Oxford Democrat., 1919-06-03
R. Williams Gray OF Boston ID In tow
for q few DAYS.

was here for Memorial Day.
Miss Hazel Heath Ia speeding a veek,.
vacation at her home in Gorham, N. 81.
Mrs. Gertrude Gray OF Freeport wa.
here for Memorial Day, the guest of rel
atives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest L. Kenney of
Gardiner were at j. e. Kenney's for the
holiday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Powers of DRY
Mills, Gray, were here ~ usual for Me-
mortal Day.
Dean j. Tolman OF Boston has been
the guest Of his mother, Mrs. @. e. Toll
man, for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. E. Douglas of Hope.
dale, Mass, were guests at Mrs. Nellie
Powers over the holiday.
Harrison Farrar went Saturday morn
ing to Portland, to visit his daughter
who lives there, for two weeks.
Howard G.. Wheeler OF Manchester.
n. H., was the guest of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. William j. Wheeler, Memorial
Day.
Mark B. Richardson and family moved
the last Of the week to Redding, where
they are to live on the Buck farm this
summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. q. P. Brett and Miss
Georgia Brett of Beverly, Mass., are
spending few days In town, coming on
Thursday.
II
John s. Carver, former principal of
Paris High School, now on the road for
a firm publishing school books, was here
last Thursday.
Mrs. Charles L. Pulsifer formerly
Rose Austin) Of Poland, and her daugh-
ter Dorothy visited her sister, Mrs.
Arthur c. Thurlow, Memorial Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Mason have as q
house guest, Mrs. George Z. Fogg of
Portland. Mrs. Pogg is the wife of
Major Fogg who is at present in France.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert E. Wise arrived
Saturday night from their wedding trip to
California, and are with Mrs. Wise's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert w. Walker.
The Eighth Maine Regiment will hold
its annual reunion June II and u at its
building at Peaks Island. All members
and sons Of members are urged to be
present.
Will the members OF our Mission
Circle please remember that we meet at
the Baptist vestry next Thursday at 8
P. n. for the study of our missions in
Bengal Orisss. A cordial invitation to
any who would like to come.
Rev. Chester Gore Miller gave the
Memorial Day address at Bryant's Pond
Friday afternoon, when Dudley Opera
House was filled to the limit of its
capacity. Very interesting exercises by
the children were feature Of the occa-
sion.
Shaw's Novelty Jazz Orchestra will
give June ball at Norway Opera House
on Friday night this week. Floor tick
ets 80 cents each; balcony seats 10 cents
each. Walkers auto will leave How
ards store at O'Clock, and return after
the dance.
Mrs. Albert D. Park has been spend
ing few days at her camp at Shsgg
Pond, with her sister, Mrs. Ella s. Heald
of East Sumner, her niece, Mrs. Philip
Hodgdon, and Miss Edna Hodgdon, of
Yarmouth. Mr.. Park, Mr.. Hodgdon,
and Arthur Tucker of Yarmouth were
there on Sunday.
The Oxford County Patriotic Associa-
rion holds its annual meeting in Grand
Army Hall on Wednesday of this week.
Business meeting at IL O'Clock in the
forenoon. Picnic dinner, with coffee
furnished free. Program Of speeches,
singing and readings In the afternoon.
Everybody 10 invited.
with Charles GRAHAM Of the Portland
police force, his son Perley GRAHAM,
book k-keeper for the Burnham & Morrill,
Co. in Portland, and Leon Pullen of the
Marine Hospital, Portland, spent the
last few days of the week at the Walker
camp at Shagg Pond.
The Eolian Quartette, Misses Evelyn
Wight, Emma West, Beryl Silver and
GLADYS Hatch, with Mrs. Agnes L. Nor
ton sccompanist and director, sang at
the memorial exercises at Buckfield FRI
day afternoon, also for the entertainment
of living pictures of the war at Grange
Hall in the evening.
Lafayette r. Dow, who has been In
the service doing clerical work at Camp
| Devens since last fall, received his dis
charge last week and returned to South
Paris. He has now gone to Newton,
Mass, to substitute IS instructor for
three weeks In the school where he was
engaged before entering the service, and
will then 20 to take q special course In
the summer school at Columbia Univer-
sity.
Mrs. Geo. R. Morton and son Henry
expect to start Tuesday evening to visit
Mrs. Morton's daughter, Mrs. Benjamin
Fish, In Santa Barbara, Calf. Mrs.
Fish Is not iu good health, and expects
to undergo o surgical operation after
| hsr mothers arrival. Mrs. Morton and
son will be gone q number of weeks.
Mrs. Rizpsh Whitman, Mrs. Morton's
mother, has gone to stay with her grand
daughter, Mrs. Arthur G. Soule, at
South windham, during their absence.
On Memorial Day the Cecilian Choir
of Dssring Memorial Church sang
selection &C the services held az River
side Cemetery in the morning. Also al
the exercises at New Hall In the AFTER
noon they sang q patriotic song especial
ly prepared for this occasion, the words
of which were written by Miss kutn
Graves, a member of the choir, and the
music composed by the orgsnist, Mrs;
Stella w. Burnham. Much credit should
be given, both for the quality OF the
music and the excellent manner IN which
/ it was rendered.
Michael Kirwin, who has been for the
past few years baggage master ana traln
announcer at the Grand Trunk station,
completed his engagement there Thurs
day, and on Friday went for visit 70
bis son in Newton, Mass. His place At
the station is taken by Thomas W..
Mcknight. Mr.. Kirwin leaves the WORE
on account of the condition of his heaitn
and advancing years. 1t would De
seemly to say that he will be muon
missed by the travelling public, II such .
banal and hackneyed expression were
necessary. A sense of the loss OF MS
genial and jovial personality ana tne
ready wit which Ia the racial character
istic. is the first impression Of every one
who learns of his departure, and most
of friends will wish him comfort ana
happiness wherever be may be.
Il ocanfnn Mas Ruth