Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-08-24
Almost breath OF September in u.

visiting relatives in several Massachu
sets towns.
Miss Ruth Sutherland of Cambridge
Mass, lie guest at L. j. Brackets fol
a week or two.
Mrs. e. e. Tuell of Green wood, Mass,
has been visiting relatives in town and
was in South Paris Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w. Wiley and
daughter Evelyn of Berlin, N. a., are
guests at Claude Cushman's.
Dance at Grange Hall under the aus
pices of Arthur s. Foster Post, Ameri.
can Legion, Thursday evening of this
week.
The Pythian Sisters have been invited
to march in the parade on Labor Day.
Il is earnestly hoped as many as can
will do so.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Doran and two
daughters of Ottawa, ONT, are guests of
the family of Mr.. Doran's brother,
George A. Doran.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. R. Morton, Mrs.
Rizpah Whitman and Mrs. L. @. Morton
attended the centennial celebration at
Turner Saturday.
All the children who are to take part
in the folk dances to be given Labor
Day are requested to meet at the park
on Friday of this week at S:S0,P. NJ.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Coburn Butts and
daughter Arlene of Kingfield were In
town last week. Miss Arlene will re-
main for time with Mr.. and Mrs. r. r.
Butts.
DR.. and Mrs. G. L. Buck went Mon
day morning to Boston, where DR.. Buck
will attend the convention of the Nation
al Dental Association. Mrs. Buck will
visit relatives. They will be gone all
the week.
Clerk OF Courts Donald B. Partridge
will take the stump this week, speaking
four times. On Tuesday evening he
will speak at East Sumner, Thursday
evening at Brownfield, Friday evening
at Denmark and Saturday evening at
Lowell.
Miss Cora j. Mason, Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. L. Bray and Mrs. j. D. Haynes
made a five-dsy trip last week by auto
mobile through Jackman TO Quebec,
Montreal and northern New York, start
ing Monday morning and arriving home
Friday night.
The Weelaffslot Club was entertained
by Mrs. Sara SWEET Lewallen and Miss
Ethel G. Crockett Thursday evening at
the home of the formers parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Benjamin SWEET. Some of the
members were unable to attend for vari-
Gus reasons, but eight were present..
The available members of the recent
camping party were enter
tanned at supper Friday evening by Mrs.
L. C. Smiley. Those present were
George W. Cook, Mrs. Smiley, Miss
Florence Eastman, Miss Dorothy Noble,
Miss Marion Clark, Alan Miller and
Richard Millett.
Mrs. vesta Chapman has sold her
house on High Street to Charles 81. Kim
ball, and be and Mrs. Kimbsll will move
there from their farm In the King Dis
trict. Mrs. Chapman will go into the
rooms in Chas. q. Churchilps house on
High Street now occupied by Mrs. Geor-
gis Andrews, who will 60 with her
daughter, Mrs. Jessie Scott, on her re-
turn to New Britain, CT.
A party OF former classmates at the
old Oxford Normal Institute were enter
tanned Friday at Lake Trip, Poland, by
Mrs. G. NJ. Hutchins of Mechanic Falls.
The members of the party were Mrs. N.
D. Bolster and daughter, Miss Ruth,
Miss Anna Morse, Mrs. Minot Whittle,
of this village, with Mrs. Arthur Pratt
of East Orange, n. j., and Miss Eunice
Fobes of Wakefield, Mass.
As was announced In last weeks
Democrat the first floor of the building
formerly occupied by DR.. D. s. Bartlett
as a dental office was changed to be used
as a meat market by Theodore Thayer.
Mr.. Thsyer had scarcely begun business
when he sold to Arthur B. Cobb, who
will run the place In connection with
the Cash Market at Norway. Walter
Luck will have charge of the business
here. The transfer was made Friday.
franklin Maxim discovers an error In
the report of the Fifth Maine Battery re-
union in the Democrat OF last week
and no wonder. The number of veter-
ans in attendance, members OF the bat
tery, was not twenty-five but four.
Twenty five was the total attendance, In
Guiding families and guests. or about
one hundred who returned from the war
in the battery, there are now living less
than twenty-five, probably not more than
a dozen.
.E.P. Crockett, Richard Crockett and
Joe Murphy made trip up Mount Wash
iugton Saturday, going from the Glen
House by the Raymond path and the
Huutiugton's Ravine trail. They found
this trail fully up to its reputation In
being difficult. They had only a few
minutes of clear weather on the summit
before the clouds shut in. On Sunday
they came down by the carriage road.
Prentiss F. Crockett took them to the
Glen and home by automobile.
Fred w. Bonney, the wizard who In
vents and makes a good portion OF the
all but human machinery at the plant OF
the Paris Manufacturing Company, and
cares for it when sick, has just COM
nIeted his sixty-fourth machine. Mr..
BOQn6Y has U6ou WIN sho eSAf~Sy
since it moved its business to Soutn
Paris in 1884, and as he walks about the
mill and views the outfit, can have the
satisfaction of seeing life work OF use
ful mechanical construction, wnicn
might well be the pride or the envy Oh
any man.
Guy L. Walker, who lives In Paris
some three or four miles from this VII
lage. Is much interested in berry culture
and raises about all kinds OF them
MANY of them are novelties. Among
other varieties, psradoxical as it may
seem, be has q white blueberry. II
grows on bushes, like It's ordinary reia'
tiyes. and the only thing that looks Pc
culiar is the color Of the fruit. MT
Walker has quite q little plat OF THESE
bushes, and has raised quite quansit!
of the berries.
Alton C. Wheeler and United States
Senator Bert NJ. Fernald were the speak
ers in Mechanic Falls at Repuoiies,,
rally held Saturday evening. MT. Wneel
sr's other speaking dates so far "a nov
arranged are: at Auburn, Aug. 70, .
opening rally with two other speakers; u
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