The Republican journal., 1901-02-21

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the house. embellished with maple trees,
suggest very appropriate name for the
place, "Maple Terrace Farm" Hon. A.
f. Nickers0n was absent from home few
days week before last and returned the fol-
lowing Monday accompanied by Mrs. Helen
Peck of Pennsylvania. Arriving in the
midst. of such terrible blockade was not
altogether pleasant and we venture to say
that Mrs. P. is seeing more of the beautiful
snow than she ever dreamed Of. Capt.
and Mrs. F. Fl. Cleaves have issued invita-
lions for the wedding of their daughter,
Eudavilla to Mr.. Wallace Harmon to take
place Feb. 25th. Mr. Joshua NickersOn is
meetings on account of the storm. The
members of Comet Grange will have a
sociable at the grange hall, Feb. 2Sth, and
will present the Comedy, professor Bax-
ter's Great Invention" A small admission
will be charged at the door and refresh
ments will be served
STOCKTON SPRINGS. Owing to the illness
OF the correspondent no items were for
warded last week, and those published were
deferred from the week previous, not having
reached The Journal in time for the issue
of Feb. Z, on account of the snow embargo.
....ThrOugh the whirling white of the re-
cent storm the Angel Of Death winged his
way to our midst and bore away to the
Eternal Home three of our number. One
of our Oldest residents, Mrs. Lydia Cleaves,
q a 1uith
quietly away Feb. sth, at the advanced age
of SO years and II months. She was ma
tive of North Searsport, and her maiden
name was Larrabee. Early in life she mar.
ried Mr.. Stephen Cleaves of Kennebunk,
Maine, and in the spring of 1849 they came
to reside in this town, opening the first
hotel in the village and continuing this
business most acceptably for many years,
until the failing health of her husband de-
cided them to relinquish the care to younger
hands. Mr.. Cleaves died few years later,
while on visit to a brother in Biddeford,
since which time the widows home has
been with her daughter, Mrs. Melvin Col
cord. Throughout her long life Mrs.
Cleaves has exempliied all the Christian
virtues as wife, mother and neighbor, being
always discreet, kind and charitable. She
was most domestic in her tastes, and deeply
devoted to her family and household duties
yet always ready to give assistance to any
worthy cause. Although so advanced in
years she retained her mental faculties
perfectly to the last, and her presence in
her daughters home will be greatly missed
by many of a younger generation She
leaves two sons, Mr.. VIM. Cleaves of
Quincy, Mass, and Mr.. Frank Cleaves of
North Searsport; three daughters, Mrs
Melvin Colcord and Miss Frances Cleaves
of this place, and Mrs. David Tibbetts of
Roxbury, Mass. eleven grandchildren and
several great-grandchildren. The funeral
services were held February 18th, Rev.
ii. W. Norton of Searsport officiating :;
and the interment was in the family lot
in Mt Prospect, the village cemetery. So
the full, ripe sheaf is garnered home. -.
Mr.. VIM. Cleaves and Mrs. David Tibbetts,
called here by the illness of their mother,
reached Belfast Feb. 18th, and came through
in the driving storm the day following to
be at her bedside during the last hours.
Mr.. c. returned to Quincy Feb. 18th, and
Mrs. Tibbetts is still with her sister, Mrs.
Colcord, who has been very ill with the grip
for three weeks past and improves very
slowly. The community was shocked by
the death of Mrs. Harriet Bowdoin, from
heart trouble, on Sunday, Feb. 18th. She
was IS years of age and had been subject
to i'll turns of this nature for some time:
but the decease came at the last almost
without warning, she having just arisen
from her dinner-table. Mrs Bowdoin was
Simeon Fletcher, who died comparatively
young, leaving her with one son, now Capt.
George Fletcher, who, with her second hus-
band, Mr.. Darius Bowdoin, survive her. She
was a woman of most excellent traits of
character; always bright, cheerful and help
full, and her death is great loss to her
husband, who is himself in failing health
The funeral took place Feb 18th, Rev. H.
w. Norton attending. Capt. Fletcher is
away at sea, but his wife and three children
came from Bucksport to be present at the
services, and it was with difficulty they
reached the house. Friends from Searsport
were obliged to turn back after reaching
this village, being unable to get farther
through the drifting snow. The interment
was in Mt Recluse cemetery, Cape Jellison.
81. Mrs. Oliver Treat, who has been for a
long time an invalid from dropsical trouble,
passed to the higher life last Friday, aged
IS years. At the time of her marriage to
Mr.. Treat about s5 years ago she was
young widow, Mrs. Day of Belmont. Her
first husband was lost at sea. She has been
faithful wife and most devoted mother
The two children born to herself and Mr.
Treat are Mile, now Mrs Fred Blake of
Orland, who on account of illness was I'M
able to come to her mother; and Amos,
who is away and could not be reached.
Her loss is an irreparable one to her
husband, who has for years been great
sufferer from rheumatism, and to him
in his bereavement the sympathy of the
community is extended. The funeral was
held on Monday last and the interment was
on the family lot in Mt. Prospect cemetery.
NEARLY the entire community has suffer-
ed from attacks of the grip of varying in
tensity and whole families have been ill at
one time but the force of the malady seems
spent and the victims are nearly all improv-
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