The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-01-10
STOCKTON SPRINGS.


Mr.. James Spellman left for Bangor last
Thursday a. m.
Miss Hazel HoughtOn went to Bangor
! Monday afternoon, returning Wednesday.
DR.. c. E. Britto was called to Rockland
on business last week, returning Saturday
t afternoon.
| Rev. j. L. CorsOn and wife were called to
| Waterville last week by the illness of Mr..
/ C.'s sister.
The Current Events Club will meet next
Wednesday with Mrs. Henry Overlook,
Church street.
The schooner NOrthland has sailed from
New York with $500 tons of cement for
MillinOcket.
| The schooners E. Areularius and Grace
Stephens dave left Boston for this port with
cargOes Of fertilizer.
The Ladies' Aid Society will be enter
tanned this, Thursday, afternoon by Mrs.
Frank A. Patterson, East Main street.
Messrs. A. L. Greive, Oscar NJ. Greive and
Misses Ethel and Jennie MCGEE, have re-
turned from vacations in New Brunswick.
G. M. Houghton was in town Friday
night, called here by the illness of his wife
He returned Saturday morning to Bangor,
as he found Mrs. HoughtOn somewhat i'm
proved
Mrs. Vena Ryder returned to Cambridge,
Mass, last Friday after visit of about two
weeks with her father, Capt. j. F. HIGH
born. Her husband, DR.. j. +. Ryder, came
| down with her and remained over Christ
mas.
| January 4th the ladies of the /. w. Society
had pie social at the bowling alley build
| xUhiS @ nd
entertainment Friday evening, Jan. 18th,
there will be a pound social and dance
at the same place.
Mr.. Harry w. Clark of Belfast, whose
store on Cape Jellison was burned recently,
has opened his clothing store, temporarily,
! in the second story of the bowling alley.
| Daniel MCGEE has already erected new
building to be occupied as store in place
of the one recently burned and Mr.. L.
White is building one for his use to supply
the lost one.
Mrs. G. NJ. Houghton and daughter, Miss
! Hazel, have been with the Misses Hichborn
on Church street during the past week,
since they broke up housekeeping here pre-
! paratOry to leaving for Bangor. Mrs. I'll.
has been quite i'll and confined to the bed
since December 31st, but at this writing is
sufficiently improved to sit up little. Mrs.
Edna J. Cousins has been acting as nurse
for few days.
| The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph II. Rock wood, little Dorothy, passed
away Jan. End from the effects OF severe
cold The funeral took place Friday after
noon, Rev. A. A. Smith of Belfast officlat-
| ing, he having performed the wedding cere-
mony for Mr.. and Mrs. lockwood. The
little body was taken to Watervllle for IN
terment, accompanied by MI. roc" WOOD,
the father, and the grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs Rock wood of Waterville, who came
Thursday to attend the services. Mrs.
Rock wood, the mother, was too i'll to go with
them, having contracted the same serious
cold the baby did. Much sympathy is ex-
tended to the bereaved parents by the many
friends in town.
The vessels to arrive last week at Cape
JelliSon were the three-maS sch0oners =.
l.. Lamprey, Hattie 7. Luce ana Harold u,
| Beecher, to load potatoes; the tWo-masters
! F. W. Cooper, light, to load lumber, and the
| VIM Mathison to load potatoes. The three
master Brigadier arrived loaded with phos-
phate. The vessels to sail were the four
master Evelyn W. Hinckley, for Havana
masters Annie Anislie, with lumber, and
the William H. Hood with potatoes for
| New York the tWO-masterS AlcyOne, light,
for Rockport and William MathisOn with
potatoes for New York, having on board
1920 sacks. The Mathison made a record
@oOfN'
1t took just three hours to load those 1870
sacks of potatoes by use of Carter & COrey's
stconveyOr," after she was locked. 1t
seems incredible that so large cargo
could be handled so quickly and the vessel
| be ready for sea again SO soon.
! The third alarm of fire, which caused the
church bell to peal forth about 10 80 p. m.
on Wednesday, Jan. End, proved to be at
Fort Point, and was the attractive old place
known as the George Clifford homestead:
1t was occupied by Mr. Thomas b. Berry of
Belfast, one of the proprietors of the bowl
ing alley at Cape Jelison, and the fire came
probably from overheatng the chimney,
Mrs. b. having two hot fires at the time in
the same chimney. 1t was quite an old
house and as often happens in such the
chimney had become somewhat defective,
no doubt, and the double heat caused the
trouble Mrs. Berry was alone, save for
her young child, and when she discovered
the fle the blaze was coming through the
dining room ceiling near the chimney ana
the space above was apparently hiIed with
flame Hastily pulling few chairs out OF
doors Mrs. b. seized her child and ran to
the nearest neighbor, which at this season
of the year was Mr.. Thurston at the light
house. When help reached the scene moth
ing could be done to rescue the quantities
of things stored there and there are many
losers beside the family who were living
there. Mrs. Elmer Thompson lost many
things-many of sentimental value. 1t was
her old home. Mrs. Hattie c. Hichborn
had her household goods stored there, as
did Mrs. Jennie Staples. The entire COM
munity sympathiZes in these big losses.
There was no insurance upon the goods
stored, but some upon the house itself. Mr..
Berry's household goods were valued at
$500, upon which there was small insur-
ance. The loss to the Clifford heirs is esti-
mated at $4,000, with partial insurance
In the death of MIR. Edward H. Lafolley,
| which was mentioned last week, the village
loses one of its oldest inhabitants and
trusty and faithful citizen. Born in Booth
bay, Sept IL, 1926, he lived to the ripe age
of so years and months. A fine carpenter
by trade he came to this town in his young
| manhood, when shipbuilding was at its
| height, as his especial line of work was in
the finishing of vessels cabins. He was
skiltul workman and in later years, since
! the decline of shipbuilding here, had been
employed in house building, designing and
! supervising the erection of the Masonic
| block few years ago. A loyal and devoted
member of the Masonic fraternity he was
for years the faithful care-taker of the lodge
rooms. In early life he married Miss Emma
Stevens, and by this union had four chill
dren: Eta, who died in young childhood,
Annie, Ada and Ralph, who survive him.
In February, 1870, occurred his second mar
riage to Mrs. Annie Blanchard Griffin, a
widow having two children :; one son, Brain