Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-04-09
SOUTH PARIS.


Portland last week.
Tvo more large fiocks of wild gees
usre seen going north last week.
Mi,s Ruth Brown of Brewer was th
mast Of Miss Helen n. Barnes sewers
days last week.
garage for the tractor owned by tn
,ogp is being built on the lot ct the rea
of the creamery.
NcC. Macy of Berlin, N. H., va
hare last week on business for the In
terDstiousl Paper Co.
Frank e. Kimball Is at Gorbam, n
where he has painting job that viii
take about two weeks.
Sales Of war savings stamps for Marcl
are reported by Walter L. Gray, who !
in charge, as s2065.2o.
psrcy Proctor has returned from tn
woods above Aziscoos, where be ha
been employed during the winter.
7 s. Sessions is assisting in the Noye
drus store at Norway for two weeks
dnriug the absence of Frank Kimball.
Arthur K. Shurtleff, who has sold hi
5,ny store business to A. r. Stevens, hai
posltion with the Riker-Jaynes Co. II
Boston.
n <. Clifford was at Bangor last weei
N artsnd the Grand Lodge OF the New
Enslsnd Order of protection, a. delegat<
from Stony Brook Lodge.
Mrs. B. P. Adkins returned home the
H,st Of last week from Bethel, where
.bs had spent some weeks with her
daughter, Mrs. Albert l. Burke.
The Cole-wiggin Co. have purchased
| Of Mrs. NJ. Y. McAlister the building
next their store, formerly known as the
Sburtlef ssorehouse, with tenement
overhead.
Mrs. S. (. Jackson, after spending the
winter al West Paris, came the last OF
the week 10 her home here, and though
shs may return to West Paris for q short
time. will soon be back here to remain.
Irving Merrill and family have moved
into the bungalow on Nichols Street
built last season by the Paris Manufac.
turipg Co., which was occupied by
Henry B. Hayden and family while they
were at South Paris.
Dance at Norway Grange Hall Tues
day evening of this week, with music by
Shaw, piano, and Conant, drums. Ad-
mission % cents each, and the manage
msnt pays the war tax. Car for South
Paris after the dance.
Mrs. 8. r. Carter and Mrs. L. c..
Smiley entertained the ladies and gentle
men OF Western Ave. Thursday evening
AZ rock. Five tables were filled, and q
silver collection for the Service League
was taken, amounting 10 "a.
H.V. Starrett of Warren, who has
been known for pretty nearly q genera
ton 10 connection with the Maine
Register, has been in town for the past
few DAYS securing material for the next
issue Of that indispensable book.
Mrs. Rachel Stanley, who has been
with Der son and wife, Mr.. and Mrs.
Newton Stanley, at South Portland, for
the past few months, 10 here with her
daughter, Mrs. G. w. Bowker, for .
short time, but expects to return to
South Portland in q few days.
Rev. and Mrs. Charles Hall, who came
here al the time OF the death Of Mrs.
Muzzy, are about returning to Alden, N.
T., where they have been living, to pack
up their belongings, and will come here
to be with Mrs. Halls parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Il. D. Field, for the summer.
Miss Mildred Maxim and Miss Muriel
Bowker are at home from Gorhsm
Normal School for the vacation. Miss
Bowker is accompanied by two friends.
Miss Beth Burnsm Of Bridgton and
Miss Rsbeccs Clifford of Wiscasset, who
are spending few days with her.
The Girls Patriotic League Of the
eighth and ninth grades met Thursday
night after school, The following OH
GERS we're elected:
President-Laurs Brooks.
Observation-Disclosures Edwards.
Secretary-Helen Emeley.
Treasurer-Methyl Edwards.
Albert T. Stevens has purchased the
drug store of the A. K. Shurtleff Co. In
Odd Fellows Block, and took possession
the first of last week. Mr.. Stevens has
had years Of experience In drug stores
in South Paris and other places, and will
undoubtedly be able to give the public
frst-class service
Mrs. LeOns Stuart Wheaton, who has
for the past two months been In charge
of the Office at Waterville of the Little
Wanderers Home of Boston, will leave
there the 18th of this month to return to
Connecticut, where she has the manage
ment Of two branches of the Home, at
Bridgeport and Danbury.
GO. Chase left Friday morning for
Sand Creek, Mont, where he will work
this season with bis SOD, George L.
Chase. The younger man is raising
food to win the war, and has 275 acres In
sowed crops, wherefore il Ia necessary
that be should have some help. A man
whom be had engaged was drafted and
left.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph r. Butts returned
Thursday night from Kinghsld, where
Mr.. Butts is at work on job Of plumb
Ing and heating in . large new hotel.
They will 60 back to Kinghsld within q
few days, and Mrs. Butts will remain
there for month or so longer. Mr..
Butts will be engaged on the job until
well into the summer.
10 the work Of tearing down the
Parsons house, Oscar E. Barrows uncov.
cred under the floor boards three OF the
old big copper cents, such Al the present
generation knows little about, but which
We older fellows used to see occasionally
In our younger days, when they were
colloquially known 40 "Bungtowns.
These three bore dates respectively Of
1895, l79S and 1925.
This Is q story which comes by
somewhat roundabout route Of the four
ysar-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. George G
Erskine OF Cheshire, CT, and indicates
something Of the careful training which
his mother, 40 would be expected, ha'
given him. His mother read him th'
story Of the miracle OF the loaves ant
fishes, and when it came to gathering al
the fragments, he broke In with, "Twelv'
basketsl Where was Mr.. Hoover"
Samuel r. Davis, who was postmaste
here for some seventeen years, and late
remained for while - assistant In th'
office-but there, Just % II there va
anybody who Decent know who San
Davis is! Well, anyway, what We st.rte
TO say was that Mr.. Davis, who has bee
In San Francisco for nearly two years
arrived in South Paris last Wednesda
evening, and expects TO stay here. An