Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-04-14
STATED MEETINGS.

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STATED MEETINGS.
e & A. M.-Pari Lodge, No. 90. Regula
ing Tuesday evening on or before full moon
10. %. F.-Mount wica Lodge, regular mee'
inZs, Thursday evenih OF each week.-Auror
~ each month.
D. R.-Moun, Pie lsan; Rebekah Lodge, Nc
80, meets second ant fourth Fridays OF eacl
month In odd Fellows Hall.
G.AR.-w. K. Kimball Post. No. las, NEE.
DIR and third Saturday evenings OF eacl
month, IN q. A. R. Hall.
VIM. K. Kimban Circle, Ladies Of the G.
r, meets hrst and third Saturday evenings D
each month, in Grand Army Hall.
:. OF v.-Joshua l.. Chamberlain Camp meets
on the drst Tuesday night after the full or the
2. OF H.-Paris Grange, meets first and third
saturday Of zach month, In Grange Hall.
o.. %. g. C.-Secoud and fourth Mondays OF
CD month.
z. o. P.-Stony Brook Lodge, No. Isl,
.-,s ,econd and fourth Wednesday evenings
30 month.
P.-Harlrn Lodge. No. 81. meets every
r.v evening ~ Pythian Hall.
>r.ey j. Rawson has been taking the
s-1oe census of the town.
ton G.. Wheeler was in Portland
Tlssday and Wednesday, engaged in the
al Of lawsuit.
May ball is scheduled for Grange
Tan, OF which W. B. Young will be
flor manager and <. 5. Jones assistant.
N. W. Maxim is about putting in an
Underground gasoline tank and pump in
front Of his sporting goods store on Mar
sst square.
Miss Ina Gerry, who is studying at the
View England Conservatory of Music,
has been the guest for few days of her
aunt, Mrs. Annie Swift.
A W. Walker & Son have sold the
Nitham farm in the south part of the
town 20 Mrs. Jessie Dudley of West
Paris, who will occupy it.
Fred V. Abbott has returned home,
after having been engaged through the
winter on a numbering job for II. l.. Il
Y. A. Thurston at Richardson Pond.
Mrs. Wiutou S. Oliver and infant
daughter, Winona Antoinette Oliver,
who have been at j. j. Murphy's for sew
cral weeks, have returned home to Gar
diner.
Ray JENNIE has just returned from a
visit TO OrOno, where he stayed with AL
ton Porter while attending all the SEES
,ilus of the state road convention held
a, Bangor.
J Il. Nichols, who has spent the win
ter With his daughter, Mrs Warren
SWEET, in Winchester, Mass, returned
home Wednesday. Mrs. Nichols will
come later in the season.
Seleclman Charles w. Bowker attend
"a the state road convention at Bangor
tuesday and Wednesday, and later made
q trip to Lagrange on business for the
town in connection with a pauper case.
Next Sunday is Patriots Day, now
the legal spring holiday. According to
the usual custom, the stores and other
business places will close on Monday,
the day following The base ball sea-
son of course will open, and there
will be more or less other observance 4
the day.
Mrs. Hathaway entertains the Seneca
Club this Monday evening at her home
gram meeting of the season, the annual
meeting OF the club being entertained
next Monday evening by Mrs. Haskell
and Miss Thayer. The program for this
evening is
Roll Cau-Things remarkable and curious.
AUSTRALIAN JoURSEYISGs
The Aborigines OF Australia. Mrs. Smiley
The Women OF Australia Mrs. STANLEY
some Australian Industries Mrs Hilton
Reading, 1.-THE End OF the Play" lrhaeserayl
Mrs Stewart
On Wednesday of this week the Pro-
gressive county convention meets at the
court house at 1920 A. NJ. t. nominate
candidates for county offices. Seventy
delegates from the several towns and
plantations Of the county will be enti-
tied 20 seats in the conveution.on the ba-
SIT Of the Roosevelt vote in November,
1872 II is understood that Hon. John
) Harlow If Dixfield will be chairman
% the convention, and that the princi-
pa speakers will be Hon. II. p. Gard
ner, candidate for governor, Alton q.
Wheeler of South Paris, candidate for
congress in the Second District, aud A.
T. S,earus of Rumford.
over two hundred in all partook of
the Universalist mems supper in Good
Cheer Hall Tuesday evening, the first
table being a little more than filled, and
this annual event was as much of a sue
cess as in previous years. a good sup
per Of Oyst ers, potato chips. cold ham,
hot biscuit pastry and coffee was set
out. Early Vows" an entertaining
~ faa
ture of the evenings entertainment.
There were also selections which made
bit by a male quartette composed OF
Msssrs. l.. 5. Sessions, George A.
Briggs, Burr F. Jones, and Fred K. Hall,
and Negro song and encore by "Uncle
Ned Johnson" who proved to be Frank
lin Maxim.
Il looks as if there might be another
chapter in the history of the man
Brown, alias Edwin Robbins, who was
working this vicinity few weeks since
in company with young woman, and
who, after the expiration OF short term
10 Jail at South Paris, was taken TO YER
mont tu answer to the charge OF horse
stealing. Inquiries regarding him were
received by the officers few days since
FROM the warden of the New Hampshire
state prison. The warden wished to
know where he had been taken and also
wished to know il he could be Identified
as former inmate of the New Hsmp-
shire prison. Enclosed in the letter was
Photograph of the former inmate re-
ferred TO, in his prison clothes, wb ch
Jailer Titus and others say is a perfect
picture Of the man who was in Jail here.
There is a local interest in the SEN
fencing to the prison at Atlanta oy toe
federal court in New York last Tuesday
Of seven former officers and agents of the
Sterling DebeDture Corporation for u.s.
ing the mails to defraud. One OF the
men, Benjamin C.. Nudge. who got
sentence Of four years, was for time
with his family a resident at SHOWS
Falls in Paris. Mr.. Nudge was q chem
ist and inventor, and was reputed 10
have invented a process oy which ths
linen fibre could be obtained from max
Al a great saving of time and cost over
the former processes. To exploit Dis
process, the Linen Manufacturing Co.
was organized aud put up the buildings
which are now standing unused az
SHOWS Falls. The Linen Manufactur-
ing Co. finally came to an ipglorious
end, and later Mr.. Nudge appeared "a
Inc chief figure 10 the Oxford Linen
Mills OF North Brookfield, Mass. The