The Republican journal., 1901-12-26
NUMBER 50
Personal.

w. w. Gates is at home for Christmas
from Houlton.
Elmer l. Rankin left Monday for short
visit in Boston.
Henry Webber is at home from Brockton
for the holidays
Frank L. Flanders, U. of M, is at home
for vacation
Arthur F. Brown is at home from New
port for Christmas.
Miss Georgia Triggs arrived home Monday
from visit il Bucksport
Miss Lu Fl. Littlefeld arrived home last
Saturday from Lincoln, Neb.
Miss Bernice J Rogers is az home from
Tufts College for the holidays
Henry B. Cunningham spent Christmas
at home from Whitman, Mass.
Emery M. Heagan is at home from
Harvard College for the holidays.
Ralph G. Lombard is at home for vaca-
tion from the Boston Dental College.
Miss Abbie o. Stoddard is at home from
Wellesley College for the Christmas vaca-
ton.
Asa F. Riggs and Jordan W. Coombs left
Monday to spend Christmas in Dorchester.
Mass.
Mrs. Edward Sibley left last Friday for
Chicago, and will spend the winter there
and in Minneapolis.
Warren W. Knowlton and family are i'll
Belfast from North Vassalboro, for the
Christmas week
Miss Edith F. Dunton from ut. Holyoke
and Miss Helen Dunton from Boston are at
home for the holidays
Miss Edna Burdin left for Brockton Mon
day after short visit to her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Burdin
Ralph Pitcher, who is employed in Boston.
is spending Christmas with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Pitcher.
Miss Dora M. Casey, milliner for Mrs. H.B.
Cunningham, left Monday to spend her win
tersvacation at her home in Boston.
Miss Mary E. Pierce arrived home Satur
day from Boston to spend the Christmas
holidays with her mother and sister.
Capt. Abbott, formerly of steamer Rock
short visit to his home in Bucksport
Ralph IT, Wight arrived Saturday from
Marshalltown, Iowa, for a visit TO his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs Joseph F. Wight
John Carr and NJ B. Lawrence returned
Monday night from Portland, where they
served as petit jurors in the u S. Court
Miss Jane A. Mcclellan arrived from Bos -
ton by Saturdays boat to spend the Christ
mas vacation with her parents, Hon. W. II,
and Mrs. Mcclellan.
L. c. Putnam has sold his restaurant busi
ness in Boston and returned to his farm in
East Belfast His daughters, Misses Lule
and Kate, are at home for a short vacation
A recount in the city of Boston resulted
in the defeat of DR.. R. B. Miller as a
member of the school board, by an aggravat-
ingly small margin. We had announced
his election last week.
The Old Folks ball at Dexter, announced
for Dec. Goth, was postponed on account of
the interruption of travel caused by the
great storm Prof. Jere Whitten, who was
to have led the orchestra, will go to Dexter
later.
Among the arrivals by Saturdays boar
from Boston was Miss June E. Hills from
the New England Conservatory of Music.
Miss Alice A. Hills from the Pierce school
of stenography, Boston, and their cousin.
Miss Mary Brown, and Frank Brown,
brother of the bridegroom, of Lawrence.
Mass. They came to attend the wedding of
Miss Cordelia Hills.
John A. Mace of Portland is conductor
on the Maine Central rallroad he is also Il
radiator of the amiable vibrations which
when moving in sufficient quantities, we
know as good nature. On IA Saturday !
rode on the Mace train and basked in the
etfulgence Of the daily vibrations have
absorbed enough good humor in conse-
quence to hold over New Years day.
Would there were more MaceS The
Chatterer in Portland Advertiser.
Miss Sarah NJ. Wight arrived home last
Friday from a visit in Boston. She arrived
in Portland Wednesday, and was told by a
railroad official that in order to get to Bel
fast she should go to Waterville, which she
did, only to learn that she must return to
Brunswick. She was too late to make con-
nections, and as the trains were then run
ming was obliged to spend one night in Wa
terville and one in Brunswick. Her timer
airy was: Portland to Waterville, return to
Brunswick, thence to Bath, to Rockland on
the Knox & Lincoln, to Camden on the elec-
tries, and to Belfast on the NJ. q M, arriv-
ing here at 3 P. NJ, two full days from Port
land.