Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-09-09

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Baptist Church will be held this Monday
evening at 7:SO.
Mark B. Richardson, who with his
family 10 spending the summer at Red.
ding, was In town Monday.
Mrs. Marshall c. Weeks, who has been
visiting relatives In Portland for the past
week' returned home Sunday.
Mr.. Lsona Stuart whsaton of Water.
Vile Is with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ].
d. Stuart, for vacation of month.
Rev. @. W. Rogers and family returned
last week from their vacation, and all
services were resumed at the Congre-
gational church Sunday.
Miss Ethel c. Crockett left Friday to
return to her work in the high school al
bridgewater, Mass, where she teaches
again for the coming year.
Carl E. Render of Elizabeth, N. j.,
left for home Friday from a visit of q
week at the home of his aunt and uncle,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Fletcher.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip S. Mason of Fall
mouth Foreside were here with relatives
on Sunday, and will be here some time
during the week to attend the fair.
Rev. Allen Brown of Rumford has
been engaged as one of the speakers at
the county Sunday School convention,
which will be held Oct. LIST, either here
or at West Paris.
Mrs. L. G. Smiley spent last week in
Boston attending the millinery openings
and purchasing new fall goods. She
was accompanied by Miss Bana Bsede of
Portland.
Freeland Witham has purchased the
house of Miss Alice B. Knight on Oxford
Street, and has moved there with his
family from c. E. Brett's where they
have been living.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Ordway and lit
tie daughter Nancy, and Mr.. Albert
Messer OF Groveland, Mass, came Sstur-
day afternoon to visit with Mrs. Ordway's
uncle, z. n. Anderson, and wife.
Mrs. Lydia Swift of Revere, Mass, and
Mrs. Viola Childs of Peru have been
guests at j. Z Murch's for q few days,
and will visit other relatives and friends
in the vicinity until after the fair.
The factory of the Paris Manufacturing
Co. is shut down for the first four days
Of this week. 1t will start up again Fri
day morning. Repairs on the boilers
are in progress during the shut down.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. Brett have
recently visited Mrs. Brett's sister, Mrs.
George Walsh, in South Wakefield, Nh.
Mrs. Walsh accompanied them on their
return for a visit of few days, return
ing home the last Of the week.
Garden thieves continue their depre-
dations, melons seeming to be the special
plumber desired. In one case where the
melons were in an old hen yard entirely
enclosed with chicken fence, the maraud-
ers cut out piece of the fence to get at
the fruit.
The Philatheas are invited to spend |
the day at Camp Concord Sept. II. All
members of the class are requested to |
notify Mrs. Dennison or Mrs. Clarence |
Morton before next Sunday whether or |
not they will 60 and state also if they |
have any means Of conveyance.
As the Democrat goes to press, voting
on the constitutional amendments Is 60
ing on very slowly. In the town OF
Paris, which turns out some over eight |
hundred on fairly full vote, forty three |
voted in the first two hours the polls |
were open, from 8 to II in the forenoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. n. Anderson took 81.
G. Anderson and family to Portland |
Tuesday, where they took the afternoon
train for Boston and Wollsston, Mass. |
Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson returned home |
Wednesday accompanied by Mrs. Ander- |
sons niece, Mrs. Ralph Thompson of
Deering, Me. Mrs. Thompson left for
her home Saturday afternoon.
The funeral of Mrs. Mary Mason Low
ell at West Bethel Sunday was attended
by a number from here, including Mrs.
Sarah Leach, Miss Hattie NJ. Leach, Mrs. |
B. Y. Russell, Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Bar
ry, Miss Gladys Cobb, Howard and
Esther Barry. Mrs. Lowell, who died
Thursday at the age of 50 from q shock |
suffered last spring, was sister OF Mrs. I
Leach and the mother of Mrs. Barry.
Within the next week or two there
will be quite an exodus of college stu
dents from South Paris, q number enter |
ing, and others returning to continue 3
course already begun. Gustave Porter
and Murray Bigelow will enter the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. Burton <.
Clifford, Frank Mckinley and Miss Annie
McPhee will enter Bates. Donald G.
Brooks and Earle Durham will enter the
University of Maine. Clarence Z. Wins |
low will enter Boston University. Arthur |
G. Dow and Harlan Dennison will return |
to Maine; willard Curtis to Colby
Albert F. Rogers to Bowdoin; Miss Mary |
Clifford to Bates; Richard Millett to
Boston University.
How long would it take you to pick
seventeen hundred and twenty-seven
quarts of blueberries? Some stunt, you
saw. Well, 1t has been done this season
by a Paris woman with the assistance of
two young sons. II you have been buy,
ing blueberries in the local market, the |
chances are more than even that they |
were picked by Mrs. Fred 81. Cor6ett |
and her two boys, who live on the Kate
Maxim farm, near Streaked Mountain,
for Mrs. Corbett and her boys have
picked the 1727 quarts referred to-
During the best of the picking they
averaged two bushels day for several
DAYS. Well say this is q record. Inc
boys are respectively thirteen and eleven |
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