Oxford Democrat., 1918-09-03
THE OXFORD BEARS.

I'LL OAlONO OA1AAN1s
ThH DOiNOS OF THE WEEK IN ALI
SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY.
Paris nm.
Service: e Paz,s an Bsps,ss % ca9sss RsS svs
Gyvnne. Sunday School Is Il Sunday even
Ing service at f:sO. Thursday evening prayer
meeting at 8 O'Clock.
Two war-savings: Sunday gasoline
and the price you pay for 1t.
Mrs.. w. P. Potter and Miss Annaoelie
Potter closed their summer home here
and returned to Swarthmore, Pa, last
Wednesday.
j. Murray Qulnby and family, who
have been the guests OF relatives q
Paris Hill, returned to their homo IN
wellesley Hills last Wednesday.
Miss lone Harlow and Miss Minnie
Holland Of Dixfield were In town last
Tuesday.
A party made up of Mrs. ]. r. Brinckle,
Miss Agnes NJ. Brown and the Misses
Gertrude and Frances Brinckle, made an
automobile tour of the White Mountains
last Thursday, going through the
Pinkham and Crawford Notches.
Miss Helen r. Cole has spent the past
week with q party Of friends at Old Or.
chard. During her absence Miss
Josephine Cole has oficiated at the post
Office.
Hon. and Mrs. Edward L. Paris gave
| a tea to large plumber Of their friends
Thursday afternoon that was greatly
enjoyed.
Miss Carrie Sewall Fogg of New
Gloucester has been the guest OF Mrs.
Hiram Heald the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Heald and Miss Fogg at'
tended the Pathological S0ciety's meet
ing Wednesday in the Bass orchards at
Wilton. Also called on relatives and
friends In the village.
Howard r. Cole of Company d, 74th
Regiment, Camp Devens, spent the week
end with bis parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph B. Cole.
Miss Gertrude Brinckle, who has been
| the guest of her mother and other rela'
tives here, returned to Wilmington, DEL,
last Saturday.
The request of the Fuel Administrs-
ton to save gasoline by refraining from
running automobiles on Sunday was
fairly we'll observed here. A few cars
were out on necessary errsnds but pleas
ure riding was so scarce as to be con-
spicuous.
Miss Anna Louise Kettelle and Miss
Peggy Estes, who have been guests oil
Mrs. and Miss Davies, returned to
H n Caknrdau
Wallace q. Cummings, Algernon An
drews and Newton A. Cummings went
on fishing trip to Umbagog Lake last
week.
Rev. C. A. Knickerbocker has received
and accepted q call to become the pastor
| of the Uuiversalist church in Waterville
| and will begin preaching there next Sun
day. The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs
Knickerbocksr in this community are
pleased to have them settle in Maine.
About seventy tickets were sold In
this village for the operetta 1.-THE Lost
Necklace" given at Norway Opera House
last Thursday evening for the benefit OF
the Red Cross and all were much pleas
ed with the entertainment.
There were thirty three present at the
Sunshine Club which met with Mrs
Florence Psrlin. her sister, Mrs. Jones
of New Haven, was the guest Of honor,
and there were many other guests pres
ent who greatly enjoyed the day. A
bountiful dinner was served, and mostly
Red Cross work was done by the ladies,
The next meeting will be with Mrs. Ada
King Thursday, Sept. 5th.
News was received here last week oi
the illness and death In New York ol
DR.. William l.. Thompson, eldest son oil
Mrs. j. N. Thompson Of this village.
DIR. Thompson was . son OF the late
Joseph P. Thompson of Portland and
was a graduate Of Bowdoin College and
Johns Hopkins University. he was
forty.one years old and was In practice
in New York. The funeral services were
held in Portland Saturday conducted by
Rev. c. A. Knickerbocker OF this village
Interment ~ Evergreen Cemetery. The
deceased had spent 8 number OF vaca
tions in this village where he was vel
known and highly respected, and bis
death In young manhood comes as 9
shock to his family and friends. Be
sides q wife and mother, he leaves one
brother, James L. Thompson of Boston
and a sister, Mrs. Olive Lunt, of thit
place.
Col. z. T. Brown, president of the
Paris Hill Water Company, has received
from the State Department Of Health
the following report on the analysis ol
water from the public supply: "Aualy
sis of the summer sample Of water from
your public supply shows 1t to be II
ii So thia NJ thk
year. 1t is in every way safe and salts
factory drinking water, being free from
evidence of pollution through the en-
trsnce of sewage wastes and being fret
from all drainage pollution"
There will be no entertainment at thu
Universalist Circle Monday evening o
{ his week, but there will be socia
and dancing. Ice cream will be on sale,
The circles have already added forty
seven dollars to the Red Cross fund.
REUNION OF SISTERS.
A most interesting reunion took plac'
on August 18th at Bethel. 1t was q re
union for the fret time 10 many years o
four sisters known long ago ~ 9TH
Partridge girls" The oldest Of thes
"giris,' Mrs. 8. P. Stearns, now lack
only q few weeks Of IS. The second
Mrs. j. d. Billings of Newtonville, Mass.
lis SO. The third, Mrs. o. A. Maxim o
Paris Hill, completed her eighty secont
year August 20, while "the baby" Mrs
A. Z. Follett of Providence, R. l., 10 Is
The birthplace of these sisters will
such an unusual record Of years even TO
vigorous Maine, q record Of 325 years, o.
three and q quarter centuries, 10 th
dwelling now occupied by Arthur Col
In the Partridge district.
An exquisite dinner was served In tn
Iopen air, . daughter Of Mrs. Stesrns
Mrs. Kilborn, the hostess. Beside th
poultry and garden contributions wer
the peach and blueberry pies, the cakes
and even glorious Maine doughnuts o
sorely missed of late, and just such Q
the Partridge girls themselves hav
furnished TO bsuquets In the Long Ago
Austin Partridge, the father Of thes
three and-a- quarter century girls, di
not die as most men die. One night b
went to sleep as he bad done for ninety
one years, and woke to another NOR
than ours. His daughters bid fair I
follow bis example.