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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
THE OXFORD BEARS.
THE DOIN0S OF THE WEEK IN ALL
SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY.
Paris hlli.

First Baptist Church. Rev. g. W. 2. Nm. pas.
tor. Preaching every Sunday at l0a3 A..
Sunday School at Il. Sabbath evening scrVice
at 736. Prayer Meeting Thursday evening ..
the LIST Sunday Of the month At 80 r. =. A.
not otherwise connected are cordially invseo'
Winter came in with rush on Monday
night of last week. About eight inches
of snow fell, and the wind, blowing q
gale, took II all out of the roads In spots
and piled 1t in drifts varying in depth up
to three or more feet in other places.
Both wheels and runners continue In
use, though the thsw and rain on SAtur.
day has nearly ruined the sleighing, and
the automobiles haven't entirely given
up the game yet, though some OF them
have found 1t rather difficult blowing
through snow drifts, and since the rain
settled the snow they are becoming more
numerous "4ds."
Samuel r. Davis, who has been acting
postm aster since the resignation OF Mrs.
Harlow on November 18th, has returned
to the South Paris post office and Miss
Helen r. Cole is now in charge OF the
Office here. Miss Cole is to put 10 en-
tirely new boxes of the combination lock
type and otherwise refurnish the office.
There will be a Christmas tree 10 Cum
mings Hall on Friday evening, the oath,
after a short program of entertainment
commencing at half past seven O'Clock.
Refreshments will be served. All are in
vited, especially the children.
Leslie Bennett returned Friday from
hunting trip in the northern part OF the
county. The party brought in two deer
and left their car at Hanover awaiting
better roads.
Miss Josephine Cole Is at home from
Westbrook for the Christmas vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Z. Twitchell and
son left for Florida on Friday.
Mrs. Newton A. Cummings, who was
called to her former home in New Vine
yard recently by the sickness and death
of her mother, sends the following card
of thanks:
wish to thank the friends who have
sent me words of comfort during the sad
days just passed. also for the beautiful
flowers. especially thank my pupils
for their letters of cheer.
EDNA NJ. CUMMINGS.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
East Bethel.

A Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year to all.
Miss Edna Bartlett and Miss Ethel
Cole are preparing their schools for q
Christmas tree and entertainment.
z. W. Bartlett will do large logging
business this winter on bis timber land
10 Byron. He has purchased portable
mill, also q saw mill located there, and
several thousand cords Of birch, etc,
will be cut and landed near the railroad.
Joel Merrill has contract to cut pulp
wood Of Z. A. Trask.
L. E. Cole carries the scholars from
E. A. Trask's, and Guy Bartlett from
Kimball Hill.
Albert Swan is driving team for A.
r. Copeland at Bethel.
Gould Academy students are at home
for the Christmas holidays.
C. G. Kimball recently visited at F. B.
Howe's. He has goue to Berlin, N. H.,
as scaler for the Berlin Mills Co.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
FIsas a. Jumpers

The jumping powers Of feas have
been much exaggerated. according te
q bulletin Oh these insects issued BY
the department Of agriculture. The
species known as the human fea
Pulex irritans) Is probably the best
jumper. According to Mitzmain. the
maximum horizontal distance this spe
cies can jump Is thirteen haAss and
the maximum vertical distance less
than eight inches.
The question Of the fiea's jumping
powers is Of importance In connection
with the spread Of bubonic plague and
other diseases Of which this insect Is
the carrier. The Indian plague com
mission. which has investigated the
habits Of the Indian rat flea, finds IT.
maximum horizontal Jump to be only
FIVE inches, while Mitzmain records the
maximum height to which 1t can jump
as three and one-eighth inches. One
species Of flea. the "sticktght." IL near
ly incapable Of jumping.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
Limitations Of Science.

Johnny was sent to study mathemat
les. and the teacher told him that II
was q true science.
"For instance" she said, IF 1t takes
one man twelve days to build house
then twelve men can build It In one
day"
Johnny replied: "And 2ss men viii
build it in IN hour, 1920 In q minute
1,O38,S0O men will put 1t up In a sec
ond. Now. I don't believe they could
build even a single brick In that time
Again. II one ship can cross the Allan
tic In twelve days. twelve ships should
be able to cross 1t In one day. ] don't
believe that either. 80 I'm not going to
study mathematics" And Johnny left
the teacher studying It herself.-Ex
change.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
East Peru.

