Oxford Democrat., 1921-12-20
NORWAY.

| The friends and parishioners Of Rev.
and Mrs. Robert j. Bruce surprised them
ut their residence on Eastern Prone.
made, Portland, Tuesday evening, It be-
Ing the date Of their fifteenth wedding
anniversary. This event may be Of In
terest to their many Norway friends and
former parishioners. The decorations
throughout the house were chrysanthe-
NUNS, and an orchestra Of young people
furnished music for the occasion.
w. w. Ripley is making extensions
and improvements on the Ice house. A
cement bottom has been put in and also
larger doors.
Mrs. Charles Buck is in Portland for
few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Solomon I. Jackson have
gone to st. Petersburg, Florida, for the
winter.
Hon. Bertrand G.. McIntire was In
Portland Tuesday to attend meeting OF
the State Pier Commission.
The Barton Reading Club met Thurs
day afternoon with Mrs. George P.
Locke. The reading was on Harriet
Prescott Spofford by Mrs. Izah Sanborn.
David Flood has bought the Cynthia
Partridge place on the Harrison road.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence q. Downing
were In Sabattus day or two last week.
Misses Daisy Chase and Ella Clark
were recent visitors with Mrs. Ethel
Brown Parker at Crystal, N. 81.
The Joel Crooker house on Bridge
Street, next to the office Of Q. B. Cum
mIngs 6 Sons Company, is to be taken
down or moved to make room for the
enlargement of the Cummings business.
The Universalist fair was great sue
cess. A large amount of goods were
sold and the entertainment much en-.
joyed.
George F. Hathaway, D. NJ. French
and Giles Frost were in Portland and
South Portland Wednesday, and inspect
ed the fire fighting apparatus Of the lat
ter city.
Samuel Isaacson of Berlin, N. b., was
in town last week loading apples.
The electric cars of the old Norway
and Paris railroad have been sold. j.
G. True bought two and Nathan Merrill
one.
The Universalist Sunday School will
have Christmas tree, supper and enter
tainment Monday evening, the 28th.
The Veranda Club will meet with Mrs.
Florence Smith next Thursday evening.
Some 2300 barrels of apples have been
shipped from this station during the sea-
son just passed.
Miss Henrietta NJ. Taylor has returned
from q trip to Hampton, N. H., and Bos.
ton.
Miss Marion E. Thomas attended the
annual Christmas Chi Psi dance at Bow
doin College Thursday evening as q
guest of the fraternity.
Miss Della Noyes visited DR.. Mar.
guerite Stevens in Portland recently.
Harold Stearns was brought to Nor
way Friday morning by Deputy Sheriff
Harry o. Stimson, where he was wanted
for embe zzlement. Mr.. Stimson was in
Augusta Thursday and just as he was
leaving for home on the electric car, he
saw Stearns entering an apartment in
that city. Mr.. Stimson took note of the
house for be presumed Stearns was board
ing there, and when he arrived In Lewis-
ton telephoned Deputy Marshal William
Corbett of the Augusta police force, Civ.
ing description Of the fellow and the
locality where be had seen him. The
maashal Immediately Investigated the
place and found that Stearns had just
moved to another house. He followed
and arrested him at rooming house on
Green Street. Mr.. Stimsons was notified
and he went after him Friday.
Mrs. Herman L. Bartlett and daughter,
Miss Alice, and Miss Virginia Hall were
in Brunswick Thursday and Friday.
While there they attended the house
party given by the Delta Chi fraternity
of Bowdoin College. Mrs. Bartlett was
one of the patronesses.
Mrs. Leslie MoAllister has returned
from East Stonebam, where she had been
called by the illness Of her mother, Mrs.
Arthur Moody.
Samuel A. Cox Is on furlough from
the Soldiers Home in Togus to this vii.
lage.
Mrs. Wilfred G. Conary has been
entertaining her sister, Mrs. Gertrude
Adams, and her daughter, Miss Eleanor
Adams; also her aunt, Mrs. Levi McAl-
lister, all of Stoneham. Mrs. McAlllster
will remain with her niece all winter.
Mrs. 1. w. Dow, q sister to Capt. Con-
ary, who has been stopping with the
Conarys, goes to Audover this week for
an indefinite stay.