Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-04-30

II The fountain In Moore Park has had
coat of white paint, which must surpris,
It, as always before Its color has been ,
deep green.
DR.. Carl s. Briggs and Howard W
: Shaw Of Shaw's Orchestra furnishe.
. music for dance ut West Sumner Sat
urdsy night.
Robert L. Whittle has been at hom,
. for q few days from his work as brake
man on the Grand Trunk, on account o.
indisposition.
o. Z. Clifford and family have moved
from the Rice house on High Street bach
I to the Hall house on Oxford Street
+ where they formerly lived.
Mr.. and Mrs. q. P. Brett and Mis-,
Georgia Brett Of Beverly, Mass, are
! guests at G. Z. Brett's, and spending
some time at their camp at Halls Pond
i Wednesday afternoon the Pathfinder
will go on picnic. Starting after they
get out of school, they will take their
fishing tackle and their supper, and 20
to Stones Brook.
| The seventh, eighth and ninth grades
OF the Girls Patriotic League met with
the Busy Bees at the ladies' parlor of the
Universalist church Thursday afternoon
to sew their afghan together.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Z. Dresser have moved
their household goods from the rent
they occupied at Charles Brett's to
Auburn, where Mr.. Dresser is employed
and where they will keep house.
Sundays special train carried big lot
OF men from here to help unload cars at
Portland. They came in from all direc-
tions. The work Ia somewhat catch-ss-
catch-can, but the financial returns are
large.
been sold to Alton C. Wheeler acting for
non resident parties. For the present
the plant will not be dismsntled, but
will be left with view to Its future use
II conditions should some time justify
It. j. 81. Bean, assignee of the CON-
pany, has paid the creditors dividend
of forty-sight per cent.
In line with the evolution Of the times
the hitching posts near the northeast
corner of Odd Fellows Block on the
High Street side will be removed, and
that portion of the street will be made
available az q parking place for auto
mobiles, where they will doubtless be
as little in the way as at any place on
the street where they can be left.
There was an unusually large attend
ance of the members Of Mt. Mica Lodge
of Odd Fellows and Mt. Pleasant Rsbekah
Lodge at the annual sermon, which
was given by Rev. Chester Gore Miller
at the forenoon service at the Univsr-
salist church. Mr.. Miller gave a
thoughtful and powerful sermon from
the text, "This commandment have ]
received from my Father" There was
specially fine singing by the girls choir,
with q solo by Miss Evelyn Wight, Mrs.
Agnes L. Morton at the organ.
Elmer w. Remission, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Asa s. Remission of High Street, Is
somewh hat better from q serious illness.
He was at work for the E. T. Burrowes
Co. in Portland when he was taken, and
by the advice of his physician came
home. He was suffering with what was
thought by the physicians 10 be ptomaine
poisoning, and it was thought for q
few days that he could not recover. The
family have had hard time, the mother,
one brother and two sisters having been
less seriously sick at the same time. All
are now improved.
This is Potato Week. The Food
Administration wishes an idea to sink
into the mind of the nation during the
t. 4.
potatoes exists in the country. III every
one eats more potatoes, more wheat VIII
be saved to send the Allies. There will
be meeting Of all the women Of the vii
lage to consider potatoes and other food
subjects on Thursday afternoon at 4
O'Clock at New Hall. Let every one
come with pencil and paper, prepared to
benefit by the experience OF some one
else and to offer some helpful suggestion
of her own.
The Girls Patriotic League members
of the High School will do surgical
dressings beginning the first of May at
the Congregational vestry. They cordial
Ily invite the teachers of the grades,
Office girls, girls in the Mason Company
or any ladies who would like to help, to
meet with them. The time will be an
nounced later. The national secretary
of the Girls Patriotic League has asked
that the number of surgical dressings be
doubled this year, a. they are 40 much
needed in the base hospitals at the front.
The girls are doing splendid work, and
in the short time which they have been
organized have already large box nearly
ready for shipment. The seventh,
eighth and ninth grades met Thursday
and put together two afghans, making
In all four already done.
Under the direction of Road Com
missioner Bowker, q portion of the sur
face of the road in the hollow in front of
the residence Of T. s. Barnes has been
scrsped off and carted away to be used
for grading In other places. In place
of IL skim coat Of river gravel has been
put on. II 10 little unusual to t1x q
soft place in the road By scrspipg 1t of.
The ordinary method Ia 10 cover 1t with
more surface material, and that Is the
treatment that has generally been used
heretofore on this little piece of road.
However, In this instance the surface OF
the road Ii now as much as two feet
above the sidewalk, and It Is quite likely
that Mr.. Bowker has found out what to
do to that little piece of rosd-something
that NO previous road commissioner has
ever discovered. For something like
generation that three or four rods OF
road has been muddy on every possible
occasion, and hubby all the time. Many
n motorist who was coming down High
Street, and making . run for the Odd
Fellows Block corner, so as to take It at
twenty-five miles, has been badly shaken
up there, and 1t has been . generally
uncomfortable place for all kinds OF
traffic. Removing what makes the mud
may be inst what it needs.