The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-11-08
Stockton Springs news on the second

Stockton Springs news on the second
page.
Mr. Colby A Rackliffe was in Skowhegan
last Satu rday to close negotiations for
combined farm ard timber lot of four hun
dred acres which was lately purchased by
his father. This farm is located IN Piscata-
quis County and is of superior soil, and the
buildings command broad views of the lakes
and surrounding country. Competent judges
estimate the timber lot to contain over
one million feet Of old growth pine, fir and
spruce, besides over five thousand cords of
hard wood.
THE WALDO COUNTY HOSPITAL. On
account of the storm last Friday afternoon,
the time appointed for open house at the
Waldo County Hospital, there were only
about thirty five visitors, and notices were
read in all the churches Sunday morning
that the hospital would be open to visitors
that afternoon. A large number of people
took advantage of the opportunity and
were shown over the institution by the
courteous uninterrupted nurses, who cheer
fully answered the numerous questions and
gave interesting bits of information. The
private rooms were one of the interesting
I features, and friends of tho hospital will be
glad to know that Mr. VIM. R. Marshall of
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is to furnish the
| large, double room next the John G. Brooks
room in memory of his father, the late Hon.
William c. Marshall There were three
patients in the hospital Sunday, one in the
Brooks room, one in the mems ward and a
little girl in the WOmen'S ward up stairs.
The diet kitchen, with its array of pretty
glass and china and its dainty trays, was
| very attractive, and even the operating
room, with its eases of shining instruments,
I looked inviting. Miss Hall, the head of the
| hospital staff, was in the reception hall,
! where she had pleasant word for the Wis
| tOrS. Those who were not familiar with
the arrangements at the hospital before the
| repairs were made were no more surprised
and pleased than those who were, for many
radical changes and improvements have
been made. The visitors all expressed their
heartiest appreciation of the cOurtesies
shown them, as well as admiration for the
institution and appreciation of the good
work it is doing.
| THE STORM The journal recorded last
week the first snow Storm of the season on
Tuesday, Oct. 9th. The next day it began
showing again in good earnest, the snow
melting as it fell save on walks and lawns,
which soon assumed a wintry aspect 1t
was showing when The Journal went to
press in the afternoon, to the aecOmpani-
meDt of fierce northeast gale and showed
all day Thursday and Thursday night,
when we had the first snow slides of the
season and they were heavy enough to jar
buildings. 1t showed practically all day
Friday, and did not clear until about p.
H., when the moon struggled through the
clouds and the wind measurably subsidized
after blowing a gale for fully forty-eight
hours The Portland Evening Express
says: "The storm arrived just about the
| average time for the first snow, which is
! given by the weather bureau as Nov. list.
Last year the first snow appeared Nov. 9th,
and the year before on Sept 29th, which is
the earliest on the records of the local
weather bureau. The latest snow recorded
here was in 1891, when the first furry didn't
| show up until Nov. 26th" The trees were
mainly bare of foliage, but the leaves still
remained on the apple trees, and they re-
tanned a certain degree of greenness after
the storm. A lilac tree in the writer's gar
den, still in summer dress, was not affected
in the least and its leaves are as green as in
spring. The temperature was not very low
at any time during the storm and had the
ground been frozen there would have been
sleghing, for more than a foot of snow fell.
The storm was general throughout this Sec
ton. Saturday was beautiful day.