Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-08-15

Miss Louise Richards of Readfield i
with her brother and sisters at tn,
Richards farm.
Geo. 4. Morton of the Paris Mann
featuring Co. was in Buffalo on bushes,
several days last week.
The regular meeting of the Woman,
CHRISTIAN Temperance Union has beer
postponed to Tuesday afternoon, Aug
Miss NJ. A. Baker begins her vacation
from the Office of W. j. Wheeler G Co
this week. and will spend some time in
Waterford.
Only the Baptist church, of the fou,
churches in the village, had services on
Sunday, and the same will be the case
next Sunday.
p. f. Ripley and DIR. j. G.. Littlefield
arrived home from their Detroit trim
Sunday night. They came from Detroit
in Ford coupe.
Miss Grace A. Thaysr, cashier in the
store OF the N. Dayton Bolster Co., is
taking her vacation, and her place in the
store is taken by Miss Ruth Bolster.
Ralph B. Eassop, who is an instructor
IN Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind,
is spending portion of the vacation
with his mother, Mrs. Ida NJ. Titcomb.
The platform lights at the railroad sta
ton have been mounted on ornamental
iron standards, aud the wooden posts on
which they were formerly have been re-
moved.
Poland Spring, it is reported, Is main
tanning strict quarantine against chill
dren, on account of infantile paralysis.
No children of any guest are allowed on
the hill.
j. Gould Spofford and family of
Quincy, Mass, are spending few days
with Mr.. Spofford's father, E. /. Spot
ford. Mr.. Spofford is director of the
Quincy Industrial School.
The baptism of the two sons of Mr..
and Mrs. Geo. c. Erskine and the daugh-
TER of Mr.. and Mrs. W. W. Ripley took
place in the Universalist church Sunday
evening, Rev. Chester G. Miller officat-
ing.
Eugene Lowell and Ralph Andrews
left Thursday morning for Harrison,
from which place they went on a canoe
aud camping trip down Long Lake to
Sebago. They returned the last of the
week.
The South Paris Tennis Club will
hold tournament on the courts of the
Paris Hill Country Club Labor Day,
Sept. 4th. Teams from Paris Hill, Nor
way, Buckfeld, Rumford and Bethel
will be invited to compete.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dean j. Tolman of Bos-
ton have been guests of his parents, Mr.. |
and Mrs. C. E. Tolman, for few days, |
returning home on Friday. Mr.. Tolmsn |
is an adluster of accounts for the New |
England Telephone and Telegraph Co., |
with which he has been for years.
Sherman T. Oliver of the Howard
drug store left Wednesday for his former |
home in North Arson for his vacation. |
As bis intentions of marriage to Miss
Ruth Mary Spiller of Arson have been
placed on record, it is expected that he |
will not return from his vacation alone.
Mrs. G. W. Bowker and daughter |
Muriel returned Friday from a short
visit with Mrs. Bowker's parents, Mr.. |
aud Mrs. j. F. Stanley, at the Lake Au-
burn fish hatchery. Mrs. Stanley &C
companied them home for few days |
stay.
Advertised letters and cards in South |
Paris post Office Aug. IA, 1915:
Miss Hazel Pratt
G. Y. l.. Walker.
Mrs. Dora Jordan.
Mrs. Bertha Harding.
Mrs. William Fl. Harding, 2.
J. A. KENNEY, P. M.
1t Is rare Indeed to have large cared |
sweet corn in the markets as early as /
Aug. s, but that is the date Mr.. Miller |
began delivering to the stores from his
state demonstration farm. This early
date even for favorable corn planting |
year would have been very exceptional.
A .sry enjoyable day was spent at the
home of Mrs. Hattie Witham Sunday,
Aug. IS, il being Mrs. Sarah Cummings
I'D birthday. Those present were Mr..
and Mrs. B. F. Hicks and son Robert, |
Mrs. Waterhouse, Silas P. Maxim, Free |
land Cummings, wife and son, Mrs. Sadie |
Cummings, and daughter.
The prediction made last year, and
generally regarded as reasonable, that
automobile registrations in Maine this
wear would run to twenty-five thousand,
seems to be justified fully by the appear
ance within few days of numbers as
high as 25, 449-and there are two or
three months of good automobile weather
still to come.
A sixteen page catalogue OF the King
dale Farm stock has been issued for the
auction sale which will be held on Tues
day. the 22d. Included in the list are
twenty. one head of pure bred Jerseys,
eighteen head of pure bred Guernseys,
Berkshire hogs, Shropshire sheep, and
the horses on the farm with the excep'
ton of one pair. Sale begins at lO
O'Clock on the 22d.
CHESTS at j. A. Kenney's over Sunday
were Mrs. Susan Kenney Drew and Miss
Elizabeth Fl. Drew of Brockton, Mass,
and Mrs. Francis D. Winston and
stephen Kenney of Windsor, N. G. The
latter two are making their first trip
into New England. The visitors will
remain in this vicinity for a few days,
and visit other relatives.
The Walker, Park and Holmes parties
returned Sunday night from their vaca-
ton spent at their camps at Shsgg Pond.
Alton c. Wheeler and family, and MI.
and Mrs. Arthur E. Forbes were at their
camps over the weekend. All the camps
ON the south shore, and most OF the
others on the pond, were occupied over
Sunday, but just at present only TWO are
open.
A special town meeting viii be called
ON Saturday, the goth, to make provision
for the deficiency in the snow bills OF the
past winter. The sum of 500 was raised
at the annual meeting, and the pills
amount to about $1,000 as presented TO
the selectmen. 1t is also understood
that the matter of another year OF high
school at West Paris will be brought be-
fore this meeting for action.
Hose Companies to Meet.
Monday evening, Hose Co. No. VIII
meet at their own house at O'CLOCK.