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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-12-07
Bethel.

A very pleasant wedding party assem-.
bled at the home OF Mrs. n. L. Thurs.
ton Saturday, Nov. ~, when Mrs. Thurs.
toms dsug hter, Mrs. Fife Josephine Ste.
vens, Of Portland, and Mr.. Nathan Dresser
Akers of Rumford, were united in mar
risge by Rev. j. q. Little, using the
double ring service. Mr.. and Mrs. Akers
will make their home 10 Deering, where
Mrs. Akers has home.
The Y. w. G. A. girls will hold q
Christmas fair and entertainment Thurs.
day, Dec. 8, afternoon and evening.
Mrs. Carrie NJ. Arno spent last week
with friends in town.
Hon. Franklin K. Lane has left Bethel
Inn, where he has been for treatment
and has gone to his home in Washington
D. c.
Dan Spesrrin has returned home from
three weeks hunting trip in the east
ern part of Maine.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Whitney left Dec
l for st. Petersburg, Fla.
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Branch Bank at Buckfield, Me.
Morton p. Garland. Manager
DIRECTORS ,

Perley r. Ripley. George M. Atwood, N. Day.
ton Bolster, Delbert d. Stewart. Fred B. Penley,
John B. Robinson. Leslie L. Mason, D. Henry
Fifeld. Sumner e. Newell, Benjamin B. Bill
lings. John A. Titus, Edwin ]. Mann, J. Hast.
ings Bean.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-12-07
KIMBALL HILL.

Sam May Cornell is hauling birch to
Locke's Mills.
Mrs. G. L. Haines was at Bethel vii.
lage Monday.
Walter Satman was In this place last
week after potatoes, which he bought oil
w. W. Brinck.
Dorothy and Bernice Haines spen,
Thanksgiving at their home here.
Wallace Coolidge Of Gorham, N. g..
visited his father, W. E. Coolidge, Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. s. Mitchell and
daughter Fay of Locks's Mills were re-
cent callers at G. L. Haines'.
W. E. Coolidge is moving the hay
which he bought of w. W. Brinck.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-12-07
BANK HOURS
$500 A. M. to 3 p. M.
OXFORD COUNTY
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT
In Equity.

Myron A. Prescott Va. Paris Machine Co.
Upon the Receivers account In this cause II Ia
ordered, That hearing be had before this court
on the 18th day of December, A. d. 1870 ct
O'Clock In the afternoon in the Cumberland
County Court House In Portland, Maine; and
that notice thereof be given by publication
OF an attested copy of this order for two success
i've weeks in the Oxford Democrat, Newspaper
published in the said County Of Oxford, ten
days at least before said hearing.
Dec. 8, 1920. SCOTT WILSON,
Justice Supreme Judicial Court,
In vacation.
Attest: Donald B. PARTRIDGE. Clerk.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-12-07

Never can tell when you'll mash a finger or
suffer cut, bruise, burn or scald. Re prepared.
Thousands rely on DR.. Thomas Eclectic OIL.
Your druggist sells It. Soc and COO.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-12-07
here and There.

Grave-robbing has never been consid-
cred the most dignified act In the art of
burglary; perhaps, because most OF it 10
done on q small scale. Murder done by
retsil-thst Is, one at time-is base
criminal occupation; but at wholesale,
that is in war, is the work OF patriots.
Wholesale grsve-robbing may become as
dignified, and in fact has. College pro-
fessors, the instructors of our youths,
engage in it so II must be respectable.
DR.. j. Fl. Breasted, professor of Oriental
History and Egyptology in the Univer-
sity OF Chicago, has just returned from
q trip In the Near East, where he and
his assistants have been engaged in un-
earthiug buried cities, and they have
brought home with them thirty-seveD
big boxes of remains. His trip was
through Syria, Mesopotsmis, Arabia
and Egypt. DR.. Breasted says be saw
buried cities in these countries unknown
to history and simply mounds covering
ruins. Perhaps the most interesting
prize brought back from this expedition
Is q six-sided prism containing the royal
annals of Sennscherib. Readers of the
Bible will remember this Assyrian king
marched against Jerusalem with an
army which greatly troubled Hezekish,
King of Judah, and Isaiah raised his
spirits by prophssyiDg be would not
enter the Roly City but 60 back to
Assyris the way he came. This prism
among other things chronicles this incl
dent. Among other treasures brought
to America was a blue glass vase from
Egypt where glass was first used; also 3
flint knife with sharp edge, one Of the
finest specimens Of Clipped stone In
existence.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-12-07

