Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-12-16

tuayor were IN portland several day
last week.
j. Harold Neal of the Mason Manufsc
turing Co. is In Boston for week or tw,
on business.
Miss Helen NJ. Barnes will entertain
the Weelaffalot Club at her home thi
Monday evening.
Alton G. Wheeler has resigned as
member OF the state board of arbitration
and Cancellation.
The Delta Alphas will meet THURSDAY
evening, the 18th, with Mrs. Linnie Ben
nett Of Hillside Avenue.
The time OF the afternoon train easi
was changed Sunday to 5:5S, twenty-ons
minutes later than before.
Miss Carolyn Gray has gone to worces.
ter, Mass, where she has position dem.
frustrating butter substitute.
The schools of the town close next
Friday for a vacation of two weeks, to
open for the winter term Jan. 5th.
Albert w. Walker has been serving on
the grand jury in the United States
Court in Portland during the past week.
Mrs. Dorothy DeCosta and son Benja.
min are with the family of Chas. Ed
wards while Mr.. DeCosts Is in Detroit,
Mich.
John S. Brown will leave on Tuesday
OF this week for Florida, where be will
spend the winter with A. l.. Tubbs near
Tampa.
Mrs. Rilla Durham is In feeble health
at her home on Gothic Street. Mrs. G..
=. Barden of West Paris Is assisting in
the care of her.
Melville Z. Chapman, son of E. E.
Chapman of this PLACE and formerly a
resident here, has been elected city audi
tor of Portland.
w. A. Haines, the baker, who has bad
rooms at Howard w. Shsw's, has gone
to Norway to live, and will work at the
bakery in that village.
A barn social and box supper was held
at the high school Friday evening, those
attending being presumably in barn cos
tune, and was lively affair.
A meeting of the members of the
American Legion will be held at Grand
Army Hall Friday evening, to elect
officers, select name for the post, and
complete the organization.
On account of the earlier hour at
which the factory day closes, the Wed
nesday evening prayer meetings at all
three churches will hereafter begin at
O'Clock. This hour is in effect this
week.
The w. c. T. u. will meet Tuesday
afternoon of this week with Mrs. l.. F.
Schoff on Market Square. This is a
mothers meeting, with program in
charge of Mrs. Emma Davis and Mrs.
Schoff.
Mrs. Chas. Edwards went to Portland
Thursday to accompany Mrs. Florence
Haskell from the Maine General Hospi-
tai, where she has been for the past nine
weeks. She is boarding with Mrs. w.
E. Bryant on Hill Street.
There will be a caucus of the Rspub-
ican women voters in the town of Paris
December 20, at 2 o'clock in
The afternoon in Engine House Hall, to
choose town committee and organize
he women voters of the town.
Chester, little son Of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
3. Pratt, six or seven years of age, was
aiken to the hospital at Lewiston Thurs
lay, and underwent an operation for the
removal of pus from lung. The condi-
ion followed an attack Of pneumonia.
1t ia expected that there will be no
meeting of the Seneca Club this Monday
evening. An open meeting was on the
calendar, but the speaker whom the
committee had expected to have was un-
sble to come, so the meeting will be
omitted.
Louis Fernandez, young Spsniard, is
living with Mr.. and Mrs. Harry M. Shaw
Tor while to acquire q working knowl
sdge of the English language. he Is a
brother of Antonio Fernandez, who was
st Mr.. Parks for the same purpose for
some time a number of years since.
W. W. Ripley, who went to the Gen.
frsl Maine General Hospital q week ago
Tor an operation for appendicitis, was
found to have q serious case, and was
very i'll the first few days. he Is new
Improving and comfortable,
and good recovery seems to be indi-
Gated.
Henry L. Stone has sold his farm in
hungry Hollow or Pleasant Valley to
the Wheeler Lumber Co., which will be-
gin operations on the lumber at once.
Mr.. Stone retains possession OF the house
and stable until spring, and will remain
there at present. This farm contains $50
acres, with a large area of woods in
which no cutting has been done for years.
The Wheeler Lumber Co. has sold the
black growth to Chadbourne q Clifford,
10 be delivered at the Paris Manufacture
ing Co. Is mill, and the white birch to j.
A. Kenney & Co., TO be delivered at
their mill.
The Musical Workers Club met with
Miss Nellie NJ. Jackson Friday evening.
Following is the program:
Essay on Handel Recommendation JUDD
Questions on same.
solo-Black Beauty March Charlie Stiles
Rover Took Wal hugh Morton
Duet and Solo-a In the Woods
Cordially Doris Thurlow
Footsteps ------inerma burgess
Geraldine Stewart, Helen Morton, Doris Judd
and Richard Noyes
the Line Morton
Song Kama Juan
Solo-Valse Espaganoe Geraldine Stewart
Gtpsies- neien yu99
the Green, Doris, Helen and Rama Judd
Irving r. Hartman,
Irving Russell Hartman of Bethel
died Sunday morning, Dec. IA, at the
Western Maine Sanatorium in Hebron,
where be had been since August, 1917.
For over a year he had been unable even
TO feed himself. His age was q years.
he is survived by his mother.
Mr.. Hartman was born in Lisbon
Falls, the son and only child OF Ira 3.
and Nina A. (Wigh0 Hartman, but af-
ter the death OF his father some years
ago his mother and he made their home