Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-10-09
SOUTH PARIS.

lot of people from here went to the
vo,ld,s Fair at North Waterford Satur'
day.
Nj, and Mrs. T. s. Barnes entertained
nar.S of three tables at rock ut their
s6ms Thursday evening.
n, and Mrs. D. r. Bowker of Port
,rS we're guests of his brother, @. w.
R RI, and family, for few days las,
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold b. Cannon Of
p,ssnt's Pond, formerly of South Paris,
Dsss a short visit here the first Of last
week.
SAaw,s popular dance will be held in
n,and Army Hall on Tuesday night
his week. Same prices and music.
All invited.
Ths Ladies' Social Union will hold Q
h,,inass meeting and also sew for the
Tovsmbsr fair on Wednesday at 2:S0 p.
MIN the church parlor.
Nsubsrs of the Fan Tan Club, all who
ava interested in the sewing and want to
SO will meet with Mrs. j. d. Haynes
Tuesday evening, Oct. 9.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Powers of Dry
Mills were here the last OF the week,
.aIlsd by the death and burial of Mrs.
Rose L. Powers Of Norway.
Rates College and the University OF
Mama reopen this week. Stephen P. Cliff
iord left Monday morning for Bates, and
Cnrtis McPhee for the University OF
Maine.
number of cars from South Paris
and Norway went to the West Oxford
hir al Fryeburg Wednesday, and the
vi.itor there from these towns was
meeting bis nsighbors at almost every
turn.
Newell q. Powers, after spending the
ummer az bis home here, left Wednes-
day night for East Lansing, Mich, to re-
anne bis course in the Michigan Agri-
cultural College, where he Is in the
sophomore year
The many friends OF Mrs. Ralph Cole
uill be glad 10 bear that she has returned
from the Central Maine General Hospital
A. T.syiston, where she underwent
surgical operation, and is getting along
uSsll as can be expected.
Hon. Frank L Palmer of Saco, Bank
Commissioner of Maine, was in town
last Tuesday, called here on account of
some New York parties who were offer
inc for sale stock in film company and
Who had not complied with the bank.
ing laws OF the State.
Rev. and Mrs. D. F. Faulkner will be
in Portland this week from Tuesday to
Thursday, attending the branch meeting
OF the Womsn's Foreign Missionary
Society OF the Methodist church, which
lshsldIsr the Chestnut Street church, and
will be addressed By speakers of nation
al reputation.
Meetings Of the Euterpean Club and
the Seneca Club this Monday afternoon
and evening. The Euterpssn Club
meets with Mrs. Cora S. Briggs and
Mrs. Ida D. Briggs at O'Clock, and In
the evening the Seneca Club 10 entertain
ed BY Mrs. Ethel Hathaway and Mrs.
Mary Wheeler at Mrs. Hathaway's.
OK. Clifford and family are moving
from their house on Oxford Street into
the Rice house, SO called, on High
Street, where they formerly lived. Mr..
Clifford repurchssed the house from
DR.. Smell some time since. The Graves
families, who have been living in the
Rice house, have moved into the double
tenement Bolster house on Myrtle
Street.
Rev. C. G. Miller will give q compli-
msntsry reading Monday at 7:15 P. N. at
the Savoy Theatre, descriptive OF an
Illustrated journey from Chicago to
Puget Sound along the line Of the Mil
yankee and st. Paul Railway. Mr..
Miller Is quite familiar with the north
west having made six trips to and from
tina. section. The lecture will be Illus
ratsd with 101 colored slides.
party of two cars made White
Mountain trip Wednesday, going by the
way of Fryeburg, Jackson, Pinkhsm
Notch and Gorham, N. 81. The party
Included Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Murch,
Miss Flora Murch, Mrs. A. W. Easton OF
Norway, Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Taylor,
Miss Phyllis Taylor, Miss Musa Taylor,
and Miss Sylvia Taylor of Buckfield who
hsttsndiog the high school here.
Mr.. aud Mrs. r. A. Heidner have
vacated their house on High Street re-
Gently sold to P. r. Ripley, and Mr..
Ripley and family moved in Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hsidner and Laura are
atpresent with Mr.. and Mrs. N. l..
NOyes. Within few days they will 60
tOSpringfeld, Mass, where they Will
visit relatives, and little later will
probably 90 to some place in the South,
Tor the winter at least.
Llswsllyn Bartlett, who has lived In
South Paris most of his life, is now
somewhere In France" In the railroad
engineering corps sent over from Amer
lea to build railroads there. Letters
from him do not of course reveal his
location, but they state that he 10 sta
toned about eight miles behind the mr.
Ing line 1t Is part of the work of that
branch OF the service to build and re-
build railroads as may be necessary to
carry supplies and munitions to the
front.
One good result of the change in loca-
hon Of piece of Western Avenue at the
north end of the Paris Manufacturing
Co.'S plant ought to be the getting rid
Oh the soggy place in the road. Wher-
ever the fault lies, there has for some
years, in spring and wet periods, been
mudhole in the road at that place,
which It would seem to the man on the
street might have been abated by little
work digging an open ditch to drain on
Tie water. However, the ditch Is there
now, though none too deep, and the road
10 crowned well, and culvert takes
'ne water under the road, so that IL
should be drier than In the past.
Two pieces Of construction In additions
70 It's plant are under way ut the factory
otths Paris Manufacturing Co. One is
IN addition to the varnish room, 80 40
iset, which will just double the size OF
zoe room. This is built Of brick, like
me original building, and extends into
mediseontinued part of Western Avenue.
Inc other, situated in the yard west OF
me lumber shed, Is q dry house, 80 50
leet- This is built Of concrete, from
ground to roof, and will have nothing
ABOUT II that can burn. A stone crusher
aoo concrete mixer, together with the
uews which operate them, have BEEN
qoite busy during the past few weeks.
=, highly successful Inauguration OF
me 86aann haH h. tha n .Hfoa, Social