Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-11-05
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The arst OF the winter course Of enter
tainmeuts for the benefit of the Bed
Gross, which was TO have been given In
October, will bs given Nov. Is, when
the entertainer will b 8. Plat Jonas,
tho humorist. The other dates are, the
Pierces, Dec. Is; the Republic Quartet,
Dec. 10; the Berkeley 6extet, Jan. 4;
and Chief Stronghssrt, Fob. 5.
Harold Drake 10 spending vacation
Of several weeks with his grandfashef,
Arthur Drake. ut Auburn.
Private Robert Schenk has been here
from Camp Devens on short leave, and
With bis wife has been visiting his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Schsnk on Pike
Hill.
A chimney fire ct Mrs.. Maggie Dyer!
on Fair Street about ton days ago did
about atty dollars damage. The wood
work about the chimney burst into
flames, but the blaze WAS subdued with
. garden hose.
DIR. B. r. Bradbury has been COM
missioned captain in the medical corps
of the regular army. He ID ct present
located at Augusta.
Frank Estes has contract TO deliver
nearly 200, 900 spearhead ferns to city
greenhouse, and 10 picking them In Po'
land, occupying camp there.
Hugh P. Pike has broken up house
keeping and will store most OF his goods.
He will board with bis parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Dennis Pike. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Hebbard are
moving from the Solomon l. Aillett
house on Paris Street into the rooms re-
Gently occupied by the Norway Com
mercial Club. Charles A. Richardson
and family are moving into the Millett
house, which they recently purchased. !.
Miss Hattie Sawyer 10 with Rev. and
Mrs. NJ. o. Baltzer during Mrs. Baltzer's
convalescenoe.
There 10 only . slight falling of In the
attendance of the schools which reopen
ed last week.
Guy Stevens 10 gaining slowly from .
serious illness, and now sits up each
day.
The members of the Swastika Club
were recently entertained at the homo OF
Mrs. Lucia Buck York in Otisfleld.
It Ia thought that the next clerks ball
will not be beld until after the war 10
over. The date was changed from the
former time in February to October, but
owing to the ban on, public gatherings 1t
was of course deferred.
S. C. Foster Is out again after long
siege with influenza, during which bis
barber shop was closed, not to be re.
opened until he IL fully recovered.
Miss Sarah True, daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. James G. True of Pleasant Street,
who has been employed in Boston during
the simmer, has passed her examina-
lions and enrolled a. yeowoman In the
navy.
Rev. and Mrs. Robert j. Bruce and
daughter Gertrude of Portland were
the guests of friends 10 town from Mon.
day to Wednesday, and Mr.. Bruce at
tended the Oxford Congregational As
ISOLATION at East Sumner Tuesday.
Fauuce Pendexter, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugh Pendexter, four years OF age,
underwent an operation for hernia at
Portland Tuesday, and is reported dol Nc
we'll.
Mrs. Frank Boswell of Rumford was
with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Boswell .
few days last week, and while here as
sisted at the telephone exchange In the
absence OF Mrs. Rowell.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Fred Pike, Mrs.
Llewellyn q. Cushman and Mrs. Will
Judkins made trip Of several days to
Boston last week in Mr.. Pixies auto.
Howard D. Smith is improving from
an attack of influenza which took him
about ten days ago. This Was the first
time in forty. one years that Mr.. Smith
had REQUIRED the services OF . physician.
Abigail Whitman Chapter, D. A. R.,
will meet with Mrs. Emma G. Holmes ut
South Paris Wednesday evening, Nov. 6.
Program: Roll call, Thanksgiving;
Reading, Our National Thanksgiving,
Miss Stella B. Prince; Reading, A Short
Sketch of Ancient Pemaquid, Maine,
Mrs. Emma A. Cullinan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morrill, Greenleaf are
again running their cafe after having
been absent for several weeks, Mr..
Greenleaf on account of influenza and
Mrs. Greenleaf with q serious surgical
operation. ..
Mrs, Vesta Foss of Looke's Mills 10
the guest Of her son and wife, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Foss.
Rev. M, o, Baltzer attended tho OK
ford Association of Congregational
Churches ut East Sumner last week.
Mrs. Jennie Young, Miss Gertrude
Gardner and Mrs. Hortense Gates have
returned from their cottage on Pike
Hill where they spent the summer. to
the village for the winter.
Word Was received Thursday morning
that Private Ralph o. Millett had died
of pneumonia In France. Mr.. Millett
was the son of Mr.. and Mrs. E. D. Millett
of Norway. he went to Camp Devens
with the contingent which left Oxford
County the last of May.
Pvt. E. A. Pratt was here on leave of
absence from Camp Devens last week,
returning Thursday to camp.
Prince Snow Of lower Main Street was
taken to the Central Maine General hos
pital for treatment Thursday morning.
Fred Gregg and daughter have return
cd from Pittsburg, Pa, where they
went intending to remain, and Mr.. Gregg
has reopened his store. They will
board, as their household goods were
sold before they left.
Walter r. Tubbs 10 building . steam
heated drying kiln at the rear OF bis
snowshoe factory.
Mrs. Vesta Jope of Fryeburg 10 visit
ing her daughter, Miss Gertrude Jope,
who 10 attending school IN Norway, at
Mrs. Annie SIMPSONS.
Jonathan Holmes, who has been spend
ing the summer with bis daughter, Mrs.
Elizabeth SWEET, has gone to Hartford
for weeks stay with relatives.
Frank G. Witham has given up work
In the Bath ship yard and will return to
Norway and re-enter the shoe factory.
Mrs.. Sarah ]. Seavey, mother OF +.
Robert Seavey of Beal's Tavern, 10 here
to visit while With her children.
Mrs, Mason Frost has been In Boston
to attend the funeral of her son, William
Ballard. Besides tho mother, brother,
Ossie Ballard OF Norway, survives.
The ladies Of Crockett Ridge made .
volunteer husking party at Mrs. Addie
Thurston's, and husked ont sixty BUSH
81 of corn.
guest for few days of her parents,
Capt. and Mrs. j. Waldo Nash.
Miss Beatrice Stone and Miss Marion
Gibson went to Portland Thursday for
q few days stay, and before their return
will visit in Brunswick and Freeport.
Mrs. Annie Danforth Assseck and
daughter Ruth, after spending number
of weeks with Mrs. Alice Danforth, left
Friday on their way to California, where
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