
on Pleasant Street has been put in, in
place OF the former stone crossing.
Sidewalk has been laid in front of Hotel
Andrews, and Is now going in az the
Hall house on Pleasant Street. A walk
viii also be laid in front of the black
smith shop occupied by r. Z. Barrows,
which will make complete stretch of
permanent walk from Market Square to
y. d. BOlster's south line.
During the past week there was erect
ed in our beautiful Riverside Cemetery
through the efforts of the South Paris
Congregational Sunday School, tablet
30 the memory of Uncle Leonard and
Aunt Eunice Shurtleff. Both were life
long members and teachers in the Con-
gregatiOnsl Sunday School, and Aunt
Eunice with the infant class probably
taught more children the Lords prayer,
the ten commandments and the "ShOrter
CaGechiSm," than any other woman in
the town OF Paris. Many of the elderly
people of the village were once members
OF her class.
Through the courtesy Of Frank B.
Carr, captain, acting as chief OF the
Portland fire department, eight men OF
the South Paris fire department went
with them to the Berlin fire Saturday
night, arriving home at 5:25 Sunday
morning. The return run from Gorham
to South Paris, no stops, was made In
one hour aud fifteen minutes. The
Portland department took the engine
Amoskeag, 100 feet of hose, fifteen men
and four horses. The Lewiston fire de-
partment was there with the engine An
droscoggip, hose wagon aud horses, and
Gs,aan man In cbarOe of u Il CrOnip A
sistant engineer of the department.
o'clock Sunday 10 the Berlin fire sta.
ton.
At the meeting of the Board Of Trade
Wednesday evening, committee was
chosen TO act 10 conjunction with the
Norway Board of Trade 10 entertaining
the members of the Portland Board
Of Trade party when they stop here on
the 22d inst. The committee was com.
posed of VIM. j. Wheeler, Walter l..
Gray, A. G. Maxim, DR.. ID. n. Stew art
and j. III. Bean. This committee con-
ferred with the Norway Board at their
meeting Friday evening, when commit
tee was chosen to act with them. 1t is
proposed by the joint committee to Sc
cure automobiles enough to take the Wis
itors about the two villages, to Paris
HUI and up the Norway Lake road dur
ing their stop, which is from ~ till 2
O'Clock.
Quite fair audience of those interest
ed in home missionary work heard Rev.
Hannah j. Powell speak Of her work at
Good Cheer Hall Thursday evening.
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