Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-07-27

Henry Fletcher has been called to
Newport, N. a., by the death and funeral
of sister.
Rehearsal Of the third rank team at
Hamlin Lodge rooms Wednesday even
ing of this week.
Rev. and Mrs. Charles Hall of New
port, n. a., are with Mrs. Halls mother,
Mrs. II. D. Field.
Miss Frances Nicholson of Revere,
Mass, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. j. E.
Murcb, for few weeks.
Mrs. L. L. Phelps and Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Gerrish and baby of South Port
land are guests at Mrs. Alice P. Thayer's
for few days.
A Paris and Norway team went to
Ramp Kohut, Oxford, Saturday after
noon, and were defeated A to 10 agame
of ball with the Ramp Kohut team.
At its last meeting the Paris school
committee voted to paint the Shurtleff,
Partridge, Hollow and Forbes school
houses, and to shingle the Tubbs house.
The next dance at Grange Hall will be
Tuesday evening, Aug. 5. Both floors,
Shaw's Orchestra for round dances, Dun
hams for cOntrss. Car for Norway after
dance.
The Fan Tan club are invited to a pic
mic dinner next Wednesday, July 2S, in
FL. Z. Wilson's pine grove. Please come
and bring your dinner, cup and teaspoon
and sewing.
On Thursday afternoon of this week at
the home of Mrs. L. Z. Bean on Pine
Street, the Good Cheer Society will hold
blueberry griddle cake supper from 5
to Z O'Clock. All are invited to come.
Grasshoppers are reported to have
swept down on some of the farms on
Fore Street in cloud, cutting off the
larger part of the grass crop, and serious
ly injuring corn and beans. In this i'm
mediate vicinity there are no unusual
nu mbers of them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar w. Royal are visit |
ing relatives and friends in town for |
some weeks. They were formerly of
Paris, but for the past few years have |
been with their son, Arthur T. Royal, in |
Worcester, Mass, and have not been |
here before for five years.
The Congregational church will be |
closed for the last four Sundays of Au-
gust. Preaching and Sunday school next |
Sunday, Aug. l, as usual. The evening |
service will be omitted. All services re-
sumed September l. The subject Of
sermon next Sunday: San Invitation to
Rest"
DR.. D. NJ. Stewart is at Fort Williams,
Portland Harbor, with the Hospital
Corps of the Maine National Guard, for
a ten days encampment, he being one of
the medical officers of the Guard. Mrs
Stewart and daughter Geraldine are
meanwhile with friends at the islands,
and Master Gordon is staying with his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Maxwell.
Ashley Edwards is discovering fame.
The other day, unbeknown to him, his
name was written on an egg by one OF
his fellow clerks in the store of the n.
DAYTON Bolster Co., where he is engaged
this summer. The egg turned up in
Portland restaurant and newspaper re-
porter got hold of it. Consequence, Ash
ley is now suffering the penalties which {
are incidental to being famous, such as
having bis name printed incorrectly in
the papers, and so on. |;
A still alarm was given just before
twelve o'clock Saturday noon for a fire
at the Deering house on High Street, on
a back roof at the south end, in the rent
occupied BY Mr.. and Mrs. P. E. Wheeler. =
The fire doubtless caught from sparks ,
from a galvanized iron kitchen chimney
which runs from a lower roof up past the +;
one where the blaze started. Mrs. Har- =,
Did +. Briggs discovered the blaze, and :
4 garden hose was attached to faucet !;
IN the house and with this the blaze was
soon under control. The hose cart of :
Co. No. ! was taken from the engine
house, but there was no occasion for its
use. A patch OF new shingles will be
the amount of repairs required.
A fortunate escape from serious &C.
,ideut was experienced Sunday after
noon by Hon. and Mrs. James S. Wright,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. n. Wright and Miss
Carrie Hall, who were re urniDg from an j
ride. At Shows Falls, d. I
rectly in front of the house of Mrs.
Wood, the steering gear of the car broke, t
and the car swerved to the right and I
" eut out of the road toward the river,
being stopped with the wheel close to a
Tree, without injury 10 any one, or seri- t
ous damage. At that place there is a I
level space of some width between the $
road and the river, but il the accident a
had happened a little farther south,
nothing could have prevented the Car 3
going into the stream.