Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-08-19
THE OXFORD BEARS.
THE DoIN0s OF THE WEEK IN ALL
SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY.
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Paris Hill.
Services at Paris Hin Baptist church every
Sunday az 10 AS. Sunday School at L. Sunday
evening service at Z 80. Thursday evening
prayer meeting ut 80 O'Clock.
Col. George e. Turner of the regular
army Is with bis family In this village
for few days. Col. Turner has been at
Fortress Monroe since returning from
France.
Mr.. Charles l.. Case of New York Is
spe nding q vacation with his family at
their summer home at Paris Hill.
Mr.. Charles 81. Rogers Is making re-
pairs and improvements to bis home IN
this village. Albert z. Hamblin Ia do
ing the carpenter work.
Charles /. Grsgg of Rochester, N. T.,
is guest at the summer home OF Mrs.
Mary /. Davies.
Miss Sara z. Nieman, who has been
engaged in Red Cross work during the
war, is at her home at Paris Hill, having
recently returned from France. Miss
Nieman goes to Washington the present
week to close up the war work Of her
department, after which she will return
to her home here.
Mrs. Burchfield and Miss Ivy Frissell
of Pittsburgh, Pa, are guests OF Miss
Mary P. Burchield at her fine summer
home here.
A hay-rack load of children and a
number of "grown ups" attended the
picnic of the Baptist Sunday School at
stones Brook last Wednesday and re-
port fine time.
The Sunshine Club will meet this
week Thursday with Mrs. Hiram Heald.
How many of the hundreds who pass
frequently over the road to South Paris
know of the truly remarkable freak OF
nature plainly seen by the roadside just
below the Hillside Cemetery grounds?
A close observer will discover two trees,
a deciduous (maple) and an evergreen
(hemlock) tree growing so close together
| that the bases of their trunks for two
feet or more are merged into one. The
bark at the base of the two trees is very
similar and therefore deceiving to the
casual passer-by.
The regular Saturday afternoon tea at
the Country Club was given by Miss
| Burchfield. The present week bids fair
| to be busy one. A tennis tournament
of mixed couples begins Tuesday after
noon, ending Wednesday afternoon. A
mixed foursome golf tournament will be
played Friday and Saturday. The tea
next Saturday afternoon will be given
by Mrs. Leslie L. Mason of South Paris
and during this event flag raising will
take place, the flag being presented to
the club by Miss Burchfield. Members
and friends wishing to enter the tourna-
ments should give their names to Mrs.
Brooks, chairman of the entertainment
committee.
Mrs. F. T. Case of st. Louis, former
summer resident of Paris Hill, is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L. Case.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. b. Brooks of Bridge
port, Conn, are guests of Mrs. Brooks
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Austin P. Stearns.
Lieut.. Albert Lincoln King, who has
very recently returned from England,
was the guest of friends here the past
week. Lieut.. King had command of a
feet of submarine chasers during the
war.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bovine of Rich
mond, Mass, are guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Chss. Edward Case. Mrs. Bovine is q
sister of Mrs. Case.
There will be missionary tea on the
lawn at the Baptist parsonage on Friday
afternoon of this week from four to six
o'clock. Everyone cordially invited.
The handsome green tourmaline do
mated by Loren B. Merrill to the Paris
Il g.; H..
Marion NJ. Hallett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Graham Mari,
who were married at the Judge Potter
home here last Monday, started early
this week for their home in Swarthmore,
Pa, making the trip by automobile.
Miss Helen r. Cole, who has been con-
fined at her home by illness the past
| week, is now better.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. England of Grovetop,
n. a., and Mr.. and Mrs. George England
of Lancaster, N. a., were Sunday guests
at Joseph B. Coles.
Mrs. Z. A. Mason OF Buckfleld was the
guest of Mrs. John Pierce one day last
week.
Mrs. Ellen Cummings of Mechanic
Falls is a guest 1t w. 81. Cummings.
Cyrus Marble of New York is a guest
at the Hubbard House. Mr.. Marble was
born in Turner, his father being broth
er of the late Hon. Jarvis G. Marble of
this place. He confesses to being eighty
three years young and Is most interest
ing man to meet. He has been around
the world more than most men and en-
gagged in various enterprises ranging
from the wholesale dry goods business in
New York to gold mining in the excit-
ing days of the great west, and has made
many friends and acquaintances, recalling
among others an intimate personal
acquaintance with Ex-Vice President
Hannibal Hsmlin whom he met in
Europe when the latter was U. s. Min
lister to Spain.
Several from this village, including
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. B. Curtis, Mark P. Shaw
and others, made an automobile trip to
Bear Pond in Turner last Sunday. The
place has wonderful bathing beach and
seems to be sort of "pocket edition" of
Old Orchard beach.
The Library Association will welcome
visitors to the library on Founders Day,
Aug. %, from 8 TO P. NJ. 1t Is hoped
that some one will also be secured to
speak at tnat time.
At the annual meeting of the Library
Association the following officers were
elected:
Pres-Mrs. II. ID. Hammond
Vice-Pres.-Mrs. John Pierce.
Treas.-Mrs. J. @. Cummings.
Sec-Mrs. N A. Cummings.
Directors-Mrs. 4. II. jackson, Mrs. U. II.
Heald, Mrs. Helen II. Carlson.
Miss A. ]. Gwynne, director of Sun.
day Schools and Young Peoples work
under the auspices Of the U aited Baptist
Convention and American Baptist Pub
LEGATION Sooiety,-is visiting friends on
Paris Hill and vicinity. She preached
to an appreciatiys congregation on Sum-
day last.
The event of the past week was the
Paris Hill Country Club Fair of last Fri
day afternoon and evening. Despite the
unfavorable weather and rain, this was
one of the most successful events of the
kind that was ever held here. The net
receipts of the occasion will reach about
four hundred dollars. The tables were
loaded with most attractive novelties
that found ready sale at good prices and
the supper was one of the principal at
fractions of the occasion, the tables being
set up second time to accommodate the
large number Of patrons. The menu in
cluded cold baked ham with potato sal
sd, chicken pstties, olives, Ice cream,
cake, rolls and butter, coffee and tea
The young ladies who served the tables