Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-08-10
SOUTH PARIS.

NJ and Mrs. Z. n. Littlefield were In
Uo-th Paris for day the first OF last
week.
Nsssrs. W. B. Rand and Fred Morton
If Locke's Mills were in town day or
two lately.
Nav advanced freight rates and pas
..nSar fares will be made effective on
InSust 20, il is announced.
A,bsrt and Irving Penley of West
Paris spent a day recently with their
srapdmother, Mrs. Nettie Murphy.
Mrs. Alberta Chase and niece, Miss
ca-aIdips Stewart, were guests of Mrs.
lester Thurlow, 10 Portland last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Jacobs, Mr.. and
Ms Fred Pitts and Miss Helene Pitts
made a recent trip to the Bay of Naples
In.
mr.. and Mrs. Aehorn of Pine Bluff,
NC, who are spending part of the sum-
mar in Maine, visited Mrs. Anna q.
Hayes Sunday.
Rev. G. q. Newton will hold preach
inc service in the Baptist church in
North Paris next Sunday at two O'Clock
in the afternoon.
Mrs. A. W. Walker, Miss Eva Z.
Walker and Miss Priscilla Chase are
occupying the Walker camp at Shsgg
Pond for two weeks.
Clarence G.. Morton and family are oc-
cupying the Forbes camp at Shsgg Pond
for two weeks. They expect to return
home the last of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley NJ. Wheeler, Mr..
and Mrs. G. w. Bowker and daughter,
Miss Muriel, left Wednesday for trip to
Quebec, by the way of Jackman.
Mrs Nelson G. Elder visited her sister
in Portland last week. On her return
abe was accompanied by her niece, Miss
Ruth Garland, who is visiting her.
N. Keunsgh, who had not been get
ting along well of late, returned Tues
dsy 10 the Central Maine General Hos
piisl at Lewiston for care and treatment.
Mrs. Roscoe C. Gray and two children,
Barbara and Walter, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Row TrenOweth and two children of
AthOl, Mass, are visiting relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eden H. verrill, who
have been living in Crystal, n. a., since
the middle Of May, have returned to
Norway, but will move to this town the
present week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert F. Gibbs and
sou Ivan, with Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Gibbs and family of Bethel, made a trip
one day last week to West Paris to visit
her mother, Mrs. Nina Gibbs.
A Dean party, in honor OF Mrs.
Amanda Pratt of Turner, who was visit
ting here, took the form of picnic sup
per on the hilltop back of Geo. r. Nor
tons last Monday evening. Twenty
three Deans were present.
Misses Ella Remission and Marjorie
Edwards leave this morning for the
Epworth League Institute at Empire
Camp Ground, where they will meet
some Livsrmore Falls girls and all camp
together. A school teacher from Liver
more Falls will chaperone the party.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Paterson and
their two daughters of Lynn, Mass,
spent q few days here the first of last
week, and met many old friends. They
made the trip with their automobile.
Mr.. Paterson, who was in the black
smith business while In South Paris, now
has a position with the General Electric
Co. in Lynn.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Brown made two OF
a party one day last week to visit Mr..
and Mrs. W. Fl. Brown at North Paris.
The other members of the party were
Mr.. and Mrs. George Blake and son of
Berlin, Y. b., Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Rich
and daughter of Milan, n. H., Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Balentine and Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Hutchinson of Bethel.
J. Harry Stuart was surveying Tues
day above South Paris on the meadows
by the river In a field of magnificent
blue Joint grass that was so tall his as
sistant could not be seen above the tss-
selling heads. So unusual was the height
that Mr.. Stuart cut some of it down and
brought il to the Democrat office. These
stalks measured six feet, five and one
half inches in height.
Dr.D.M M. Stewart attended the tubercu-
losis clinic at Fairfield last week. This
clinic was the first of its kind ever held
IN Maine, and some thirty-six doctors
put in a week of intensive study under
the direction of faculty of experts on
all phases of tuberculosis, with briefer
studies of cancer and venereal diseases.
These studies included laboratory dem
onstrstion, X-ray demonstrations, ply
scal diagnosis and lectures, including
the showing of several technical motion
picture films on tuberculosis and vene-
real diseases.
A wedding of interest to South Paris
people is that of Miss Doris Webb OF
Winthrop to Leland G. Davis Of Mon
mouth, which occurred at Winthrop last
week. Mrs. Davis is a graduate of the
Winthrop schools and after graduation
taught several successful terms OF school
in South Paris. Mr.. Davis 10 young
business man of Monmouth, at which
place the young couple will reside. The
feminine portion of the community will
be interested in the details OF the we'd
ding to the extent that the bride wore q
gown OF white geOrgette over white silk
With veil, and carried bouquet OF sweet
peas.
Mrs. L. c. Smiley and party returned
from their auto trip on Monday of last
week. She reports they had a most
pleasant time. The weather was ideal,
50 they camped each of the seven nights
they were out. An occasional thunder
shower crossed their route-just enough
OF them to add zest and variety to the
out-oi-door life they were leading. The
scenery along their route was pictur-
ssque for the most part, especially
through the northern part Of Maine from
Jackman over the Canadian border, ana
through the Green Mountains in Yer
mont. They made their last camp among
these latter mountains.
The express from Montreal on Monday
evening of last week ran into and totally
demolished an automobile just as the
train was entering the village OF Me-
ehanic Falls. 1t was at the Pearl Street
crossing, the west side of which 10 rather
blind behind bluff. The railroad also
approaches the crossing on curve. Inc
machine was driven by its owner, A. l.:
Mains Of Mechanic Falls, formerly oil
Norway, accompanied by his wife. They
were driving down the hill toward the
crossing and neither heard nor saw the
train until right on the crossing. The
only things they had time to do were &c
let out the clutch and jump. Mr.. ane
Mrs. Mains were fortunate to escape witt