Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-08-21
SOUTH PARIS.

.,.st Of her sister, MIS- ''''
Clara aud Annie Kerr from
Misses ,,s visiting their parents, Mr..
y! sN Mrs.. henry Kerr
Nader Henry ". Morton spent the pass y
As Gar his sister, Mrs. Arthur U.
. We. At South Windham'
=, Mrs. VIM. P. Morton spent
NJ suL vssk with the party at Camp
ss's,sgo ord Concord Pond
,,, Titus and family of Portland
NH ""5;nO 8 vacation here with Mr..
1 Ts parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Titus
49, stanley NJ. Wheeler has been
A MS, IN the millinery store OF Mrs.
y pSvers at Norway during the past
sssE
,,dMrs. P. Cheyier Of Berlin, N.
. NJ s,ss recently been guests of Mr.. and
D., O s"orSs A. Doran. Mrs. Cheyier is
Ms Dursn's sister,
,,.,is Msrstop went to Portland
- for visit of week. He has
,i.o recently spent a week with mis-
rrsndtsther Newell in Sumner
r.. NJ Woodbury. of Msdford,
W.. and Miss Margaret Chase of
T To-, Mass, are spending two
VIZ With their cousin, Mrs. Charles
hssOn.
r.o-cs A. Wilson of Houlton, for
" If South Paris, who has been
main. n.,i at Madison Barracks, New York,
=. Sssn appointed q second lieutenant
n tbs national army.
rh.star Record has gone to Athol,
Vas, where be will be employed In a
80 ,oy factory, where Roscoe G. Gray,
s,Ssrly of this place, is foreman of the
,,.snbiing and finishing rooms.
Misses Flora Murch and Ethel Crockett
ant wednesday to spend a week with
vsv and Mrs. William Lewsllen at Alma,
,~S Miss Crockett will then visit her
T,tsr Mrs. c. A. Record, at Wells for
week
NJ and Mrs. George NJ. Giles, former
r. n south Paris, who have been living
ana farm in Auburn for the past few
,s,-, have sold tho farm and moved in
b ths city, and are now at 226 Carnage
Avenue Auburn.
Erlsnd c. Torrey is registered for q
,hrss months course in the officers
raining school at Plattsburg, N. Y, to
b.piu The 9th Of this month. Mr.. Torrey
has had experience in military affairs,
having served a term of enlistment in
he regular army few years since.
Eugene Lowell was at home from
Augusta last week on few days leave
Of absence lie has been sergeant In
Co. D, Second Maine Infantry, but has
received the appointment and passed
hs examinations as second lieutenant,
and expects to be assigned to Co. G, OF
Bangor.
BE Morrison, manager OF the Paris
Shoe Co., has resigned that position,
and be and bis family moved to Provi-
ds1ce, r. l., last week. His successor
hN not yet been chosen, though several
are under consideration. The factory is
1t present shut down, and will probably
not start mp until next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Almon Churchill have
recently received a letter from their son,
Lowell Churchill, who enlisted in one of
shs Saw Mill units and is now in Scot
and, where the men are erecting mills.
Be writes that after seeing the Atlantic
ocean most of his life upon the map In
Bic geography be learned more about 1t
10 fifteen days of the ''resl thing" and
was mighty glad when he saw land and
EOuld be much more pleased when he
would see land on the return trip.
On Thursday in the Norway Municipal
Court the hearing was held on the libel
Of the automobile seized with q load of
liquor at Bethel by Deputy Sheriff Davis
Of Bsthel on the Sd inst. The next day
after the seizure, Henry NORM of Lewis
ton paid fine and costs of s22S.65 for
Illegal transportation. At the hearing
Thursday no claimant for the automobile
appeared aud il was declared forfeited
under law passed last winter. It is
now the property of the county, and
may be sold under direction of the
county commissioners.
The wooden platform at the Grand
Trunk station has been removed at the
BACK side and south end of the station.
II is understood to be dscreed that in
time new platform Of concrete will be
built at the station, but the time is long
and Is not now in sight. Some grading
las been done with ballast gravel where
the platform was removed, and enough
concrete work will be done to afford
entrances to the doors on the back side.
w the front the wooden platform still
remains, but it is, as ii has been for
some time, somewhat in q condition of
The famous 20-mule team is scheduled
70 come through South Paris Tuesday
noon on an advertising tour. 1t is said
70 consist Of the same mules which gave
me origin to the name in the borax fields
Of Death Valley, and which appeared as
40 ADVERTISING feature at the st. Louis fair
70 iSO4 If made up as 1t was when the
winter saw ii there, il consists of seven
'ssn mules and one horse. But the
shortage was explained there by the
lsc' toat some Of the mules, when taken
oat OF the desert, were either physically
aaecsed or homesick, so that they were
temporarily of duty.
During long and heavy shower in
". ne early hours Of Friday morning,
'nere was one crash that made people
W up and take notice. OF course some
we're already sitting up, but all took
goHee' Crash is perhaps hardly the
Ilgns word to describe the sound, as it
s more like an explosion. Every
SSOoy knew that it struck in the vicinity,
Sas II was not until some hours later
.aas u was learned where 1t struck.
1t bit an unoccupied build
Da |. TOE Shurtleff school house on Main
sHeet. The chimney was completely
down to the roof, tho bricks
.slag thrown to the ground and the
. W. spsttered with mortar and dirt. In
,'ue the building but little damage was
IIone, and 1t is difficult to tell where the
Sols winch started its career with such .
'AOg' made its way out of the house.
Us year book for the coming season
T rH oeen issued by the Seneca Club.
ue meetings begin ON the frat day OF
OU'ooer, and are held alternate Monday
evenings from that date until the goth
y april, with the exception of Christmas
,'e, Wnen the meeting Ia omitted. The
program Of kha vaar ;s r,;acal,anaona