The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-07-12

A party of young people were very
pleasantly entertained at the Alhambra,
the beautiful summer home Of Nj. and
Mrs. W. H. Quimby at Pitchers 'ond last
Saturday. Misses Lillian Alley and Sbyl
Berry of Newton, Mass, Wellesley 09, were
the special guests of the occasion. Misses
Katherine and Elizabetl Quimby entertain
ed at dinner for them last Thursday
John Is. Buck, formerly of Bucksp0rt,
has been appointed chief Of the index de
partment of the State Department. Wash
ington, y. C., after a six months search by
Secretary Root for the right man MIR.
Buck was originally appointed under civil
service rule a clerk in the War Department,
but was soon transferred to the Depart
ment of State and assigned to duty in the
library. In 1898 he was sent TO Paris as one
Of the attaches of the peace commission
and returning to the State Department at
the conclusion of the Paris conference was
made assistant to the chief clerk.
Waldorf Astor, son of the eXpatriated
William Waldorf AStor, and principal heir
to one of the greatest American fortunes,
but, as he announces himself, "a British sub
ject," arrived at New York Monday on the
Celtic with his wife Of twomonths, who was
Mrs Mamie LanghoTne->haW, one Of the
| Virginia sisters famous for their beauty.
Mr. and Mrs Astor came to spend the
waning dayS of their honeymoon and left
the same day for Isles bc.u. 1hey vii oc-
cupy the Charles naua Gibson cottage on
Seven Hundred Acre Island for several
weeks.
The management Of the New \ York Lite
Insurance Company has named as one of
its new board of trustees. Seth NelIen Mill
ken of New York Mr. MiIiiken is son Of
the late Seth L. NIillIkeu, lon- representa-
tive IN Congress from the third Maine dis
trict. He is Il graduate of the [. :. Military
Academy AT West Point, to which he was
admitted in lS95, and from which he Gradu-
ated the year before the Npamsl-Americau
war. lie saw service m that war, having
/ been ordered to Manila, ANA at It's close re-
! signed 10 engage in business IN New York
city, in which he has been very successful
! The Uuversalist excursions it IIersey,
! Retreat, Standpoint, are haVin- an eXcep-
tionally enjoyable time and the success Of
the first trip Of the season is assured. The
members of tine party are Mrs. Charles
Page, Esther Page. Mrs Young, Hazel
Young Mrs. Smith, Kenneth smith, Kart
Smith, Mrs. Hayes, Alden llayes, Mrs.
Lancaster, Mrs. Could, Madeline Gould,
Antoinette Gould, Mrs. BuzzeIl, Madeline
! BuzzelI, Mrs. Albert Page, Bernice Page,
/ Frederick Page, Mrs. WardWeII, Ethel
! WardWel, Sarah Wardwel, Dot Gilman,
Marjorie Bean, Edna Thomh,, Amos ?.
! Robinson and Royal II, Palmer.
The Ear Iiarbor Record recently issued a
very handsome souvenir edition, illustrated
with numerous portraits and local views.
It gives a write-up of the new drug store OF
{, ohm W. Doe, and one of the firm OF Nick
erson, Spratt ~ Greeley, dealers IN hay
grain and flour, Of the junior member it
/ says:
| Mr. II. L. Greeley, upon whom the active
| local management Of the business fails, was
a former citizen of SWanVIit, ~ h"re he was
| held in the same high regard lr is IN liai
| llarbor Mr. Greeley, while ul retrlt2 So-
| cId. instincts, is nevertheless publ'c
| spirited man, and Whilea resident Ot swan
! vile was frequently called to puDLie ser
| vice, having repres tnted the district IN the
| legislature, and also served the town rs
| chairman OF the board Of selectmen,