The Republican journal., 1908-09-10

last Week.--A most onJOyaDle uanc-
ing party took place in the grange hall
last Thursday night under the manage
ment of Misses Geneva Cram and Mil
dred Aver. About twenty couples
took part in the dance, and all voted it
one OF the best times given this season.
Ice cream was served at lntermlsslon,
and the party broke up at about IL 80
all wishing that it might be repeated
before the season ends.-Miss Maud
Bradstreet of Brockton, Mass, is visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. Hattie Clough.
TROY.
The W. G. T. U. medal contest last
Friday evening was fine success.
The parts were SO excellent that the
judges were long time in deciding.
Miss Katherine Philbrick won the
medal. Miss Isora Sanderson was not
one of the contestants, as was expected
and as so reported, but her fine singing
added greatly to the entertainments
The Ladies Aid will hold lawn party
and pie social at the home of J. D..
Pierce next Friday evening.-Ches-
ter Braley of Troy has moved his fam
lily to the house owned by Lorenzo Gar
for brief vacation before returning to
Bates College, Sept. 9Jh.-Mr. and
Mrs. David Piper of Rockland are visit
ing friends in town.-Miss Lora Har-
ding is at home from Bangor, where she
had employment at the East Maine in
sane hospital Rand of Wa
terville has been passing a week with
relatives in toWn.-Prof. Harry Rowe
will speak at Troy church next Sunday
afternoon at 2 o'clock.-The Sun
shine society will meet with Mrs. I. T.
Tyler Thursday afternoon, Sept. 30.
Miss Eva Wyman of Foxboro,
Mass, is guest at DR.. Dodge's.-
Sewall Crawford of Massachusetts is
visiting his sister, Mrs. L. j. Sander
son.-Miss Vena Myrick returned
from Pittsfeld Thursday and will leave
the last of this week for BaldWinvllle,
Mass, where she has a position to
teach.-L. L. Rogers took to the
Wateryille fair this week two horses, a
colt and herd of swine.-George l..
Cook will attend the next term of
court in Belfast to serve on the trav-
erse jury, and Clarence Whitney will
serve on the grand jury-Miss Ethel
Stone is visiting at Poland Springs
Arthur Sargent is building new Chin
ney.-Llewellyn Carter and wife of
Palmyra visited in town, Sunday
DR.. J. E. Cook and son Sanger were in
town Sunday.-Mrs. Arthur Jackson
of Boston and Mrs. Sarah Richardson
visited at the home of Reuben Rhoades
last Saturday.-A. G. Myrick and
wife, j. E. Pierce and several OF our
wide awake, energetic ladies drove to
the church last week laden with mops,
brooms, dust cloths, hammers, tack pull
eIs, needles, thimbles, etc, and gave
the church thorough cleaning and
newly carpeted part of it. A picnic
dinner was enjoyed, and notwlthstand-
ing the WEAKNESS a jolly day was pass
ed.-Most of the schools in Troy
begin this week, with teachers as fol-
lows: Mr.. Fowler of Brewer will teach
the High School at Troy Corner; West
Troy, Mrs. B. L. Myrick; Cooks Cor
ner, Mrs. George Tyler Woods; Rog-
ers' Corner, Miss Est-lle Whitaker;
Bagley HILL Miss Ethel Prentiss; Bark
er District, Miss Katherine Phibrick;
Beech Ridge, Mrs. Arthur Cunning
ham.-Mrs. Eliza Ward spent August
24th, which was her 9th birthday, with
her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Estes. Mrs.
Ward is in good health and still retains
all of her faculties. She does a great
deal of spinning and knitting and has
spun the rolls made from the wool of 16
sheep the present summer, spinning
several Skeins day. She brought up
large family of children and has many
grandchildren, great-grandchiIdren and
one great, great grandchild. She is the
oldest person in town and Mrs. Eunice
Tilton, who is 90, is the second. John
E. Hillman, aged ST. is the oldest man.
He has also always been great laborer.
AT present he is engaged in thinning
out his fine cedar swamp and putting it
in good condition for future gener-
atoms. These people are good illustra-
tions of the old saying 'It is better to
wear out than to rust out. Some OF
our citizens have become so Interested
in foreign missionary work that they
have decided to support one child in far
off India.