Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-07-07

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Encsmpment, first and .hird Monday evening
o.. each month. -
d. R.~Mount Pleasan. Rebekah Lodge, n
80. meets second and fourth fridays Oh eS'
month In Odd Fellows Hall.
GA R-w. X. Kimbsll Post. No. las, NEE
DIR and third Saturday evenings OF esC
month, In G. A. K. Hall.
WIN. K Kimban Circle. Ladies OF the u.
Y. meets nrst and third Saturday evenings
each month. IN Grand Army Hall. -,
V.-Joshua l.. Chamberlain camp meet
ON the first Tuesday night after the tui OF vi
uOJn. a.. 49,, ,h,r.
,,.ur,lay OF zach month, In Grange Hall
l.. o. &. C.-second and fourth Mondays o
e. %. P-stony Brook Lodge, No. Isl
acts econd and fourth "Wednesday evening"
6s P.~Hamrn Lodge. No. 81. meets every
FrllAy evening at Pythian Hal.
Miss Effs Hardy of Hsverhill, Mass.
is visiting her sister Ethel here.
Mrs W. +. Morse and son Calvin have
been spending week in in Canton.
Miss Lena Hicks of Beverly, Mass, is
the guest OF her father, b. +. Hicks.
Mr. Mary Briggs of Newmarket, y.
Il. Is the guest of her sister, Mrs. j. ii
Nichols.
Miss y. C.. Ham of Lewiston was a
guest of Mrs. Anna III. Hayes for few
days asst week.
Mrs Alton c. Wheeler goes on We'd
ne,day o squirrel Island, to stay few
dsv, With friends who are there.
Nr and Mrs. Samuel Flemming OF
Well, Beach are guests OF Mrs. Flem-
mug's mother, Mrs. Florence Chapman.
Rev. NJ. V. McAlister and family OF
Eliot are visiting Mrs. McAlister's par
euts. Mr.. and Mrs. o. + Bsrrows, on
months vacation.
J.F. King Of South Paris and T. A.
Deano of oxford attended the meeting
fthe state association of rural carriers
al Houlton Friday and Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton c. Wheeler and
daughter Miriam, and Mrs. Anna Il.
HAYES have spent the past few days at
Mr. Wheeler's camp at Shagg Pond.
The factory OF the Paris Manufactur-
ing Co. shut down Friday night, and, as
i, customary for week each summer,
wi remain shut down until next Mon
DAY
Miss Eulalie Davis of Norway is in the
insurance office of w. j. Wheeler X Co,
10 training To substitute for Miss Mar
garet A. Baker when the latter takes her
vacation later in the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry NJ Wheeler and
Mrs. Wheeler's sister, Miss Catherine
Walton, of Wakefield, Mass, arrived
here on Tuesday. and went directly 10
their camp at Shagg Pond for stay of
week.
Miss Edith, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry |. Lowell, observed her ninth
birthday Tuesday with party at which
nine of her girl friends were entertained
Ice cream and cake were served, witt
a birthday cake decorated with nine
candles.
The Norway and Paris Ministers
Circle held reception and picnic lunch
at the home of Rev. A. T. McWhorteI
Thursday afternoon, in honor of Rev. +.
A. Davis and family. Mr.. Davis was
presented with book and pearl hand
led pocket knife.
Wheeler Bros. Greater Shows gave two
exhibitions on the grounds near Charles
Street Thursday, not to mention the
street parade in the rain and mush.
Owing to the rain and the Arctic July
weather the crowd was rather small.
The show was very good.
Poland Spring reports s. varieties OF
b ris this spring, says current news
paper paragraph. Ii is not stated who
has the authority TO speak for Poland
Spring, but il is not difficult to find
more than one bird lover in South Paris
whose list runs above the hundred mark
for the season.
Burr T. Jones, superintendent OF
schools. is this week attending the state
superintendents' institute at Castine.
Mrs Jones accompanies him, and will
yisi; her people at her former home at
s., George before her return, while MT.
Jones visits several other places in that
part Of The state.
Mrs. C. A. Bessey and Miss Lenora
Besssy Of StOneham, Mass, arrived here
on Thursday for visit to relatives. On
Friday Miss Julia =. Morton, Miss Bes-
sey, Miss Crowell of Vassalboro, and
Miss Davis of Sherburne, Mass, went to
Camp Concord. where they will make a
stay Of two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. b. Crockett, who
had been attending the Northern Bap-
tist Convention in Boston, returned
home the first of last week, accompa-
MED by their daughter, Mrs. Leon S.
Fairbanks of Abingdon, Mass. On
Thursday Mrs. Crockett and Mrs. Fair
banks accompanied Mr.. Fairbanks, who
arrived in Maine on his annual vacation,
10 the Fairbanks camp at Concord Pond,
where they will spend some time.
A meeting of the Republican County
Committee was held at the court house
Wednesday, to which the members OF
the several town committees, the party
candidates, and others, were invited.
There was an attendance of about forty
from all sections of the county, and the
grand jury room in which the meeting
was held was pretty closely packed.
Among the visitors were Hon. Harold
NJ Sewsll of Bath, the Republican can
djdate for congress in the Second Dis
trict, and Hon. John p. Swasey of Can
ton, former congressman. The meeting
was called solely for business, in connec-
ton with the campaign, and was princi-
plly informal, though brief remarks
were made by Mr.. Sewsll and some oil
the others regarding the outlook, oil
which all took very hopeful view.
Tha, DIR. Minor C. Baldwin is a great
artist on the organ was further demon
strated Tuesday evening, when he gave
recital of secular music at the Univer
sallst church. His selections having
wider range than at bis previous recital
OF sacred music, gave more opportunity
TO show not only his skill but the posi-
ollities of the organ. Some of the mos'
pleasing OF his numbers were OF his oS
composition, two of which, "Reverie'
and Consolation" he played here be
fore and repeated by request. Another
OF his compositions, "Storm in the
Mountains" was especially notable, ane
the effect was heightened by a darkenet
auditorium and occasional lightning
flashes to accompany the roar OF th'
storm. 10 the course Of. the program
there was solo by Miss Tolmao accom-
panied on the violin by Miss Grac'
Dean, a solo by Alden Chase, and one b.
Burr T. Jones, Mrs. Agnes Morton being
at the organ for all these. The audito
rum OF the church was filed with peopl
from the village and neighboring places