The Republican journal., 1897-10-07
The Republican Journal Thursday Morning October T. 1897

OF Stockton Springs is visiting Mrs. Susan
CHM. Mrs Vira Hartman and family
are visiting relatives in Peabody, Mass.
Several from this place attended the fair in
Orland last week. Twenty or more men
were sweeping all day last Sunday for the
bodies of the four men drowned in the river
Sept. 21st. The many friends of Miss Miriam
Grindle are glad to see her out again. She
is improving all the time. C. R. Hill and
wife of Winterport called on relatives here
last Sunday. Miss Mary Park of Sears
port visited Miss Freda Hartman last week.
TROY. Mr. and Mrs Eugene Hodgdon of
Lewiston are visiting Mrs. Hannah Hodg-
don. Mr.. Alvin Stone of Augusta has been
spending few days with his daughter, Mrs.
Alice Stone, and other relatives in town..
Mrs. NJ. G. Parsons has returned from Au-
gusta, where she spent some months with
her sister, Mrs. L. H. Cilley. Mrs. M. F.
Leathers attended the Maine Free Baptist
State Association convention in Gardiner
last week. -. Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton A. Elliott
and son Louis were in Troy Sunday to at
tend the funeral of Mrs. Elliotts uncle, Mr..
Robert Hawes. Mr.. William Walcott and
Mrs. Belle Walcott of Albion and Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Getchell OF Newport We're in
town Sunday 49,. Mrs. Lizzie Hopkins was
in town Sunday. Owing to the funeral
services of Mr.. Robert Hawes there were
no services at the church Sunday -. The re-
vival meetings have closed. Mr.. Benniah
Harding was called to Simpsons Corner,
Of SpkpaSa in ralo-
tives family. i. Messrs. Walter and Edgar
Harding of Waldo were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. B. F. Harding last Saturday 80 Mr.
and Mrs. Otis Elwell of Brooks were in
town Thursday and Friday, the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Harding.
MORRILL,. The Baptist Quarterly meeting
will be held in this place, beginning Friday,
Oct. 15th at 2 P. NJ, and holding over Sun
day. Saturday evening will be given up to
| the Y. P. S. G. E., which will hold a rally,
to which all are cordially invited. Mr.. W.
W. Rich of South West Harbor and Miss
Sarah Perley of Freedom were guests at
D. 0. Bowen's last Saturday,. The schools
in town began this week. Seats for the new
school-house arrived and were placed in
position last week. The furnace and pipes
were furnished by Mr.. Frank Clark of
Freedom. 1t is W ood & Bishop furnace of
the Monitor type. The grounds are being
we'll graded, and taken altogether we have a
school-house of which the town may we'll be
proud, at cost in round numbers of 81 800.
There two fine, well lighted school
| rooms, and a recitation room. The room for
the primary scholars is provided with seats
for As, and the upper grade room for so. The
other school-houses in town have been pla c.
ed in good repair. We are sorry to learn
that both Mr. and Mrs. j. H. Frye are quite
sick at their home in North Montville, and
that their adopted son Frank is i'll with
consumption. We miss them from their
accustomed places at church here. Last
I Sunday Rev Geo. Hills gave us a powerful
discourse from Psalms "A Z, $, 9, 10. In fact,
Mr. Hills gives us grand discourse every
time.
THoRNDIKE. DR.. w. B. Flint of Searsport
was in town for a few days recently....
Amos Hatch and wife of Jackson called on
S. G. Files and wife last Friday. W. II.
Hobbs and wife of Bangor We're the guests
of V. n. Higgins and wife Oct. 1st. -, Mrs.
X. j. Knowlton, who visited at j. H.
Stevens several days last week, returned to
her home in Bangor Oct. 1st..... Waldo
Leonard of Brewer visited his sister, Mrs
Fred Cole, last week. Mrs f. l.. Pllbricll
and Mrs, v n. Higgins visited Mrs. H. j.
Stevens in Bangor Sept. Goth and 9th.
MillarQ Gilmore and wife of Burnham were
the guests of Alonzo Higgins last week.
v N. Higgins was in Unity Oct. 9TH to at
tend the annual meeting of the Clough Vet
eran Charitable Association. . Willie p.
Higgins and Mrs. Flora Hunt of Salem,
Mass, are visiting their father, A. S. Hig-
gins. Mrs. Mabel Mason and Jennie Crox-
ford of Jackson visited at w. H Coffin s
last Saturday and Sunday Mrs. Florence
Rose is passing few weeks in Bangor with
Mrs. H. j. Stevens. Ross q. Higgins has
returned to his work in Massachusetts, j T..
Dumont Higgins and Mrs. Joseph Higgins
passed last Thursday in Unity. Mrs
Charles Hogan visited friends at the Mineral
Spring Farm last week. Burton Gross and
mother were in Belfast last Thursday
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supper last Saturday evening.
| SwANvILLE. Last Friday morning Mary
| A, widow of the late Eleazer Nickerson,
was found dead in her bed. Her physician
knew she had organic heart trouble but did
| not expect the end so soon. She had been
unusually we'll during the fall and her sud
den death was wholly unlocked for. She
was born in what was then Frankfort, now
| Winterport, Feb. 10, 1921 She married
| Peter III. Billings July 2S, 1889, by whom
she had four children: Mrs. Mcclure of
California, deceased; Mrs. Fred Park of
Westboro; Joseph P. Billings of Biddeford
and Daniel W. Billings of this place. Mr..
Billings died Feb. 6, 1877. Jan. /, 1851, she
became the wife of Eeazer Nickerson of
this town and came here to live. Three
children survive them: Adelbert of Waldo,
Ralph E. of Haverhill, Mass, and Mrs
Frank M. Stevens of this place. Mr.. Nick
erson died May II, 1893 She has one sister,
Mrs. Sarah Staples of Belfast, and one
brother, Benjamin F. Ellingwood Of Haver-
hill, still living. She was one of those
women who look we'll to the ways of her
own house-a devoted wife and mother, who
taught her children prudence and industry
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