The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-07-25

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will take part in the entertainment which
will be given some time the last of August.
The next rehearsal will be held Monday
night, when many new members are to join.
These rehearsais. give fine opportunity
for our singers for practice and instruc-
chorus. The children's chorus met for
organization Monday in the vestry. The
entertainment will without doubt be the
best that has been given here for long
time. The following committee hage
Sweetser, Mrs W. NJ Parse. Mrs. James
Parse, Mrs. John Elder, Mrs. James But
nam. The pianist is Miss Mildred Shute.
and the rehearsals are under the direction
of Mr.. N. W. Littlefeld of Bangor.
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT. The oper-
eta "Mother Goose & Co." will be given in
Union Hall this, Thursday, evening with
the following cast of characters:
Mother Goose, Miss Harriet N: Roulston
Tss ga Miss ESsad az Hssy ssss
Old King Cole, Mr.. Albert Eames
His Three Fiddlers, ,.
Scrap, William COlsOn
Scratch, Francis Wood
Squeak, Nehemiah RoulstOn
Jack Spratt, Harold Smart
Mrs. Jack Spratt, Mrs. B. F. Colcord
Miss Muffit, Miss AntOinette Weber
30 Peep, Miss Florence Wheaton
Simple Simon, Rupert Colcord
Boy Blue, Nichols COlson
Jack Horner, Earl Smith
Bobby Shafto, William blanchard
Jack, Harold Mckinney
Jill, Miss Ethel Berry
Tommy Tucker, William Grinnell
Tom, the Piper's Son, Levi Trundy
Margery Dorr,- Lillian Smith
Mary and Her Lamb, Jenet ColsOn
Johnny Green, Fulton Mckinney
Tom Stout, Ernest Grinnell
Spider, Archer Gilkey
Mistress Mary, Miss Gladys Butman
Her Flowers: Sara Grinnell, Mildred Bowen
Harriette Weber, Lewene Nichols.
Peter Pumpkin Eater, Flint Grinnell
The entertainment will be given under the
auspices of the Congregational church, with
Miss Louise d. Leib as director, Miss Mil
bred E. Shute as pianist and Miss Henrietta
Gilkey in charge of the candy table. Re-
served seats are on sale at Clement &
Adams.
GEOEGE L. MERRILL. The Rumford
Falls Times recently published a short
katch of the enterprising town OF Dlxfeld
and brief biographies Of her leading citi-
zens, which included the following concern
ing former well known resident of Sears
port:
prominent among the business men of
Oxford county is George L. Merrill of Dix
field, a man whom his fellow townsmen de-
light in honoring for services rendered as
an enterprising man of affairs who for a
score of years has been prominently identi-
fed with the industrial and municipal life
of the town. The starting OF the thriving
spool industry here was due to Mr.. Merrill
in 1887, coming here from SearSpOrt where
he had been similarly engaged and found
ing the industry now conducted by the n.
S. Stowell Spool and Wood Turning Com
pany; With him were associated Frank
and John Stanley and E. G. Reynolds. La
ter Mr.. Merrill went to Locke's Mills where
he was employed by the American RObbin
Spool and Shuttle Co., from whom he after
wards leased the mill in Dixfeld, mean
while returning to Dixfield as superintend-
ent of the local spool mill and taking into
partnership for the operation of the mill
later, n. S. Stowell and Prince Colcord.
With Mr.. Stowell he then bought out j.
S. Harlow's interest in the spool business
and afterwards retired on the formation Of
the n. S. Stowell Spool and Wood Turning
Co. MIR. Merrill is senior member OF Mer.
rill and Springer spool manufacturers of
West Bethel, vice president of the Forster
Mfg. Co., president of the Nezinscott Lum-
Der Co. of East Sumner, and president of
the Dixfeld and Peru Bridge Co. He is
chairman of the board of selectmen, super
intendent of schools, was representative to
the legislature in 1866 and is prominent in
church work. Mr.. Merrill is senior COM
mander of Freeman McGilvery post &. A.
r. of Searsport, and i'll the Civil war enlist
ed in June, 1862, in Co. E., 10Th Me. Regi-
ment and was discharged for promotion to
second lieutenant in Co. K, 14th Me-, hold
ing his commission till the close of the re-
bellion: Fraternally he is also prominent.
being the oldest living past master of Mar
iner's lodge F. & "A. NJ. of Searsport, is
member of the COmmandery, d Shriner,
member of the Odd Fellows and Order of
the Eastern Star. Mr.. Merrill was born in
Portland and has resided in Dixfeld twenty
years, where his busy and upright career,
most in all that tends towards the progress
OF the town, has gained for him the highest
esteem of his fellow toWnsmen.
WINTERPORT.