Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-08-27
SOUTH PARIS.

hyug season Is O''''
.,,.,ook YOUR chimney over and SCI
i pen, y. earthquake did TO IL
c,.olip Gray is visiting relatives
MS $40. in Portland and elsewhere.
=. ..Dor,sd that one South Pari.
'. shaken out of bed. Report
,n9nirDed
- r,.is Boynsou of Portland haI
,pe,t at Mrs. L. E. Beans during
be past week
number Of our towns people
va Cornish fair last week and re
-. = rousing good time
,ioIsnt enough to shake bottles
49,. shelves il s drug store; no prices
..,s shaken down however
lizard Curtis. one of the sons Of
Cnrtis Is quite Ill with rheu
A:a.I ave. 3 a, bis home in this place.
- n Bsrrows. treasurer Of the
- tbs. Company, was at the Buck
!AS ,,ancb bank for the day last Thurs
"a QIa-~S
hy
~ Walter I. Gray has been the
..,tWrs. D. N. stewart at Great
end Island during a part Of last
week.
~. Ayrss l Norton was sccompan-
=, an entertainment gwen by the
r.iTsr.alis, Circle at Paris Hill last
vsek
Mao < Clifford, Miss Addie
yi,.,i, and Merton Clifford recently
,Sss, a. outing at the Maxim camp at
Sslgs Pond.
R.,Ny. McAHster and family OF
p.S,m Y q. woo have been visiting at
Mar Bs-rows returned home Wednes-
ay morning
Ms HR. Carter and daughters Bet
r,nd Beatrice have returned from Kit
,.,v Point, where hey have been visit
rg for se7srs days.
v, and Mrs. y. Dayton Bolster and
v.Ru,h n. Bolster went TO Portland
Tp..1ag for vacation aud made trips
tsu TIA. city With their car.
Archie q. Curtis was with his family
n his place last week Mr.. Curtis
n,,sble saw MI. is now located near
G,,iipsr in the town OF Randolph.
I,nop Churchill Of North Leeds was
4 South Paris % business recently.
N, Churchill has nearly recovered from
NJ, sickness Of the past winter and
spring.
State Road Inspector Chester G. Beck
rotAlbany was 10 town last Thursday.
M Becker has the inspection for about
thirty towns, most Of which are in Ok
h,d County.
Harold Abbott has finished work in
Portland and is now spending a short
tine here With bis mother, Mrs. Lottie
Abbott He expects 10 leave Portland
nO1 for Camp Devens.
During the vacation of George Z.
Kirkpatrick, manager of the Bucktield
Bsnch Of he Paris Trust Company,
Richard Mlet, of this place is officiating
rlhe Buck6eid bank.
The Wheeler Lumber Compsny's big
Truck came into the square last Thurs
aaJ loaded With thirty -four hundred and
nTsnty.ive feet of thin boards for L. S.
Billings that had been hauled from North
Paris.
Philip King, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ferdinand King who is in aviation train
ing, has been recently promoted TO second
lieutenant Ensign Albert King, another
SOL who is in the United States Navy,
d 10 charge Of feet of submarine
:aiseTs in foreign service.
There will be an old folks ball at
Grange Hall Tuesday evening of this
week. A good dance for both old and
o1ng. All drafted men who are in
aEu are invited free of charge to the
dance. Music by Howard W. Shaw and
Marx Robinson Of Iowa, drums and
:!lophOns
Mrs. Erlsnd C.. Torrey, formerly of
aii village but now residing with her
hihsr, c. L. Dillingham;, in Dixfield, has
recently received word from her hus-
hand, Lieutenant Torrey, who has been
hssioned at Camp Devens for several
months, that he has been detailed with
accompany Of draftees to camp in
Ohio.
NJ and Mrs Winfield ;. Starbird have
received word that their SOD, Gen. Alfred
a. NarOird Of the United States Army,
'aO has been inspecting artillery in this
soonsry for several months, has been
ordered to foreign station. He
las since his promotion to General,
cciganized an Artillery Brigade in
California.
Richard z Garland, son of E. T. Gar
and Of Portland, was the guest of Mr..
Aad Ar' Nelson G. Elder two days last
sssk. Mr.. Garland is a graduate of
oHss College and had taken the exsmins-
700 iof 40 officers training school and
pn,ea II successfully, but not having
!a oeen called for training, he is subject
y ne August draft and will 60 to Camp
Os'sns with the draftees.
south Paris received it's full share of
we 'haklng up in the earthquake of the
wv early hours OF Wednesday morning.
'uOfuy alter midnight the shock was so
s'ers as to wake most everyone out of
' %uOo sleep. Near the center OF the
Issse several chimneys bad bricks
1aaso Oh and some were cracked and
.'S'sned: Among those that suffered
S o'' OF less damage Of this kind were
Sr1'eAimneys on the tenement house of
Sanes W. BOwker, at the rear of the
cC'tOmce and those on the store of the
Ss WAS d. Howard Company and on the
Uses OF /. 7. Hathaway and Mrs. s..
,,otggs. There were doubtless sever
49, Husrs and it will be wise to look your
SauneS over before cold weather sets
"a. s some are cracked from the top
So',sL At the Howard drug store
I'' we're shaken off the shelf and
ss n soppled over. Ii has been a long
ssoce this village has had SO severe
S'aquake and while no very serious
s. w4ss was done many timid people
alarmed and some believed that
'auan bombs had arrived.
Vss as writer, in company with Alton @.
% ,sssI, treasurer and general manager
Sh.. s Wheeler Lumber Company, and
N ~, recently made an inspection
, hyo properties of that company
nmn. uo'toern part of the town. This
Gs oy owns and operates the mills al
,DS " OF Moose Pond at North Paris
M ,Ions wood lots in the vicinity
p.,, Ts OF which is the Stearns lot
tsDS. .SOoy Brook bridge. This lot ex'
m.S .oOut mile on the Tuelltowr
R1 aad half mile back onto Stearnl
n,L, sno was operated the past winter
h,a. out little impression upon the
Nse Quantities of standino woo6 anc