The Republican journal., 1905-01-12
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Ella M. Littlefeld of Prospect was in
Belfast few days the past week.
Ralph 1. Morse of Liberty, son of Senator
Morse, is reading law in the Office of r. F.
Dunton, ESQ.
Misses LeOna Bucklin and lisa Patterson
arrived Saturday from few weeks visit in
Boston and vicinity.
| Miss Hattie Cook returned home last
Thursday from two weeks visit with
friends in Bucksport
Arthur Condor of Belfast was in town
over Sunday to visit his brother, Harry
Condon.-Pittsfield Advertiser.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. R. Thomas left Monday
for Boston to visit their daughter, Mrs.
Chas. Ludwick, in Cambridge, Mass.
Governor William T. Cobb is to be one of
the speakers at the Lincoln birthday ban
| quet to be given by the Lincoln club of
Portland.
| Stephen Shute, who has been engineer on
sailing vessel for many years, is visiting
his mother, Mrs. Fannie Shute. He has
| been away from Belfast five years.
souvenir postal of ''Sunrise in the Far
East-Hong Kong'-announces the safe
| arrival of Rev. Randall T. Capen, who
sends best wishes to all Belfast friends.
Oscar L. Staples and wife of Waldo an
| nounce the intention of marriage of their
daughter Ethel to Rufus L. Cushman of
Watertown. The wedding will take place
JAN 18th at Greenwood Mass
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. F. Coombs, Mrs. lisa
Hamlin and Misses Hannah Smith and
Harriet Bubar left Tuesday for Amesbury,
| Mass, where they have employment in the
| branch factory of Foster Estabrooks Co.
At the annual meeting of the State Board
of Trade in Lewiston last September the
President was authorized to appoint COM
mittee to appear before the legislature in
the interest of good roads. The committee
was appointed last week, and A. A. Howes
of this city is a member.
Mr.. George W. Holmes, B. H. S., '97, now
a student at Tufts Medical College and
president of the class of 1907, recently re-
ceived an appointment at the Children's
Hospital, Huntington Avenue, Boston, as
Surgical Assistant, which he will undertake
in connection with his college work.
| Rev. and Mrs David L. Wilson of Bel
| fast, formerly of Fort Fairfield, arrived in
town Monday night to spend week visit
! ing relatives and friends. Mr.. Wilson also
officiated at the wedding of Mrs. Wilson's
father, F. W. Burns, at Caribou Wednesday
forenoon.-Fort Fairfield Review, Jan. 4th.
Capt. W. NJ. Tupper of Brunswick, Ga,
has been in the East about week, and left
! Thursday night for home. Capt. Tupper is
agent in Brunswick for the Mallory and
Clyde lines, and is also agent of the Nation
al and New York boards of marine under
writer's, and of the London Lloyds.-Marine
| journal, New York.
! Mr. and Mrs W. E. Stevens of TROY were
in town Friday for d visit to relatives. Mr..
| Stevens called at the Advertiser Office and
informed us that a few days ago he sold
dozen hens in Bangor, one of which weighed
nine and three-fourths pounds. He said
| that he was raising some more that would
weigh nearly as much.-Pittstield Adver-
| tiser.
The Boston Globe laments the absence of
Major Holman +. Day from the Governors
staff, and worries because Mr.. Cobb has ap-
pointed no poet laureate But there are
hidden possibilities in that staff Wait un-
| til the members get used to their uniforms,
and from some source we may expect to see
one or more Wegg dropping into poetry
! There's Major Kelley for example. We'l
wager he can write verSes.-Portland Ex-
press.
Arthur Gates arrived in Waterville
Thursday morning, to remain few days
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Freeman
Clark. Mr.. Gates is a native of Chira Me-,
and was formerly well-known in Water
| vile as the driver of the stage between
Watervlle and China. On arriving in the
city he was taken suddenly III, and being
well-known to Mr.. and Mrs. Clark is stop
ping with them until his health and the
weather will permit him to visit his old
home and friends in China Waterville
| Mail.
Leander Staples Of Monroe, who is spead.
ing the winter with his brother, Capt
Marion Staples, in Joplin, Mo-, has sent us
copy of the Joplin Evening Times con-
tanning the address of Capt. Staples to the
Joplin Club on the occasion of his retiring
| from the presidency of the club, to which he
was elected one year ago. This is club of
business men that has done much for the
advancement of Joplin, working on the
lines of a local board of trade.
| Capt. Albert NJ. Rich of S. S. George w.
| Clyde, writing from Newport News, Va,
to renew his subscription says: "The paper
seems to get better as it grows older. take
| it along with me every trip and enjoy it.
My officers are Maine men, some of them,
and they read the paper as much as myself.
We are having mild winter. The ice in
the Delaware river has not bothered the
ships yet. We lost blade off the propeller
this trip, caught in wreckage off Fenwicks
Island"
A Murder in Deer Isle.