The Republican journal., 1907-12-26
- PERSONAL.

| The University of Maine students at
home for the Christmas recess are Ralph W.
Gould. 10, Lynwood B. Thompson, Clyde
Shute. William Vaughan, II, and Theodore
Shorey, IL, and Colby A. Rackliffe, from the
School of Agriculture
Miss Bernice Rogers is at home from
North Adams, Mass, where she teaches in
the High school, and Miss Louise Rogers
from Fairfield, where she is attending
school, to spend Christmas with their
father. Judge R. w. Rogers.
Friends of Ralph E. Lord, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin Lord, will be interested to
| know that he is filling a temporary appoint
ment as instructor in mathematics in the
| college of the City Of New York-Bangor
Commercial.
Mr.. Lord has graduated from the Unver-
sity of Maine in the class of 1906, and is
well known in this city, where he has been
| the guest of Alphonso Wood
Rev. and Mrs. E. NJ Gordon and little
daughter are guests of Miss Millett, who
made their acquaintance in India. Mr..
Gordon and family have just returned from
the missionary fields of India, where for 16
| years he has labored as representative of
the Foreign Christian Missionary society of
Cincinnati.
Norman A. Read has passed the exami-
nation for registered druggist Since his
graduation from the Belfast High school in
1908 he has been employed in the drug store
of Poor & Son, where he has added to his
| former popularity by his thoughtfulness
and courtesy. The examination is difficult
| one, and his many friends extend congratu-
| lations.
A. A. Beaton. Esq, of Stockton Springs
| has been in the city, this week, on business
| and to attend several Masonic functions in
| which he was interested. In the capacity
| of Past Grand Master of the X. & s. NJ, he
| installed the officers of King Hiram's coun-
Gil, Tuesday evening, and attended the
Commandery ceremonies the previous even
| ing. A host of friends bade him a cordial
welcome.-Rockland Opinion.
Benjamin Severance, formerly proprietor
of the Lindsey House, has lately returned
| to this city after an absence of II years, and
is making his home with his niece, Mrs.
Roscoe Staples, Spring street. Mr.. Sever
| ance has been in various parts of the West
since he left Rockland, at one time being
located in Indian Territory. He has been
| in poor health for some time past, and re-
| port of his death was current here at one
| time. He has received Il great many calls
| from old friends. .-Rockland Courier Gazette
The Journal received a pleasant call last
| Thursday from Mr.. Edwin Hearin of Knox.
| For man of so years Mr.. Hnarin is well
preserved, bright, entertaining and up to
the times. He saw service in the Civil
| war and is pensioner. His son was in the
| Spanish war and later went to the Philip
pines Mr. Hearin recently fell in his stable
and injured his shoulder, which he treated
himself, and is improving. He came to this
city with his own team.
1t will be interesting tc Maine people to
know that Senator LaFolette's church is
presided over by a Maine man, of whom he
| is very fond. The minister is Rev. Frank
| A. Gilmore, once of Belfast, graduate Of
| Colby and later of the Harvard Divinity
| school. He was quite baseball player in
his college days. He first located in Presque
Isle, after wards going to Haverhli and then
to Madison, Wis, where he is now located.
81 am very fond OF Gilmore" Senator La
Toilette said here today. "He came to
| Madison, when our church was very small.
| He has built it up by good, thorough work
and we all like him. Washington Cor.
| Bangor Commercial.
| Capt. G. W. Dow, one of the two sur
vivors of the wrecked schooner Thomas W.
/ Lawson, is one of the best known and most
popular navgators along this coast Born
about sixty years ago at Hancock, Me, he
took TO the sea and for years served in YES
sells in the service of John S. Emery Il Cot
of Boston. He was master of the schooner.
Everglade and Albert L. Butler, also on the
| barqueS Colorado and Auburndale, having
command of the latter for twelve years.
His home is in Melrose, Mass, and has %
wife and two sons-Richard f. Dow, u
chemist in the State House, and Orville IL.
] a druggist in East Boston.