Mrs. II. q. Buck and Dorothy OF
Buckfield spent number Of days last
week with Mrs. Bucks daughter, Mrs.
Paul Bennett, going both ways with the
faithful horse, "Old jack" who Is
twenty-seven years old.
Ross Robinson returned from his hunt
ing trip with two fair sized deer.
John Smith is unable to be driving his
team on account of bad cold.
Mrs. z. c. Poland is not very well al
this writing.
Mrs. Carl Holman spent last week
with her mother at West Peru.
Edith Holman is at work for Mrs. Tom
Rolls, who 10 very poorly.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Bennett and Ra-
chel spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs
Hart Oldham.
Derald Bryant is able to sit up q few
hours at a time.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
Hebron,
Prof. Coleman of Bates preached here

Prof. Coleman of Bates preached here
Sunday.
There was a good attendance at the
Ladies' Circle supper Tuesday notwith-
standing the gale. The supper was call
ed one Of the best ever served, and was
partaken OF by sixty or more.
OIe hundred years ago Monday, Dec
IS, Deacon William Barrows moved into
the "brick house." The three story
wooden house Deacon Barrows built to
accommodate students was burned Dec.
IS, 1914, and in just one year the new
house was ready for occupancy. When
one bers that in those days build
ing a house meant making the brick, 1t
gives an idea of the work done in the
year. DR.. Sargent spoke of the ami
versary at the Home Monday. Mrs. Z.
g. Durham, who now owns the house, is
in Newton, Mass, or probably something
more would have been done to commem-
crate the day.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
clustering.
March weather In December.

clustering.
March weather in December.
Sleds and sleighs are now used here.
ROadbreakers were out Wednesday
and Thursday.
The highways are obstructed in many
places by snowdrifts.
1t seems odd to see 80 few apples IL
Bethel stores.
A driving northeast snowstorm struck
Oxford County Monday, and was follow
ed by a wild northwest wind.
To enjoy Christmas cheer keep the
stomach clear from whiskey and beer.
Astronomers told US winter would be
gin on Dec. Esd, but it came q week IL
advance of that date, suddenly and quite
unexpected.
Iwish the editors and correspondents
and all the readers Of the Democrat
very merry Christman and happy anc
prosperous new year.
1.-THE whole world is Christmas tree,
And stars its many candles be,
Oh sing carol JOY fully,
The years great feast In Keeping
"For once on December night,
An angel held candle bright,
And led three wise men by It's light
To where child lay sleeping"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
WASHINGTON MOST WAsTEFUl

Loads All American Cities In Throwing
Away Good Food.
The federal government conducts
many kinds Of investigations. but
Washington was hardly prepared to
learn that United States agents had
been digging into the garbage dumps
Of the country.
AS a result of this latest inquiry the
department Of agriculture announces
that Washington is the most wasteful
city in the United States. Careful ex-
aminations of the contents Of garbage
cans were made with a view to deter
mine what percentage Of food prod
ucts daily thrown away might have
been put to wholesome use had house
wives Of the various cities conducted
their establishments more economi-
cally.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
State of Ohio. city of Toledo.

State Of Ohio. City Of Toledo.
Lucas County. %.
Frank ]. Cheney makes oath that he
10 senior partner of the firm OF =. ].
Cheney q Co.. doing business in the
City OF Toledo. County and State afore-
said. and that said firm will pay the
each and every case Of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use Of HALLS
CATARRH CURE. FRANK ]. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed
In my presence. this 9Th day Of Decem-
Der, A. D. 1855. A. w. GLEASON.
(8eal) Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure 10 taken intern
ally and acts through the Blood on the
Mucous Surfaces Of the System. Send
for testimonials, free.
+. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. o.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for consttpation.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
Oxford.

