The Republican journal., 1901-05-16
Personal.
Mrs. Geo. A. Beckett is in Boston.

| MIS-. Geo. A. Beckett is in Boston.
G. B. Hazeltine left last Thursday for
Jacksonville, Florida.
Geo. W. Burkett returned Tuesday from
| business trip to Boston.
Rev. G. G. Winslow and wife will move
to Orrington next week.
Francis X, Pendleton and Leslie Rawley
visited friends in Union Sunday.
Mrs. S. G. Bicknell is visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. John Macdonald, in Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. George F. Kent went to
Madison last week for visit of several
J weeks.
| Master William Quimby Foster of Port
land is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. W. H.
| Quimby.
| Mrs. D. n. Bird went to Rockland Tues
day, called there by the illness of her
mother.
| Miss Abbie Mcdowell of this city is
| teaching school in South Union. This is
her 18th term.
| DR.. F. A. Knowlton is having fine stable
built adjoining his house, Winchester
street, Fairfield.
Senator L. NJ. Staples of Washington has
accepted an invitation to deliver the Me-
mortal address al Rockport.
| A. w. Keating returned Saturday from
| Boston, where he contracted to put gas
plant into cottage at Islesboro
| DR.. E. L. Stevens is in Boston to attend
the banquet of the examining surgeons of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
Henry c. Marden was in ThomastOn last
week and bought lot of prison carriages,
including number with solid rubber tires
Mrs. Mary Kilday of Boston and Mrs.
Fred Knight Of Mand doester, n H., came to
Belfast to attend the funeral of Albert Nc
Intosh.
Mrs. Frank Welch and two daughters
went to Bangor Tuesday to accompany
Capt. Welch on a trip to New York in sch
William Slater.
Leander Staples of Monroe was in Belfast
Tuesday on his return from trip in the
interest of the Staples patent halter He
reports good sales this spring.
VIM. Weeks, the popular landlord of the
Smell House, Houlton, doesn't sell any ''hard
stuff, but he fills up his guests with butter
milk, received fresh every morning from
the City Creamery.-AroostOok Pioneer.
Miss Frances j. Dyer spoke on Woman
Suffrage as Viewed by Wage-Earner" last
week at Mr.. A. W. Pollard's on Beacon
street, Brookline, before the Massachusetts
Association Opposed to the Further Exten-
sion of Suffrage to WOmen.-The WOman's
| Journal.
James B. Hammond, inventor of the
Hammond Typewriter, sailed from New
York for Europe Saturday. On his return
he will spend a part of the summer in Cam
den, which he has adopted as his place of
permanent residence.
The ceremony of announcing the best
scholars for the year at Wellesley college
took place last week, and President Hazard
named two Maine girls among those entitled
| to honors-Charlotte Hobbs of Lowell and
Jessica Haskell Of Belfast.
Two exceptionally sEl;lrt old men have
been seen on our streets this week, Abner
Dunton of Hope, the well known nonagen-
| arian, who is as smart and active as ever
this spring, and Andrew Wentworth of
Appleton, who is bright and active in spite
of his more than eighty years.-Camden
Herald.
Miss Rose f. Cleveland of New York and
Miss Ames of Boston, who own a fine sum
mer cottage on Seven Hundred Acre Island,
We're in Camden May 18th and 18th, guests
at the Bay View. They made the trip from
Seven Hundred Acre Island in Miss Cleve-
land S sailing yacht Skylark.
Mrs Mahaa Forbes of Brooks, who has
been i'll for several weeks, is slowly recover
ing Her daughters, Mrs. James Busield
of Haverhill and Mrs. Augustine Thomp-
son of Boston, are with her. Mrs. Thomp-
son was in Brooks month ago to attend
the funeral of her lifelong friend, Miss
Emma Clary of South Brooks.
Mrs Fannie Lawry of New York, who
was called to Northport by the death of her
mother, Mrs Ruby Drinkwater, left for
home Tuesday accompanied by her father,
VIM. Drink water, who will make his home
with her. Miss Abbie Drink water goes to
Indianapolis to live with her sister, Mrs
Georgia Yeaton, who left for home the same
day.
A very pleasant event was the golden
wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs.
Arnold Harris at their New York home
Only relatives and very few intimate
friends were asked. The guests were re-
quested to send neither presents nor flowers,
, but the latter request was disregarded and
manyIof the new spring flowers frightened
the parlors. Among the guests was one
gentleman who was present at the original
wedding, and the only survivor 80 far as
known.
Henry Wyman of Burnham was in Au-
guSta Monday, and he told a story of u
: young man of that town who has returned
! from the Philippines and surprised and
overjoyed his parents who believed him
dead After battle Mr. Brown was mis-
, sing and he was reported dead and his rel
, atives believed the report true until Satur-
dry, when he appeared in person and pretty
, lively for ghost. 1t is not necessary to
say that it was a joyful occasion. The re-
porter was unable to learn why Mr.. Brown
did not write and fell his relatives the truth.
but it is presumed that he was among those
, reported as dead.-Kennebec Journal.
A Commercial man dropped in at the
studio of Hart L. Woodcock at II Ohio
street Tuesday and found that gentleman
busily engaged as usual. ''The call is for
water cOlorS nowadays" said Mr. Wood
cock, land !! devote my time largely to