The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-01-11
STOCKTON SPRINGS.


Mr. F. H. Cousins is housed by very Sc
we're cold.
Mr.. Charles Kneeland is serving on the
jury this term.
Miss Treat of Bangor is visiting her
bother. Mr.. VIM. Treat, the druggist.
Miss Harriet D. Hichborn visited the
schools throughout the town last week
The Current Events Club will meet
Wednesday, Jan. 18th, with Mrs. Alvah
Treat.
Miss Clara MudgetJ returned to Presque
Isle early last week to resume her duties as
teacher.
Capt. Albert C. Colcord lett last week
fpi baltimore, to resume command OF his
| vessel, sch. Harry t. Hayward.
Mrs. Will Carter returned recently from
| the Bangor hospital, where she went for
| surgical operation on her tongue.
MI. F. W. Collins is employing crew of
| Camden carpenters on the hotel. They are
, boarding with MIR. and Mrs Long at the old
! Thomas Randall house ON West Main street
| Miss Vettie Twiss returned by rail Mon
| day night from Presque Isle, where she mas
| been spending a week with Miss CARA
|
Christmas vacation.
| The four men who have been running the
! ltable steam mill on the Cape Jellison
| pltI have taken ii down and lett town the
| first OF the week. They have been board
| Ing at Mr.. Charles kneeland's.
! The masonic installation, which was to
have taken place on Wednesday of this
| week, and the Eastern Star installation on
| Saturday, have both been postponed on ac-
| count Of the number OF cases Of measles.
| Mr. H. L. Hopkins returned from Cam
den Monday, to which place be v as called
| the latter part of last week by the severe
! illness Of his mother, Mrs. Calder wood,
| who is improving at the time OF this writ
| ing.
Mis-. Avalena Griffin returned from Mat
tapoIsett, Mass, Jan. I'd by train. She has
| been spending several mouths with her Son,
| Mr.. Harry W. Griffin, OF that place. She
| took cold on the honeWard journey and has
| been confined 20 the house since getting
| here.
The drama "Sunbonnets,' which was to
have been given by eleven of the Belfast
| ladies, under the auspices of the Ladies'
| A Id Society here this week, as announced
| in the last issue, is indefinitely postponed
| Tor the present ON account of the epidemic
| OF measles
| Mrs Maria Blanchard returned last Fri
| day from weeks visit with her sister,
Mrs. Herbert Mixer, in Bucksport. She
| was accompanied from Buck sport to Sandy
point by Miss Ann Thompson, who will
spend sometime there with her cousin, Mrs
| Chas. Heath.
Mr. Fletcher of Houlton, who has been
| employ ed in the construction of the n. NJ.
| ). r. R., and who was here for some
months but latterly has been farther up the
| line, returned Saturday and will remain
| here for the winter. He is boarding at
| Miss Clara Gritfin's.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Maitland La Furley re-
| turned from Mount Desert Monday night,
where they had been since Friday, called
| Furey'> father, Mr.. j. W. Ober. lie had
been in his usual health, when stricken, at
the table, with severe paralytlc shock.
Capt c. A. Sprague is having small
acetyene gas plant built on the ''brick
| block lot on Church street, opposite his
| building, and will pipe his store for expert
menting in the use of this light. Should it
| prove satisfactory, and others desire to en-
! ploy the same means of lighting, he will eX-
| tend his plant and piping. 1t is a very
clear, white light and we shall await de-
| velopments with much interest.
| representative of the Ashland Manu-
| featuring Co. was in town last week look
| ing over the Cape JelliSOn pier and the ia
| cilites for shipping lumber, and we under
stand the company has decided to ship all
| its output from here in the future instead
of from Bangor as formerly, beginning next
| month"; They will employ about one hun
bred men and from one to twenty vessels
all the time. This means big lot of bust
ness. Let it come. The more the better.
Nj. Weymouth, who recently bought the
shack ON the Mill road, built last spring for
the Use of the Italian laborers on the rail-
road, moved it last week near to the store
lately erected by himself in the vicinity of
the station. He cut the building in two, to
facilitate the moving, hauling each half
separately and will join them again and
finish them into a storehouse for lumber.
He is also building house on the Mill
road just above Mr.. Edgar ColcOrd's new
one. We understand this is for renting and
will be occupied in the spring.
The village schools were closed Monday
on account of the many cases of measles.
Many grown people are having them, as
we'll as children, and are having them in a
hal d form. Among the former are Messrs.
Fred Grant, Edgar Cocord, Walter Trundy
and Eugene Shute. Mrs. Will Ladd and
two children are down, four of the Trundy
children, four La Furley, children, Erma
Grant, George Hopkins and Crawford
Treat. Mrs. }. L. Lancaster and Miss
Edith Griffin are also victims, and new
cases are developing each day. 1t is very
unusual condition Of affairs, brought about
by two people having the disease about
them and not knowing it until they had
infected the whole village
The building of the big Cape Jellison pier
is practically completed and the work of
clearing up is going rapidly forward. Six
tracks run the entire length of the pier,
four of them being depressed. One track
runs through the center of the large freight
house, the house having big doors at either
near the end of the wharf on the eastern
side On the western side are three little
vestibuIe arrangements for protecting pota-
toes, as they are taken from the heater cars
to the vessels. At the end of each track are
large car bumpers painted red. The con-