"A. Roberts Post, G. A. R., has pre-
sented a flag for the new primary school
house. Friday afternoon members OF
the Post and Corps met at the school
house. Comrade q. T. Wardwell made
the presentation of the flag. and the pu.
pills took part 10 exercises appropriate to
the occasion.
Hattie Andrews has been called to
Portland by the illness Of her sister,
Mary Andrews.
The Congregational Ladies' Circle met
with Mrs. q. r. Farrls Wednesday.
The usual Christmas preparations are
going forward.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
Icke'a Mills.

A Merry Christmas and Happy Now
Year to the Democrat and oil ito readers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Rowe closed their
camp Monday, and started Tuesday for
Jamaica, N. Y. They have many friends
here who wish they could remain hero
all the year.
Mrs. Charles Stowell has been quite Ill
but is better now.
Our new station agent 10 King Bart
lett, and he has moved his family into
the Powers house.
Mrs. Annie Emery went to Portland
Saturday, and will stay with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Henry Douglass, until after
Christmas.
Mrs. Lola Foster has bad quite seri-
Qua time with blood poisoning 10 her
band, but 10 better at this writing.
Several from here-attended The Birth
of Nation 1t Norway.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
East Waterford,

Hon. and Mrs. B. G.. McIntire are In
Providence, R. l., this week, Mr.. Moln
tire to attend . conference OF the New
England Association Of State Assessors
Richard Jacobson IL taking vacation,
and Herbert Kilgore Of Norway Lake ID
working for Mrs. Myra Hall meantime.
The Bridgton Academy students come
home this week for the Christmas vaca'
ton.
George Jordan is painting R. z. Pink
hap's store.
Mrs. George d. Keen Is spending .
few days with Mrs. Myra Hall.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
West Lowell.

BENZ. Barber was over from Stow tG
see Mrs. Sarah Sargent last Wednesday.
NJ. A. LeBaron and Kate Williams
visited az Mrs. Caroline Fox's Sunday,
and W. S. Fox and little Corinne Fox al
Alonzo Lords.
Linus Bowley and Walter Fox ore
drawing up wood for Mrs.. Caroline Fox.
Mrs. Addie Guptill visited her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Laroque.
John McKeen shot two deer Tuesday,
and George Fox one.
Winfield Stevens Of Sweden ran l0l
lines for John A. Fox on Wednesday.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21

Some of the latest conjectures regard
ing the war, which you may take fol
what they are worth, are that Germany
is preparing for big drive on the west
ern front; that Germany is going to in
wade Egypt by way of Constantinople
and block the Suez canal; that Germany
is going to push troops overland TO India
that Germany is preparing big expedi
ton TO invade England.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21

Tuesday afternoon the Ladies' Club
held the annual Christmas sale In Gar
land Chapel, and met with financial sue
cess Notwithstanding the unfavoraoie
weather.
Tuesday evening Mics MaoGregor's
dancing classes gave very pleasing OK
hibition. A Tom Thumb Wedding was
the frat on the program, followed BY
fancy dances by the pupils, and Leo Ly'
ous assisted In reading, songs and dances.
| A grand march by the children closed
the program, which was followed BY
social dance, music by Berrick's Orohes-
ira.
Mrs. j. G. Gehring ha, been spending
the week in Boston.
Mrs. Carlson of Dorchester, Mass, Ia
the guest for the holidays OF her par
ents, DR.. and Mrs. r. B. ruell.
Miss Maria Pease has returned from
Boston and 10 at the homo Of Mr.. VIM.
Bingham, ed.
Miss Alice French returned from Bos-
ton Thursday and reports her brother
George French, who underwent criti-
cal operation In Carney Hospital, as COM
Portable as could be expected. MIS-.
French Ia still in Mechanic Falls with
her sons family.
The academy students have been busy
this week with exams, and the term
closed Thursday. Miss Pratt went to
her home in Reading, Mass, Friday, and
Miss Nellie Whitman went to her home
in South Paris.
The Gould Academy basket ball team
went to Rumford Friday to play the
team there Friday evening.
Mrs. r. B. Tuell and Mrs. Mansfield
have been holding sale Of fancy articles
at Irving Carver's store.
Sunday, Dec. 10th, will be observed 81
Christmas Sunday a. some OF the
churches. Friday evening all OF the
Sunday Schools will have supper serv
ed in their several chapels, and there
will be Christmas trees.
The Universalist society will observe
the goth as Christmas.
Mr.. Cilley, manager OF Bethel Inn, hal
been in Boston and New York.
MIDDLE INTERvALE.
Born, in Middle Intervale, Dec. IA, II
the wife of j. q. Carter, Jr., a son
Mrs. Carter has trained nurse.
Sleighs are out, and quite lot o.
snow. Our mail man is now on runners
Frank Stevens of South Bethel was herr
recently with fine lot Of dry goods and
notions for sale. His mother, who wa
laid up some time with bad shoulder
is improved so as to be up and active
again, as she always has been.
W. A. Brsgg's team Is here again be
fore Christmas, also We expect Sloan
the fish man.
Several relatives of the Abbotts are a
home.
J.H. Carter and others have been II
Lewiston on business.
The Bosworth portable mill Is In oper
alton, and several men have employment
there.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
"And the stormy wind nay BLOW.


