The Republican journal., 1906-05-17
STOCKTON SPRINGS.

NIOOkIUN OTMAVUO.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Beaton returned from
Rock land last Thursday.
The Young Ladies' Guild met wednesday
with Miss Nettie Hartman
Capt. Horace Staples recently improved
his buildings by giving them coa' u "hlte
paint.
The cellar for Mr.. II. L., Hopkins new
block ia dug and now the cellar wall Is Delng
laid.
Sch Annie P. Chase, 3-master, is dis
charging water-pipe for our village at cape
JellisOn.
Schooner Rienzi sailed May 14th from
tho Zane .lejljsOn pier with cargo of ties
for StoningtOn.
Mr.. Edward N. Hartman is having the
cellar dug for the house ne Is 10 erect on
upper Church street.
Mr., and Mrs. Frank L. Marston took the
afternoon train for Bangor Monday to be
absent for few days.
Mrs. John L. Lancaster returned Satur-
dav from a weeks visit with her sister, Mrs.
John J, WardWell, in ROckland.
Mr.. and. Mrs. Is. b Hiay auu hepheW,
Roy Hopkins, returned 10 thelr nome In
Camden the middle of last week.
The tbree-masted sch oner Lizzie Lane is
discharging a load of cement at the Cape
pier, consigned to l1oulton parties.
Last Thursday brought a little boy
stranger to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Verrill.
Both baby and mother are doing WE'LL
Mrs Pierce d. Lancaster went to Bangor
Wednesday to attend the Spring Maine
Festival Concert, returning Friday night.
The three-masted schooner Harry W.
HAYNES is in port with cargo OF water
pipe, which will be used in our new water
works.
The three-masted schooner Flora Condor
and the tWo-masted schooner Otronto are
both at Cape Jellison to load lumber for
the ST. John Lumber Co.
The bad travelling still continues, though
the roads are drying up little. Everyone
pronounces the roads worse this spring
than they ever were before.
The three-masted sch. Susie P. Oliver,
which has been loading lumber at Cape
,Jellison for Stetson, Cutler & Co., sailed at
3 p. m. Monday for New York.
Mr.. R. D. Coombs, bridge inspector for
the B, & A. R. H., with head quarters at
Houltou, arrived in town Wednesday and
will remain here for several weeks.
A new water tank has been built at Kid
der's Point. On bright morning it looms
up and can be seen for long distance, as
it is so high above its surroundings.
Miss Marion Kneeland came home from
Castine Saturday morning to spend the
day with her parents, Mr., and Mrs. Chas.
Kneeland, returning at night to school.
Engineer-in-chief Burpee was in town
last week. His daughter, Miss Mary Bur-
pee, we learn, is doing we'll since undergo
ing a recent operation for appendicitis.
Mr.. Chas. H. Emery is again stopping
with US and boarding at Mr.. Herbert Cliff
ford's. The latter has bought his brother
Henry's former home, recently sold to Bar
Harbor people
Work on Mr.. A NJ. Ames' house on
Church street is progressing rapidly. 1t is
all up and boarded in. Ii looks odd enough
to see building on that lot, but the loca-
tion is a fine one.
Schooner Grace Davis arrived at the Cape
Jellison pier May llth with a cargo of ce-
ment, 400 bbls. of which is for the electric
lighting plant at kldder's Point and the
balance for Chapin of Bangor.
Those of our citizens who pride them
selves on an early garden have been DIS
couraged by the cold, rainy weather and
when hail came on Friday it seemed more
like harbinger of winter than summer.
Notwithstanding the very rainy day and
damp, foggy evening, the 'FlrSt Grand Bali
of the Base Ball Association last Thursday
was we'll attended and much enjoyed, net
ting about SO for the running expenses for
the summer
4 H,, f,r Il
as to be out on the street for the second
time this, Tuesday, morning. lie has been
suffering severely from malarial poison
and is unable to resume command of his
vessel at present.
Mr. BeardSley of San Francisco were in
town last Friday, the guests of MIR. Frank
L. Marston Major Irving is the owner of
the Blue Hill copper mine and New York
financier Of large capital.
The Current Events Club will meet
Wednesday, May 23rd with the Misses
Mary and Harriet D. Hichborn. The club
is reading the amusing novel Squire
Phin." by the Maine author, Holman F.
Day, with great deal of interest.
Mrs. Henry l. Hall and little son, Master
Henry, of Quincy, Mass, arrived Monday
night by train to visit her sister, Mrs.
EVoreCG SGdpleS, JT. ue convenience VI
train travel to our own town is appreciated,
when it relieves one from the ten-mle
drive from Belfast over almost impossible
roads.
Work on the new pier at Cape Jellison is
going ahead as fast as possible and we
understand another will be built in the
near future. 1t looks as if we should event.
ually have dock-rimmed harbor. Many
business men, from all sections, are visit
ing town constantly and it all indicates
activity in various directions.
Work at Cape Jellison goes steadily for
ward, one steam shovel keeping at work
day and night. The second one Is at Frank
fort at present removing the earth from the
track, left there by the recent land slide.
No damage was done, except to cover the
track for some distance SO that temporary
road had to be made for the regular trains
use.
Mrs. Marshall of Camden joined her hus-
band here Monday afternoon. At present
(Tuesday) they are boarding with Mrs. A.
NJ. Gardner, but will soon begin housekeep-
ing in the Barrett house on upper Church
street formerly known as the Spencer place.
Mr.. Marshall is the civil engineer in charge
of the railroad in the village and on Cape
JellisOn,