Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-03-16
Amos Barnett 10 convalsscIng.

Mrs. Anna Butterdeld ID staying d
George KenIston's.
Miss Minnie McKeen called on her
cousin, Eta Remission, recently.
Mr.. and Mrs.. Silas Remission called on
Mr.. Keniston's uncle, George Remission,
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Martin have re-
turned home. Mr.. Martin has been III
since his return.
There will be supper preceding the
next meeting Of Mt. Pleasant Rebekah
Lodge, March 26th.
Mr.. Elmer Remission, son of Asa Kenis-
ton of South Paris, Ia In Detroit work.
ing in the Ford factory.
The Baptist Sunday School will give Q
social at the church next Thursday even.
ing to which all are cordially Invited.
Light refreshments will be served.
Oscar I. Pitts, who has been for some
weeks at the town farm, was taken to
the state hospital at Augusta Monday by
Selectmen A. Elroy Dean and Mark P.
Shaw.
The Ladies' Sewing Club had an at
tendance of eleven at its meeting last
Wednesday with Mrs. Haynes. Il will
meet with her again Wednesday after
noon of this week.
The w. G. T. U. will hold Its regular
March meeting with Mrs. Florence Has
kell Tuesday afternoon at 2:30. This
will be mothers meeting. in charge of
Mrs. Rogers and Mrs. Haskell.
Mt. Pleasant Past Grands Association
have their monthly meeting at Odd Eel
lows Hall Tuesday evening Of this week.
Hope there will be good attendance as
there Is lots Of business to attend to.
A message from Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
NJ. Wheeler of Wakefield, Mass, an
nounces the birth Saturday night of
daughter, who has been named Lucy
after Mr.. Wheeler's deceased mother.
The Fairvisw Cemetery Association
held Its annual meeting Saturday night,
and elected the following officers:
President-Hudson Knight.
Trustees-N. ID. Bolster, Oscar Parsons.
Sec. and Treas.-Alfred Jackson.
Everyone is planning on going to the
leap year ball Tuesday night. The
freshments will be served during the
evening by Mrs. c. W. Bowker and Mrs.
Howard Shaw.
So few of the memb ers of the Optimis-
tic Class attended the meeting with Mrs.
Grover last Saturday afternoon on &C.
count of the weather, that tibet class Is
asked to meet with her again Saturday
afternoon of this week.
Hamlip Lodge, Z. of p, will work the
rank Of Knight next Tuesday evening.
A light lunch will be served after the
work. Rehearsal of the rank team Wed
nesday evening. All team members
make special effort to attend.
The Ladies' Social Union will serve q
dinner from II is A. NJ. to 1:S0 P. N. In
the vestry of the Universalist Church
Wednesday, March II. The menu will
be baked beans, cabbage and potato
salad, all kinds of pies, doughnuts, cof.
fee, etc.
A social will be held at the vestry of
Deering Memorial Church on Friday
evening at 7:30, under the auspices of
the newly organized Rallie Class. All
are cordially invited to attend. The
young people of the church and society
are especially requested to be present.
The thaw and rain of Friday and Sat-
urdsy came pretty near Gaping the
climax. However, it froze again in sea-
son to avert real disaster. Certainly
from our mundane point of view, we
don't know how the weather could have
been everything that we didn't want 1t
to be more effectively than 1t has been
this winter.
The members of Mrs. q. A. Morton's
class In the Methodist Sunday School
gave her q surprise birthday party at
her home Saturday evening, which was
a genuine surprise. Mrs. Morton was
presented with atourmaline by the men,
bers of the class. Refreshments carried
by the visitors were served, and social
evening was passed.
Mr.. Fred Moran and Miss Marguerite
Elder, both of Maiden, Mass, were unit
ed in marriage at s O'Clock Saturday
evening, March IS, at the home of the
brides parents in that place. Mr.. Moran
is in the wholesale leather business in
Boston. The bride is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles R. Elder, and has
speat much time at the Elder summer
home in this place.
The Musical Workers met with Miss
Nellie NJ. jackson Friday evening, March
-. The following program was given:
Roll call
Essay on Beethoven
Helen Morton
Voices Of the Heart
Thelma Burgess
Bicycle Waltz
Rondo
Glenda Garcelon
In the Springtime
Miriam Chapman
q Polka
b schottische
q Austrian Song
b Dialogue
Geraldine Stewart
A break in the water main on Main
Street about in front Of the Hersey house
Friday night, and it was neces-
sary to shut off that line of the village
water system in the Square. This cuts
off entirely all who were not already
frozen up on the east side OF Market
Square, including the watering tub and
Hotel Andrews, the whole of Main
Street, and everything else east Of the
river, which will all be without water
until repairs are completed. This adds
considerably to the number Of the mourn
ers who 60 about the streets with pals
In their hands, and Is sample Of the
evil days that are likely to come, when
We shall say, we have no pleasure in
them.
Paris High School Notes.