Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1917-05-01
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ixss u visiting his father q
Michael Kirwin visited relatives I,
Boston over the weekend.
Harry Watson of Baldwin spent Suu
DAY with Miss Ruth Jameson.
Mrs. Writ Stanley visited Mrs. Ellie,
+. Cummings at Mechanic Falls last Sat
urday.
Mrs. Albert D. Park visited her sister
MRS. Heald, at East Sumner several day
last week.
John A. Titus Is building garage ant
putting In concrete walks at his hous
on Pine Street.
Mrs. l.. P. Hawkins OF Portland wa
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Kenne,
over the week end.
The Rebskah district meeting will b,
held with Sunset Rebeksh Lodge a
Bethel on the 21st of May.
The Delta Alphas will have a rool
party at the home of Mrs. Eva Ordway
on Thursday evening, May Sd.
Percy R. Horton, secretary of the over
seers OF the poor for the city of Port.
land, was in town Friday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emery Mason were in
Auburn the first of the week to attend
the funeral of Mrs. Oriza Marston, and
visit relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy E. Cole and sor
Howard, who have been guests at Viii
liam j. Wheeler's, returned Saturday tc
Canton, Mass.
Will the members of the Ladies
Union please meet at the church Wed
nesday at 2:S0 P. NJ. to arrange for the
Thursday sale.
Mark B. Richardson returned Thurs
day night from the Central Maine Gener
al Hospital at Lewton. where be under
went an operation for appendicitis abou,
two weeks ago.
Mrs. Esther Ryerson and Mr.. and Mrs.
G. A. Cole have closed their house here
and gone to Lake Dunmore, Vt, for the
season, where Mr.. Cole lie manager of the
Lake Dunmore Hotel.
The dates of the drama for the benefit
of the Red Cross work will be May 9th
and 10th, instead of May 10 and IL. This
change is necessary on account of the
teachers convention at Rumford Falls
May 18th.
Anyone having dishes of the Baptist
Ladies' Aid Society may leave them at
the church vestry, or at the home of
Mrs. F. A. Heidner and the owners will
please get them any Wednesday evening
before or after service.
The Boy Scouts will sell the advance
tickets for the drama, "Mr. Bob," begin
ming Tuesday, May 1st. Be sure and
buy one OF the boys. The reserved seat
sale will begin at Towards drug store
Saturday, May 9Th, at 9 O'Clock. All
seats reserved.
Mrs. Alton c. Wheeler was in Lewis
ton Thursday to attend the conference
with Charles r. Nutter, associate direct
or of the New England division of the
Red Cross. Mrs. W. F. Jones of Norway
also attended, as we'll as others from
other places who desired information to
enable them to make the work efficient.
"This is the fifth time in my ninety
years of life that have seen soldiers
starting for duty In war;" said Silas p.
Maxim Monday morning, after witness
ing the departure of Co. D. "Ths first
time was in the bloodlsss AroostoOk war
in 1899, when two were drafted for ser.
vice from our school in the Whittemore
district. The school house is on what
was then the thoroughfare from Frye
burg to Augusta, and the road was filled
with sleighs for some days, carrying
men to Augusta. Then there was the
Mexican war in the forties, the great
civil war, and the Spanish war in 1898.
This makes the fifth, and hope the
last"