The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-14
STOCKTON SPRINGS.

for the,season.
Mr.. Frank DeShon of Boston, the guest for
fortnight of Capt. Melvin E. Colcord and
family, left early last week for home.
Mrs NJ ]. Goodere and daughter. little Miss
Muriel, returned last Thursday from visits
with relatives in Fort Fairfield and other
Aroostook county towns.
Mrs. Emily G. Richardson of Bangor arrived
last Saturday and is the guest of her sister-in-
law and husband, Capt. and Mrs. Ralph Morse,
West Main street, for an indefinite time.
Miss Frances Kimball accompanied her aunt,
Miss Lillian A. Simmons, to Boston Tuesday to
Join her parents after months visit in town.
School beginnings call the pupils homeward.
Miss Louise Colcord, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank A. Colcord of Brooklyn, N. Y, left
last Saturday for home, after being the guest,
of her uncle, Capt. Melvin E. Colcord. and
daughters for several weeks.a
Mrs. J. F. Gerrity, Miss Helen Gerrity and
Mrs. James Freeman were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alvah C. Treat, Church street, early last
week. They left Sept. 9Th for their respec-
tive homes in Bangor and Winterport.
Mrs. Angie (Grifin) Mudgett left last FRI
day for Boston to join Mrs George W. Libbey
and accompany her to Minneapolis. Mimi, for
visits during the autumn. Later she will
either return to New York or go to California
for the winter.
Miss Lillian A. Simmons, School street, took
Tuesdays early train for Boston to resume
her teaching in the city schools after spending
her summer vacation in the old homestead IN
town. Many old friends look eagerly forward
to her home coming another summer.
| Last week gave US beautiful Sunday, Mon
day and Tuesday; rainstorm and high south
east wind Wednesday forenoon, followed by a
delightful afternoon; charming thursday
with clear, crisp northwest wind; an overcast
Friday and genuine rainstorm Saturday.
| Miss Marion Kneeland, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Kneeland of Cape Jellison, left
! Saturday to accept position offered her as
teacher in the sth and 9th grades in the Mars
Hill, Aroostook county, school. Miss n IS
entering upon her third year of teaching in our
northern Maine county.
Mrs Charles P. Staples of New York arrived
last week to visit her aged, Invalid mother,
Mrs. Matilda (Dckey) Berry, at the home of
her daughter and husband, Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff
ford N. Fletcher, West Main street The
hand of welcome is always extended to "Jen-
ME- in her native town.
Rev. and Mrs Arthur A Blair came from Bel
fast Monday to spend week at the house OF
Middle (he and
wife being away to permit MIR. B. to complete
his first round of parochial calls on the mem
bers of the Universalist society, before whom
he breaches each Sunday afternoon coming
from Belfast.
Mrs Maud P. Demuth and daughter, Miss
Eva of Thomaston, have been the guests Of her
mother, Mrs. Sylvester +. Pendleton, and her
sisters, Mrs. Levi S. Griffin, Mrs. James Crock
er, and Mrs Pierce D. Lancaster, for the past
week and were still il town Monday. Old
schoolmates and friends gladly welcome her
in her native village.
DR.. and Mrs. Herman G. Hichborn, their son,
Mr. Everett, and daughter, Miss Ruth, left
Monday for Bangor, en- route through the
White Mountains, to their home in Cambridge.
Mass They had been at their summer place
in town one month, a shorter tarry than usual,
because of their long automobile trip before
coming to Maine. Stockton always regrets
their departure.
News of he decease of Mrs. W. Scott Hill
of Augusta reached friends in Stockton last
week, The funeral took place last Thursday
Ee%o He
Park, who so often in her young womanhood
charmed all with her remarkable singing. She
married Dr. Hill of Augusta. where she has
since lived. Sympathy is extended to the be-
reaved husband, brother and other mourning
relatives.
From Cape Jellison piers the following
weekly report of shipping was telephonec
Monday evening: September 4th, steamer Mil
linocket arrived with general cargo from New
York, and to load paper for New York. Sep
TENDER 9th, schooners Edith Mcintyre anc
Horizon, arrived, light, to load lumber for New
York September 9Th. schooner Sawyer Broth
ers sailed with lumber for New York. Sep
TENDER 7th, steamer Millinocket sailed with
paper for New York. September 18th, steamer
Millinocket arrived with general cargo from
New York.
Mrs. Herbert Drake, accompanied by he1
sister in law, Miss Drake, her mother, Mrs
Margaret (Herriman) Marshall, and daughter
little Miss Marshall of Quincy, Mass, arrived
last Thursday and were guests at the Stockton
for few days. Saturday Mrs. D. had he
charlottesville came in her Picrce-Arrow auto
rnobie-take her to Searsport to meet Mr.
Drake on his arrival by Boston steamer ant
bring him to Stockton, his mother being will
him. The party went to Bangor in the after
noon, returning Sunday to leave for home
, Mrs. D. is native of Stockton, and is we'll re
membered in her girlhood as Carrie Tru'
Stables daughter of the late Mr.. Elvin Staples
The annual summer picnic for the children
of the Universalist Sunday school was enjoye'
q last Thursday. A large hay rack drawn by
f stalwart pair of horses, kindly furnished b.
Mr.. Harry R. Hchborn, took the merry part!
to Sears Island for a ramble, lunch and joll,
outing, The day was all that could be desire'
bright, warm and cloudless. Mrs. Elmer E
;, Thompson, Mrs. George CHM and Miss Alic
:. Hichborn accompanied the happy juveniles
> and all participants pronounced the affair