The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1903-11-19
PERSONAL.

| UcOTSe A. GllcnE0SC was III hOcklaHu laSt
Thursday on business.
| Mrs. James L. James returned home
Saturday from visit in Boston.
Alfonso knight is employed in the syndi-
cate steam saw mill in Rockland.
Thomas B. Berry was at home last week
for vacation from BrOckton, Mass.
| Judson Jewett has been at home the past
week on vacation from Brockton, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Jones returned last
week from visit to their son in Rockland.
Fred T. Chase returned last Thursday
from weeks visit in Boston and vicinity.
Miss Grace Atkinson has returned from
Danbury, CT, to spend the winter in Mont
vile.
Miss Evelyn P. Morrison returned to Bos-
ton by last Friday mornings train to resume
her art studies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. H. Bray returned
Bray, in Waterville.
| Mrs. George Forsaithe of Everett, Mass,
| formerly Miss Alice Whiddon, arrived last
i week to visit her aunt, Mrs. A. d. Chase.
Mr.. Byron Avery of Prospect, who has
| been with Tayntor & Co. the past summer,
returned to his home last Saturday.-Hallo-
| well Register.
Fred R. Whitmore and Harry Whitmore
have been appointed rural carrier and SUBJ
stitute carrier on the new route out of North
! Haven.
| Asher C. Kinds, Esq, has again been ap-
pointed clerk to the Speakers desk. Mr..
Cannon is the third Speaker that he has
served in this capacity.
Mrs. VIM. V. Pratt and Mr.. Ralph John
son left Boston Monday for San diego,
Calf, to attend the wedding of their BROTH
er, MI Edward johnson, Jr.
A portrait of Rev. Irving B. Mower of
South Berwick, the new secretary of the
Maine Baptist Convention, appeared on the
cover page of the Watchman last week.
Frank E. Logan came home from Bangor
last week suffering from sprained ankle,
He was driving in Bangor for the American
Express Co. and was injured while hand
ling beef
R, T. Rankin has been appointed an in
land fish and game warden for Waldo coun-
ty. He is the right man in the right place
and the game interests of the county will
| be we'll looked after.
| Sumner c. Pattee, NJ D., Belfast, was one
of the successful candidates for admission
to the practice of medicine and surgery be-
nf
| at Augusta last week
Miss Rose Cleveland and her friend, Miss
| Evelyn Ames of Boston, were in Rockland
SATURDAY. ell route to Boston, where they
will spend most of the winter. Miss Cleve-
land has been at her cottage on Seven Hun
dred Acre Island, lslesboro, which is now
closed for the season.
The engagement of Miss Annie De Wolf
Gibson and DR.. Francis Hopkins OF Wash
ington, d. c., has been announced
Miss Gibson is sister OF Charles Dana
| is the son of Mrs. f. A. NJ. Hopkins, and
brother of Novil Monroe Hopkins of Column
| bian University y-Boston Transcript.
The friends of Capt Oscar g. Eaton, for
mer]v Superintendent of Hurnham'S rail-
| way. East Boston, and now with +. ID
| Leighton. shipwrght, at East Boston, will
regret to learn that on Monday last he fell
| from tween decks to the bottom of the
| lower hold of the bark Shetland, breaking
his left arm.-Boston- Herald, Nov. 18th.
Mary Christmas, for some years resi-
dent of Belfast and well known in this vi
cinity, now of Camden, has gone to New
York to meet her brother and her son Will
liam's wife and child, who will return to
Camden with her, where they will open an
other store of Oriental novelties.
Mrs. Florence NJ Wallace of Union, who
recently inspected Thomas H. Marshall
Relief Corps, is the youngest person to
hold the office of State President of the Re
lief Corps III Maine, and the first daughter
of veteran to hold the office. The for
mer State Presidents have been wives of
veterans.
Chas. F. Swift, who returned last Friday
from business trip to Boston, met in that
city Chas Fred Joy of Chelsea, who was
member of the Elwell party that went to
Europe in 1900 Mr. Joy enquired for his
other Belfast companions on that trip and,
by the way, he was one of the trio, all
named Charles, who visited Belfast, Ire
land.
A. f. Astle of the firm OF IIagerman Il
Astle. well known in this section as con-
tractor and builder, having built a good
many of the stations on the line of the b.
& A. r. R., has been awarded the contract
to build the "Log House" that is to be
| Names exhibit at the st. Louis exposition.
The committee in charge have made no mis-
take in giving the contract to MIR. Astle, who
is a first class Northumberland News.
Mr.. A. f. stle is 4 brother of Mrs. Lewis
F. Cannon of this city.
C. E. Keene, the post office inspector who
was in the city as special counsel of the
government in the trial of A. p. Russell
| last week, and in which case there was a
mistrial, has returned to Washington, his
headauarters He is one of the efficient
men in the service of the government, and
he only looks after special cases which are
assigned to him. He came to this city and
passed upon the case on orders OF The de-
| partment, caused through the influence OF
limited States Senator w. b. Bate. He con-
frmed the findings of the local inspector,
w, r. Keys Mr.. keene is a native of Maine
and is from the old district of the late
Thomas BracketU Reed. He is a lawyer
and this aids him much in his work as in
spector. His speech Friday night in open
ling the prosecution was one OF the able
| nf tho aroumaut that was made in