Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-09-16
THE OXFORD BEARS.
THE DOINos OF The WEEK IN ALL
SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY.
Paris Hill.


Services at Paris Hin Baptist church every
| evening service at 80. Thursday evening
prayer meeting az ! 80 O'Clock.
Miss M. Rose Giles of Portland Is the
guest of DR.. and Mre. Charles L.
Aldrich.
Miss Josephine Cole returned Satur-
day to her school in Westbrook after
spending the summer vacation with her
family here.
Mr.. Hopper Lenox Mott of New York
returned to Paris Hill last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Eastman OF
Berlin, N. a., and Mr.. Esstman's sister,
Mrs. Louise Garsomsp, were guests OF
relatives at Paris Hill Sunday, driving
down with Mr.. Eastman's automobile.
Mrs. Clayton K. Brooks and William
Brooks returned to their home In Cam
bridge, Mass, Thursday. The Misses
Gertrude and Barbara Brooks remained
here until Saturday to attend the county
fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Davis and Master
Jarvis Davis of Montclair, N. j., arrived
at the Carter summer home in this viii
lage last Wednesday, driving their car
through from Sarsnac Lake, n. Y.
"And the rain descended and the
floods came" and the people waited
from Tuesday until Saturday for a
decent day to attend the county fair;
that is, the greater number waited and
the few who did not wait wished they
had. 1t certainly was a rainy week but
the ground needed the water.
Tha annnol u,aakinn Paris Hill
Universalist Society will be held at the
church Tuesday evening of this week.
Attendance of members Is desirable, at
least to perpetuste the organization II
nothing more.
The last meeting of the Sunshine Club
was with Mrs. Ada King, fourteen men,
bers, five guests and eight children be-
ing present. The next meeting will be
this week Thursday with Mrs. Frank
Bennett and Mrs. Hazelton. This is the
annual meeting for election of officers,
and il is hoped all the members Of the
club will be present.
The rains of the past week gave very
practical illustration OF the superiority
Of a gravel coated road. The section
between this village and the guide board,
built from the WORKOUT loan of the ad-
jacent cutters, well built and cared for
and an excellent piece of road when dry,
became a qusgmire, while the gravel
coated section extending from the guide
board to the bridge held its surface.
Hon. Edward L. Paris and Mrs. Paris
went to Buckfield Sunday to attend the
funeral services of the late Capt. Thomas
S. Brigham, boyhood sohoolmate and
lifelong friend of Mr.. Paris.
On account of the postponement of
the county fair into Saturday, the tea
and contest at the Paris Hill Country
Club was postponed. On Saturday OF
the present week it is expected that the
regular tea will be given and the obstacle
golf tournament played from four to six
o'clock.
PARTRIDGE DISTRICT.
William S. Mason has sold a nice Dur
ham cow to Oscar Swift of South Paris.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Pratt and daughter
Eileen of West Paris, and Ernest Cut
ting were Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
W. s. Mason.
Mrs. Ralph Field and little daughter
Winons, and Miss Wilma Mason spent
Friday with Mrs. Fields parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. U. Tyler of South Paris.
Percy Harlow has been to Massachu-
sets visiting relatives for few days.
Mrs. Flossie Rawson and son of New
Hampshire are visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Will Harlow.
Carl Stevens and Cliff Hammond are
running meat cart this fall.
Ralph Field has finished his shingling
and has had some plastering done.
Don Field has killed two large hedge
hogs.
Not many from this neighborhood at.
tended the fair on account of the rain.