The Republican journal., 1908-04-16
STOCKTON SPRINGS.

Ms. J. A. Flanders returned Saturday
from ten days visit in Maiden, Mass.
Miss Marion Kneeland of Cape Jellison
was the guest last Friday OF Mrs Pierce ID.
Lancaster, Church street.
Ernest West of Old Town spent Sunday
with his grandparents, Mr.. ana Mrs.
Samuel II. West, returning Monday.
Mrs. II. E. Rouillard joined Bethany
Chapter, O. E. $, last Saturday evening.
MIR. r. will soon become member.
Mrs. Shepard Blanchard of Standpoint
spent Friday in our village, the guest OF
Mrs Maria F. Blanchard on Sylvan street.
MIR. and Mrs. Albion Goodhue returned
last Thursday from d months stay IN BIOS.
ton and immediate vicinity. Welcome home !!
DR.. C. E. Britto left Friday for Rockland
to join his wife On her return from Booth
bay Harbur, and accompanied her home
Monday.
Mr.. John Hall left Tuesday for Bangor,
en- route to New Haven, Conn. lie intends
returning for another visit within d few
weeks
Two schooners are diScharging fertilizer,
and one is unloading cargo OF cement al
Cape Jellson, to be sent by rail to Aroos-
took county.
moved into the upper tenement of the Capt.
William Hichborn bouse, socailed, On
Church street.
Mr.. Frank H. Moulton, who was called
here last week to attend the funeral OF his
little nephew. Frank Bradford Verrlll, re-
turned to Wateryille the 4th.
MIR. and Mrs. Benjamin Grant have both
been severely ill during the past week from
bad colds, yerglbg on pneumonia we UNI
derstand they are more comfortable at this
writing, Monday.
Earle Gardner arrived from Boston the
middle of last week to visit his mother,
Mrs. A. NJ. Gardner, for short time. He
left on his return trip Tuesday. We were
glad to see him in Stockton.
Mrs, LawtoD, mother of L. Z. Lawton,
cashier of the Stockton Springs Trust Co.,
spent Friday with her son and left Satur-
day for her home in Gardner. She had
been visiting in Bangor and vicinity.
MIR. Lane, the Boston agent for the Great
Northern Paper Go. of MillinOcket, has
Cape Jellison, and will bring his family
there for the summer. He was in town last
week.
The band social given in Hichborn hall
last Thursday evening proved very pleas:
ant affair. A cobweb party was followed
by dance with about fifty present. Some
800 were cleared for the band fund and an
enjoyable evening spent by all participants.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. M0ultOn desire to
extend their thanks and assurances of ap-
probation to the friends who so kindly as
| sisted them during their recent sorrow
| the decease of their little grandson, Frank
| Bradford Verrill. Mrs. Verrill is still with
| her parents. Mr.. V. is in Old Town.
Our weather is spring like indeed! The
| buds are swelling on the tree-tOps and the
| green color beginning to show in every shell
| tered nook and the birds are abundant and
busy. The traveiing is-what every New
, Eng lander expects at this season-bad and
growing worse as the frost works out.
| MIR. G. NJ. Houghton came down from
Bangor last Friday on business connected
with the N. NJ S. railroad. He announced
that the big st. Johns Lumber Co. was to
begin shipping lumber from Cape Jellison
piers this week Two vessels have already
arrived for lumber cargOes at this writing,
Monday.
Five vessels at Cape Jellison dock give an
air of ssSOmething doing" in that locality,
which, we hope, foreshadows busy season.
There is every facility needed for any and
all kinds of shipping, and we trust the b. &
A. may have its long lines of rails kept in
continual use now that winters chains have
been riven by the on-coming Of "Old SOL"
Mr.. Field, the agent at Cape Jellis0n
docks, has moved his family from the second
floor of the so called Croker house into the
Clark cottage, recently built on the site Of
the former Benson Staples house on Middle
street. Mrs. F. found ground floor rent
necessary, because of her little boys need
of being Out-of-doOrs.
We are glad to be able to report Mrs. AL
bion P. GoOdhue as steadily cOnvalescing
since the middle of last week. DR.. Stevens
now considers her out of danger, unless
some unlooked-for complications develop:
medical care could have brought her at her
advanced age-eighty- this week-out of
pneumonia and consequent weakness of the
heart action. Her son, R. P. Go0dhne, re-
turned to Boston last Thursday after a
wook,s visit fee1inp c0nfdant of her ulti-