Oxford Democrat., 1920-05-11
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
The flag drill by sixteen young ladies,
which 10 being prepared under the ans.
pices OF Mrs. Stephen o. Jefferson for
the benefit of william Henry Stone Post,
American Legion, will be presented at
the Opera House Tuesday evening.
Charles 8. Akers will be director.
The May meeting of Abigail Whitman
Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, was held Wednesday even.
ling With Mrs. Gertrude Libby.
| The Barton Reading Club have elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year:
Pres.-Mrs. George A. Brooks.
| lst Vice. Pres.-Mrs. Fred Z. Drake.
| Cd Vice. .Pres.-Mrs. Alice Marst0n.
Sec and Treas.-Mrs. n. Alice Oxnard.
| Asst. sec.-Mrs. Helen Pendexter.
The Swastika Club met Wednesday
evening with Mrs. Harriet Porter.
Miss Josephine Lord Of Waterford Is
visiting her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry A. Biokford.
The Daughters OF Veterans and the
Woman's Relief Corps served patriotic
dinner at the Grange Hall Friday noon,
the proceeds of which went toward the
Memorial Day fund. The committee in
charge from the Daughters comprised
Mrs. Bertha Sturtevant, Mrs. Nettie New
ers. Mrs. Bessie Hutohins, Mrs. Jessie
Whitman and Tena McAllister; and that
from the Corps, Mrs. Emma Swan, Mrs.
Ida Cannon, Mrs. Helen Csnwell, Mrs.
Grace Chick and Mrs. Sadie Klain. In
the evening of the same day a supper
was served at Knights OF Pythias Hall
for the two bodies, and the farce,
"Cousin Deborah's First Luncheon"
was presented by the Norway Lake
Mothers Club.
On Friday evening Harry Rust Wom.
ans Relief Corps gave q penny lunch
after the regular meeting in charge OF
Mrs. Roselda Banks.
A fifteen cent May party was held at
the Universalist church Friday evening
under the auspices of Mrs. Elizabeth
Sampson's class.
A base ball team has been organized
In town known as the Home Team. A
meeting was recently held at the home
of Percy d. Nevers, when the following
officers were elected:
Manager-Percy H. Nevers.
Clerk-M G. Bancroft.
Treasurer-Stephen o. Jefferson.
Advisory Committee-L. N. Carroll, James G.
True and Fred Lafrance.
The uniforms are now being made.
They are of navy blue with white letters.
The caps and stockings have been con-
tributed by the CarrOll-J ellerson Com.
pany. The FIST game will be played
May 80, when the Norway-Paris Brass
Band will furnish music.
Sunday was observed as Mothers Day
at the Baptist church. Tinted cards OF
invitation we're issued bearing the fol-
lowing:
Dear Mother:
thoughts were for his mother. No mother
should live except In the full consciousness OF
the love Of Jesus Christ as her burden-Dearer
and ever present friend.
"I sometimes wonder why my heart
Enjoys such aid and care;
Why i, of all his precious ones,
Such peace and plenty share.
half can guess the reason why
MY heart is 30 much blest;
He seems to know need more grace
Perhaps than all the rest"
The Universalist sewing circle met
Friday afternoon with Mrs. Bertrand Il.
McIntire.
The Norway Home Building Associa-
tion, formed last fall to build houses to
accommodate families coming to Nor.
way, will build three houses on the iat.
iron piece at the corner of Beal and
Winter Streets the coming season.
Mrs. Charles G. Blake was recent
guest of her niece, Mrs. Lyman B. Chip
man, In Portland.
Mrs. William Sanborn is spending sew
eral weeks with relatives in different
parts of Massachusetts.
Edmund Everett, who bought the Mil
lett stand on Maple Street last fall, has
sold 1t to Mrs. Hanna Hill.
Miss Mary Dresser, who teaches In
Freeport, was recent guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Evander Whitman.
Mrs. Clara NJ. Elliott, who has been
spending the winter in Orlando, Florida,
has returned to her home In this village.
Miss Mildred 1. Curtis has returned
from several weeks visit in Boston.
Jonathan Holmes, who has been spend
ing the winter in Cambridge, Mass, has
returned to Norway. His many friends
are glad to see him back. Although
over eighty years old, he is active and
has begun his springs work, clearing Oh
his garden preparatory to planting.
Woodbury. Russell has been taking
down the old Stephens house at Norway
Lake adjoining DR.. G. A. Stephens
laboratory and home at Norway. Lake.
He will use portion OF the lumber LOT
the erection of building on Elm Street
for his brother, Murray Russell. The
first floor will be used as a garage and
the second story will be finished into
tenement.
A Universalist teachers meeting was
held at the home of Miss Della NJ. Noyes
Thursday evening".
Mrs. Sumner Parker, who has been at
St. Barnabas Hospital, Portland, for
treatment for erysipelas ip her head and
face, has gone to Conway Center, n. b.,
to stay a while with her sister. She IL
gaining and hopes and expects to come
back to Norway in the course OF few
weeks.
DR.. L. d. Trufant, who went to Waco,
Texas, last summer, after being dis
charged from war service, has moved to
I0rQaD, loXdos Wuoio h0 hoo Po
in Blackwell Hospital.
Lee NJ. Smith was elected junior grand
warden of the grand lodge of Masons In
Portland Tuesday.
Howard D. Smith was In Portland sew
eral days last week attending the grand
bodies of Masons.
Ralph Giles, who has been in Norway
some two weeks or more, has returned
to his home in Brownfeld.
There was q meeting OF the school
committees of the Norway, Waterford
and Oxford School Union at Norway
last week to choose new superintendent
of schools to take the place OF True q
Morrill,, who is going to Bangor. They
made choice of w. e. Stuart, who Is
now superintendent of Pittsfield. There
we're present ct the meeting, William r.
Jones, E N. SWEET and Hugh Pendexter
of the Norway board; Eugene Nelson OF
the Waterford board; q. o. Coy, Arthur
G. Hayes and Wilfred Perkins OF the
Oxford board. The union in organizing
made Judge William F. Jones chairman
and Hugh Pendexter secretary.