The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-11-04
CENTER MONTVILLE

CENTER MONTVTLLE
Mrs. Volney Thompson is spending week
with relatives in Belfast Miss Geneva Var
ney returned October 26th from visit to Bos-
ton and Augusta. Mr.. Thomas Erskine has
finished digging his potatoes and finds that he
has raised 6S5 barrels of salable potatoes and
IA barrels of small potatoes, two acres of
land Some of the potatoes very large, %
filling bushel basket and weighing 63a lbs...
Mr.. Gardner Berry had 81 acres in potatoes
and finished digging Saturday. 1t is reported
that he has LOO bushels and that Fred Stewart
has $500 bushels in his cellar. Mr.. George
Gordon sent % dressed chickens to Boston and
received check for $26.. :. Miss Nettie Ramsey
returned to her school in Unity, Monday morn
ing, after:two days visit with her mother.
Mr.. Whitney of Newburg has been in town
buying apples. Harry Mason of Gorham, N.
H., was recent guest of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph o. Mason. $50 A. ID. Baker visited
his brother-in-law, E. W. Farrar, in Thomaston
the first of this week Mrs. S. J. Sanford is
in China the guest of her nephew, Woodbury.
Marden. :. Mrs Austin Wentworth and Mrs.
H. L. Jackson of South Montville were at D. C.
Gains Sunday. Mrs. Eliza j. Penney returned
to her home in Freedom last Saturday. -. Mrs.
Sarah Stevens of Knox is at Frank Mayhews.
49,. E. C. Hartman and c. E. Davis each lost a
horse last week The Vose and Whites cor
ner schools closed last Friday. Miss Judith
Banton, the teacher at Whites corner conveyed
her pupils to the Vose schoolhouse, where Miss
Margie Poland was the teacher and the two
schools combined in dispensing generous treat
and having general good time. -. Mrs. M E.
Busher and NJ E. Busher Jr., were Sunday
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W. Nutter. :. Miss
Lulu Dyer came home from Union Saturday.
WATERPROOF
The funeral services of Mrs. MaryJ. Havener,
whose obituary appeared last week, were held at
her late home last Thursday morning, Rev. A. J..
Lockhart officiating. Capt. Ferdinand Harri-
man came from New York to attend the funeral
of his sister. Mrs. Martha Hurd died on
Monday morning, October 25th, at the home of
her son, Capt. Clarendon Hurd. She was the
widow Of the late Joseph Hurd, and is
survived by two sons, Clarendon and yelling
ton Hurd; by brother, Mr.. Cyrenus Downes,
and by three sisters, Mrs. Thomas Eaton, Mrs.
Lizzie Potter, and Mrs. Charles McDermott
Mrs. Hurd was an excellent woman, beloved by
all who knew her, and she bore her long and
painful illness with christian fortitude The
funeral services were held Wednesday after
noon at the Methodist church, conducted by
Rev. A. J. Lockhart. A large number of friends
and relatives were present. Mrs. Nancy 7.
Billings passed away last Saturday night at the
home of her nephew, Capt. Fred Littlefeld, at
the advanced age of 88 years. Mrs. Billings
was indeed beautiful character; kindhearted,
intelligent, and was beloved and respected by
all who knew her. The funeral services were
held Tuesday morning at her late home and
the interment was in Monroe Mrs. l. ].
Durham left for her home in Boston October
9th Mrs Alberto George received news
last Saturday of the critical illness of her
daughter, Mrs Minnie Kelley, at her home in
Portland, and left Immediately to go to her
there. Mrs. Wharf of Corinth visited her
brother-in-law, Rev. l. H. W. Wharf, last week.
i. Among those who are expected to leave
this week are Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Gould, who
will visit Minneapolis and several points in
Michigan; Mrs. John Butler and two children,
who will join her husband in Los Angeles; Mr.
J. F. Hussey, and Mrs. Lucy Dyer, who will go
to Florida. :. Mrs. Edwin ]. Bowden is quite Sc
riously ill.