Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-10-01


station on Pine Street.
Under the present Arrangement OF
trains and mails, the post office will be
open from 10 to 1880 O'Clock Sunday
morning, to enable the patrons TO gel
their Saturday night mail.
The National Red Gross ask all women
who have bad experience In home purs.
Ing, willing to enroll for service during
the epidemic, to report at once to Mrs.
Gray for further information.
A considerable number of the Knights
Of Pythias will attend the annual con.
vention of the Sixteenth District, to be
held with Craigie Lodge of Oxford
Tuesday evening OF this week.
Albert, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry G.
Fleming. abont ten years Of age, broke
bis leg as the result of . fall on Saturday,
the 2lst. Mr.. Fleming has been quite
III threatened with pneumonia, but ID
improved.
Advertised letters in Paris post office,
Sept. 80:
Mrs. Marie Brown.
Mrs. Helen Cosster.
Mrs. III. b. Fuller.
Miss Frances wiggin.
Z. A. Brooks.
Albert Hurreil.
Ralph Wheeler.
j. A. KINNEY, P. NJ.
All persons having books belonging to
Paris Public Library are requested to
return same at once. The library will
be open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
aud Thursday evenings of this week
from Z to 9 to receive books. No books
will be loaned until further notice on
account of the prevailing epidemic.
MRS. ELLA A. WIGHT, Librarian
Norwood Hanson, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
B. N. Hanson, formerly of South Paris,
went through here Saturday on his re-
turn to Camp Custer, Mich. from q fur
Tough spent With his parents In Gorham,
N. q. 1t is about Eve years and Q bali
since he was In South Paris. He has
been in the service about four months,
having enlisted at Seattle. His brother
Gordon 10 now in France.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. N. Anderson received
word last Monday afternoon that their
son, Harold c. Anderson, and daughter
we're sick with Spanish influenza. They
left on the early train Tuesday, arriving
In Wollaston q little past one O'Clock.
The disease developed double pneu-
monia. He has passed the crisis and Is
Little Helen bad light
attack, and il improving though still
to her bed. Everything is closed
there, even the churches.
Mrs. Hannah Whitney of Concord, Vt,
came on Wednesday, Sept. Is, to visit
her brother, j. B. Barnett Of Hill Street.
At noon of Thursday she suffered q
stroke of apoplexy, and died the follow
ing day. The remains were taken to
where she had made her home
with her daughter. Mrs. Whitney was
4 few days less than so years of age.
She was the widow of Frank Whitney,
and leaves two daughters. She was the
oldest of family Of nine children, OF
whom only two remain, j. B. Barnett Of
this place and another brother who lives
In South Dakota.
The street car of the Norway and Paris
railway 10 not yet out Of commission,
nor will 1t be on Tuesday a. had been
xpcClcu. aCCOfuiuk W VIC iosooe III
,tractions from headquarters, IL will run
1t least until Thursday, possibly longer.
When Its service is discontinued, q pas
,enger service will be started by the Nor
way and Paris Transfer Co., In which
Carl P. Durham and Alton c. Maxim
are associated. They expect to run their
truck hourly trips, probably leaving
south Paris at q quarter before the
hour and Norway on the hour, though
the schedule Is not definitely fixed as
yet.
William j. Wheeler underwent an
operation for hernia at his home here
Friday afternoon, his condition making
an Immediate operation necessary. Not
the seriousness OF the
operation, Mr.. Wheeler Is comfortable,
and there Is reason to expect q good
recovery. Howard G. Wheeler OF Man
chester, N. a., and Robert W. Wheeler,
Who Is In the service and stationed ct
Fort Mckinley, were summoned and
came at once. Mr.. Wheeler's daughter
and husband, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy E Cole
Of Canton, Mass, and son Howard, also
came at once. The high school ut Can
ton, of which Mr.. Cole 10 principal, 10
closed on account of the influenza cpl
demic