Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-06-16

Mrs. l.. E. Bean has put In . concrete
driveway at her house on Pine Street.
Mrs. E. N. Haskell and her two chill
dren are visiting her parents in Den
mark.
Concrete walk is being put In at th,
house Of c. Freeland Penlsy on Higl
Street.
Miss Helen DeCoster of Buckfield ha,
been a guest at Geo. r. Morton's for I
few days.
Ray Newton has gone to Portland
where he will be employed as clerk in ;
clothing store.
Thomas Powers Is still somewha
lame from the effects of sticking a spik'
into his foot recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph r. Butts have re
turned from two weeks stay in King
field, Mr.. Butts former home.
Harry A. Titcomb and Alton l.. Por
ter have returned from the University o.
Maine for the summer vacation.
Shaw's Orchestra of nine pieces fur
nished music for the Norway High
School graduation ball Friday evening.
| Social dance at Grange Hall, both
floors, Tuesday evening Of this week.
Music by Shaw's and Duuham's Orches
tras.
Col. VIM. T. Eus,is and family of Dix
field have come to their summer home
in the south part of the town for the
season.
The next meeting Of the w. C. T. U.
will be held with Mrs. o. Z. Barrows or
| Pine Street, on Tuesday, the 23d, post
poned from the 10th.
/ Concrete sidewalk is being put in al
the lot of Mrs. Ellen Blake on Pleasant
\ Street. This will complete the walk
from Market Square to the Grand Trunk
station.
The Il. Y. S. Club met at the home of
Raymond Shaw Friday evening with a
goodly number present. After an inter
esting meeting dainty refreshments
were served.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Morton, Mrs. c.
A. Record and son Miles started Monday
morning on an automobile trip to Mars
Hill, where Mr.. Record is superintend-
ent Of schools.
Miss Ada Fryett, who has been spend
ing the past few weeks with Miss Faith
Davis, went Thursday morning to Dix
Vile Notch, Y. H., where she has q posi-
ton in q hotel for the season.
A meeting of the village corporation
is called at Engine House Hall next Fri
day evening, June 10, at 7:30, to see IL
the corporation will vote to buy 500 feet
of hose, to be paid for out of next years
assessment.
Tickets for the graduating exercises
Of Paris High School Thursday evening
will be on sale at Towards drug store
Tuesday at 9 A N. Price Is cents. The
class would renew their request that no
flowers be brought to the church.
Miss Laura Deane and Mrs. Hum
phrey of Old Orchard are occupying q
cottage on Pennesseewassee Lake for
while. Mrs. Ellen Taylor, Frank A.
Taylor and family, and Miss Laura Ad-
kins spent the weekend with them.
Joseph A. Noyes will go to Peaks
Island on Thursday to prepare the build
ing of the Eighth Maine Regiment Asso-
citation for the regimental reunion. This
reunion takes place next week, and it
will be open house all the week. Mr..
Moves is president of the association and
chairman of the executive committee.
Mrs. Moves and Mrs. j. J, Merrill will
accompany him.
Change of time on the Grand Trunk
10 the summer schedule will not be
made this year until the 2Sth OF June,
which is about week later than the
usual time. The Sunday excursions,
which have usually begun by the srst or
second Sunday in June, have not yet
been announced, and it looks as IL they
would at least have a shorter season
than for the past few years.
Penueewassee Lodge, No. is, k. of P,
of Norway, will visit Hamlin Lodge, No.
81, Friday evening, June 20. The third
rank will be exemplified. Refresh
ments will be served. Hamlin Lodge
with the fine new costumes just pur-
chased has one of the best equipped
rank teams in the state of Maine. There
will be a rehearsal next Friday evening,
June 10, for the first and third rank
i teams.
The banquet for the Oxford Normal
Institute and Paris High School stu
dents will take place Friday evening at
Grange Hall at Z o'clock. 80 cents per
plate. Much interest is being taken in
this event, and grand time is expected.
Anyone falling to receive card may
consider this an invitation, as it Is ear
nestly desired that as many OF the stu
dents of both institutions as possible
may be present. Pay your alumni dues
to Miss Ruth Bolster, and notify Miss
Eva Walker not later than June 10th OF
your desire to attend.
The selectmen have suspended over
the street in Market Square, at the cor
| ner BY Odd Fellows Block, a large sign
| in brilliant red, bearing the word, Dan
ger, 20 slow" in white letters 80 large
that he who runs an automobile may
read. Now il the drivers will take some
heed, there will be less occasion for
heart failure on the part of bystanders.
The turn at that place is very blind,
and with the reckless manner in which
some have taken II in the past, the re-
markable thing is that no serious acct
dent has ever happened there.
Sunday was observed as Memorial
Sunday by Mt. Mica Lodge of Odd Fell
lows and Mt. Pleasant Rebekab Lodge.
Eighty-three graves of departed brothers
and sisters were decorated during the
day, most Of them being in Riverside
Cemetery. In the afternoon at 2:30 the
regular memorial service took place In
the ball after which the members OK the
orders marched to Riverside Cemetery.
The exercises here included prayer by
the lodge chaplain, j. j. Merrill, singing
BY a quartet composed OF Albert Dean
and l.. S. Sessions OF NJ. Mica Lodge
and Mrs. Herman Wilson and Miss Grace
Thayer of Mt. Pleasant Rebekah Lodge,
and a short and eloquent memorial ad-
dress BY brother Alton C. Wheeler.
Two of the prisoners at the Jail left
one day last week without making any
mention Of paying their board. They
were Joe Hilbert, who has been here
number of times for int0xication, and
Giuseppe Cenci, an Italian, charged with
the larceny of a watch. Both came from
Rumford. On the day they left, mum
Der of the prisoners were at work taking
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