As the bowling snow storm which
struck us 10 unex pectedly last week
came on Monday night, 1t caught many
housewives In q state Of unproparedness,
with their washing on tho line and ex.
posed to the attacks OF the enemy wind.
One man who has been hunting over
quite . section OF tho village 10 still
looking for bis shirt. Hero 10 ono little
domestic tragedy:
She 10, Q A. NIL don't know but l
ought to get up and take In those
clothes"
he with possibly excusable empbasis)
-"Darn tho clothes! Stay where it's
warml"
He (st 7:S0 A. NJ, after he has nm.
tangled tho clothes from the ree')--
"You'll have to wash out that sheet. 1t
cot some wood dirt Of the arm OF the
reel"
- -
She let 1000 A. MA."Three oh seven
eight ring fifteen, pleaae. Hello! Where
did you put that shee'?"
He-"Why, I put oil the clothes TO.
gether In tho basket.
She-"Well, It was the table cloth that
got soiled. The sheets ont there under
the snow somewhere. And 90 are lot
OF other smaller things"
Subsequent mining operations OK
humed the sheet, but the lot OF other
smaller things are still under the snow
somewhere.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
Anxious 70 Help.

He (after the honeym0onl-Has your
father said anything about helping to
provide q home for us? She-Oh. yes
indeed! He said that when we had a
home of our own he would buy me q
cookbook and allow mother to come
and teach me how to use 1t, even II II
took a year.-New York Weekly.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
SINGLE COPIES.

single copies OF THE DEMOCRAT are four cent?
each They will be mailed on receipt OF price oy
he publishers or for the convenience OF patrons
SINGLE copies OF each Issue have been placed Oh
sale at the following places In the County:
sontb Paris. Towards Drug Store.
Shurter's Drug Store.
Norway. Moves Drug Store
stones Drug Store.
pnckaeld. A. L. Newton. Postmaster
paris mi Mrs Harlow. Post Once
West Paris Samuel T. White.
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ESTABLISHED 1883.
South Paris, Maine. December 81, 1915
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ADVERTISEMENTS: All legal advertisements
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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
Her Word Of Honor.

Don't you love meT
ayes. but I'm already engaged"
'aThen break your engagement"
"Oh. Jack. TINT wouldn't be honor
uble! An engagement Is a sacred
thing. not lightly to be entered into or
broken OF. Besides"-
"WellT'
well. I'm engaged to two men. and
that makes 1t even worse" - Boston
Transcript.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
Nautical.

"Father," wired the young yachtsman
please advance me some money. My
boat Is entered In tomorrow's rice and
I'm sure she will VIM"
And father promptly replied, mot
with q time allowance from me."-St
Louis Post Dispatch.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21

4. l.. Merchant x Co.
Thomas Smiley.
Only Days More Before Christmas.
For Christmas Gifts.
w o. rockingham.
Cutlery for Gifts.
II. u. Foster Co.
A Kodak.
{. L. TOlman.
Rex Theatre.
Evidence that Conyinces.
Parker's Hair Balsam.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21

According TO an interesting paragraph
in an exchange, the engineer of tug on
the Maine coast the other day replied to
an observation that he didn't 'csre a
dern." We should like to meet him.
For years we have sought for that char
acter so numerous in works of fiction
but cons picuous by his absence every
where else, who says "dern."
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
Poor Product.

