Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-01-27
Plenty Of snow for business now, II 1t

Plenty OF snow for business now, II I
will soften Q tribe and lie still.
The next regular meeting of Pari.
Grange viii be February Z at 80 O'Clock
The teacher training class will meeI
with Miss Nellie Jackson Tuesday even
ing OF this week.
Masquerade ball at Grange Hall Sat
urdsy evening, Feb. Z. Three prizes
will be awarded.
Miss Nora Durham spent the week
end in Portland, as the guest of Miss
Pearl Bennett, who was formerly al
South Paris.
The annual meeting OF the South Paris
local of the N. E. NJ. P. A. will be held al
Grange Hall. South Paris, Saturday,
Jan. 81, at 80 P. NJ.
Miss Helene Pitts was In Portland
over the weekend, to visit her grand.
mother who is in the hospital.
Rev. Chester Gore Miller's topic at
the Universslist church next Sunday
morning will be, "The message which
Sir Oliver Lodge brings to America"
By order of the Board of Health posi-.
lively no books will be given out from
the public library until all the books
now out have been returned and fumi.
gated. =
The Junior Endesvor Society OF the
Congregational church will present The
playet, "Just Plain Dot" Friday even
ing, Jan. 80. Everybody come and help
the children.
Miss Doris Kerr, who has been EN-.
plOyed for the past few weeks at the
National Bank, is again in the
Office of W. j. Wheeler & Co., where she
was formerly employed.
Postmaster j. A. Kenney entertained
the three rural carriers, Ernest NJ. Mil
lett, A. L. Holmes and +. Albert Dodge,
and Richard Rogers, at supper at Hotel
Andrews Saturday evening.
The Ladies' Social Union of the
Universslist church will meet at
the church at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon to tack quilts. At seven
O'Clock in the evening will be held the
quarterly teachers meeting Of the Sun
day School.
Six from the Congregational church
attended the meeting OF the Western
Maine Branch of the Woman's Board
Of Missions at Portland last week.-Mrs..
T. S. Barnes, Mrs. n. G.. Elder, Mrs. c.
W. Rogers, Mrs. E. B. Clifford, and Miss
Eva Walker.
The thermometer pretty nearly touched
bottom Monday morning, with tempera-
ures which make the record for this
rear and perhaps for period of some
Iears. Readings as low as SO and SO are
eported in the coolest level "over the
liver" The editorial thermometer on
'orter Street, which is exceedingly mild
hammered under all conditions OF wealth
r, went to a strong 20 below, mark
which we believe has been touched only
zee before in the twelve years that the
thermometer has hung in Its present To-
alton.
A good number of boys from Paris and
;orway attended the Boys Conference
q Lewiston from FRIDAY to Sunday.
rom the Congregational Sunday School
{ South Paris there were Gordon Pow
rs, Henry Howard, Stanley Greene and
reginald Porter, with Robert Z. Wise as
sader. From the Methodist school, Her
pan Barnett and Willard Clark, with
lester Wood as leader. Harlsnd Shaw
nd Edward Carlson went from the Paris
Hill Baptist school. From the Metho-
list Sunday School at Norway there were
Herbert Drew, Tbalms Joslin and Leslie
Gibson, with DIR. A. Leon Sikkengs as
esder and G.. Ralph Hartman. Henry
dorton, Frank Maxim, Rnaldo Wiggin
md Lester Cushman of the South Paris
Sunday School also attend
ID part of the conference, though not
holding credentials as delegates.
At the meeting at the Baptist church
sunday evening, which was the regular
Monthly missionary meeting of the
hurch, Rev. Clinton W. Areson, who
With Mrs. Areson is with her parents,
dr.. and Mrs. j. 81. Stuart, for short
ime, gave talk on conditions in Russia.
Dir. Areson is engaged in Y. NJ. G. A.
york, and in that was in soviet Russia
or some months in 1918, and again in
919, and plans to return there another
ear. He talked to the audience for an
lour or more very Interestingly, first
racing the causes of the Russian revolu-
ion and the soviet revolution which
anne a little later, and then describing
onditions as be saw them. An interest
ng fact is that be found conditions in
ONE respects more settled in the Sec
nd year than in the first. Mr.. Areson
nanifests a marked sympathy for the
Russian people, not in the follies OF
which they are guilty, but in their effort
or self-expression. The Bolshevik gov
rnmeut is not democratic, he says, it is
dictatorship Of class. AS workable
,lsu, he does not believe it will 60, but
le favors giving it q chance to prove it
elf, and he thinks the allied govern
nents, in giving the soviet government
'uficient recognition to permit degree
If trading with Russia, are doing the
light thing. he thinks the outcome is
likely to be a modified form of socialistic
government for Russia. At the outset
md at the conclusion of his remarks he
declared that an understanding Of Russia
8 the great need here, and that America
,ught to be the one nation most friendly
N Rusaia