Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-11-11

Nellie Jackson Thursday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Wheeler motore
to Rumford and Andovsr Tuesday.
George Glover from tho far-off stat
OF Washington Is visiting Albert Amel
Mrs. Carrie Charles, of Lowell, 10 visi
ing her sister, Mrs. George F. Eastman
Henry wsscott OF this town has bough
the GRAHAM house on Pigeon Hill.
Gilman Whitman was in Bryant
Pond for q day the first Of last week.
The Woman's Baptist Missionary Sc
ciety met with Mrs. j. NJ. Horr Thursday
William P. Morton was In Mechani
Falls Saturday looking after his bill
boards.
All stores and the banks will clos
Tuesday, Nov. IL, in observance o
Armistice Day.
Miss Florence johnson, Of Somervills
n a., is the guest of her father William
l.. johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Adams were Il
Bridgton recently, the guests of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Guy Stalsy.
The Ladies' Aid of the Desring Memo
rial Church met with Mrs. Elizabeth
Buck Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Harry NJ. Shaw is spending tn
week with relatives at Buckfield Will,
Mr.. Shaw is on hunting trip.
There will be sociable at the Higl
School Building Friday evening. Music
by Howard Shaw at the piano.
Miss Emma Haskell of Auburn il
spending several weeks with her brother
Edwin n. Haskell, and family.
A rehearsal for the minstrel show viii
be held at Mr.. Carter's on Western Ave
nue. this Monday evening al 6:45.
The Ladies' Missionary Society of The
Congregational Church met at the home
of Mrs. Albert W. Walker Thursday at
ternoOn.
Eugene Hammond of Portland is bill
ing clerk at the Grand Trunk station in
this village during the fall rush of apple
business.
Rally Sunday at the Baptist Sunday
School next Sunday, Nov. 10. Rev. c. w
Rogers will speak, and there will be spe.
cial music.
The teacher training class will meet
with Miss Julia P. Morton Tuesday even,
ing. At the meeting last week thirteen
were present.
Miss Glenna Starbird brought to the
Democrat office Saturday afternoon q
belated dsndelion which she picked on
Barrows Street.
Hon. Alton C. Wheeler addressed the
Lewiston and Auburn Rotary Club in
Lewiston Friday. His subject was
The snow of last week started hunters.
John Everett and Myron Maxim started
Wednesday for that indefinite region sup
country" after deer.
The Protestant churches of South
Paris and Norway are making an inten-
sive drive to get anybody out to church
next Sunday, November 16;h.
Arthur z. Forbes was in Augusta las.
week attending the extra session of the
Charles Z. Waterman of
Mechanic Falls occupied the editorial
chair during his absence.
A call to the pastorate OF the Baptist
church has been extended to Rev. James
l.. Wilson of Houlton, who preached
here on a recent Sunday, and he has &C.
cepted and will begin his work here soon.
The first and second grade pupils gave
a recital at the home of Miss Nellie NJ.
Jackson Saturday afternoon at $50. Fol
lowing are the pupils: Ruth Brown, I'll
pha Doran, Alice Hartman, Reta Shaw,
Charlie Stiles, Hugh Morton, Roma Judd.
Mr.. and Mrs. 81. G. Wheeler motored
to South Paris Tuesday from Bethel Inn
to visit his father, William j. Wheeler,
and family before returning to their
home in Manchester, N. a., where Mr.,
Wheeler Is connected with the New Eng
land Telephone Company.
Elmer E. Thomas of Auburn is stop
ping at the Andrews House for few
days. He has been q popular clerk at
the Elm House in Auburn for nine years,
and st the present time is taking an ex-
tended vacation. Before going to
Auburn he was clerk at the Andrews
House for some little time.
Walter L. Gray was one of the twenty
one legislative agents registered at the
Cfice of the secretary of the state for
the special session of the legislature at
Augusta last week in accordance with
the law enacted at the session last win
ter. He represented the Great Northern
Paper Company OF New York.
There will be q supper preceding the
regular meeting of Mt. Pleasant Rebekah
Lodge Friday evening of this week, and
all not solicited are asked to bring pas
try. Following the regular meeting
there will be a roll call, and the members
are all expected to respond either by a
quotation or otherwise. A good time
and = good attendance is expected.
Rev. William Lswallen again occupied
the pulpit of the Baptist church Sunday
Mr.. Lewalleu has closed bis passionate OF
the Baptist church in Alma, and he and
Mrs. Lewallen, who have been for some
weeks with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Benjamin SWEET, will go within a few
DAYS to Mr.. Lewsllen's former home in
Alabama, where his parents now reside,
A report comes from Detroit that
Henry Ford has recently perfected a
gasolins-driven street car which Is capa-
bic of attaining a speed of seventy miles
per hour and weighs only 1000 pounds,
or about one-fourth as much ss an ordi
nary street car. Perhaps this car may
help in running some OF the defuncl
street railroads including our own be-
tween this village and Norway.
The Canadian House of Commons In
Ottawa passed the bill providing for the
government acquisition OF the Grand
Trunk Railway by vote Of 81 to % on
wednesday. The bill now goes to the
Senate which is expected to send IL bach
10 the House with an amendment provid,
inc that the value of the guaranteed
shares be submitted TO arbitration oJ
the same method as the ordinary shares
in the bill as passed by the House.
When il SHOWS in Paris it SHOWS there
This was brought prominently before
our people Last Tuesday and "Wednesday
nv Associated Press news. By that new
agancv we were informed that Paris
"a paris Missouri were Wis