Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-01-22
The Oxford Democrat.
South Paris, Maine. January u. 1918
SOUTH PARIS.
SOUTH PARIS POST OFFICE.

osoe Hours Monday 10 Friday inclusiv,
90 A. n. 80 8 0l p. n. Saturday. ! 90 A. y.
sS0P.M. Sunday, 500 to 10 90 An.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Beginning Jan. Q, ISIS,
TRAINS LKAvr SOUTH PARls
Going east: SO A M, local, daily; 5 % p. n
express, daily except Sunday.
Solng west: sSS A. NJ. express. daily excer
Sunday; 90 P. NJ. local. daily.
Telephone rates are the next thinl
booked to go up.
Mrs. Louise Briggs has returned from
her visit at Portland.
A new ceiling is being put In tn
grocery store of Fred N. Wright Com
psny.
Alton Jacobs, who has been working
for Maurice Noyes, 10 cutting wood TO
Mr.. Millett on the SWEET farm.
Miss Beatrice Smith of West Paris wa
a guest of her aunt, Mrs. Stella I. Burn
ham az South Paris, last week.
Robert whittls, who Is fricg on tn,
Grand Trunk road, was with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Minot Whittle Monday.
Mrs. Anna 81. Hayes, who Is spending
thu winter in Portland, was at Alton G.
Whseler's two or three days last week.
Fred Glover of Oxford, who has been
employed at the garage of Ripley and
Fletcher, has gone on the Grand Trunk
road firing.
The Mason Manufacturing Co. re-
csived car of coal last week and IL ID
being distributed among the help at the
factory for home use.
Frank P. Knapp has gone to Togus,
where he will play cornet In the band at
the soldiers home, on yearly contract
with the government.
Mrs. Dwinal Of Norway, formerly q
resident of South Paris, left for Boston
Monday morning where she will sub
init to a surgical operation.
The Philathes Glass of the Baptist
Sunday School has made an appropria-
ton from its treasury for the benefit OF
the Service League, of $500.
Beginning January Gath Paris Public
Library will be closed on Thursday even
ings, until further notice, to save fuel.
Saturday evenings it will be open from
$50 until $50.
Harold A. Abbott, who has been In
the employ of II. N. Brsgdon at the
Savoy Theatre for some time, will go
this week to Portland, where he has q
position in the office of e. T. Burrowes
Co.
The factory OF the Paris Manufactur-
Ing Co. was shut down Thursday fore
noon, unavoidsbly. The water got low
in the boilers and plug melted out,
putting the power plant out of commits
sion for while.
Carl p. Durham of South Paris has
sold his house at West Paris to Rev. A.
Rata, the Finnish minister. Mr.. Dun
ham recently purchased the house on
Pine Street owned by George @. Fernald
for his present home.
The three factories of the town:
Kenney's Mill, Paris Manufacturing Co.,
and the Mason Manufacturing Co., will
not be obliged to close Mondays under
the new fuel law a. they all three manu-
facture their own fuel % we'll as fuel to
sell.
al don't think I ever saw 30 much
snow piled up in this Square," said one
of the oldest residents of South Paris
after the storm of last Tuesday; and
traffic would be rather more copgested
by snow had the street cars been run
ming down into Market Square.
Mrs. Leona Stuart Wheaton of this
place. who has been in charge Of the
ONCE at Bridgeport, CT, Of the Little
wanderers Home of Boston, has been
transferred to the Office OF that institu'
ton at Watsrville, Maine, and took
charge OF the work there last week.
Mrs. wheaton has had considerable ex-
perience at that line of work, and has
been with the Little Wanderers' Home
for the past two or three years.
Arthur E. Forbes of the Democrat at
tended the meeting of the Maine Press
Association at Waterville last Thursday
and Friday-such OF il as be was able
to reach. There was q good live meet
ing with what 10 called "fair" attend
ance. The Democrat representative sue.
ceedsd in getting In twenty hours 81
Waterville, including the night, . little
over six hours In actual moving on trains
and about nine hours waiting at stations,
functions and connecting points.
The Seneca Club is entertained this
Monday evening by Mrs. Florence
Haskell and Mrs. Mary Shurtleff at Mrs
Hssksll's. The topic of the evening ID
+'Old Housekeeping and the New" and
the program 10:
Roll Call-How Shall We Make Our Brains
Save Our Bodies
Compare Housekeeping IS Years Ago and Ina
OF To-day Mrs. Louada Stewart
False Economies Mrs. Bessie Goldsmith
Vocal Duet Mrs. Smiley and Mrs. Wilsor
Elmer L. Stevens, income tax In
spector, was At South Paris from Wed
nesday to Friday of last week to give as
distance and information regarding
the matter of the income tax. Some
we're glad of his assistance, and doubt
less some did not so much appreciate
the opportunity. There are two classes
of sufferers in this income tax business
those who have to pay an income tax
and those who feel badly because theil
income isn's large enough TO make them
assesaable.
Thursday evening Of this week Is the
date Of the high school play, "Homs
Ties" at Grange Hall. The cast of the
play was given In the Democrat In .
previous issue. Mrs. /. e. Andrews bss
the coaching Of the actors, and rehears
ais have been In progress for some time
The school play IL invariably creditabls
and worth seeing. Seats went on sale ai
the Howard drug store Saturday morn
ing. Shaw's Orchestra will furnish
music. Curtain at s o'clock. Dance AZ
ter the play.
lis considered worthy Of notice IL
the papers that . woman has SHIELD
down. q Job a. agent at railroad eta
ton somewhere In the West, and that
woman was agent at Maine station fol
q few weeks. People must have shor
memories not to recall that the sgen
of the important Grand Trunk station
at Lewiston dozen years ago Was
woman, Who held the job for some time
And the writer can testify that she wa
busiussslike and efficient, for she onc'
kept him waiting at the ticket window
for ten minutes by the clock, while sn'
flushed the job she was doing on th'
books.