Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-07-02

West Paris.
Fourth Of July program ct West Paris:
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Best decorated oar OF any other mAhe-
LIT prize. aW. 8. g.; ID prise, ". 8. 8.
Hoerib!ee-lR prize. 1W.6.S.; "a Prise.
pss1sosic address By Rev. G. q. nnisr.
Immediately following the parade.
10 3o-l9 Athletic events on athleeic 1eld, Free
TO al. Suitable prises for Winners.
20 Dinner In Grange ban and 1. o. o. r.
100 Bass Ban Game. wsss Paris VI. Berlin.
As Il = Sports.
400 Moving Pictures, Grange Han.
20 90 Moving Pictures.
Net proceeds for Red Gross. Frat
and second prizes for Ford and Dodge
automobiles given BY Ripley d Fletcher,
South Paris.
Misses Grace Brock and Mildred Davis
have returned homo from Farmington
Normal School.
Clarence o. Dunham OF the United
States Navy 10 visiting his sisters, Ars. C..
A. Bacon, Mrs. Henry Rowe and Mrs.
Rsnie Higgins, also bis grandmother,
Mrs. Martha Durham.
Miss Fannie Flint OF Baldwin 10 guest
Of Mrs. p. c. Mayhem.
Rev. and Mrs. q. 81. Hathaway, Mrs.
W. W. Durham and Miss Ella Berry At
tended the Baptist Quarterly meeting ct
Otisfield last week.
DR.. and Mrs. RATE HIATT and Miss Helen
Stevens Of Boston have been guests ct
Miss Minnie Stevens.
Mrs. Phila Mayhem has Q flock Of "A
Rhode leland Red hens that have laid
], $40 eggs from Jan. to June l. The
hens have been fed largely on the sweep
ings OF the grist mill.
Miss Clara Bacon 10 Ut homo from
teaching 1t Pennington Normal.
Lillian Day and Laura Emery are at-
tending the Pennington Normal summer
school.
The families of r. Il. Hill and G. L.
Emery are ut Camp Evergreen, Locke's
Mills.
Sunday evening there was q patriotic
meeting under the auspices Of the w. G..
T. o., at the Free Baptist church. Their
pastor, Rev. b. b. Hathaway, was the
speaker. A collection was taken for tho
Red Cross.
Mrs. Harold Durham of Brattleboro,
Vt, 10 visiting her father, E. W. Penley.
George Swan has sold his buildings on
Greenwood Street to Herbert Fuller.
Mr.. Fuller will make some repairs on
them.
Roscoe G. Whitney of Pennington
spent last week with his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Cynthia b. Curtis, and other rela-
tives, ut 81. r. TuelPs, spending q short
time also at Henry Brooks and E. ].
Mann's.
Louise, the daughter of George Devine,
has whooping cough. The disease spent
. long time here last fall and winter, and
now bids fair again to be the terror of
people with little folks.
Mrs. Emma Berry recently spent the
day at Norway with her daughter, Mrs.
e. B. Jackson.
The community was shocked and sad
dened when the report went out Satur-
day noon, June 20, that James Paine
Curtis had passed away suddenly. Mr..
Curtis was In bis usual health until Sat
urday morning, when he was taken III
from indigestion, and q physician was
called who relieved him. About noon
he arose from q chair and went to q
couch and lay down. Later his daugh.
ter. who was near by, heard sound and
rushed to him, but he expired at once.
For the past two years Mr.. Curtis had
not been a. strong as usual, but had
been able to attend to his work.
he was the son of Daniel and Char.
lotte (Paine) Curtis, and was born in
Woodstock. He was Is years of age.
he married Miss Mary Estes, who sur.
wives. with their daughter, Ella NJ. Cur.
tis, who has always lived at home. A
brother, Daniel Henry Curtis, of North
Paris, and Other more distant relatives
also survive.
For more than thirty years he has
been resident of West Paris. Previous
to that he lived on the home farm In
Woodstock, which he purchased of his
parents when they moved to West Paris.
Mr.. Curtis was a highly respected citi.
zen, q kind man of exemplary habits,
and one Of the prosperous, well-to. do
farmers Of tho town. He Was member
of West Paris Lodge, I. o. o. f., and
Onward Rebekah Lodge, In politics q
Republican.
The funeral will be from bis late resi-.
dence on Main Street Tuesday afternoon,
and the interment in West Paris Come
terry.