Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-11-19


to relatives In Massachusetts,.
The Epworth League of the Msthodl,
church viii hold q business meetin
Friday night st Miss Schoff's ct Z 80.
Mrs. o. E. Barrows left Monday morr
ing for visit to the family Of her daugi
ter, Mrs. n. v. McAlister, in Pelham
n. 81.
The regular November meeting Of tn
South Paris W. @. T. q. will be he'll
with the president, Mrs. Susie Chapman
Tuesday afternoon Of this week ut 2:SC
Rev. George q. Gutterson, d. D., o
Boston, secretary Of the American MI.
sionary Society, spoke at the mornin
service at the Congregational churci
Sunday.
james O'Leary, otherwise known q
Babe Powers, somewhat known In On
ford County, mainly for his connection
with the courts, died at his home IL
Lewiston Sunday afternoon.
The third rank team of Hamlin Lodge
<. OF P, will visit Craigie Lodge Of
Oxford to work the rank of knight. Al
members of the team are requested Il
be prsseut Friday evening, Nov. %. fo
rehearsal.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Record of Bridge
water, Mass, and their son Myles, who
is attending Bridgton Academy, WERE
with Mrs. Records mother, Mrs. Mary
a. Crockett, over the weekend, making
the trip by automobile.
Miss Annie Muzzy entertained the
members of her class in the Congrega.
tional Sunday School at her home Satur.
day afternoon, the guests being Nelson
Haskell Eleanor Haskell, Kathryn
Greene and Miriam Wheeler.
The Goth Division, In which we in this
section are particularly interested, has
been made part of the "Army of Occu-
patton" so il does not look much as II
this division, of long and arduous serv-
ice, 10 to be sent home In the immediate
future.
The Baptist Ladies' Aid will have an
all day meeting and covered dish dinner
next Thursday at Mrs. l.. C.. Morton's.
Ladies' are invited to come and bring
their food in covered dish without being
solicited. Coffee to be furnished by
hostess. Come prepared to sew.
Figures from the high school in the
war work campaign do great credit to
the boys and girls for school of its
size. Up to the latest reports the girls
bad pledged s2O6.50. and the boys
s194.50, making a total of S401 90. West
Paris High School had not yet reported.
Robert C. Dennison was given . sur
prise party last Wednesday evening on
the occasion of his seventeenth birthday,
when twelve of bis schoolmates were the
guests. They came at about ak O'Clock,
and . fine supper was served q little
later. Games and music were enjoyed
during the evening.
II you fail to find something in this
issue of the Democrat that you handed
In, know that Ii 10 because il was too
late. This Is the week Of the flood, and
II seems to be necessary to remind con-
tributors again that the paper can not
be all put In type In the last three hours
before going to press.
The guards on the railroad bridge,
where . watch has been kept twenty
four hours day since early in the war,
were taken of Sunday. For short
time in the spring of 1917 the bridge
guards were q detail from Co. r OF the
Second Maine Regiment, but the rest OF
the time they have been civilians en-
ployed by the railroad. w. L. Libby
and John A. Porter have been on the job
for a long time, and Henry Elliott for
some months.
c. W. Bowker was ct Lewiston hst
TUESDAY at hearing in the Lewiston
Municipal Court in regard to the chill
dren of Charles r. Henry, whose mother
recently died. Three OF the children
were placed in the custody OF Mrs.
Medora A. L'Heureux, Androscoggin
County agent for the protection OF chill
dren. The Androscoggin Welfare
Bureau and other organizations have
helped wonderfully both before and
since the death of Mrs. Henry.
The remains of Miss Lottie Barrett, .
former resident OF South Paris, were
brought here Wednesday on the evening
train from Winthrop, and buried In
Cemetery beside her father,
with q prayer service by Rev. &. d.
Newton ut the grave. She was the
daughter of Thomas q. and Mary A.
(Gibsop) Barrett, and was born In Cor
ham, N. q. Her parents died when she
was a small girl. She leaves one brother,
James l.. Barrett Of the Mountain Dis
trict.
Two freight wrecks on the Grand
Trunk in the past week have blocked
the tracks and caused delay OF tramc.
One on Tuesday was at the Presumpscot
bridge in Falmouth, and it was some
wreck, eleven cars being piled up or piieo
of. The other on Friday was two or
three miles this side OF Mechanic Falls,
and this was also grand smash, fifteen
cars, mostly loaded with wheat, oeing
derailed. No one was hurt In either &C
cideut. This division of the road mas
previously escaped wrecks for quite .
period.
A pesce iubilee union service at the
Conversational church Sunday evening
brought out q good audience potwith-
standing the rain. The four froses'sn'
ministers of the village participated 10
in the service, and there was singing oy
the choir of the church and the congre-
CATION. As . preliminary to the regular
service a church service flag was hung,
which was presented by Miss Annie
Parsons of New York. The nag con-
tains twenty-five stars, including one
silver star. One of the stars 10 for .
youne man who enrolled but can NOT
enter the service, the armistice cancel
ing his enrolment just before ne was 70
90. The roll of honor OF twenty-one
names was read, and later two otner
names were added. For the rest OF the
program, Rev. G.. 81. Newton OF the
Baptist church, who 10 . British subject,
spoke of '.The effect OF the war on Great
BRITAIN; Rev. C. W. Rogers on "fns ell
feet of the war on France and Belgium
Rev. d. r. Faulkner on "The effect OF
the war on the Holy Land; and Kew. Y.
g. Miller on "The effect OF peace Oh
America"
Notice to Taxpayers.
Under the provisions Of the law re,
latine TO the collection Of taxes, u WI,
be necessary FOR me to advertise all rec,
astate upou which the taxes are not paio
on or before the 18th day Of I'ece mca
1918. c.u..,.