The Republican journal., 1905-06-01
STOCKTON SPRINGS.

STOCKTON SPRINGS.
Miss Leora Partridge spent few days
in Bangor last week.
Mr.. Houghton, general manager OF the N.
NJ. S. R. R., was in town last week.
Miss Armstrong, from Rockland, is visit
ing her friend Miss Aida Shute.
Mr.. Herbert L. Hopkins returned Mon
day from trip to Mt. Desert for bust
ness purposes.
Praise is due our grammar school pupils.
who have by their efforts secured a new
| flag for the schUOlhOuse.
Mr. Adams, one of the corps of assistants
in the r. r. Office. spent Sunday in Bangor,
| returning Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Daniel Thompson was the guest of.
her sister, Mrs. James Freemen, for a day
or two last week at her Winterport home
Mrs. John Merrithew is entertaining her
niece, Mrs. Gould of Wellington, for sew
eral weeks, as being a partial invalid she
desires to be near the seashore.
Capt. and Mrs. Calvin Sprague have ar
rived home and opened their house on
Church street. After long sea voyage
their friends welcome them in town most
gladly.
Mrs. Herbert Mixer and daughter, Miss
Clara, came from Bucksport last Friday to
Mrs. Maria 7. Blanchard. Mr.. Mixer
joined them for Sunday.
The Current Events Club will hold its
regular meeting Wednesday afternoon,
June 18th, with Mrs. Herbert L. Hopkins.
All are invited to attend. Russian history
is still the subject of study.
Mr.. Benjamin NJ Cram arrived last week
| from Boston to be employed for the summer
| with the construction party at work for
his father, one of the contractors for bridge
building on the N. NJ. S. railroad.
Our veteran merchant, Mr.. J. G. Lambert,
| returned Thursday from Boston with a
supply of summer dry and fancy goods
J The temperature lately indicates a rush of
customers for thin dress materials
Mrs. Everett Staples, Jr., is at home
! after being several weeks with her parents,
! Mr. and Mrs. j. F. Frye, and other friends
| glad to see her in town again last Thurs
day.
The "Beaucaire Land Co." has bought
Mr.. Melvin Clark's place on West Main
street. This company, consisting of Cam
den men. is buying quite extensively in the
line of real estate and buildings in town,
for subsequent sale.
Mrs. Moses Burpee arrived Thursday
from Houlton to remain through the sum-
mer with her husband, the engineer-in-
chief of the n. NJ. S. r. R. They board
with Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Twiss at the for
mer B. NJ. Roberts place.
Miss Clara Mudgett has completed her
wears teaching in Presque Isle and arrived
4 60 DOT until
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus Mudgett
She has accepted an offer of another school,
, in the same town, to begin in the early fall
A convenience, new in this town, has
been established by the opening of a
"Home Bakery" by Mrs. Thomas Lang, in
| the small building once occupied by Mr..
| William MoultOn as corn and meal store
"Hot rolls" are ready each night for tea.
The torrid wave struck Stockton last
Saturday! The denizens of cur village have
gotten the warm weather they have been
| Tuesday, after rain during the night, the
face of OLD Sol beams in sunny warmth for
Memorial day.
Keyes' Orchestra furnished music for a
very pleasant social dance in Denslow hall
| last Friday evening. Next week, on Thurs
day evening, they play for another gather
! ing of the kind. These Belfast musicians
apparently give good satisfaction to our
dancing public.
Miss Atchison, stenographer for Chief
| Engineer Burpee, left saturday morning
for Houlton to spend Sunday at home, re
turning Monday afternoon. She finds an
agreeable, temporary abiding place at Mr..
| Edward LaFoley's. Mr.. and Mrs. Moses
Burpee took Saturdays boat for Boston to
remain over Memorial Day.
Mr.. Zion B. Sanborn will, evidently,
soon open his new boot and shoe stock for
sale The store is receiving its green paint
with white trimmings, upon the outside,
| and inside is being done up, walls and cell
ing, in natural light wood. These altera-
tons upon So conspicuous a building will
| improve greatly the lower part of East
Main street. May the business venture
prove financial success.
| Early last week Mrs. Ralph Morse suffer-
ed a bad nervous shock and other injuries.
She was struck and thrown down in the
street by an uncomfortable horse which
/ MIR. viii Reed was attempting to turn up
Sylvan street as he sat upon mis- back. We
all hope she may now have endured the
, worst of her pain, and may improve rapidly
from the effects of this deeply regretted ac-
cident.
! The hotel, Cleaves House, is being speed
ily put in order for the accommodation of
the many guests daily arriving, and the
greater numOeT eApecCcu ldCcI III Jne sea-
son. Twenty rooms are to be fitted for
sleeping apartments, new piazza added
I with door opening on the top, which is to
be used as balcony, and the much needed
outside painting done as soon as possible,
we are told by the proprietors, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. c. Libby.
Memorial Day was observed by special
and appropriate sermon Sunday evening
/ by Rev. A. A. Smith, in our pulpit, and by
the marching of the school children to the
cemetery to decorate the graves on Tues
day morning. Let us never forget the sac
rifices sutferings and herosm of those SOL
diers, who rendered the inestimable service
to the cause of human liberty of preserving
! the union! "Liberty and Union, one and in-
separable, now and forever! What grander
sentiment ever escaped the lips of our great
+, statesman, famed the world over!
All railroad affairs are advancing steadi-
ly. Nearly mile of track is now having
! dirt cars and rail-laden stats" carried over
the rails daily between the wharf and the
middle OF Brans Point. At the latter the
| cut (several feet deep) indicates the depth
to which the soil from the entire outer por-
ton of the point, is to be removed, to pre-
pare the space for necessary side tracks.
The workmen are plOughing, shOveling and
| leyeling the road bed from said point to the