There are a good many Mary Camp
bells In bonnie Scotland. IL seems to
be a very common name there, but
across the Atlantic there is but one and
that is Bobbie Burns "Highlsnd Mary"
One rather gathers the idea she wasn't q
very remarkable girl, and that the neigh
bors did not think much Of her for 60
ing around with Bobbie; but she has
outlived all the other Mary Csmpbells
lust because she did. II takes death TO
bring Immortality, and IL Msry's mortal
days did not bring her much except the
attention Of Burns, she ought to be salts
fed with her immortal life-that Is, II
she knows anything about it-for every
American, and every other foreigner, It
may be supposed, visits her grave when
they go to Scotland, the same as they
visit Burns and his cottage, and the
other things belonging to him, and per-
haps her grave comes next to the poets
in attraction. Jean Armour, his wife,
'Tsu't in il" beside this Highland
Mary" But now they are going to
move her grave, or body II they can find
Ii, in Greenock just TO make room for
such q mercensry thing as q ship yard;
80 tourists won't know where to Hnd
her; neither will Bobbie's spirit II IL
should come providing round the Old
West Kirk Yard in search Of the green
sod"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-12-07
A Happy Christmas for Everybody
A HOLIDAY STOCK that is FIRST IN VARIETY anG
QUALITY, and FAIREsT IN PRICE.

Our beautiful display of Gifts all requirements from first
last We have presents everybody ap
preca Pleasing beautiful the time practical useful
Every department filled fresh goods fair prices
there wide choices fine variety and grand opportunity get the
best and suitable gifts young and old Remember upodae
Stock touch with the times anticipates your every
And many Charming and Appropriate Gifts that be here
You will find Christmas Offerings harmony with
Christmas needs Our in harmony with pocket
inexpensive articles costly gifts offer your selection
best of the Let show you hggade
strictly modern, fair priced Holiday Attractions All invited
welcome whether you buy
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-12-07
THAT wraps my Highland Mary"

Philately has long been q mania with
many people and large collection en-
bracing the stamps, past and present, OF
many nations possesses considerable in
terest. OF course all collectors wish to
obtain rare and scarce specimens and
the more of these they can secure, the
more interesting and valuable the ex-
hibit. There is one stamp, however,
which probably will forever remain rare.
So far as is known there Is bat one In
the United States, and it Is just as rare
In Europe. 1t Is even rare in the coun-
try which once used 1t, and such as
there are are locked in vaults more diff
cult Of access than any we have in this
country. This Is the clay postage stamp
made In Or some more than four thou
sand years ago. This stamp 10 in the
museum of the University Of Pennsyl-
vania.
Monumental posts are being erected
In eighteen counties in central Illinois
to mark the roads travelled by Abraham
Lincoln In his law practice before cleo
ton to the presidency. In those days
Lincoln and other lawyers travelled with
the court from court house to court
house In what was known as the Eighth
judicial Circuit, using saddle horses,
or horses and buggies as means OF trans
portstion. George Oliver Robinson,
who was born and died in the neig Dor
ing town Of Oxford, was practicing
lawyer in this district for thirty years.
He therefore travelled with Lincoln and
was his personal friend. During Mr..
Robinson's lifetime be told many inter-
esting and many laughsble anecdotes
about the great war president and his
law practice In Illinois.
It has been eighteen years since the
first oil-burning steamship crossed the
Atlantic Ocean, and to-day there are
about two thousand vessels equipped TO
burn this kind Of fuel. The economic
advantage OF IL is great and IL is thought
that ID will not be many years before
all ocean going steamships will be- thus
equipped. The Olympic 10 the last ship
TO be fitted TO burn oil, and it Is ex-
pected that her annual saving over coal
win amount to 81, 100000.
Some people nave great luck! uefe
is q Maine soldier who has heired .
whole island kingdom In the Moro
Archipelago, along with hsrsm OF for
ty wives. When he gets through with
them be may be qualified to write song
which will discount anything Solomon
ever composed. Being soldier he may
agree with Friedrich Nietzsche who
said: 1.-TWO different things wanteth
the true man; danger and diversion.
Therefore wsnteth be woman ss the
most dangerous plaything."
So Il seems the first bill the League OF
Nations 10 to be called on 20 pay is for
$4,000 worth Of cigars smoked or car
ried of by members OF the various dele
Cations at the Spa conferences.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-12-07

