Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-11-11
SOUTH PARIS.

T. Fred Pike was In Boston several
days last week.
c,sstsr Easson of Portland spent last
wssk With bis sister, Mrs. Edna Shaw.
usnry Cross of Oxford was In the vii
lsgs day or SO the first OF last week.
u;-.u W. Durham of West Paris was
IN the village several hours Thursday.
Mrs Ida ]. Dodge was the guest of
.sIatiyes In Csnton for several days last
week.
NJ, Frank Kendall Of Bethel was In
oWn for a couple Of days the first of last
week.
The Junior Eudeayorers Of the Con-
,,sgationsl church met in the church
Sesiry wednesday afternoon.
The ladies' of the Uniyersalist church
,.vs dinner Wednesday which was well
attended in spite of the storm.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Curtis of Mariana
.ook have been visiting Mr.. Curtis
mother, Mrs. Ellen Curtis.
Frank P. Knapp of Dry Mills has q
,ositiop with the Paris Manufacturing
Eompany and is in town for time.
Nswman LAYERS, who has been work
inc for the Burnhsm & Morrill, Company
FOR several weeks, has gone to Boston.
Mrs Flora Cummings of Oxford, that
mart known as Fore Street, Is at Guy
Stevens caring for Mrs. Stevens and hei
baby girl.
Asaph J. Richardson is taking q vacs-
tion from the South Paris Meat Market
and will make one or more hunting trips
during bis absence.
Mr. and Mrs. Walton Bailey are NOV
ing into the village from Mechanic Falls.
Mr.. Bailey has been employed on tht
Norey Farm in that town.
Paris Grange will give grand Thanks
giving ball on Thursday evening, Novem
5ar u =, Grange Hall, with an oyster
sppDer az intermission. Shaw's Orches-
ira of six pieces will furnish music,
assisted by Miss Emma West, soloist.
Crapberries are being display ed in the
village stores, both natives and Cape
Gods, mostly the latter. A bumper crop
was harvested on Cape Cod-S40, 900 bar |
rsIs against $4,000 barrels last year
This is $4,000 more than an average |
Weld. Now if our people can get tht |
sugar TO go with them they will be al |
right,
South Paris smokers, especially thost
fan older generation, who were partial |
oaT. D. pipe can now get them again |
although the price for them has advanced |
us has on everything else. In pre-wal
times they sold for cent each but now
one is lucky to get them for three cents.
They have been out of the market since
the opening of the war.
Rufus ). Jarnagin, REGIONAL Supervisor
of Safety for Eastern Railroads, reported
that for the National Accident Proven
ton Drive between the dates Of October
IS and 81, the Grand Trunk road stood /
highest in the list, having no accidents
during that time. II also had no acct
dents during the same period in 1918
OF the other roads in Maine, the Maine
Central had FIVE and the Bangor and
Aroos,ook four.
Among the travelling men, or drum
mers as they are more generally called,
coming into South Paris each week lie
Henry Merry Of Auburn. Mr.. Merry |
ba former Norway man and consequent |
" knows Oxford County and her insti |
tutions well-knew them before he went |
onto the road. He remembers the Ok |
ford Democrat back about half-century |
and says be knows of no paper which |
has kept its individuality better, its |
make up being much the same as when |
be first saw it.
Sugar users in South Paris, or those |
who would like to use sugar, may be |
Interested in the announcement that
6,3A,OO0 pounds OF Cuban sugar arrived
in Boston on Tuesday last on the Ameri |
can steamer Corrales. II misery likes |
company, ii may be some satisfaction to |
learn that sugar is scarce even in Cuba, |
the isle of sugar, and brings eleven cents |
pound, at least so the captain OF the |
Corrales reported. It now remains to |
see what the Sugar Equalization Board |
will do with this supply and whether
South Paris share will be zero or more. |
Asa Jefferson, a Grand Trunk fireman,
Was talking about the Jacobs man
slaughter case in the depot one night
last week. He said railroad men did
not consider Coy Crossing particularly
dangerous as there was an unobstructeo
view for some little distance on each
side, yet a great many accidents had
taken place there. Only q year or two
since Henry w. Coy, the elderly witness
10 the case at court here week or two
sinCs, man who has lived beside the
crossing 70 years and for whom il was
named, attempted to cross In front OF a
train and lost the rear half Of bis pung, |
be and his horse escaping without injury.
Mr.. Coy gave his age in court as 81.
November came in this year in the
same manner as March does sometimes
like lion, with quite a severe snow
storm Tuesday night and Wednesday.
November, at least this year, may have
TO be put down as a month OF positive
weather instead of negative as IL is gen.
orally considered and is expressed in
Thomas Hoods well known verse:
No warmth,
No cheerfulness,
No heathful ease,
No comfortable feel
Of any member,
No shade.
No shine,
No butterflies,
No bees,
No fruiE,
No flowers,
No leaves,
No birds,
November.
The Junior Class Of the Paris High
School will give an entertainments in the
yestry of the Universalist church Friday
evening, Nov. 14th, at O'Clock. The
program follows:
Seecuon. 0entlemen
lAOnn Oionn nooe
headlng --Gertruue Ous nnau
ELL ale
heaIng--- henry WOODWORK
SO-SS-.-; '--- go - go - - -, ----N ~
sketch entitled "Just Gossip.
Louise smith, Bessie Greedy
speeialties- Glenn Ross, Carleton Gray
PART II.
Farce Fooled by Heck" Characters:
Reuben Hanks, newly selfmade man.
Gertrude Cushman
Emma West
Irene Hanks, their perfectly lovely daughter,
Clarence Cold, q hen In homespun,
Oliver de Ia We're. the play thing Of fate. poor
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