Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-11-26
THE OXFORD BEARS.
THE DolNoS OF THE WEEK m ALL
SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY.
Pafis hill.

/ Services as Paris Hin Bspsist church ever
Sunday at IS. Pulpit supplied By Rev. A.
GWynne Sunday School IS IL. Sunday even
| ing service At 50. Thursday evening prayer
| meeting al O'Clock.
l Miss Annie L. Paris has spent thu
| past week With her friends, Mr.. and
Mss. Elmer r. Briggs at South Paris.
Col. Edward T. Brown and family
| moved into the C. E. Case house last
Tuesday.
Mr.. Winslow has closed his home In
| this place and went last Thursday "a
| Buffalo, N. Y, where he expects to re-
main during the winter months.
Paris Hill went "over the top" again
/ ia the United War Work Campaign. The
allotment was four hundred dollars and
the amount subscribed Was four hun
dred and forty eight.
A letter from Rev. G. W. p. Hill,
formerly pastor of the Baptist church
here and now settled ct Cape Neddick,
saws: "a week ago last Sunday We
dedicated flag. Ave by eight in size,
also an honor roll with nineteen names.
The many friends here OF Mr.. and Mrs,
Hill will be glad to know that they like
their new home and are very com
fortably situated though they miss theiI
Paris friends.
With five days of rain the past week
the roads were in about the condition
that usually prevails in spring "mud
itime", and when the ground froze Satur
day morning they were some rough.
Prof. William Roy Smith OF Bryr
tMawr. Pa, whose summer home is al
Paris Hill, has been confined to bis BED
four weeks with Spanish influenza but ID
out again now.
Mr.. Stone of Norway supplied the pull
pit at the Baptist church last Sunday
and Miss Gwynne will preach at the same
place on the first Sunday in December.
Carroll |. Hooper made q successful
Hunting trip 10 South Arm In Andovel
recently and brought home q nice deer
Mr.. and Mrs. John Pierce and Mist
Mary A. Pierce expect to spend Thanks
Civ ng with Rev. and Mrs. C. A. Knicker
booker in Wateryille. Other guests al
this family reunion will include Mr.. and
Mrs. Orlando A. Thayer OF this place
v ho are already at Waterville, and Jarvis
NJ. Thsyer and family OF Pembroke
In q.
A cablegram received last week from
Ensign Raymond l.. Atwood OF the U. s.
Naval Aviation Corps, who has been ny
l ing over the submarine zone in the North
Sea since last March, announces that be
iexpects to be at home by Christmas
The Naval Air Station TO which be ID
attached is on the northeast coast oil
| England, a few miles from the city oil
Hull and bis regular patrol has been the
ship channel from the mouth of the
river Humber to the mouth of the Tyne
though in special service Of delivering
Iairplanes he has covered most OF Eng
land and Scotland and made . triE
Through the air from Lands End on the
southwest coast of England, over the
English Channel and the North Sea Il
the Orkney Islands.
George w. Cole suffered quite severe
in turn last Saturday.
E. Berton Curtis and Herbert L. Serb
ner announce that their price for milk
beginning December LIST, will be II cents
quart.
L. The Sunshine Club which met with
Mrs. Picnic Scribner last Thursday wal
one of the best meetings OF the season
Although the day was rainy, there were
eighteen members, four guests, and four
children present. 1t was voted to hole
gentlemen's night Dec. 5th with Mrs
Hiram Heald, and each member Is ex
pected to be present with her husband
IL you haven't one bring . substitute
The next regular meeting will be with
Mrs. Thyrs Dudley, Dec. 18th.
Since the death of the late Reginald
IL. Cummings, the mail between thii
village and South Paris has been carried
by the bondsmen and an effort has beer
made to have the contract opened for th'
Remainder of the term for new bids q
the present price is so low that no ont
seems to wish to take the old contrac
and certainly II does not assure such 9
service as there should be between these
villages. Notice has just been received
that the Government has decided tC
open the contract for new bids. 1t says
in substance that sealed proposals will
be received at the office of the Fourth
A ssistaut Postmaster General until Dec
ember 10, 1918, for the carrying Of tht
United States mail from December 10
1918, to June 80, 1921, from Paris Hill
to South Paris and back eighteen times
q week. Schedule OF time and otheI
details may be had at the post-ofices al
either place and bids conforming tt
government requirements will probably
be forwarded by the postmasters q
either Office. Parties wishing to put IL
bids should promptly obtain the neces
sary blanks at one of the local post
Offices, as the bids must reach Washing
ton py Dec. 10th.
1 PARTRIDGE DISTRICT.
Mrs. W. s. Mason has sold her mic,
Holstsin heifsr to A. NJ. Daniels Of Pari,
Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Cole, also Mr.
Coles brother John, have been very sici
with the grippe.
William Parlin 10 very sick with thu
grippe.
Ralph Field has been working for tn,
iThayer brothers repairing their build
ings.
Fremont Field has been working FOL