Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-09-23
SOUTH PARIS.
SOUTH PARIS POST OFFICE
,..s Hours. 1904. 10 Z 80 p. Il.

nav tar and gravel roof is being put
IN Billings Block.
Mrs Arvills Wise is painting her resi-
dance on Gothic Street.
N-s Frank Simonds of Haverhill,
Mass. is guest at \. (. Shurtlef's.
The first soeiable of the term was held
=, he high school building Friday even
iug.
Mrs. Hulbah Hilton Of Somerville,
Mass. is the guest of Mrs. Almeda New
ton.
NJ. George Day of Franklin, Mass,
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Ellen
Richards.
Mr. and Mrs. o. r. Bean of Cape Eliz-
,bs,b have been recent guests at Benjs-
min >Netts.
Mrs. Angie W. Bolster is visiting the
family % her son, II. T. Jordan, in
Phiads phla.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Z. Brett are Wis
hin, the family of Mr.. Brett's brother,
II P. Brett, in Beverly, Mass.
Ms. Victoria Hammond, formerly of
Paris. row IN Georgetown, Mass, is the
eue,. Jt aer brother, t. +. Hathaway.
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Robbins and
two sons 0s Portland have been stopping
atHl.e. Andrews for few days during
the pas. week.
Mrs III. A. Hilton accompanied Mr..
and Mrs Harry Wade on their return to
their home in New Haven, CT, and will |
speni a week or more there.
Miss Helen Barnes gave whist party |
Of three tables last Thursday evening, in |
honor o.. her cousin, Miss Olive Barnes |
oiPortsnd, who has been her guest for
the pas, Few weeks.
Geo W. COram, who now has <1arge |
of the new concrete reservoir that Mr.. |
Scruton building for the Bethel water |
works, spent the day Sunday with |
friends at south Paris.
Three z the largest cast iron water
pipe foundry companies submitted |
prices Tor the water works extension, |
and .he water commission contracted for |
the pipe, hydrant aud specials last Sat
uriay.
Frank lowering, while running his au-
t0mo5ue through the Square Monday |
evening, struck the fence around the
grass pjo. so hard as to break an axle of
toe car and break over one of the iron
p0s,s Of the fence.
coat Of black paint has been put on
toe railroad bridge below the village, in
Guiding the new girders at the ends of
the bridge, which before were the faded |
red Of the original paint. The effect is
an Improvement in the appearance Of the
bridge.
The selectmen wish to inform their |
agents that the appropriation for high
way has all been expended. 1t has been |
an extremely dry summer, the roads !
have rutted badly, and washed out con-
siderable in the last heavy shower, Sat |
Urdsy, the 18th.
The season opened for the Ladies'
Whist Club on Thursday afternoon, |
when the first meeting of the club after |
the summer vacation was held with Mrs
DR.. Stewart at her home on Pleasant
Street. The club will meet next with
Mrs. Scott, in two weeks.
Mrs. Ralph r. Butts entertained the
Friday Night Club at her home Friday
evening, when sixteen were present. A
buffet lunch was served, aud the evening
was very pleasantly spent. Mrs. Butts
received from the club a wedding gift OF
a cut glass lemon set.
Miss Doris Fletcher, daughter of W.
T. Fletcher of Worcester, Mass, who !
the summer, was taken to the Central |
Maine General Hospital at Lewiston
about week since for an operation for |
appendicitis. She is doing well.
There are vet some automobile drivers !;
who continue to drive at a dangerous |
rate Of speed around the old pOst-ofice !
corner in Market Square. To use |
Southern expression of sn,e-bellum days:
"lj this thing continues, some fellah's |
going to lose valuable niger"
President VIM j. Wheeler of the Ok
ford County Agricultural Society, Sec |
rotary VIM. o. rockingham, Trustee I. |
T. Richardson and E Z. Andrews of Nor
way, Stanley NJ. Wheeler, f. II. Bumpus,
Z VI Thayer and others attended the
AndrOscoggin Valley fair at Canton
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rawson have
entertained Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Tirrell of |
Turner, Mrs. G. II. Langmade and
daughter, Marjorie, of Dsnville Junction,
Mrs Eleanor Aldrich and her daughter /
and son, Mabel and Harold, of Haver-
hin, Mass, and Mr.. and Mrs. DermOnt
Robbins and children, Leayitt and
Gretchen, of Redding, the past week.
Cement walk has been built on Main
Street, on the east side of the river, in
front OF the grain store belonging to A.
f. Shurtleff, the store of A. l.. Tubbs, |
aud the house of Mrs. Mary +. Shurt-
lef, and on the other side of the street,
on the west side of the river, in front OF |
the houses of Walter p. Maxim and A. l..
Holmes. This will about complete the |
work for this year in the village.
Work has been in progress for several
days moving the fixtures and stock OF
the A. Z. Shurtleff Co. from the former |
location in Odd Fellows Block into the |
the store next door, which was formerly |
the post office. A steel ceiling has been |
put on, and the walls covered with an
oatmeal paper of dark shade, in adj |
dtion to the putting in of a new show
window on the High Street side OF the |
building at the front.
C. A. Record, who has for the past
few years been superintendent Of schools
in Haverhill, Mass, is now superintend-
ent in the district composed of Mars
Hill, Blaine and Bridgewater, in Aroos-
took County, with headquarters at Mars
Hill. Mrs Record and son Miles, who are
now with Mrs. Records parents, Mr..
aud Mrs. Geo. B. Crockett, will join Mr..
Record there later, when desirable &C
cOmmodations are secured.
Have you noticed those scorched-look-
ing spots which appear on the fruit and
other trees, in some places making al
most the whole tree brown? That is
where the brown-tails are getting In
their work. The eggs have Matched and
the little csterpillsrs have eaten the pulp
out Of the leaves sufficiently to grow a
little and make the winter nests, which
you may see by examination. No one
can doubt that the brown-tail moth situ-
alton is going to be worse than ever next
season.
At the we'll attended meeting of the
W. G. T. u. at the Universalist church
last Tuesday live program was carried
out and delegates elected to State con-
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