Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-04-01

A. l.. Tirrell of Canton was In tovu /.
few days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Dayton Bolster were
In Portland Tuesday.
Harry Hazslton of South Wood.toch
was In town Tuesday.
w. s. Davis of South Woodstock vas
In this village one day last week.
Mrs. Alton Wheeler and daughter
Miriam were in Lewiston Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Morton were In
Portland couple of days last week.
A. K. Birch lost his wrestling match
with Jim Londos at Bath Thursday
night.
Mrs. Charles Durham was In West
Paris Thursday visiting her aunt, Mrs.
o. <. Yates.
Edith Stevens and Marjorie McAllister
OF North Paris were in this village one
day last week.
Mrs. William L. GRAY was In West
Psris Thursday. the guest of her son,
Dexter W. Gray.
Mrs. B. G. Lowe and children, Birch.
ard and Ivy, of North Paris were in thi,
village Wednesday.
Mrs. Luells Smiley Is to give several
solos at "The Old Peabody Pew" in Nor
way Wednesday evening.
Rev. Chester Gore Miller was in Bry-
ants Pond Wednesday to attend the
funeral of Deloraine A. Cole.
Dancing at Grange Hall on Tuesday
evening this week. Shaw's Novelty
Jazz Orchestra will furnish music.
Rev. Dwight F. Faulkner was in Bry.
ants Pond Saturday, to attend the
funeral of Miss Gertrude Bolster.
A. K. Birch again met his match In
Jim Condos at Lewiston Friday evening.
Ray Russell held bis antagonist to q tie
Willard Curtis, who lie ut Colby Col.
lege, Wsterville, is spending . vacation
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Curtis.
Mrs. Z. W. Dutton Of East Bethel Wis.
tied relatives In town last week. From
here she made visits In Lewiston and
Turner.
Mrs. Annie Frost, who has been spend
ing the winter with her daughter, Mrs. /
Ethel Cairns, has returned to her home
in Norway.
The cav mill OF the Wheeler Lumber
Company at North Paris Is running day
and night, night crew having recently
been put on.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Abbott, who
have been visiting in West Sumner, have
returned to their home in this village. |
Mrs. Hattie Curtis returned with them.
Mrs. Arthur E. Forbes, who has been
spending the past two weeks with her |
husband in Augusta and visiting rela- |
tives in Winthrop and Canton, returned |
to her home here Friday morning.
A large flock of wild ducks was OBJ |
served flying north over the village |
Thursday afr ernoon. A citizen counted |
them or tried to. He enumerated up to |
sixty when they got out of range. he
thought there must have been seventy |
or more of them.
/. Miss Annie Newcomb, principal of the |
grammar school in this village, enter |
tanned eight of her fellow teachers at |
dinner In her Norway home Wednesday. |
The guests presented Miss Nswcomb |
with q beautiful casserole In honor of
her approaching marriage TO Donald b.
Andrews of Norway.
The morning Grand Trunk passenger
train west was four hours late Friday |
morning. owing to . freight wreck at
Empire Road. Three cars left the irons
and piled themselves up in such q man |
ner as to obstruct the track and hold up |
both the morning train west and the one |
moving east, the latter at Mechanic Falls. |
Sergt. Maynard Douglass Of Castine
was in town Saturday, the guest OF Hon. |
Donald B. Partridge. Nj Douglass has
been overseas eight months with the
list Heavy Artillery. This regiment is
armed with eight-inch howitszers. MT.
Douglass was principal of Canton Gram |
mar School before be entered the service. |
1.-THE Eluta Glass; of the Congregs- |
tionslist Sunday School met at the home
of Mrs. Myra Stevens Tuesday evening. |
Only short business meeting was held
as the affair was more in the form OF Q
social time, 1t being the last meeting
Mrs. Stevens will be In town to attend
for some time. Ice cream and fancy |
crackers were served. The class GER
tainly felt that it was living up to its
name.
Ernest L. Kennsy, Of Randolph, was
in town last week to visit his father,
James E. Kenney. Mr.. Kenney holds .
good position with the r. p. Hazard
Company of Gardiner. He has had charge
of the various Liberty Loan and other
war drives at the Hazard factories and
In the Fourth Loan drive he obtained
authorizations from more than six hum
dred of the seven hundred and thirty-six |
employees.
The High School students in their
drama. "The Old Fashioned Mother,
we're greeted By full houses at the
Grange Hall both Thursday and Friday |
evenings. All the parts were well taken
and the drama greatly enjoyed by the
audience. Between acts the Jolly Cen
tlemsn" gave specislties, also h,ghiy
spioyed. One bit on homemade beers
and wines by q member OF the glee Quo
was especially enjoyed. The music was
furnished BY Shaw's Orchestra.
The people of the village should mol
forget the third hearing of the Norway
and Paris Street Railroad which Is to 90
held before the Public Utility Commits
sion Wednesday, beginning at ~ O'CLOCK
A. NJ, ut the court house. All those
who can attend should. Arrangements
are being made to close the stores 80
merchants and clerks can attend. feriey
?. Ripley is chairman OF the South Parls
COMMITTEES, and any one who has any IN,
formation In regard to the road should
communicate with him.
Hannibal Hamlin Bryant, of Portland,
was in South Paris Friday in oopneGtion
18th busiusss of the CHM Publishing
Company, of Boston. Mr.. Bryant Is
native of Paris, and in bis Younger Gays
Vas a school teacher. He taught On
terms of school, most Of them IN tne
State of Maine, and several In the toWn
of Paris. For q number OF years ne mas
hsan connected with the above puoIsn'
inc company. An older brother, wa,
liam III. 81. Bryant, who was also an olo
Maine school teacher, and was at one
time principal of the Paris Hill Academy,
in slso connected with this edncaIlons
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