Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-09-10

Mrs. Marion Harmon Of Portland n
the guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mr..
William L. Gray.
Warren SWEET and son Roger of Win
leicester, Mass, have been ct Hotel An
drews for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilman A. Whitman nj.
tended the Twenty-third Regiment re-
union at Mechanic Falls Thursday.
Malcolm CLARK, who 10 in the employ
of the Crosby Steam Gage and Valve Co.
at Boston, 10 ct home for two weeks.
The factory Of the Paris Manufactur.
ing Co. Is shut down during election and
the fair, to start up again Friday morn
ling.
The annual business meeting of the
Baptist church will be held In the vestry
this Monday evening at 7:S0. Please be
prompt.
Chas. 81. Howard Was in Portland last
week for treatment for q troublesome
knee, and 10 not yet so as to get around
on IL and attend to business.
Miss Frances Chapman has been spend
ing weeks vacation with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. B. N. Chapman, before go
ing to Bath, where she Is to teach.
Voting in the state election is going
on briskly as the Democrat goes to press.
The weather and roads are good, and
there Is every indication Of large vote.
Mt. Pleasant Rebekah Lodge meets
again after its vacation on Friday even
ing of this week. A good attendance 10
desired, to transact business of impor-
lance.
The dust is we'll laid for the county
fair. And now il We don't get two days
OF cold wind and then when il goes
down sfrost, We may congratulate our
selves.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Ordway and lit
tie daughter Alice of Groveland, Mass,
arrived by auto last Tuesday afternoon
to visit Mrs. Ordway's uncle, E. n.
Anderson, and wife.
The funeral of Mrs. Guy /. SWEET, the
South Paris victim of the c Pond drown
ing accident, was held Saturday after
noon, attended by Rev. Eleanor B.
Forbes of Buckfeld. Burial was In |
Riverside Cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Flint c. Elder of Cleve- |
land, o.. have been here for several days
at the Charles r. Elder summer home. |
His father, Charles r. Elder, accom- |
panied them from Massachusetts, and |
spent short time With his family here. |
Alton C. Wheeler has been speaking
in the political campaign during the past |
few days. Thursday evening he spoke |
at Richmond with Ex-Governor VIM. T.
Cobb, Friday afternoon at Dover, and
Friday evening at Milo at an outdoor
meeting, with Governor Milliken.
Capt. T. Carroll Davis of the medical |
department Of the army, with Mrs.
Davis and Junior from Philadelphia,
and Mrs. Mary A. Adams OF Westport,
CT, have been guests at Geo. r. Morton's,
and the family and guests spent Q week |
at Camp Concord, returning Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy E. Cole and son
Howard returned Saturday to Canton, |
Mass. Mr.. Cole has been during the
summer superintendent Of the boys
camp at The Pines, Lowell, which closed
about ten days since, and Mrs. Cole and
Howard have been with her parents, |
Mr.. and Mrs. William j. Wheeler.
Something like 200 from Paris and |
Norway, besides numbers from other
parts Of Oxford County, attended the
very lively Republican rally at City Hall,
Lewiston, Saturday evening. Most OF
the Oxford County delegation went by
automobile to Mechanic Falls, and thence
by slectrics. They carried the some
what famous Oxford Bear, which has
held the place of honor on some former
occasions, and had band specially de-
tailed to head their parade down Lisbon
Street.
A Portland newspaper notes as great
curiosity some potato blossoms brought
in BY farmer which grew on plants
that had already blossomed once this
season several weeks before. Possibly
they are like some which grew In what
NAV be termed the editorial garden
here. These potato plants, 10 rich soil,
| bad shot up very tall and straight, and
| had blossomed on the top. On the 18th
of July we had the first OF the several
heavy showers OF the season, which iaio
down much of the crops in the garden,
Including the potatoes. The potatoes
never fully BtraiSn touoo ny eSea,
the base OF the stalks remained quite
near the ground. From these stalks
near the base, new limbs or sprouts
grew up perpendicular, and several OF
them, after reaching height OF foot
or more, bore blossoms on their tops,
several weeks after the blossoms came
out on the tops Of the first growth.
They were considered interesting. but
not until the Portland paper noted the
second crop of blossoms we're they
thought of as being unusual or remark
able.
KING DISTRICT.
| Smith 10 doing threshing for the farm
| ers in this district.
| The Firms are preparing to build
| new church in this district near the
King school house.
We are very sorry to hear OF the be-
reavemsnt that has come to Mr.. and Mrs.
B. r. Cummings-the death of their son
aud wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald Gum
mings.
i Mr.. and Mrs. Budd Turner OF Lewis
ton and two children, Erald and Leila.
have recently been spending rev Gays