Oxford Democrat., 1914-08-25
r. B. Fogg has sold Chevrolet road
ster to Bert Wood,

son Carl IN winthrop.
The Grange held another of their en-
joyable dances Friday evening.
Miss Edith Kelley of New York city is
visiting at Alton c. Wheeler's.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Stiles visited
friends in Lewiston the past week.
Mrs. c. W. Blanchard of Rumford
Point, was at South Paris Tuesday.
Mrs. Carrie Briggs and Maud Briggs
OF st. Johnsbury, VT, are visiting friends
here.
Mrs. George NJ. Giles Is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Cliston Mcallister in
Lewiston.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Arthur E. Forbes are
spending few days at their cottage at
Shagg Pond.
Misses Myrtle and Laura Bowker of
Sumner have been recent guests at Maui
rice L. Noyes'.
B. P. Adkins is putting on an addi-
ton, l4x24 feet, at the rear of his barn
on High Street.
Fl. n. Bragdon returned Thursday af-
ter spending few days with his sick
brother in Lamoine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur C.. Atwood of
Auburn were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Nelson Elder over the weekend.
The South Paris guests of the n. q. S.
Alumni passed very pleasant evening
at the alumni ball last Wednesday.
Shaw's Orchestra of five pieces will
furnish music for the Couant family re-
union at Hebron Thursday, Aug. 27.
Miss Georgia S. Perham of Washing
ton, d. c., has been guest of Hon. and
Mrs. James S. Wright the past week.
Miss Euuice W. Fobes, who has been
visiting relatives in Oxford County, re-
turned to Wakefield, Mass, this week.
Mrs. T. S. Barnes and Miss Helen
Barnes returned last week from vaca-
ton with friends in Portland and vicini-
ty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Gray and two
children, Stanley and Barbara, of Con-
cord, n. H., are visiting relatives and
friends here.
Shaw's orchestra of five pieces furnish
ed music for social dance in Grange
Hall, South Waterford, Monday even
ing, Aug. "a.
The Republican town committee will
meet at the assessors Office at 1870 this
Monday evening, All interested are re-
quested to be present.
Freeland Witham took vacation last
week from his work as clerk in the
Chas. Fl. Howard Company store. He
spent the week at York Beach.
Treasurer George C. Fernald of the
Paris Trust Company and Mrs. Fernald
started Wednesday for vacation of
week at Mr.. Fernsld's old home in Ellis
worth.
Robert Parlin, while at work carpen- |
tering, made bad cut in his thumb on |
his left hand with hand saw last week |
Thursday. He is getting along nicely
now.
Master Arthur Brooks celebrated his
7th birthday Tuesday by entertaining
ten young people. Games were played,
refreshments scINcu duu q sCaOAoi 6OSN
time was enjoyed.
Prof. Wallace w. Andrews, principal
of the Butler School, Portland, was
guest of his sister, Mrs. Charles, Ed
wards, last Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chandler Garland of
Boston were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. +.
A. Whittemore last week. Mr.. Garland
was for several years tax collector OF
Paris and has many friends here.
Mrs. l.. n. Tsrbox, Miss Marion Tar
box and Miss Emma Jones OF Hopedale,
Mass, are spending week at george
Morton's. Afternoon tea was served IN
their honor on Thursday. There were
twenty present.
Clement c. Lyons, student in the
department of agriculture at the UNI
versity of Maine, completed his work at
DR.. Kings farm Friday. Mr.. Lyons
will spend a few weeks with his parents
at Pittsfield before the University opens
in September.
Rae Newton is laid up as the result OF
getting his forefinger on the right hand
under the boring machine while at work
at the Paris Manufacturing Co.'s plant
Wednesday. The drill went through
the fiugernail and made very painful
wound, but is now doing we'll.
John Ripley, while at work in the
blacksmith shop of the Paris Manufac-
turing Company Friday afternoon, lost
part of the second finger on his right
hand. Mr.. Ripley had previously lost
| part of his foretinger on the same hand
on similar work at the same plant.
NJ. NJ. Sawyer will sell at public auc-
tion on the premises, on Thursday,
August 9th at one o'clock, the Rich
mond farm at East Oxford, containing
one hundred acres, we'll wooded with
pine. The hay, farming tools and
household furniture will be sold at auc-
ton at the same time. Albert d. Park
is the auctioneer.
A Portland paper remarked some two
wears since that an observer on Monu-
ment Square and Congress Street would
see, on any pleasant day, more sutomo-
biles than horse, drawn vehicles. The
proportion has greatly increased since
then and the growth of the automobile
industry has been such that the remark
of the Portland paper at that time will
now apply with equal truth to the busi.
| ness portion of South Paris and most OF
the larger Maine villages. Few realize
how great part gasolene has come to
play in our everyday life.
Congressman A. s. Kreider, OF Harris
burg, Pa, with bis wife, two sons and
daughter and Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Cushman and daughter, of Chicago, who
are on an automobile tour Of the White
Mountains, were calling on friends in
South Paris last Saturday. Mr.. Cush-
man is a native of Buckfield and has been
very successful in business in the West.
Mr.. Kreider was elected to Congress
from the Harrisburg District two years
ago. He is a partner Of Mr.. Cushman in
the Kreider-C -Cushman Shoe Company,
operating large factories in Pennsylvania
and salesrooms in various cities.
The joke is on an owner Of q camera,
a Young man not inseusible of the
charms Of the other sex. He recently
had roll of film developed which In
cluded some snaps taken on little vaca-
ton trip, and among the negatives was