Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-08-01
chanfauuua Association.

4 -No OuoutduQua ASSOCIATION was n0l(
at che store OF the e. N. SWEET Co. II
Norway Tuesday evening. The repor
OF q. l.. Merchant, the treasurer, showed
deficiency on this years series o.
Sl4S AZ, and an assessment of IS. 90 eact
was made on f1fty OF the fifty-two guar
antors, the other two being voted OK
( empt because OF circumstances.
President SWEET reported that the con
tract for 1917 bore seventy -four names
when 1t went to the Office Of the Com
munity Chautauquss, and that enough
more had been promised, and would bt
added on the return of the contract, t.
bring the number up to one hundred.
A vote was taken that the association
have a supper some time late in the
winter, and talk over affairs.
A nominating committee presented q
list of committees. which was accepted
The full list of officers aud committees
Is:
Pres.-E. N. SWEET.
Vice Pres.-Geo. +. Eastman, Albert d. Park
nelson q, Elder, Dennis Pike.
Sec.-L. +. Pike.
Treas.-Z. L. Merchant.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
IL =. ~. SMestl ". u. Curus, Il. M. Gar
roll, ID. Smith, G. G. Blake, H. l.. Horne
Frank Kimball, W. c. Leavitt, s. B. Cummings
w. r. Jones.
Paris. G. Y. Eastman, N. G. Elder. A. D. Park
6. NJ. Atwood, w. J. Wheeler. n. d. Bolster.
Oxford. j. B. Robinson.
TICKET COMMITTEE
Norway, e. N. SWEET, Dennis Pike, Francis
Swett, .. Z. Foster, Raymond h: Eastman. Hugh
II NJ % nb
Hartman, L. v. Ashton.
Wright, +. B. Wiggln, N. G. Elder, L. II. Pike, /.
=. Andrews, E. N. Haskell, W. A. Porter, c.
Il. Howard, Stanley shurtle6.
Oxford, H. R. Farris.
GROUNDS COMMITTEE
Norway, l.. j. Brooks, II. L. Drake, T. 8.
Cummings. c. +: Ridlon, j. n. Tubbs, G. w.
Devtne, Homer Luck, George L. Sanborn, II. E.
Gibson, l.. II. Cushman.
Paris, Robert Wheeler, w. o. rockingham,
G. W. Bowker. Fl. D. Cole, A. W. Walker, P. 4.
Hathaway, Q. L. Buck, Geo. r. Morton, Arthur
K. Shurtleff.
ADVERTISING COMMITTEE
Norway, R. o. Porter. g. W. Holmes. FL. B.
Young, +. Z. DeCoster. A. L. Buck, A. w. East
on, Ralph Osgood. z. L. Merchant, T. B. Rob
erts, s. w. Goodwin, Frank Buswell, Arthur
Record, II. w. Brown.
Paris, Arthur E. Forbes, e. f. Shaw, Z. NJ.
Millett, ID. NJ. Stewart, NJ. V. Bolster.
AUTOMOBILE PARADE COMMITTEE
Norway, Chas. H. Pike, Elon L. Brown,
Frank II. Beck, +. w. Walker, L. NJ. Longley,
G. B. Jackson, Fred s. Brown, F. R. seavey, +.
q. Cummings, Ii. L. Bartlett, Fl. F. Andrews.
Paris, P. f. Ripley, Stanley NJ. Wheeler, Fl.
A. Morton, w. L. Gray, Ripley & Fletcher,
Ralph r: Butts, j. G. Littlefeld, 4. G. Wheeler,
Byron futile.
"AIl-the- Way-by-Water."
That's the advertising catchword of
the Eastern Steamship Corporation.
Now in this dry.lsnd country, if you
were going to start from South Paris,
would you think it possible to go to any
point outside the village limits all-the-
wsy,by. water?
To be sure, Lewiston will be a sea-
port-when Mr.. McGillicuddy gets his
canal built-and the Little Androscog-
gin may yet become navigsble stream,
and have its headwsters guarded
against the cutting of the timber. And
some day, when that dam is built be-
tween the high banks above Ames'
Grove, we may have north of US a lake
of good width and three miles long. But
meanwhile we don't often think of 1t in
that way.
Some people indeed know that it is
possible to row a boat a distance of
more than a mile from the
dam up stream to point just outside
the village corporation limits before any
rips are encountered, though very few
ever put this knowledge to practical use.
But few days since Chester Ham,
mond and Roscoe Benson rowed up the
river TO the foot of the rips below Biscoe
Falls, distance OF between three and
four miles. They had a boat which
Chester built, made of boards and of
shallow draft. 1t must be admitted that
they occasionally had to get out and pull
the boat up over the rips, but that is
what all explorers have to do some
times. And they had some of the other
of explorers, for they found
on the bank of the river camp of men
who spoke strange language, and if
they were not river pirates, at least were
surrounded by longneckers and packs OF
cards and other evidences of wickedness.
Coming back over the rips was easy, for
all the work they had to do was with the
rudder with which the boat is fitted.
They only scrsped the bottom lightly
once or twice.
So much for river navigation to the
north. Navigation to the south also
seems to be possible.
Recently Murray Bigelow, Stanley
Shurtleff and Leo Walton went from
here to Trip Pond for a camping trip
by canoe. With the three and their
duffls in the canoe, they put her in the
water in the pool below the power sta
ton, and punched hole in the canoe in
the rips, and made fresh start. This
time they went down below the railroad
bridge to put the canoe in, and from
there had no difficulty. The route was
down the Little AndroscOggin to the
outlet of Hogan Pond, thence up the out.
let and through Hogan, and up the
stream from Hogan to Trip. The only
carries necessary were around the two
bridges on the stream between Hogan
and Trip Ponds.