The Republican journal., 1909-12-23
PERSONAL.

short visit in Boston,
Miss Isabelle Towle left Monday for visit
in Boston and vicinity.
Miss May Pendleton of Dark Harbor spent
Sunday with friends in Belfast.
Miss Myrtle B. Nash left Saturday to visit
relatives in Boston and vicinity.
Mrs. Chas. H. Bray has returned home after
spending two months in Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Decrow left Monday to
visit relatives in Everett, Mass.
Miss Florence Kimball left Saturday to
spend her vacation with her sisters in Boston.
| Frank E. Harding has returned to Brewer
from brief trip to his former home in Pros
pect.
Mr.. Alton D. Allen and family of Lewiston
will spend Christmas with Mr.. and Mrs. W. A.
johnson.
Miss Frances A. Sargent returned Monday
from visit with Miss Beulah F. Philbrook in
Brewer.
DR.. G. C. Kilgore has been at the Eye and
Ear Infirmary in Portland the past week for
treatment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence W. Proctor are spend
| ing the Christmas vacation at their home in
North Windham.
Elmer B. and Alice A. Simpson of Bruins
wick will spend the holidays with their mother,
Mrs. Fannie S. Simpson.
| Miss Edna Ward of Prospect was in Brewer
last Saturday for brief visit, the guest of
Mrs. Frank E. Harding
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ainslie of Syracuse arriv-
ed last week to spend the holiday season with
DR.. and Mrs. o. S. Vickery.
Mrs. E. w. Pendleton returned to her home
in Islesboro last Friday from brief visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. Sargent.
Miss Marian Hazeltine will arrive this,
Thursday, evening from Smiths College to
spend the Christmas vacation.
Mrs. Olive Stewart, matron of Freedom
Academy, was the guest last week of Mrs. A.
j. Knowlton and other relatives.
| Mary C. Hayes is in Camden, the guest of
her sister. Miss Grace H. Hayes. They will
come TO Belfast to spend Christmas.
Miss Mary Helen Bird, the teacher of music
in the Presqne Isle schools, arrived Saturday to
spend the holidays at her home in this city.
John B. Wright, who has employment in
Haverhill, Mass, is at home to spend the holi-
days with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. L.
Wright.
| Mrs. Fannie Scott leaves today for Belfast
where she will make an extended visit with
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Messenger.
| The marriage intentions of DR.. Irving E.
Pendleton and Miss Florence E. Hodgson, both
of Lewiston, are recorded at the city clerks
Office in that city.
| Miss E. Margaret Clark of Prospect who has
been teaching school in Princeton, is spending
part of the Christmas vacation in Brewer with
Mrs. Frank E. Harding
| Mrs Dora Sanborn of Brooks was the guest
for a few days of Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Blodgett,
and left last week, to visit her daughter, Mrs
Bertha Adams, in Camden.
Renworth R. Rogers is at home from Colby
College for the holiday vacation and will be
employed by the American Express Company
on the Christmas extra work.
Congressman E, C. Burleigh has recommend
ed the reappointment of Postmaster John v
Lane of Augusta. Me. He has proved himself
to be the right man in the right place.
! Miss Winnifred Sanborn, who is spending
the winter in Bath was one of the party
launched on the schooner Wyoming, and to
whom luncheon was served on board the ship.
/ Miss Edith Gammans of Newton, Mass, j.
! A. Gammans of New York and Nelson Gam
mans of Harvard College will be in Belfast to
spend Chris stmas at the home of Mr.. Albert
Gammans on Church street.
R. A. Peavey of st. Louis. Mo-, and his
mother and sister are spending the holidays at
their summer home on the Searsport Road.
Mr. Peavey has just returned from hunting
trip in the Moosehead Lake region and
brought back with him fine buck.
Mrs Benjamin F. Wells will leave next Sat
urday morning for Auburn to attend the we'd
ding of her son, Benjamin F. Wells. Jr., which
takes place in Auburn Christmas night The
brde-elect is Miss Blanche. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Alvah Jordan. Mr.. Wells is a mem-
ber of the firm of Frost & Flanders, dealers in
sporting goods and automobile supplies, and
| Miss Jordan is prominent in Auburn's social
| circles.
Capt. Ed. A. Richardson, whose vessel, the
four-masted schooner Medford, was total
loss in the hurricane at Key West, Florida, on
October II, arrived home Saturday, and is be-
ing cordially greeted by friends and townsmen,
after his trying experience. The captain
modestly refrains from saying very much
about the catastrophe, but information from
other sources leads US to opine that he had a
narrow escape and was considerably exhausted
when taken off the wreck, after having been
in the rigging thirty-six hours. Always We!
come on his visits home, upon this occasion his
presence among us again is doubly pleasing
AS soon as Capt. Richardson has made things
around home shipshape for the winter we are
hoping he will take up his facile pen and tell
us what it is to be shipwrecked during Florl-
da hurricane.-Deer Isle Messenger.
George W. Yeaton, who some years age
learned telegraphy in the Western Union office
in this city, is now manager for the Telepos1
Co. at Exeter, N. H. We have received from
him some interesting information concerning
the Telepost, including sample telepost mes
sage and the alphabet used, which is not the
Morse, but is practically the Continental anc
is the same used in wireless telegraphy. While
we do not quite agree that the three quckes
ways of spreading the news are Telegraph
Telepost, Telawoman'' We are willing to admi