Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-09-07
SOUTH PARIS.


Milton one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Abbott visited
friends in Andover last week.
Frosts were reported in one or two
places in low lands last week.
Mrs Ida Lsphsm of Milton 10 spend
Ing a week or so in this village.
Alfred Taylor of Mechanic Falls visit.
al relatives in this village Thursday.
Miss Mary Sheehsp, who has been Wis
iipg in town, has returned to Canton.
Prof Ernest c. Mariner of Hebron
Academy was in South Paris Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. o. Bryant were at o
E. Bowksr's, Abbott's Mills, one day
last week.
Mrs. Merton Clifford was the guest of
Mrs. Ida Douglass in Bethel one day
last week.
Frank Card has been visiting his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. /. G. Jones
in Canton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hudson knight were re-
cant guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John Eden
10 Oxford.
The corn canning shop OF Burnhsm &
Morrill, Company began the fall run on
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elias Strout have been
visiting Mr.. aud Mrs. c. Z. Chapman in
South Poland.
Miss Bernice Newell of Sumner, for
merry Of Paris Hill, has been visiting
her amt, Mrs. j. d. Haynes.
Edward Skinner and family of Provi-
dence, r. l., have been guests OF Mr..
and Mrs. George L. Skinner the past
week.
John NJ. and Milford G.. Chandler have
been spending several days with their
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. s. Chand-
Ter, in Bethel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Jacobs have been
visiting Mrs. Helen Oxton and Mrs.
Adde Fitzgerald in Rockville during
the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Stsrbird and son
Bertrand and Mr.. and Mrs. William
Bean were guests of Mrs. Grace Ethridge
in Milton recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. D. Bolster, Morton
Y. Bolster and Miss Ruth Bolster mo-
tored to Dixfield the first of last week
and visited Mr.. and Mrs. w. q. Small.
The village milliners are putting in a
new supply of ladies' hesdgear. OF
course the dear creatures will have to
have new hats to vote in.
Shaw's Orchestra plays at West Bethel
fair dances Wednesday of this week,
Thursday at South Waterford, Friday
at Bolster's Mills, Saturday at Buckfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. William P. Morton, Mr..
and Mrs. Raymond Penfold and Mrs.
Louise Briggs motored to Gorhsm, n.
g., one day last week and spent the day
with Mr.. and Mrs. W. Noddin.
H.w. Clifford of Worcester, Mass, is
spending few days with relatives in
the village. On September first Mr..
Clifford rounded ont thirty-eight years
Of continuous service in the Worcester
post Office.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. 81. Stuart have rscelv-
ed a csblegrsm from their daughter, |
Mrs. Leona Areson, saying she and her
husband have arrived safely in Constsn- |
tinople. On the way they visited Italy |
and Greece.
Samuel F. Davis was one Of our citi- |
zens who went to Dixield Wednesday |
10 hear Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. |
Mr.. Davis says the young colonel is
chip of the old block with many OF the
mannerisms of his father but better
speaker.
Leroy W. Titus, who has recently
moved to this village from Brysnts
Pond, has purchased the market OF
Ernest B. jackson in Norway, and will
take possession about September 20.
This market has been running about
nine years.
Leslie L. Mason is doing an extensive
Job Of grading on the lawn Of his resi-
deuce on Pleasant Street. Clement,
landscape gardener of Portland, has
charge Of the work. A gradual slope is
being made TO the street, and later he
will arrange flower beds and shrubs to
harmonize with the surroundings.
Sheriff Harry D. Cole assisted by
Deputy Sheriff Harry o. Stimson has
been investigating "boozing" on hard
cider of which there has appeared to
be considerable, and as q result, Amos
g. Foster OF Norway was brought into
the Norway Municipal Court Tuesday,
fined one hundred dollars plus costs,
which be paid and was discharged.
Members of the Baptist Sunday School
On Paris Hill picuicked at Ames Grove
on the rivers bank north of the village
Tuesday. The morning was fine so far
as weather was concerned but it clouded
up In the afternoon and ended with
shower. Nevertheless good time was
enjoyed, the rain coming so late as not
to seriously interfere with the festiViues'
Abigail Whitman Chapter, Daughters
Of the American Revolution, OF Norway,
was entertained Wednesday evening oy
Misses Flora and Myra Richards at their
home in this village. This is the tirst
meeting after the summer vacation.
The program included roll call with
poems or prose selections from local
authors, with paper by Miss Myrs
Richards.
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Bennett and
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Carroll motored
through the White Mountains one day
asst week. They went by the way OF
Dixvills Notch and returned via Craw-
ford Notch. They stopped at Cole
brook, N. a., with DR.. and Mrs. 4: L.
TwOmbly and added Miss Maxine Ben
nett to their party. Miss Bennett has
been stopping at DR.. Twombly's during
the summer.
The crew, or rather crews, for there
are several of them, which are putting 10
the block system on the Grand Trunk
Railway, are getting the work down to
this village and even beyond. Signai
STATS have been erected outside the YARD
north of the village and the foundations
Tor others south Of the station have oeen
put in. The blades have not been put
on yet. Extra arms have been placed
On the telegraph poles upon woion tne
new wires to supply power TO the olook
signals are to be strung and the wires
are already being put In place. cross
Ing signals are also being put in position
The thunder shower which visited
South Paris In q mild form Tuesday
afternoon was more severe In the west
ern part of the state and assumed lorna
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