The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-06-25
STOCKTON SPRINGS.

DR.. c. E. Britto was called to Bangor last
Saturday by business matters.
Mrs. Harry verrill is visiting her hns-
bands mother in Milford, Maine.
Miss Edith Fletcher will have the Young
Ladies' Guild meet with her next Friday
afternoon, at her home on West Main
street.
Mrs. Henry S. Moulton went to Sandy
point last Saturday to spend few days
with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Black, ana
family.
The Ladies' Aid Society will be entertain
ed this. Thursday afternoon by Mrs. Everett
Staples, Sylvan street. All are invited 10
attend.
Mrs. Maria T. Blanchard left Tuesday by
the early train for Bangor. where she VIII
spend several weeks with the reiatlVes u
her late husband.
Mr.. and Mrs George Demuth arrived Sat,
urday afternoon from Thomaston calieu
here by the decease of Mrs. DIS 1ather'
Sylvester b. Pendleton.
Mrs, C. E. Britto left Tuesday to join her
mother, Mrs. Samuel Boyd OF Boothpay
Harbor, in ROckland and accompany ner
here for visit in her home.
Sunday morning Mr.. and Mrs. Kalph 5.
Staples of Cambridge, Mass, came TO toWh
because of the death, Saturday, OF MIS- ..
parent, Mr.. S. b. PendletOn
Mrs. Whitmore of Ellsworth arrived
June 18th to visit her son, Mr.. James Wnll-
more, StOckton'S station agent, LOT IL"
days. She left Friday for home
Mr.. Charles Gordon of Bangor is acting
as substitute for Mr.. Lawton as cashier VI
the Stockton Springs Trust Co. during tne
latter's absence on his wedding trip.
Mrs. Harry E. Winslow and little son
Earle arrived by Sunday mornings steamer
from their home in Quincy, Mass, to vislt
her parents, MIR. and Mrs. Simeon +. Ellis
Mr.. Rufus L. MIDGET is having his
buildings on East Main street, recently
damaged by fire and water, thoroughly re-
naired and fitted for future use as mar
ket
Miss Marion Blodgett of Boston left Sat
urday for home after ten days Vlslt Win
her aunt, Mrs. Jennie NJ. Bragg, at the nome
of the latter's parents, Capt. and Mrs. Ralph
Morse.
MIR. and Mrs. Arthur Trimm have moved
into the house belonging TO the late zap ~
Pnbert Hichborn estate, in the rear of the
present family residence on west MALI
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Gilmore OF Cape
JaIIiSon are receiving congratulations upon
the arrival of a bouncing boy on the morn
ing of June Goth. Mother and baby are do
ing well.
Mrs. David Tibbetts of Dorchester, Mass,
arrived last Thursday, and is the guest OF
her sister and husband, Capt. and MIS-. Mel
win f. COlcOrd, for some weeks. Old lrlehus
extend cordial welcome to her native town.
The J. A. Flanders family left last
Thursday for Newark, n. j., leaving Mas
ter Jack at MIR. Harry K. Hichborn's Tor
fortnight-until after the graduation OF MS
Grammar school class, June 10Th, ana
laureate sermon the following Sun
day.
This June weather is wonderfully tine.
Day after day of perfect summer suuSnlhe
has made this season almost phenomenal.
The pessimistS called last Satufday-9o IN
the shade-'stoo hot ;" but the majority real
zed that such warmth benefits flowers,
frnits and vegetables, and that not many
such days come in Maine.
Leon P. Lawton left last Thursday. for
Boston and cards announcing ms ,ila az,
to Miss Rae Gaul Chapman of that city on
SATURDAY,, June goth, have been received IN
town. Congratulations and best wishes
are extended to this young couple by our
community. They will be at home, IN
Stockton village, alter the 18th OF July.
MIR. William MEG: Buck of Mullens. S. c.,
aud yonng son, Henry Hichborn Buck, &C
companied by his cousins, Mrs. DAVID w.
Nickels and Miss Desiah Nickels OF Sears
port, called on the Misses Hlchborn on
Church street last Sunday. Mr. b. is cashier
Of the bank of Mulens. He is the guest of
his aunt, Mrs. A. V. Nickels, for brief
time
MIR. and Mrs. j. II. Duncan of Searsport
called on Mrs. A. NJ. Gardner, Middle street,
last Friday MIR. ID. Was one OF the corps OF
civil engineers employed in the office of
chief engineer Rurpee in town during the
construction of the n NJ. S. h. r., and his
ac0uaintauces here feel very sorry to learn
of his present i'll health. We hope the sum-
mer may prove invlgoratlng'
At the Republican caucus held Saturday
evening, the delegates elected to the various
conventions were as follows: State conven-
ton at Bangor, June 3Otb, Capt. Ralph
Morse and Simeon b. Merrithew to county
convention at Belfast, E. d. blckmore, A.
n. Ames, E. A. Partridge and II. l.. Hop
kins: to the class convention at SearSport,
F. S. Barstow, Ii. L. Hopkins, B. }. Cox
and L. Albert Gardner The delegates to
the State convention were Instructed for
Fernald.
The Current Events Club, at the last regu-
lar meeting, lat Mrs H. L. HopkinsD ad-
iourped for the customary summer vaca
cation until the first Wednesday in October.
Next Friday will be observed by the Club
members as their annual "Field Day." the
ladies going to Swan Lake by buck boards.
dining at the hotel, driving around the head
of the lake and by "Half Moon Pond (the
source of our Stockton water Supply-so
satisfactory to all) with the homeward ride
thr ough Prospect.
DR., C. F. Griffin, Californian by birth,
called upon distant relatives in our village
last week while the guest of his uncle,
Saturday for Bangor and Boston en- route
to San Francisco, his home. He is the SOP
of Francis Marion Griffin, who went to
California in 1851, married there and has
not been in Maine since. The DIR. said: II
must sail up the Penobscot river, as my
father charged me not to return without
having seen that grand waterway"
Monday our citizens were called to tight
fire" above the village on high land in the
vicinity of the Marsh woods, fearing 1t
would spread into the most valuable timber
land in town, as the wind was fresh from
the northwest. 1t originated by the road
side, presumably from a match carelessly
thrown into the old stubble. The height Of
its location rendered our water works I'M
beaters," pounding the running flames in
the grass with brush, that being the most
etfectual method of extinguiShing it. Twice
it seemed entirely out, but after dark it APP
peared farther along, and as these items
are closed a crew is engaged in another