Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-05-15

daughter, Miss Ruth RAmick.
Hon. James s. Wright suffered ou,ts
severe Ill turn the first of last week, bu
was so Is to be out again in few days
Up to this time the sslectmeu hsy
paid bills to the amount of SS,O07. 81 70
breaking roads, and the bills are not al
in yet.
Kew. and Mrs. Charles N. Hall of AL
den, N. Y, are with Mrs. Halls parents
Mr.. and Mrs. 81. D. Field, for q stay O.
two weeks.
Though almost the middle of Nav, tn,
trailing srbutus is now apparently at III
BEST, and parties who were out Sunda,
brought in large and handsome bunchsl
of 1t.
There was no school from THURSDAY
to Monday, all the teachers attending
the county teachers association at Rum
ford. Most of them made the trip BY
automobile.
On account Of trouble with his eyes
Harold c. Fletcher has been obliged to
give up his work as barber in the d. G.
Fletcher shop, where he has been fol
about ten years.
The May meeting of the South Paris
W. G. T. q. will be held at the Congre.
gstionsl vestry Tuesday afternoon OF this
week at 2:S0. 1t will be q mothers
meeting, with Mrs. T. n. Davis and Mrs
NJ. c. Joy in charge of the program.
A rock party will be held in z. of P.
Hall Thursday evening, May II, the pro-
ceeds to 60 to the local branch of the
National Service League. Admission 10
cents. Let everyone take hold so to help
along the cause for which the ladies OF
our community are working.
Mrs. E. S. Maxwell is quite i'll at her
home on Park Street. Mrs. c. A. Frost
and Miss Alberta Maxwell of South
birmingham, Mass, her daughters, are
here with her. Miss Edith Maxwell has
slse been here during the past week, but
has returned to her teaching in Melrose,
Mass.
About niue O'Clock Monday morning
the chimney in the Starbird barber shop
building in the Square burned out, aud
sparks caught on the shingles of the
roof. Ii was taken care of by q hand
hose stream from Churchill's meat
market building, next door, without an
alarm.
Cards received here announce the mar
risge in Springfield, Mass, on the 9th,
of Mr.. Henry E. Howe and Miss Ethel
Allen, both of Springfield. Mr.. Howe,
who is now travelling for Springfield
business house, is the son OF Mrs. F. A..
Heidner of this place, and much of his
life has been spent in South Paris, where
he has many friends.
The apparatus of Hose Co. No. / and
the Hook and Ladder Co. will be moved
todsy, Monday, to the sheds of c. W..
Bowker at the rear of the post Office.
Electric lights will be installed in front
OF the sheds and one in the driveway.
The apparatus will not be locked up.
All memb ers of the companies will please
come and look the arrangement over.
Tag day is coming. Next Saturday
the young ladies will tag every body
under the auspices of the local branch of
the League for Women's Service, to pick
up their small change with which to pur-
chase material for work. When you
have paid your bit, a tag will be put on
you, and you should wear 1t the rest OF
the day, to show that you have already
been solicited.
Mrs. D. NJ. Richardson is quite i'll and
under the care of a trained nurse. The
first of last week she was regarded as in
serious condition, but Is somewhat i'm
proved. Her two daughters who live
elsew here have been hers-Mrs. Walter
Peaslee of Exeter, N. a., with her
daughter Marjorie, and Mrs. S. Ksspar
Wight of Cleveland, o. Mrs. Peaslee
and Miss Peaslee have returned home,
Mrs. Wight is still here.
Though a cool spring breeze still
blows, 1t looks as II the gloom OF the
skies for the past few weeks had been
driven away by the sunshine, and we
may hope for little seasonable weather.
Little showers of rain and slest on both
Friday and Saturday made fitting eli.
max to the cold and cloudy "spell."
Very few are willing to admit that they
ever saw anything equal to this April
and May for bsckwsrdness.
The Paris Manufacturing Company
has offered to furnish q piece of land,
pillow and harrow 1t, and give the free use
of same, to all of their employees who
will cultivate it, and is now blowing up
land for that purpose. Quite q large
number are avsiling themselves OF the
opportunity. The company also has just
further advance In wages,
adding 10 per cent to the present wages,
and making same payable the first OF
every month.
Next Sunday, May IS, will be observed
by Hamlin Lodge, K. of p, as q memo.
rial day. The graves of the deceased
brothers will be decorated, followed by
sermon by Rev. c. S. Cummings OF
Auburn at the Congregational church.
Members of the order will meet at
Castle Hall at 1:30 P. M, services at
riverside Cemetery at 200, sermon at
2 80. Pennesseewsssee Lodge ana Lake
Temple o. Norway and Hamlin Temple
are invited to join in the exercises. The
public are given a cordial invitation 10
attend.
Superintendent Joy is arranging q
patriotic field day for the schools OF the
town ON Friday afternoon, May 25. De-
tails of the program will be given later,
but the general plan Is to assemble as
many of the scholars of the town as pos
sible at South Paris, and perhaps II prac.
ticable also give the program at West
Paris. The children will sing patriotic
songs under the direction of Mrs. Grace
Barnes, the supervisor OF music, ana
there will be addresses by one or more
local speakers and perhaps speaker
from outside the town.
Letters received from Sergt. Eugene
Lowell of Co. d, now at Biddeford, an
poupce that he has been appointed 90
attend the officers training school, TO DC
established in the near future, though
Just when is not yet known. inns VIII
mean a commission in the regular army
and though he at first expected the com
mission would be as second lieutenant
according to later information be expects
that it will be as captain. Co. ID 10 quar-
tered in an old vacant hotel, with cleo,
trio lights, steam heat, bot and colo
water and bath rooms, which means ioss
of comfort. They are well used oy the
people of Saco and Biddeford, who re-
gard them as q credit to the Second
Maine.