The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-05-18
PERSONAL.


Boston and vicinity,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Shales are at the Field
cottage, Allyn place. for the summer.
Mrs. Joseph Whitaker of Unity visited her
son. Dr. T. W. Whitaker of Fairfield, last week
Mrs. c. M. Smalley and Miss Lulu L. Small
ley left last Tuesday to visit in Boston and vi.
cinity.
Gov. Plaisted has appointed Dr. E. W. Gould
OF Rockland medical examiner for Knox
county.
Mrs. Hiram P. Michaels and Mrs. Lucy Dar-
by Staples returned last Thursday from visits
in Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. William R. Marshall of VIM
chester, Mass, arrived Friday for short visit
with relatives.
| Mrs. E. M. Hall of Vinalhaven was the guest
the past week of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Tyler,
Northport avenue.
Miss Florence Brown, who had been the
guest of Mrs. Marshall E. Reed in Rockport,
left Thursday for Bangor.
| Mrs. Caroline Dolloff returned last Thursday
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Bowen
Hugh Wight returned last Saturday from
Massachusetts, where he had been employed,
and will spend the summer at home.
Mrs. Louise Royal of Ellsworth arrived last
Friday and has charge of the indexing of the
deeds in the Waldo County Registry of Deeds.
The honorary senior commencement parts at
Coburn Classical Institute have been ANNOUNCE
ed, and Ralph Albion Bramhall of Belfast has
the poem.
Prof. and Mrs. L. C. Bateman of Auburn and
Charles Woodman of Bangor were guests last
week of Mr.. and Mrs. John Thompson Con-
gress street.
Miss Velma Mitchell, who had been assisting
Mrs. l. M. Smythe, manager of the Western
Union telegraph office in Camden, returned
home last Saturday.
Miss Mary Patterson and Miss Caroline Nc
Lelan of London, Eng, arrived yesterday,
Wednesday, to spend the summer, and are at
Miss Harriet P Whites, Cedar street.
Mrs. Maria Cutter Peirce and Miss Caroline
M. Cutter OF New Britain, Conn, arrived yes
terday, Wednesday, and will spend the summer
at the Belfast Home for Aged Women.
Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Gentner of Hart
fort, Conn.,, arrived Saturday to make repairs
and improvements on their cottage in East
Belfast. They will come later for the season,
Mrs. A. c. Burgess, Mrs. George A. Gill
chrest and Miss Maude M Mlliken went to
Boston yesterday, Mrs. Burgess to remain for
visit and the others to spend few days
Mr.. and Mrs. S. T. Thompson and Miss Vir-
ginia Church of Bangor were guests for sew
eral days the past week of Rev. and Mrs M
S. Hill. Mrs. Thompson and Miss Church are
now at their cottage at Northport Camp
ground.
Harold and Hugh Hayford have responsible
positions in the McLane Hospital, Wavery
Mass. Harold was recently operated on fol-
appendicitis in the Massachusetts General
Hospital and his brother is with him. They
were in Belfast recently to visit their sister
Mrs. Marian H. Mosher.
Friends of Ex-Governor and Mrs. Fernald al
the State House have received the following
invitations: "Mr. and Mrs. Bert M. Fernalt
request the honor of your presence at the
marriage of their daughter, Mallie, to Mr.
Norris Pulsifer Eveleth, on Wednesday, june
Z, 1911, at high noon, West Poland, Me-"
Capt and Mrs. A. C. Batchelder of North
port, who have bought the Alexander house OF
Court street and to make their home il
this city, will be heartily welcomed to Belfast
The seafarer, wherever you find him, is
pretty good fellow and Capt. Batchelder ranks
in that class. Mrs. Batchelder has for year
been active in church and W. C. T. u work ane
ever ready and willing to aid in every goot
} cause.
Benjamin Priest of Canaan reached the 10Otl
year of his life May 5th. He is the oldest citi
zen in Somerset county. Mr.. Priest is vet
eran of the Civil War and was born in Water
vile, May 5, 1911. He was one of the frs
volunteers to enlist in the war and served fo
about four years, having been in active ser
vice nearly all that time. After the close o
the war he became farmer and has lived il
Canaan and Clinton most of his life. He own
a cosy little home in the outskirts of Canaan
village surrounded Dy WOODS ana is otten callet
the Hermit of Canaan"
Mr.. Alex Lindgren and his son Ray will
leave June 18th for two months trip abroad
They will sail from New York June goth fo
Rotterdam. going from there to Germany an,
will visit Sweden, Switzerland and other coun
tries on the continent and then visit Engian,
and Scotland. A week will be spent in Londol
and they will sail from Liverpool for Bostol
on the new Cunard liner Franconia Maste
Lindgren graduates from the Belfast Higl
school next month and this trip, educational il
itself, is reward for faithful study
The Dickey excursion party to Washington
D. c., arrived home on last Thursday morning
boat, with the exception of Miss Isabel CHM
who stopped over in New York, Mr.. and Mrs
Walter B. Decrow and Miss Matte E. Wiley
who stopped in Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Decrow
returned on the boat last Saturday morning
In Washington the party called on Ralph
combs and in Annapolis, Md. on Charles
Haz eltine, both of this city. MIR. Hazeltine is
at the Naval Academy and is to go on anothe,
foreign cruise this year, with unusual oppor-
tunities for sight seeing. In Washington the
party saw an eroplane flight by Glenn Curtis
Misses Wiley and CHM arrived Tuesday, the
former having visited in Lawrence, Mass, and
the latter in New York city.