The Republican journal., 1903-02-05
PERSONAL.

| ing at John Cars IN East Belfast
| Miss Louise Towne of Brunswick is visit
ing her sister, Mrs Geo. A. Dunning.
Mrs. Howard P. Patrick, nee Cassie
Curtis, of Everett, Mass, is visiting rela-
tives in East Belfast
| Noah Brooks of CaStine was in Belfast
last week on his way TO Southern Cali
| fornia for the benefit of his health.
Miss Cora McCrillis returned home last
| week from Massachusetts,. where she had
been several weeks for treatment in a sani-
tarium
Representative Joseph S. Hall of Fort
Fairfield was in this city last week and visit
ed the Girls Home. He expressed himself
as much pleased with the institution,
The latest advices from DR.. Frederick Of
Augusta are that there is Il change for the
better in the condition of Melvin NJ. Bick-
ford, who is i'll there with typhoid fever,
! The engagement is announced Of Miss
Edith Raymond, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William II. Raymond of Brookline. Mass.
to Percy Nickery Hill of Augusta, son of
Governor Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank II. Colley Of Port
| land, who were in Augusta last week 10 at
tend the meeting of the Maine Press ASsoci-
| alton, spent the day, Friday. at the lake, as
guests of Harry Brooks. They returned to
Portland Saturday fternoon.-kennebec
Journal.
The Boston Budget of Sunday last, under
the head of Engagements, makes the fol-
lowing announcement:
Miss Avis Morrison of Belfast to Mr.. Cur
don S. Mumford Miss Morrison is niece
of Mrs. PhneaS Adams of the Tuileries.
Marcia Black, Miss George Strout, and Dr..
and Mrs. Il. y. Holland left Eastport this
week for a visit of two or three weeks in
Washington, New York aud Boston. Or.
and Mrs. Holland will visit her mother.
Mrs. James Haney. on their return
Benjamin F. Ham, who lived in Jackson
| not long ago, has become resident OF Boston
and is now serving as conductor on one
| of the surface lines operated by the Boston
Elevated Railway Company. HIS route is
| in the district including Dorchester Avenue,
| Ashmont and Milton, Neponset and Fields
| Corner.
| Pearl Wardwell no has been connected
with the Robinson House. BuckSport, for
| twenty-five years, as office boy, clerk, man
| ager, and for the past year as landlord, has
| taken ia .leaSe of the house for five years.
and Mrs. Wardwell Will fill the position of
landlady. The travelling public will be
well cared for
Mrs. j. W. Frederick and Charles W.
Frederick are at Hotel Grunewald in New
| Orleans, and like the Crescent City very
much They will remain there for the
Mardi GraS festivities. which come Just be
fore Lent. Mr.. Frederick has sent us Il
cotton boil which he picked from plant in
Mr. Farwells utce. The plant was about
eight feet in height, which is about double
the usual height
Mrs Ezekiel Il Thomas was called to
Roxbury Mass, last week by the sudden
illness of her daughter, Mrs, Eeryl lud-
wick On arriving in EoNbury Mrs. Thomas
found Mrs l.udwick and daughter danger
ously i'll with diphtheria, The patients
were taken to hospital and ;hejr house
was quarantined Mrs Thomas MAS ob-
liged to remain in quarantine uutll the
house was disinFected,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles p. lla2eltine ANA
daughter Margaret, who left last week for Il
trip to Southern California, We're obliged to
postpone the journey ON account Of the SerI-
ous illness of the daughter. They were to
have left Boston last Thursday. but Miss
Hazeltine was taken with severe cold
| Wednesday. and is not Yet able "a return
home Her mother remains with her. but
| Mr. Hazeltine returned to Belfast saturday
Mrs George Prentice Field gave Il very
delightful reception at the Hotel Somerset
Thursday afternoon, from half past four
until half-past six. The guests numbered
about 80 and We're received in Mrs. Field :
spacious apartments, which were effectively
decorated for the occasion. The hostess,
who wore a handsome gown OF black lace
over white satin, was assisted in receiving
by her daughter, Mrs. Horace Il. Pearson Of
Brookline, who wore yellow satin. Those
who poured We're Mrs. W II. Whittemore
of Portland Me-, Miss Alice Windsor Of
Fair Haven. Mass, Mrs. Frederick II. Cur
tbs. Miss &c trude Canterbury and Miss
| Mabel Tower. The occasion was charm
ingly informal, and despite the unpropitiouS
| weather there waSa large nun Der OF callers.
l-Boston Budget.
Ben u. Field and Fred G. White leave to-
day for New York, where they will Join a
party of excursiouiSts that sails from that
port Saturday on months trip to the West
Indies. The steamer is due at Bermuda
February 10th, and will sail the next day for
San Juan, Porto Rico, Il voyage of -four day ).
An opportunity Will be afforded here 10
cross the island and Join the ship at Ponce.
The next weeks itinerary is us follows ::
| Monday, st. CroiX or st. Thomas Tuesday,
Ponce, Wednesday, Martinique Fort de
| France; Friday. ST. Lucia; Saturday, Bar
COS The following Monday they arrive at
| Demerara, where opportunity will be given
for IA delightful trip up the Demerara river
by steamer and across the forest by rail-
road to ESsiQuho. March I'd, the party ar
rive at st. Kits; March 18th, at Santiago
March sth, at Havana, and March 18th, an
rive at New York.
In Memory of Lucius H. Murch