ton. sleep soundly and enjoy fife, use Burdock
Blood Bitters, the family system tonic. Price,
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-12-07

So IL seems the first bill the League OF
Nations 10 to be called on 20 pay is for
$4,000 worth of cigars smoked or car
ried of by members Of the various dele
gatious at the Spa conference.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-06-19

"In firing, was it your object to
disperse."
mo sir. l was going to fire until
they dispersed"
Did you continue firing after they
had started to disperse?'
yes"
After the crowd indicated that it
was going to disperse, why did you
not stop?"
81 thought it was my duty to go on
until they had dispersed. If | fired
a little, l should be wrong in firing
at all"
Continuing their report, the investi-
gators added:
He, General Dyer, said he contin-
ued firing for about 10 minutes, until
he had expended 1,650 rounds of am
munition. He said he had made no
provision for aiding or removing
the wounded That was medical
question, he declared.
"One eye witness said: Il saw
hundreds of persons killed on the
spot. The worst part of the whole
thing was that firing was directed
toward the gates through which the
people were trying to run out. Many
Imperial Valley press., 1920-06-19
BRITISH FIRE ON UNARMED NATIVES.
WHICH LEADS TO SLAY|NG OF 1000
Report Nae Public Nares of Plotting Harm to
British Ansar Punab District of Indu Scene of Brutal
Massacre; Trouble Results from First Uncaed for Act

manded passage and said that they
wanted TO 90 TO the deputy commits
sioner's bungalow to make 'faryad' -
a prayer.
They pushed forward and the
vanced and the military fired, killing
and wounding some of them. The
crowd fell back.
1T was no longer a peaceful crowd.
1t was d crowd foiled in its effort to
secure the release Of it's leaders and
eXasperated at the killing and wound
ing of some Of its members. The
sight Of the dead bodies and the
wounded inflamed the citizens who
saw them and who gathered again
near the bridge this time carrying
sticks and pieces of wood"
The report continues with a des-
cription of the fight between natives
and soldiery, during which many of
the former were killed and the sur
vivors inflamed to such pitch of fury
! that they returned into the city and
applied the torch to several principal
buildings. 1t says:
The authorities omitted all the
usual parleys with the natives and
other Intermediates resorted to inciv-
ilized countries. There was no par
leying, no humoring and no use of
milder force. Immediately the crowd
tbecame insistent the order was given
to fire"
E! One eye witness told later of the
scene at the bridge "Salaria and
shouted TO the deputy commissioner
and the officers TO get back and no.
to fire, as we still hoped to take the
crowd back. a few in the crow,
threw wood and stones at the soldiers
who at once opened with a volle!
without warning. Bullets whistled Il
my right and left. After the frs
/. few shots the crowd rushed back bu
the firing was continued. Many o
them were hit in the back. The crow
; dispersed leaving 25 or 30 killed an,
, wounded
1T should be remembered" tn
report goes on, that the mob ha
Imperial Valley press., 1920-06-19

thought about the matter and don't
imagine it took me more than 80
seconds to make up my mind as to
what my duty was" he replied.
"As regards the crowd, what was II
doing?"
"They were holding meeting.
There was a man in the center of the
place on something raised. His arms
were moving about. He was evident
ly addressing.
Did it not occur to you that 1t was
a proper measure to ask the crowd to
disperse before you took the step of
actually firing?'
mo. At that time | did not.
merely felt that my orders had not
been obeyed, that martial law was
MORE
flouted, at that it was my duty to fire
Immediately by rifle
Before you dispersed the crowd
had the crowd taken any action at
all?"
mo sir, they had run zway. few
of them. When | began to fire the
big mob in the center began to ru>
almost to the right"
Imperial Valley press., 1920-06-19
C|T|zE \ s HIPS
FASHION CHANGES
(By Associated Press)

