The Republican journal., 1896-10-01


Pittsfield is visiting Mrs. Betsey Gilman .
Miss May Mason of Lebanon, N. H., is visit
ing atiher uncle's, David Ciilman's
HALLDALE Rev. j. Washburn preached
at the Nose schoolhouse last Sunday fore
noon and closed his labors there for the pres
ent Rev S. G. Whitcomb, the State F. w
b. missionary, preached at the church Sun
day evening. Mrs. H. n. Crockett left last
| Thursday for Rockland, where she will stop
few days with friends before returning to
her home in Grelton, Ohio. Mrs Clara
| lngraham entertained the Ladies Circle last
| tuesday Potatoes are rott;ng badly.
Some are hardly worth digging, Mr.. ana
Mrs, Harry Stevenson of Lowell, Mass, are
visiting at E. f. Banton's. j.. Fred A. Fos-
ter and Miss Blanche Smith have returned
to Lowell. .Zubie Gowen and Alice
EowelI have gone to Watervile to work.
Fred A. Myricl1 has gone to Belfast to work
mir. and Mrs. G. Sleeper of Owls Head
visited relatives here last week. -. Miss
May Ward of Freedom is teaching the
school here,
BROOKS. Roberts & Son have been doing
quite job repairing their dam, which
became undermined by the freshet of last
spring. The structure is fourteen feet high
and had to be entirely rebuilt; and the
question was how to raise the rock and also
| how to haul the new material across the
dam, some sixty feet. They erected der
rick and litchng rope to the niger wheel
in the mill had a power that worked admir-
abV for the purpOSa Won will payar tob
a Roberts of the CID breed to do anything
by hand that machine can be made to do
Andrew Miles an;! wife of Burnham
| attended the Monroe fair and visited Mr..
Miles sister, Mrs. Martha Lane. i. Mr. and
and Mrs. G. F. Lord and Mrs. James A. Gil
bert Kate Miles) of Providence, r. T., have
spent few days here with the family of
Otis Lane. 1t will be remembered that
they lived here some years Mrs Arthur
Anderson MAY Curtis) of Boston is visiting
friends in town....At the G. E. S. meeting
last Sunday evening Rev. F. S. Dolliff gave
a very interesting talk on the character of
David, King of Isreal. Miss Mabel Elling-
wood, who for some time has been resi-
dent of this village, goes this week to Liver
more Falls, where she has employment....
Walter Mathews, assistant station agent
has moved his family to town, having oh.
tanned rent in the Merithew house,. Mrs.
Amanda Peabody is visiting her parents,
DR.. and Mrs, Joel T. Collier, at South
Brooks,... Walter Penney has sold nice
horse to New York parties. There are
plenty more nice ones to be obtained here
The wife Of Bert Lane has added
another Of the name to the list in Brooks
Mrs. Anna IIealey, who learned her trade in
Brooks, but who for some time has worked
in Boston, is now prepared to do dressmal5-
ing at the II H. PilIey house She is an
excellent workman, is a widow with Il
daughter to support, ana it il to be hoped
that She may succeed in business.
PGTTsFIELD. Mr.. and Mrs Hackett lad a
family reunion at their spacious residence
On Main street, Sept 18th. About Is mem
bels OF the families and few invited guests
We're present, The lawns We're decorated
with lawn swings, tents, &c, while croQuet
and other games We're provided for the
young people. Dinner was served in the
large tent, on daintily trimmed tables after
which pleasant social season was enjoyed,
interspersed with singing, music, &c. The
songs by Mrs. Jennie G, Porter, and by Miss
| Rena Witham Were exceedingly sweet, and
well appreciated The music by Smith and
Stevens was also highly appreciated
All We're so well pleased with this most de
lightful day that a third reunion was decd-
ed upon, which will be held next year at
Carratunk. Samuel Smith, teamstar for
Allen Hackett, was thrown from wagon
near the railroad station Sept. 23d by the
sudden starting of his horses, which were
frightened by the moving of some cars He
sustained a fracture of both bones of the
right leg just below the knee. DR.. Taylor
reduced the fracture. John Q. Thompson
has returned from California after an ab-
sence of nearly two years.. Misses Susie
and Grace Davis have gone to Portland to
visit their aunt. Mrs Fred Dyer, for few
days, after which they will return to New
| York to resume their office work -. DR.. aud
| Mrs. q. A. Stevens of Stockton Springs, DR..
E. l.. Stevens of Belfast and Miss Millie
| Stevens of Troy visited friends in town re-
Gently. Fred Bryant returned to Boston a
week ago to resume Lis studies at the Har-
ward Medical School. Mr. Bryant is very
| brilliant scholar and is entitled to consider
able honor as being one of seventeen out of a
| class of 200 who received the highest rank at
| the last session of the school. Mrs. w r.
Hunnewell, Mrs, A. II. Burse, Mrs. t. G.
Lancey, Mrs, n. L. Perkins and Misses
Helen Haskell and Ethel Vicl1ery at
tended the Y. z. c. U. convention at Water
vile last week. They went as delegates
| from the Union Of the Universalist church
in this town. Mrs. May Pushor Of Bangor
is visiting in town....W, l.. Pushor, cashier
of the Pittstield National Bank, was con
fined to the house by sickness last week..
| Mr. and Mrs. j. S. Davis left home Friday
| to visit friends in Thorndile, Brooks and
| Knox, and are now in Belfast visiting Mrs
Davis sister, Mrs, Mary A. Patterson, and
her niece, Mrs. John Carr. Mrs. D. will
| also attend the w. g. 7. L. convention.
| Mrs Benz. Thompson, Mrs. E. c. Bryant,
| Mrs. Lew Tayler ard others from Pittstield
are expected to be present. Il. l.. Hathorn
| and wife We're at the Lancey House several
| days last week. e. Misses Frances McCaus-
| land and Mae Gould are at home from Bid
| uefOrd for few weeks vacation Jnstin