Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-07-23
SOUTH PARIS.

ns UD to Boston, where they WI
spend Ssek'
md Mrs. Geo. r. Morton made q
hImobjls trip Of three or four days {
Boston last week.
~ Deunison and family hav
o. "a INTO their house on Park Stree
@ "U..6ased from the Tolmsns.
n. and Mrs. q. A. Morton and Kath
n RICHARDSON have been spending
S ,.Sa DAYS laws at their camp at Shsgg Pond.
Ma. Rachel Cook, daughter of Mr.
.s Mrs W. q. Cook Of Lewiston
su u a number of weeks with he
opSfstber. George W. Cook, and he
sant Mrs. L. C. Smiley.
II. and Mrs. Roy ]. Bird of Worces
Mass have been visiting his par
ss, NJ and Mrs. Amos A. Bird, fol
IA mast week. Mr.. Bird is q chemis
M,,b The American Steel and Wire Co.
p.v and Mrs. D. F. Faulkner and DR.
,SMrs C. L. Buck attended the outing
- Nsthodist ministers at the Auburn
an hatchery last Monday, going BY
..' -, in company with Rev. anG
NJ. 3. I. Nichols of Norway.
.,,bpr Gry Empey, author of "Ovel
"a Tor" now running in the Democrat
~ other stories of the war, has within
ssx DAYS been commissioned as 9
s.n.ain in the American national army
Can't. Employs service 10 France was
With the British forces.
Farewell dance to the drafted boys in
Grange Hall Thursday evening this
vask Admission 20 cents each. Dane.
\ inc free. The price includes war tax.
All drafted men invited guests. Contra
| and fancy dances. Shaw's jazz music.
Am come and have a good time.
A piece of split stone crossing has
bsep put in al the front of the South
Paris Market in the Square. There has
hssn a piece Of cement walk from the
sidewalk al Hotel Andrews out to the
ear track and this stone walk Is in line
With il on the other side of the track.
Miss Caroline Towne of the Commun-
Nv Chsutauqus has been in South Paris
and Norway for few days to assist the
] loesl committee 10 their splendid work.
She prououuced the local committee one
Of he best organized and best working
committees she has found anywhere in
her work this summer from South
Carolina to Maine.
The canning and drying denomination
given at Grange Hall Friday afternoon
by Miss Lucy Z. Jones of the University
Of Maine extension department was at
tended By a large number of the women
Of the village and vicinity, who found IL
interesting and profitable. In addition
to the canning work, Miss Jones gave
talk on war breads.
Miss Ethel c. Crockett, after spending
some weeks in Bridgewater, Mass, and
elsewhere, returned home last week.
She came from Wells with Mrs. c. A.
Record and son Miles in their car. Mrs.
Record and son, after staying here few
days, returned Thursday to their sum-
mer home at Wells. Mrs. Records
mother, Mrs. Geo. B. Crockett, accom-
panied them for visit.
The volunteer hoeing brigade has so
far furnished to the farmers of the vicin-
ity l34 days works in hoeing. This
work has been carried on as a patriotic
public safety measure, Harold T. Briggs
being in charge of the details. Much of
the labor has been done on Sundays by
men who were otherwise employed
through the week. They were carried
BY automobiles to farms at a distance
from the village.
In honor Of Mrs. J. P. Sprsgue, Miss
Eva Z. Walker entertained q number of
guests at lawn party at her home
Thursday afternoon and evening, most
Of whom were school or college friends
Of Mrs Sprague. The other guests were
Mrs. A. J. Stearns of Norway, Mrs. AL
ton c. Wheeler, Mrs. II. A. Morton,
Mrs. Roy E. Cole, Mrs. Z. n. Haskell,
Mrs. 7. 5. Barnes, Mrs. T. A. Taylor and
Mrs. g. (. Wilson. A picnic supper of
real pre- HOOverite appearance was
served, and the occasion was q delight
tl one.
Some time last week the plate glass
window in the front of the Paris Trust
70. was cracked into two pieces. Some
thing was evidently thrown or fred
against 1t, near one edge of the pane,
puncturlng a hole not quite so large as
toe head OF pin in the outside of Ii,
and pushing out chip from the inside
which was found several feet back from
the window. From this hole a crack
runs across disgonally, cutting off one
corner Of the pane. There is no shatter-
ing OF the glass other than that men,
toned.
The old hand organ man has been
around the town during the past week.
II may at first seem inaccurate to say
ne old hand organ man, but that Is
hnst be is. In answer to questions as
70 now long he had been coming here,
ne gave replies indicating that 1t was
somewhere from thirty. five to thirty
seven seven years, 80 though few II any know
us name, there is no inaccuracy in ap-
plying the definite article to him. His
organ still carries the old familiar tunes,
InOagh with the addition of one or two
new popular ones.
The Baptist Ladies' Aid will hold
snelr annual sale in November. The
committees chosen are as follows:
g.. apron Tsble-Mrs L. c. Morton, Mrs. Mary
SEIo osaS MS. Wyman, Mrs. Mary Crockett, Mrs.
Ion,. nJnnls, Miss Julia Morton, Marion Hollis
Ssndy Tabe-Mrs. Ethel Noyes, Mrs. Jessie
PSVTi.% MS lda Heminway, Mrs. Alice Wiggin.
~! ZOO Table-Mrs. Madge Dennison, Mrs
M bon Donney, Mrs. Kate Ames, Mrs. j. N. Horr
ia handkerchief and Miscellaneous Table-Mrs
Tt5s Norton 1 Mrs: Margaret Taylor, Mrs. Johr
Av V, Miss Flora Murch, Belle Ames.
ntsessaDIe Iable-Mrs. Agnes Murch, Mrs
TvIsse Spsl; Mrs. Alice Bryant, Mrs. Dori
A'sr' Mrs. Mabel Whitman.
About fifty people attended the picnic
" me Universslist Sunday School q
, Joss Grove Wednesday, and enjoyed
ns sme in variety of ways as long a
SSOnoihons permitted. There was a
'as9 Time for each one to eat his lunch
HO@e OF the boys did that as early n
=, 'Tciock) and an average of two cone
~ Ce cream. There was also time TO
v NC 9oy' to 90 swimming. As q picni
S suulS not be complete without . thun
sNa ~. shower, the biggest one Of the sea
as Tar as rainfall is concerned
iu. ussd up about half past one, and an.
n,. .'nsr program was adjourned indef
,sly, No one lived far enough ava.
S ~ nave any difficulty in getting hom
0s'Ore the downpour.
Advertised letters and cards in th,
'Vu'o raris post Office July ~, 1918:
MIS- Sts: John Dudley.
Ne q Ehzabeth Bailey.
Irs' y. L. Jordan.