Oxford Democrat., 1920-11-02
NORWAY

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/ Willard E. Cherry Of Waverly, Mass.
is the guest Of his mother, Mrs. Helen
, Cherry. He 10 to 20 south few weeks
Tor the benefit Of bis health.
i Norway High School expects 10 have
J good basket ball team the coming win.
tor.
II It is announced that Beal's Tavern
will cease serving meals on the 14th Of
this month.
| Abigail Whitman Chapter, D. A. R.,
will meet with Mrs. Harrlette Brown on
Nov. 8. Roll call will be responded to
with remarks on "Why New England
people should observe Thanksgiving. I"
Mrs. L. A. Merriam will read "The
Fighting Psrson of New Jersey"
Elwyn Rnssell OF South Woodstock
has purchased one OF the Cummings
houses next to Whitman Street on Cum.
mipgs Place, and will move there. Al.
bert Cash, who has been occupying the
house, will move into the DR.. Bedard
house on Brown Street.
Albert McCready, the local represent
ative OF the Metropolitan Insurance Co.,
has purchased of the Norway Home
Building Association the bungalow on
Tucker Street nearest the junction of
Beal and Winter Streets. He will move
his family there within two or three
weeks.
Miss Mary Gauthier has been on few
days. auto trip to Quebec and vicinity in
company with relatives from Rumford.
/ Mrc uoll nd Me- Aorx uoon
or Of Weymouth, Mass, are In town.
Mrs. Hall will spend the winter with her
sister and husband, Mr.. and Mrs. F. w.
Faunce. Mrs. Hooper is with her niece,
Mrs. Hugh Pendexter, at present, and
may remain in Norway for the winter.
The first annual armistice ball under
the auspices of the American Legion
post will be held at the Opera House on
the evening of Nov. II, with music by
Bert Williams jazz Orchestra.
Mrs. Frank Libby was called to Port
land Monday by the sudden illness Of
her daughter, Mrs. C. W. Holbrook.
F. Wilson Walker has disposed Of
most of his horse livery stock, and will
depend mainly upon gasoline for his
business.
A Grand Trunk construction crew is
laying new rail on the Norway Branch.
The rail is heavier than the old, being
the same as on the main line.
Mrs. j. F. Swain is visiting In Acton,
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1t is understood that after the new
cement road is open to South Paris,
about the first of December, new
closed bus, larger than the one now In
use, will be put on by the Norway and
Paris Transfer Co.
The Browning Reading Club meets |
with Mrs. Florence Bradbury this Mon !
day evening. Roll call, humorous anec- |
dotes. An evening with spooks, after |
the Halloween style.
A Halloween and pie social will fol- |
low the regular meeting of the Pythisn |
Sisters Tuesday evening.
There was pleasant supper party at
the home of Mrs. Jesse P. Edwards on
the evening of the 23l. It was sur
prise to Mrs. Izah Whitman, who was
called from her home in Red Wing, |
MINI, by the illness and death Of her
brother, Stephen G. Hatch, and who is
soon to return home. 1t was also In |
honor of Mrs. r. A. Danforth, who Is to |
close her home here and will spend the |
winter with the family of her brother,
Rev. Charles r. Tenney, In Southbridge, |
Mass. A fine supper was served by Mrs.
Edwards assisted by Mrs. Carrie True |
The other guests were Mrs. Izlh T. San |
born, Mrs. George A. Cole, Mrs. Charles |
n. Sargent, Mrs. Cyrus S. Tucker, Miss |
Emma j. Smith and Mis-. Mary Cole.
One of the best campires yet was held
by Harry Rust Post and Corps at Grange
Hall Thursday. A, large number of
guests were present from Paris, Oxford,
Hebron, Waterford, Bethel. and Me.
chanic Falls. Others had been invited
but were kept away by the weather.
Dinner was served in the grange dining |
room, and atterward program was
enjoyed which included musical selec |
tions, and remarks by some OF those
present, among them John Monroe of
Mechanic Falls, who gave an account OF
his trip 10 the national encampment at I
indianapolis, and Judge Charles F. Whit |
man, who gave stirring talk on "The
Old Soldier"
The high school was closed Thursday |
and Friday to allow the teachers to at
tend the state convention at Bangor, and
most of the teachers went to the conven- |
ton.
Superintendent and Mrs. W. e. Stuart
have closed their cottage for the season,
and have rooms at A. L. Clark's.
Mrs. Eva Fogg, who has been laid up
some months with inflammatory rheuma.
tism, is 80 far recovered as to walk ont
Miss Mercy Crooker, who has been at
the home of Henry Burgess on Elm Hill
since the death of ber sister, Mrs. Bur-
CESS, Is soon to move to her home on
lower Main Street. Her sister, Mrs. Ab
bic Linnell, will be with her there, also
the two little daughters Of Edward
Lever, who have been at the Burgess
home since the death of their mother
two years ago.
Lester Witham is at home on q two
weeks vacation from Johnstown, Pa,
where he has been with the Cambria
Steel Works since last March.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon NOyes of Bangor
are guests of his father, George L. Noyes,
for week. i
Mrs. Katrina R. Bracket, wife OF
Charles F. Brackett, died at her home
at 2l Fair Street Sunday, eleven days
after the birth of SOD. She was born
in Oxford April 20, 1892, the daughter
of Thomas A. and Edith L. (Clark)
johnson.
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