Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-03-19
SOUTH PARIS.

vas here IOA 'N0
~, Loren Hunter of Strong 10 th
~, ot her daughter, Mrs. A. r. Colo
NTH.
~ Bowker of Portland was tn
~. ~ If bis brother, Chas. w. Bowkel
Friday.
Mis-. Abbie Bicknsll Of Canton ha
A.sn 4 guest at Edward Z. DeCosssr
lor few days.
NJ, Fred Caswell and two daughter
N Bucktield are guests OF nsr mosner
Er.. Benjamin Turner
rbs Married Ladies' Whist Club me
rs i afternoon with Mrs. q. r
Csrtsr on Western Avenue.
Nrs. L. C. Smiley will have her Easte
as .iii;rarV opening next Friday and Sat
- March % and %. All are cordial
y invited
n, account of i'll health, Mrs. DAME
= Svift has gone to the home OF hel
J. .nbsU Frank <. DeCoster OF Norway
IA remain for the present.
a uobart A. Keuney has completed hi'
~ az engineer for the Paris Mauufac
80 Co. and has work in garage al
isEisson. Irving Merrill takes hii
>plsce as engineer.
~ Josepb Philbrook, we'll known con,
';< .-oc,or' who built the court house, jail
Nd isiler's house at South Paris IN 1870,
8 z5ied In Brunswick on the LIST inst, al
dc age Of 50 years.
B. HAYDEN, who with his family
"a. occupied the new bungalow of the
Paws Manufacturing Co. on Nichols
Es.rset during the winter, has moved
baek 20 North Buck6eld where he for
nsrly lived.
Mrs T. S. Barnes entertained 3 party
of lsdy friends at rock at her home
MONDAY evening. Five tables were I'LL
al Each one brought dime, and the
8 mouey thus secured was given to the
&Seryice League.
Marion K. Clifford, who was attend
Line the Massachusetts, College Of
:4P6armscy in Boston, but came home
nome weeks since on account OF illness,
IA again in the drug store OF the Chss. d.
Howard Co. IS clerk.
Miss CAROLYN Gray entertained three
&tsblss at rock at her home Friday even
2ipg. Grape Juice and fancy crackers
q we're served. The event was for the
&bsueft Of the Service League, each one
con.ributiug a fee Of ten cents.
Mrs. Alton c. Wheeler and daughter
Miriam were in Portland Friday to see
Wheeler's mother, Mrs. Anna q.
Halves, who is spending the winter in that
<cisy with relatives. On Thursday Mrs.
Hayes slipped on the ice and fell, break
ling her wrist.
Mrs. Althea Quimby, state president
4 of the ". c. T. q. is to visit South
4 Paris on Friday, March %. On this
date South Paris W. C. T. q. will hold
: It's March meeting at the Congregational
Lchurch at 2:3O P. NJ. Norway union
and all friends are cordially invited.
One or two car loads Of coal have
{straysd into this part of the country
within the past week, about the first
since the cold weather set in, and it Ia
said that there is prospect of another
car or two coming before many weeks.
Just as We have got used to burning
green or hslf,seasoned wood, too.
The Democrats of the town will have
their caucus next Saturday, March 20, at
o'clock P. ~, at the assessors office,
TO choose delegates and alternates to the
Democratic state convention to be held
In Portland Wednesday, April 8, to
elect a town committee, and to transact
any other business that may properly
come before the caucus.
Mrs George W. Wsterhouse observed
Der 18th birthday at her home here Wed
nesdsy. She had hoped to have all her
children with her, but illness prevented,
and the only guests were her grand
daughter, Miss Margie Jordan, OF
Brysnt's Pond, and Mrs. /. j. Monk.
whipped cream lunch" was served,
and quantity of flowers and other re-
membranes of the day were received by
Mrs. Warehouse.
Robert ". Wheeler was here with bis
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William j.
Wheeler, for two or three days last
week, while on furlough. Mr.. Wheeler
enlisted in the medical department. of
the army last year, and went to Fort
Mckinley, Portland, and thence to Fort
Oglethorpe, Ga. He was later de-
tsehsd, and has inst completed the course
In the Reserve Officers Training Corps
st Chattanooga, Tenn. he went from
here Friday night to Fort Mckinley,
where be will await orders.
The Seneca Club is entertained this
Monday evening By Mrs. Fl. 4. Carter at
her residence on Western Avenue. The
literary program, as given in the year
book. Is headed, Original Short Stories,
and with the suggestive quotation which
introduces II, is as follows:
And now expectation sits upon our faces;
Perhaps ii may turn out q song,
ferhSps turn out q sermon"
ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES.
kou Call-0riginal Quotations.
florence Haskell. Eva Walker, Margaret Taylor
Agnes Morton, Original Poem
Mrs. Esther Ryerson, who recently
sold her house on Pleasant Street to
Leslie L. Mason, has purchased the
house of Erlsnd c. Torrey on Oak
Avenue, near the house which she sold.
tbs bungalow was built by Mr.. Torrey
only two or three years since, and was
occupied by him and bis family until
within few months. After the death
OF Mrs. Torrey's mother, Mrs. G. L.
Diillngham of Dixfisld, the family went
20 the home OF her father. Mr.. Torrey
Took the officers training course ct
Fiattsourg, and now holds a commission
As lieutenant In the national army.
Furnishing entertainment for the boys
Is undoubtedly one kind Of military SER
wee, yet II looks . little strange when
you see Il listed that way. The medical
advisory boards, to whom certain of the
reglstrants are referred for physical
sanitation, make their report that the
subject is either qualified for general
military service, disqualified for military
service, or qualified for limited service,
10 which last case the kind Of service ID
sometimes named. For instance, the
man IS reported qualified for service a
.sooosman, laborer, and so on. One Of
,ue reports sent in to the Oxford County
local board by medical advisory board
ssewnere few days since, shows tina
the subject Is qualified for limited mill
Hfy service as "pianist."
ooerin Cole few days since receives
40 inquiry from the authorities In Nor
rrs ', VT, asking the Whereabouts o
william q. Wheeler, who was wanted II
sost town for passing number Of bogu
s sS Mr.. Cole was able to inform