CONSTANT1NOPLE, June 10
Citizenship is commercial commodity
which is hawled about in the cities OF
the IeVant with an Indifference which
makes westerners wonder whether the
mixed commercial populations of Near
Eastern cities are capable o. patriot
ism and devotion to any country.
An American business man in Con
stantinople who was recently en-
ploying some agents asked many ap-
plicants what their citizenship was.
Without exception the men produced
passports from most Of the Balkan
states and expressed willingness to
feign any citizenship which might be
necessary and to change as circum-
stances might demand. When the
American expressed surprise they as
sured him it was very easy to get
papers fixed up for consideration.
Most of the Levantines who had
German and Austrian citizenship have
very speedily taken zechoSlovak
papers to say they have become Jugo-
Slava. 1t is just as easy for them to
change their nationality as it IS for
the chameleon to change his colors.
Many Levantine firms have shuffled
the citizenship of their members in
such a manner as to have no difficulty
in meeting any business emergencies
which may rise, and make claims on
the various consular and diplomatic
Representatives for assistance in their
commercial operations.
The fashion in citizenship changes
in Constantinople and other Near
Eastern ports just as the styles in
hats. Greek citizenship has recently
become very popular because of the
"The inhabitants may burn or
bury their dead as soon as they
please. There must be no demon
stration of any kind
Imperial Valley press., 1920-06-19

MARION, Ohio. June 19,-"I'm 60
ing to grow up into a great man and
become president myself"
That was Warren G. Harding's boast
when he was Y years old. according to
his father, Dr.. George T. Harding, who
is still practicing medicine here.
81 was on Washington's birthmday
n 1871" said DR.. Harding. "The church
bells were ringing. Warren was play
ing with some boys in the back yard.
They stopped to listen. Then Warren
first announced his candidacy'.'
DR.. Harding was rs year old the
day his son was nominated, and Sen
ator Harding will be 50 years old on
November 2, 1920-election day.
Harding's sister, Mrs. Heber Votaw,
was for II years a Baptist missionary
in Burma. Later she has been doing
social service work in Washington
Imperial Valley press., 1920-06-19

not as yet committed excesses. There
was therefore no occasion for impa-
tience, Indifference of callousness,
which. according to this witness, was !
evidently exhibited.
while, therefore, we deplore the
deportation order and the firing and
consider both as unjustifiable and the
absence of any ambulance arrange
ment as inhuman, nothing can be heidi
to Justify the wanton destruction by
the mob of the innocent lives and
properties.
The first thing General Dyer did
was to make arrests. He entered the
city and made about II arrests with I
out any molestation or resistance
whatever"
One witness told the Investigators
that the city's water and electric light
supplies were cut off for three or
four days as punishment.
The occurance which directly led to
the subsequent wholesale massacres in
the Jalleanwala Bagh, the report
asserts, was a proclamation issued
about this time by General Dyer for
bidding the natives to assemble pub
licly.
"The public meeting in the Jallean-
wala Bagh," the report states, was
called before the proclamation had
reached more than half the population.
Shortly before the arrival of General
Dyer on the scene with 80 soldiers
and two armored cars, Hans Raj, had
taken charge of the meeting, the au-
dience numbering about 10000.
The bagh is ar irregular quad
lrangle, indefferently walled, and, in
most cases, with the back walls of
| houses surrounding it enclosing the
quadrangle There are three trees,
dilapidated tomb with dome and
well. The ground at the entrance
! is an elevation, remarkably fit for
posting soldiers and firing upon a
crowd in front. The main entrance
! is a narrow passage through which,
happily, the armored cars could not
pass. There are no other regular
entrances but at four or five points it
was possible to get out through
narrow openings. The audience in
cluded many boys and children and
some men had come with infants in
their arms.
General Dyer deployed 25 soldiers
to the right and 25 to the left, on the
, high ground on the north side of the
, rectangular space" What happened
t afterward is given by the Indian
/ investigators in General Dyer's own
{ words recorded during his testimony
! at the subsequent inquiry:
| "When you got to the bagh what
did you do?" General Dyer was
: asked;
81 opened fire. Immediately l had
Imperial Valley press., 1920-06-19
(By Associated Press

