Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-01-29

i Nrs. PeFcie Merry Of Portland wss ,
guest ct ]. p. Richardson's over Sunday.
Adjourned meeting of the Citizens
Telephone Co. ut the assesaors' ofaoe
this Monday evening.
Mrs. Raymond 8. Gates of Stearns
Hill, who has young son nine days OF
age, 10 reported seriously III.
Alton C. Wheeler has been appointed
by State Fuel Administrator James c.
Hamlen chairman OF local committee
of three on fuel matters, the other two
to be chosen by Mr.. Wheeler.
Walter 8. Abbott went Thursday to
the Central Maine General Hospital ut
Lewiston for medical treatment, expect
| ING to remain there about q week. he
has not been In perfect health for some
time.
Elmer Campbell and William b. Bray
are at work for the Bath Iron Works at
Bath. Mr.. Bray was here Tuesday to
take the physical examination under the
draft law, but returned that night to
Bath.
Philip 81. King, who was recently
transferred from the artillery to aviation
and went TO Massachusetts, Institute Of
Technology, has recently been transfer-
red to Cornell University at Ithaca, N.
Y, for ground school" training.
The Baptist Ladies' Aid are invited to
have an all-day session next Thursday at
the home of Mrs. Lester West. Dinner
will be furnished by hostess, and trans
portation for four or five from Bolster's
store at nine o'clock. Bring thimble.
Worse instead of better the weather
grows. After q week of alternating
snow and blow thermometers Monday
morning were at various marks from 70
to 80 below zero, and some 1t 10 reported
even lower. And no sign OF any break
yet.
The children of the public schools are
asked to have part in the Service
League work and each child is asked
this week to earn five cents for this most
important work. The teachers will
have charge Of the money earned by
their scholars.
The fourth quarterly conference of the
Deering Memorial church will be held
on Wednesday evening of this week pre-
sided over by Rev. d. B. Holt, District
Superintendent. The weekly prayer
meeting will be held on Thursday even
ing at the usual time.
The February supper OF the Ladies'
Social Union of the Universslist church
will be held on Monday evening, Feb. a,
instead of Tuesday which is the usual
day, so as not to interfere in any degree
with the success of the Norway clerks
ball and its Red Cross benefit.
A South Paris business man has |
figured out that the coming month of
February will be the shortest on record.
The month has 2S days, and taking out
the Sundays, the legal holidays, and the
Garfield days, there are only eighteen
business days for the month.
Charles E. Merrill was at home over
the week end from Patten, where he is
working with Mrs. Merrill's father, Z.
l.. Merrill, getting out ship lumber.
Mrs. Merrill and the children will go to
Patten with him on his return this week,
to remain for q while. Mr.. and Mrs.
Chester Soule will occupy the Merrills'
house during their absence.
A snow pillow which went through on
the railroad one day last week failed to
haul in its wings at the station, and
some fifty feet of the plsnking at the
south end Of the station platform was
ripped mp, so that it was thrown over to
get IL out of the way. With the amount OF
snow there Is piled up there - we'll as
everywhere else, the planking Is COM
parstively little missed.
Letters have been received from Lloyd |
L. Davis, who enlisted in the Canadian |
Forestry last fall. he Is now In Eng |
land. he says that the voyage across |
was uneventful till within three or four
hours from port, when German U-bost
suddenly emerged quite near the trans |
port, but at once submerged again With |
out firing q shot. He embarked on Dec. |
4th, and was evidently In Halifax but
two days before the disaster to that city. |
On account Of the continued illness of
Judge A. E. Herriok of Bethel, the JAN
uary term of Probate Court was again
adjourned last week from Tuesday to
Friday, and as Judge Herrick was not
able to come on Friday, the term will be
omitted entirely. The February term at
Rumford will also be omitted, as 1t
comes on the second Tuesday, the same
day az the term of Supreme Court at
South Paris. The Probate Court will be
open from the second Tuesday of Febru.
airy to the third Tuesday, for any bust
ness that can be then transacted.
Justice George Z. Bird will preside at
the February term of Supreme Judicial
court, which will open at South Paris on
the 18th of February. The grand jury
EN- paneled In October will be In attend
sncs. Venires for traverse jurors have
been returned as follows:
William B. Bartlett, Bethel.
Ernest Bennett. Lincoln Plantation.
l.. II. Bisbee, Sumner.
John B. Bryant, Buckheld.
Lester ID. Bryant. Woodstock.
Edmund b. Carter, Norway.
j. Herbert Carter, Bethel.
c. II. Davis, Mexico.
H. Z. Day, Greenwood.
Dana K. Elliott. Rumford.
Clarence z. Files, Stoneham.
Richard II. Gates, Paris.
Fred Z. Grant, Rumford.
Frank Harmon, Lowell.
Robert A. Kimbal. waterford.
G. b. Newton. Andoyer.
d. B. Perry, Hebron.
Hiram N. Porter, Paris.
John Russell, Peru.
Winfield 8. sloan, Norway.