Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-08-31
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This Monday evening there will be
meeting of the people Of Christ Church
| to consider the advisability Of holding
services through the winter. Rt. Rev.
Robert Goldman, Bishop Of Maine, will
preach In the church Wednesday oven
ing, Sept. 1. The service 10 at7:30. All
are invited.
The Imperial Male Minstrels, local
amateurs, will show ct the Opera House
Thursday evening, Sept. 2.
Miss Iona Noble Of the Maine Eye and
Ear Inflrmary in Portland is spending {.
two weeks vacation with friends and
relatives.
During Wednesday afternoons shower
the large elm tree In the yard Of the
Catholic rectory on Paris Street was
struck by lightning, and strip OF bark
was torn from 1t.
DR.. B. F. Bradbury has shipped bis
household goods to Togus, and begins
bis engagement as resident surgeon there
the first of September.
Mrs, A. A. Keene and Mrs. Fred Love-
joy attended the meeting OF the Gray
High School alumni at Gray Tuesday.
Mrs. R. L. Powers and Miss Lillian
Powers spent few days at Cumberland
Foreside last week, and will 60 from
there to attend the millinery openings In
Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. v. W. Hills entertained
a party of friends at their home Tuesday
evening in honor of the thirty-third an
niversary of their marriage.
Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Tuell OF West
Sumner, who formerly lived in Norway,
will return here and live with Mrs. W..
W. Twombly.
The Masons of the town will have q
picnic at Fred Smiths cottage on the
lake Labor Day.
At a recent meeting Of the board OF
management of the public library, q list
of books presented by the book commit
tee was accepted, and they will be pur.
chased. Other purchases authorized
were set of Underwood & Underwood
views of scenes in the United States, and
standard history of the United States.
The lawn party of st. Catherine's
Church, held at the rectory grounds
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, was
very successful.
A farewell party was given at F.. P.
Stones by Mrs. Carl E. Stone, Miss Flor
ence A. Rideout and Miss Beatrice Stone,
to Miss Maud E. Pike, who is about to
leave to take position at the head OF
the music department In Brevard lnsti-
tute, North Carolina. The evening was
arranged as spent in trip to Norfolk by
boat, and all appointments were per
fectly in keeping. The affair was sur
prise to Miss Pike.
Mrs. E. z. Andrews and Mrs. l. q.
Cushman enterta aimed the Thimble Club
Tuesday at Bass Island.
Services will be resumed next Sunday
at the Congregational and Universalist
churches, which have been closed for the
summer vacation.
Charles Frank Partridge, q native OF
Norway, died at sana'orium In Clifton
Springs, N. Y, on the goth. Mr.. Par.
fridge was born at Norway Lake Sept.
25, 1858. For many years he bad been
engaged In the manufacture of lasts In
Rochester, N. Y, being president of the
Empire Last Works, and bad been sue.
cessful. He was married in 1880 to
Josephine NJ. Chamberlain of South
Paris, who survives him, as does his aged
mother, Mrs. Cynthia Partridge Of Nor.
way Lake. His father, Charles W. Par
fridge, died some years since.
George w. Moholland and family have
returned to their home In Medford,
Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Barker and son
Edwin of Auburn are visiting her father,
Otto Schnuer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard D. Smith are
visiting the family of their daughter,
Mrs. Lester w. Horne, in Fairhaven,
Mass.
Receipts from the recent tag day for
the benefit of the high school gymnasium
are said TO be about S123.
Twelve new benches have been placed
10 Witherell Park.
Recent guests at Mrs. Susan Cragin's
have been her son, DR.. Charles Cragin of
Portland, and wife, and her niece, Miss
Josephine Cragin, principal of Vaughan
Street School, Portland.
At the recent reunion Of the class OF
1890, Norway High School, at Lee NJ.
Smiths camp, the Green Dragon, on
Fore Street, eleven Of the twenty living
members of the class were present, and
the wives and husbands brought the at.
tendance up to 18. OF the "a members
of the class, have died, II have mar
ried, there have been 81 children born to
them, and there Is one grandchild.
Bert Frost is to 90 to farming at the
Hodgdon farm which he recently bought,
near Charles Gammon's on the Harrison
road, and will sell or rent bis house on
Bridge Street.
Miss Ruth Smith is spending her vaca-
ton from Vivian M. Akers' studio In
Vermont and Canada.