NEW YORK, June 19.-Firing by
soldiers commanded by British army
officers upon a crowd Of Unarmed
native of India, who were seeking
TO present to a British deputy COM
missioner a petition for the release of
two of their leaders led few days
later TO the massacre of 900 Indians
trapped in q great square at Amrit-
sar, in the Puniab district Of India
in the spring of 1919, says . report
now made public by native Investi-
gators. The report was prepared by
the Punjab subcommittee Of the In
dian National congress. In its pre-
paration more than 100 witnesses
were examined and dispositions taken
from survivors and relatives Of the
dead.
Dissatisfaction among the natives
first became apparent with the
passage of the Rowlatt Bills, designed
10 punish sedition.
All over the country resolutions
We're passed by huge mass meetings
protesting against the law and de-
manding its repeal.
The trouble between natives and Of
ficials, the report states, began il
earnest on lilS hiPHl VI Apil II a, NH'I
two Influential natives Drs. kitch-
lew and Satyapal, were arrested anc
their friends heard they were to b;
deported.
''The news spread through Amrit
sar like lightning" the report contin
ues. "A crowd Immediately gatherec
together. 1t was a crowd of mourners
bareheaded, many unshod and al
without sticks. 1t was on the way Z
the deputy commissioners bungalov
TO plead for the release of its love-
ones.
1T marched through the principa
streets Of Amritsar, passed the Ma
tional Bank. the town hall and tn
Christian Mission hall, the very build
ings which, within short time, wer
10 be destroyed by some OF them. 1t
progress was stopped, however, at tn
railway overbridge which was guarde
by military picket. The men de
Imperial Valley press., 1920-06-19

got trampled under the feet Of the
rushing crowds and thus lost their
lives. There were heaps of bodies at
different places. | think there must
have been over 900.
Th next day was devoted by the
people in disposing of their dead after
The following laconic proclamation
had been issued:
Many pages of the report are de
voted to various kinds Of punishments
inflicted on the natives by the author
tiles under the martial law These
included flogging, making the people
crawl through certain streets, I'M
prisonment without trial or even ac-
cusation and other punitive measures.
Evening journal., 1920-11-17
OLD GUARD ROUTED
IN ATHLETIC UNION

NEW YORK, Nov. determination
OF amateur athletics in the United
states BY the New York Athletic Club
and q group OF conservatives is at
an end.
Paying heed 10 the demands OF the
-soviet Of athletes" formed last sum
mar in Antwerp before the Olympic
games, the Amateur Athletic Union
has decided upon a change OF faces
and policies among the governors OF
Athletics
The insurgents ticket" headed by
Rmert & Weaver OF the Los Angeles
Athletic Club was elected in IFS en-
briy over the choice Of the New
York clique. Justice Barlow s. Weeks
IN offlce-holder in the union for years
went out Of once with the rest OF
The ~old guard
Tn addition committee OF William
c. Prout jeremiah Mahoncy anr
Charles B. Lynch was appointed Z,
Investigate the charges made by th,
Olympic athletes against the com
mittee in charge Of the American team
IN Antwerp.
Evening journal., 1920-11-17
KNOCKOUT BAKER
READY FOR BATTLE

Knockout" Harry Baker, Key
stones crack middlewelght. will make
an attempt 20 come back tomorrow
night. at the Chester Athleblc Club.
when he meets Otto Hughes, OF Ph.la-
delphia, who is head boxing instruc-
tor at Jack O'Brien's Health Studio,
in Philadelphia
If condition counts for anything the
local bear cat is sure to give a good
account of himself, as he has trained
faithfully for the past month.
Baker will wind up his. training this
afternoon at the Keystone Field Club
by taking a strenuous workout with
Jimmy Carroll. Of Philadelphia who
was sent here by the locals manager,
Herman linden, to help get the local
boy in shape.
Baker Will be accompanied 10 Ches-
ter by Buckley McGinnis and Kid Car