"I'm a self made man, / am"
well. there Is one thing you needn't
worry about"
"What Is thatT"
Taking out a patent"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
Wilson's Mills.

Mrs. Leslie Hart fell OIL the Ice recent.
~ and hurt herself 90 severely that she
went by auto to Berlin Monday for surgi-
cal advice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Tracy, who have
been to San Frsncisco, have returned
homo.
Harry Lancaster, who is at Parma
cheenee Lake for the winter, was down
to visit his family the pat week.
School closed Friday for two weeks
vacation. Friday afternoon an enter
taipmen by the school and Q Christmas
tree, for the scholars only, showed good
work for both teacher and pupils. Pro.
gam:
Deciamaton-A Large Contract g. Robert Olson
A Smile and Song Of 0ladness- Floyd Hart
Song-0n the H0usetop. -...---......-...-..:-.
Opal Fox, Florence Hart. Robert and Beatrice
Olson
Merry Christmas. Roger Mason
Mr.. Smile and Mr.. Frown.- werner Littienaie
A star. 0Rncno nSIs
Song-Little star .ff0r0nce nsl S
Reading ny the teacher, Lillian Rich
just Suppose. ErnesS LII! enalc
Tho First Christmas. ----------------;Fioya LAT nsH
Song-When All the Lights are Burning Low:
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
Here and There.

According to the government report,
the personal income tax was paid last
wear by 35T,515 persons. The other
90 642, ass OF us would undoubtedly have
been glad TO have the necessary income,
but also undoubtedly we should have
felt lust as bad at having to pay the tax
as did the aforesaid 357,5 SIS.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
A Better Way.

keep ON the watch. Opportunity
may knock at your door"
"r'm not going to wait for that I'm
going to pound on Opportunity's door. .
louisville Courier Journal.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
Coming Events.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Jan. 4, 5, 6-Annual show OF Western Maine
Poultry Association. Opera House, Norway
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21

Alas for the rarity of human original
ity. Out of 37S names, suggested in
contest conducted by the Lewiston
Journal, for that locality generally
known as the "head Of Lisbon Street, y
the board of aldermen could find nothing
more characteristic and distinctive than
the banal Union Square"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21
Some Queer Ones

Spring fashions-black and gray FOL
lack Of dyes-will be nne for blonds
and widows.
Colored porter, instead Of relative
Kissed by excited white woman VINO
tainted when she saw her mistake Id
Joliet Qll.) railroad station.
After living on apples q week, man
locked in box car from Herington,
Kan, to Kansas City was in such good
condition be was sent to jail.
California man willed friend 5000
on condition he throw four diamond
rings into Pacific ocean OF Oakland,
decedent furnishing the rings.
Seven foot snake that escaped from
show and lived six years In Chicago
garage ceiling on rats was lured out ny
grooming of professional charmer.
Boy of six who smokes, one Oh eiHnt
who chews tobacco and girl OF nine
who dips snu1 have been discovered
by the United States public health
service.
New suit Of clothes every week for
three months has been bought for
fourteen-year-old Harry Connolly Of
Moultrie, Ca, because be grows 30
fast. He is six feet FIVE inches, weighs
200, and he's still "going up"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21

The controversy over the identity Of
the discoverer of ether as an anesthetic
has been definitely aud finally settled IN
favos of DR.. Crawford Long Of Georgia.
We know this is so, because the Journal
of the Americal Medical Association
says so.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21

Here is a sample of the elasticity OF
our language. The term meaning con-
dition Of being robust appears IN three
more or-less authorities in the following
several forms. Who shall say which IS TO
be preferred?
David Grayson in "Hempfield," ro-
bustity.
Standard Dictionary, robustness.
Webster's Dictionary, consciousness
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-21

Austris's position in connection with
the Apcona matter seems to be like that
of the boy who had the itch. She not
only sank the Ancona, but she's proud
of il.