Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-09-30
Miss Ira Marshall OF Auburn Ia Whiting
IN town for few DAYS.

son Alden were guests of relatives here
for day last week.
A record days run of $4,000 cans was
made st the Burnham & Morrill, Co..
corn factory Thursday.
Mrs. Fred 5. Brown and two soma Of
Caribou are with Mrs. Browns parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. q. Stuart.
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. rockingham
of Biddeford were guests at r. n.
Wright's few days last week.
Mrs. Harry A. Lane of Portland has
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. d. d.
Fletcher, few days during the past
week.
Mrs. Fred W. Bonuey has gone to
Quincy, Mass, on visit, and will also
visit in Hudson, Y. H., before her return
home.
Alonzo Buck, who lives with his
daughter, Mrs. Bailey, in the Hersey
house, has suffered severe paralytic
shock.
John McKeen and Sumner Davis, OF
the class of 1918 of Paris High School,
have entered the freshman class at Bates
College.
A cottage house for Mr.. aud Mrs. A.
Carl Tubbs is being built on the east
side Of Park street, directly opposite the
house of G. K. Ripley.
The Schubert Quartsrte sang at North
Bucktield Friday evening in the enter
,siument given in connection with the
fair of Mountain Grange.
VIM. +. Swan and daughter, Miss Al
ice A. Swan, of Lynn, Mass, who had
been visiting relatives here for few
weeks, returned to their home Friday.
Owing to delay on the railroad, the
Democrat is obliged to defer the publ
cation of the first installment of 1.-The
Americans in Panama" until next week.
Mrs. Wealthy Clifford, accompanied
By her sister, Mrs. Georgia Day of Frank
lin, Mass, who was here for some weeks,
is making visit to relatives in Mexico.
Mrs. Mary Burnham and Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. F. Stone Of South Portland, and
Harry B. Stone of Denver, Col, have
visited relatives here during the past
week.
Guests at George R. Morton's the past
week include DIR. and Mrs. NJ. W. Bessey
and son Alden of Wstervile, Mr.. and
Mrs. B. c. Smith and Rev. Mr.. Mahood
of Gorhsm, n. 81.
Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Hooper Of
Cliftondale, Mass, who are on their
wedding trip. are guests at w, o. Froth-
ingham's. Mr.. Hooper is nephew of
Mr.. rockingham.
Mrs. Charles Morgan and Mrs. L. l.
Phelps of South Portland are guests at
Mrs Alice p Tbayer's for a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Gerrish were
there over Sunday.
The Paris Grange play, 1.-The Brook
dale Farm" was presented at Grange
Hall, South Waterford, Friday evening,
TO full house. and the net receipts
were very satisfactory.
On Friday evening, the Goth, the
Christian Endeavor Society of the Bap-
fist church enjoyed a hsyrack ride and
corn roast with W. N. Judkins on Elm
Hill. About thirty attended.
A party Of twelve including two chill
dren enjoyed clam chowder, collation.
aud social good time at seldom Inn,"
the camp of Miss Hattie Burnell and
Mrs. J. d. Haynes on the Burnell place,
Thursday, dinner and afternoon.
Rally Day exercises we're held at the
Baptist church and Sunday School the
18th. There was special music and
readings at the Sunday School, Attend
ance in the Sunday School 120. The
cradle roll was largely represented.
George W. Haskell, who has been en-
ployed in the Norway shoe factory, has
gone with his family to spend some two
weeks with Mrs. Haskelps people in
Buckfield, aud they will then go to Au-
burn, where Mr.. Haskell has a situation
engaged.
Unofficial records show rainfall of
2 inches in the slime storm" of the first
of last week. Line storm, by the way,
because il happened to come on the
equinox. II it had come at any other
time, it wouldn't have been the line
storm.
Mrs. Mary E. (Bepo Wescott and
HISS w CoIONbf VI ouhaVt ~
Y, have recently been guests at A. Z.
Morse's. Mrs Wescott was the daugh-
ter of the late o. w. Bent of South Paris,
and ia the widow Of George +. Wescott,
who died few months since.
George w. Waterhouse has purchased
the house of Cyrus P. Berry at the corn
or of Gothic and Church Streets, and will
move into il with bis family this week.
Mr.. Berry and family will move into the
rent vacated by the Warehouses in the
Stowell house on Church Street.
Hamliu Lodge. No. 81, X. of p, has
been invited 90 work the rank OF Knight
at the district convention which will be
held in the hall of Valley Spring Lodge,
South Waterford, Thursday evening,
Oct. 10, 1918. All rank members please
be present for rehearsal next Friday
evening at o'clock.
Five thousand dollars of the Oxford
County court house bonds will be called
in Nov. 1st, and paid with cash in the
treasury This will leave outstanding
only $1,000 of the issue of $685. made
when the court house was built in 1898,
and the prospect is good that the entire
issue will be cleaned up before the ex-
pirstion OF the twenty-yesr term.
Much attention has been attracted to a
plant of the Star Of Bethlehem in the
window Of Mrs. j. A. Scott on the cor
ner Of High and Gothic Streets. The
plant, started from slip secured by Mrs.
Scott last spring, has hundreds Of the
large stsr-formed flowers on 1t, and has
bloomsd continuously in the same pro-
fusion for about two months and half
already.
There will be District meeting OF the
Woman's Univsrsalist Mission Circles at
Bethel on Tuesday, Sept. S0th. Mrs. Il.
B. Smith, president of the Maine Mis-.
sion Circles, Mrs. Ball of West Paris and
other speakers will be present. Box
lunch will be served, Bethel circle fur
nishiug baked beans and coffee. The
time Of the meeting 10 arranged between
the forenoon and afternoon trains.
At Deering Memorial Church Sunday
evening the pastor, Rev. c. /. Spear, in
stalled the following officers OF the Ep-
worth League:
| President-Miss Jeanne Towle.
First Vic. President-Miss Helen Chapman.
Second Vice, Presidentypniiip spear spear,
Fourth Vice. Prestient-Dr Chester Merriii.
] Secretary-Haroid Merrill.
Treasurer-francis Chapman.
Supt. Junior League-Mrs. julia Abbott.
Thursday evening, Sept. Is, twenty OF
! A. -o,,r naonla schooim afea of Miss