The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-01-04
PERSONAL.

Chas. E. Owen went to Boston Monday
on business.
Frank O. Smith left Tuesday for a visit in
Boston and Providence.
Miss Ella Twombly left Tuesday for a-visit
in Cambridgeport, Mass.
James W. Jones went to Bridgewater
Mass, Saturday on business.
Mrs. Fannie Smith OF Rockland visited
friends in Belfast last week.
Fred Hollins of Boston spent New Years
day with Charles R. Coombs.
Miss Cora Morrison visited Miss Mary
Walker in Rockland last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Rigby went to Lewis
ton Saturday for visit OF three days.
Miss Ethel Thomas left Tuesday to attend
the Bridgewater Mass, Normal school.
A. l.. Edwards, clerk at the Bay View.
Camden, spent few days here the past
week.
Thomas Rice arrived home last Saturday
from Massachusetts, where he has been visit
ing his sons.
Charles d. Maddocks of East Vassaboro
is visiting his aunt, Mrs. B. F. Maddocks 3S
Bridge street.
Mrs. Sarah A. ingalls, left Tuesday for
Lowell, Mass, accompanied by her niece,
Miss 1nez A. Move.
William H. Hodsdon of Worcester, Mass.
returned to that city last Thursday after a
visit to Thomas j. Brown.
Misses Lena Milly and Essie Sanborn left
Tuesday for Medfeld, Mass, where they
have employment in straw shop
At Portland last Saturday Judge R. W,
Rogers of this city was admitted to practice
in the United States Circuit court.
Mrs. Fred B. Canney of Dover and Mr..
N. v. Barker of Colby are spending the hol-
iday vacation with Miss Maude E. Barker.
A. B. Stantial, the we'll known and sue
cessful strawberry grower OF Brooks, start
ed Monday on trip to Nova Scotia in the
interest of fertilizer company.
Miss Bertha 1. Bird attended the meeting
of the Maine Pedagogical Society in Bangor
last week, and on her return, with her sis
ter Helen, went to Rockland for visit.
The many friends of Miss Annie S. Bean
will learn with regret of her serious illness.
She has been attended by nurse for several
months, and no hopes are entertained of her
recovery. She is boarding with her sister,
Mrs Daniel W. Carey, in Roxbury, Mass.
Miss Edith PettingiN was at home from
Boston for a holiday. Last Sunday forenoon
she sang solos in both the Unitarian and
Universalist churches. Saturday while re-
turning from a call, she lost either on Spring
street or Church street south of Spring, a
purse containing $25 in money.
j. Ferd Peterson, who has been clerk for
! L. A Knowlton & Co., has gone to Massa-
chusetts, where he expects to go into the
grocery business in company with his father,
Capt j. F. Peterson. They have a number
of locations in view, hut had not decided
which one they should take, at the time of
leaving Belfast.
Cyrus G. Hills of Rockland called at The
Journal Office last week and left some hand
some calendars of the firm of Winslow
Rand & Watson, dealers in teas and coffees,
coffee business 81 years. He was in busi-
ness for himself 16 years, after which he
sold out and went on the road for the tim
by which he has since been employed. lie
is one of the oldest men in the business n
point of service.
When Oscar W. Pitcher arrived here Lass
week, coming up from Camden on steame-
NJ and M, he was met at the wharf by
number of his Belfast friends. 1t is tifteel
West but he has changed very little in that
time. His stay here was short, and hete.t
Camden last Saturday for his home in Col
orado Springs, Colorado. He was accom-
panied as far as Boston by his daughter,
Miss Louise Pitcher, who has been visiting
! in Camden.
| Last summer George A. Bailey. formerly
of this city, entered the employ of 6. W.
| McNear, one of the largest grain mercaaEts
| of San Francisco, as grain agent, anI as SO
successful that he has been chosen to rep
resent the firm of McNear IN the Philip
| pines, and is the first man to be sent there.
He was given the position IN preference to
| lev will be absent some five or six months,
and Mrs. Bailey is coming home VIA the
| Southern route to spend the time with her
mother, Mrs. j, M. Fletcher.
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