Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-09-21
SOUTH PARIS.

IN Lewiston Thursday.
N, and Mrs. Joseph Currier visite
n Montreal last week.
Mrs Flora Abbott of Stetson has bee
-,.i,ins relatives in town.
vss Augusta Tracy is the guest o
W. John Briggs in Poland.
NJ, and Mrs. P. S. Chapman OF Bethe
ara IN town one day last week.
Tbs chimney on the southern side o
,bs court house is being repaired.
n, and Mrs. Edwin ]. Mann Of Yves
Davis visited friends in town Wednesday
Miss Bans Besde Is again at Mrs
SmiIey's IS designer for the present sea
son
Andrew J. Jackson of Ionis, Mich, Il
,bs vuest Of his brother, Alfred b. Jack
sOn.
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Hall Of SAGE
have been visiting relatives in this viii
age.
Nrs Flora Martin of South Wood
rock has been visiting her son, Scott
Martin.
MIRA Gertrude Thsyer was q recent
gpest Of Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Delano in
Oxford.
Alice B. Sturtevant and family OF
Hebron SIZE moving to this village for
.hs winter.
Walter Kuightly and family were re-
psut guests at b. A. Knightly's in Nor
vsy Center.
Bsrus Mitchell spent last week with
Ms parents. Mr.. and Mrs. L. l.. Mitchell,
10 Eiugfeld.
LEROY ". Titus has purchased the
South Paris Market of c. A. Cole and
taken possession.
James Martin, recent freight agent in
Norway. has been transferred to the sta
ton In this village.
Richard Rogers and Miss Eva Tucker
we're among those who attended the
tate fair Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. W. Nichols of Port
snd were guests at n. D. Bolster's q
few days sst week.
Mrs. Evelyn Briggs, who Is stopping
10 Bethel, was in the village for day or
30 the first of last week.
Miss Julia P. Morton returned Thurs
dsy from q visit of q week to relatives
and friends in Massachusetts,.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Littlehsle visited
Mrs. Litt.ehsle's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
CV. EImbsll, the first of last week.
Prof. Leo W. Farrar, who has been
spending the summer with relatives in
town, returned Tuesday to Dallas, Texas,
where be teaches science in an academy.
Leroy Titus will not go TO Norway to
enter the meat business as announced in
ARGENT Democrat. Ernest B. Jackson
Of that village has decided to continue
Biz business.
Mrs. Walter Chandler was called to
Bethel last week by the sickness of her
daughter Dorothy. She with her two
sons, who have been stopping in Bethel,
tlC ulob VI last WCCns
Governor Carl E. Milliken on Monday
Of last week appointed Hon. Alton c.
Wheeler as a delegate to the Fifteenth
International Congress against Alcohol
Ism, which will convene in Washington,
D c., this Tuesday and continue during
the week.
The Grand Trunk station is being re-
painted on the outside and the waiting
rooms redecorsted. This is the first job
Of psinting here since the road was given
over to the government during the war.
The painting crew is divided, part of the
crew working here and part on the sta
lions farther south.
Our people generally feel that autumn
begins With the month of September but
Of course they know it really begins
three weeks later-to be exact, on
Thursday, September %, at Twenty-Five
minutes past three in the morning. We
have enjoyed summer for 90 days, IA
hours and 40 minutes.
Miss Grace Thayer was in Springfield,
Mass, several days last week, attending
the national convention of undertakers
% one of the delegates from the Maine
association. She made the trip with her
car, and was accompanied by Mrs. A. l..
Holmes who visited the family of her
son, W. <. Holmes, in Southington, CT.
The Maine State Grange will meet in
special session at Paris Grange Hall,
South Paris, Sept. "a, at 2 P. NJ. to con-
Ter the sixth degree. Oxford County
Pomona will confer the fifth degree at
1870 A. NJ. if there are enough candi-
dates TO warrant the work. Any wish
ing to take the fifth degree should notify
VIC. Thayer, master Paris Grange, by
Sept. 291.
A straw vote on the presidential con-
test is being conducted by the United
Drug Co. at the several Rexsll stores
through the country. Chss. a. Howard
OF this place is captain for Maine, all the
noreS in the state making daily reports
70 him of the standing. Four years ago
sssrsw vote thus taken under the same
auspices is said to have indicated the
outcome Of the election within one per
cent.
Lieut.. R. G. Swan, who flies at the
county fair this week, was at the st.
SJohnsbury w. fair hast week. he was
booked to fy at the Labor Day celebrs-
non In Berlin, n. H., but was unable to
reach the city on that day because OF
rains. He started from Boston Sept. @
and passed through six showers in con-
sequence Of which he was forced to land
South Sudbury, Mass. He passed
friday and Saturday In Gorham, N. II.
The W. c. T. q. will postpone the
september meeting until Tuesday, Sept.
[o'o, when they will meet at the Baptist
ssstry. The topic chosen for this meet
ing 10 "0ur Mission in the Schools"
a0o i Is hoped that Mrs. Carlson will
SPEAK Will not all who have an inter-
Isl In this subject-especially mothers
VINO have children in high school-plan
De present and help in discussing this
,ery Important issue and in making it OF
definite value.
10 the election Of last Monday q total
VI TAO ballots were given out by the
UsiIot clerks to that number of voters
nno passed inside the rail. A "once
STef on the check list shows that these
Uallots were used by 495 women and 75l
Isn' Doubtless the vote would have
usen larger but for the rain. Notwith-
landing the fact of so many new vot-
.n 10 addition to the ordinary chance OF
pOhing ballots, only eight ballots were
'ufoNn out IS defective.