The Republican journal., 1911-04-20
MORRILL,

Mr.. l. D. White, who with his wife has been
spending the winter with their son Leforest in
New Britain, Conn.,, returned home last FRIDAY
Mr.. White has been an invalid for several
months, and Mrs. White is under the care of a
doctor and was unable to accompany him home
Leforest came home with his father and re-
turned to Connecticut the next day. The
schools began last Monday. The village school
is taught by Mr.. Perley Allen of Montvlle
and No. 8, the Cross school, by Miss Mildred
Wentworth The annual meeting of the
| Ladies Aid Society was held with Mrs. A. M.
Daggett April 18th. Ice cream and cake we're
served. The treasurer reported Sl93 in her
hands. Mrs. Mabel Quincy was elected Presi-
dent, Mrs. lisa Wentworth, vice president, Mrs
Hattie Jones, treasurer, and Mrs. Lille Pear
son, secretary Mr.. Herman Merriam is saw
ing out lumber at Daggett's mill for his new
mill, which he will build soon.
sWANVILLE.
Mrs. Lavina B. Sherman recently came from
Augusta to make her home with Mrs. Luella
Nickerson. Master Robert McTaggart of
Brooks was the weekend guest of his sister,
Mrs George 7. Nickerson. :. Capt. Thomas D.
Nickerson passed away April 14th, aged 81
years. He leaves a widow and daughter
Miss Harriette M. Nickerson, beside large
circle of friends, who extend sympathy to the
bereaved relatives. The funeral took place
Monday noon. An obituary will be given later.
His sister, Mrs Maria Goodhue, who has been i'll
at his home is gaining. Miss Gwen Body of
Brooks is with Mrs. E. L. Cunningham for
few weeks Mr. Fred Brown went to Massa-
chusetts last week Mr.. and Mrs. Chester
Curtis went to Marblehead Mass, last week,
where they will reside. Miss Julia Chase,
teacher in the Everett, Mass, schools came
last Saturday for weeks vacation with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. M. Chase. Mr..
Fred Curtis, who has been ill the past week, is
gaining. At special meeting of the L. A. s.,
April 18th, the following officers were chosen:
President, Mrs Grace Damn; Vice president,
Mrs Jessie Nickerson; Secretary, Mrs. Alberta
Nckerson; Treasurer, Mrs Mary F. Nickerson.
There will be meeting with Mrs. Grace
Damn this, Thursday, afternoon and it is hoped
all members will be present. -. Mrs. Bertha
Curtis, two children, and lady friend from
Massachusetts recently visited her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Trip.
LIBERTY.
Though the business at this village appears
very dull when the tannery is shut down
which has been the case for some time with
no prospects for work in the near future
still, "change and change are busy ever" and
this place is no exception to the rule. The
power machines saving wood make all the
noise we have at this time. The mills in the
town are we'll stocked with lumber and they
are cutting it out at the usual rate. Frank
Bennett has full crew at work in his machine
shop making machinery for stave mills, and G..
A Palmers foundry is busy making castings
for the same. -. Mrs. Malloy of Union has OPP
ened millinery parlors in the second story OF
the Sanford block and is now in Boston buElng
goods John P. Sanford, of the firm of Sanford
Bros, having bought the E. M. Hatch farm IN
this town, will retire from that concern and
move to his new purchase in the near future.
It is rumored that Ed. Mitchell, the mail
contractor between this place and Belfast, has
bought the Moody place in this village, on
which he now lives. .....E E. G. Norton OF this
village, on account Of. poor health and advanc-
ing years, has decided to sell his farm, known
as the stock farm, in Montville, and all his
farming tools and machinery at public auction
at this village on the afternoon of April 25th.
This is fine lot of tools and machinery, new
and of the latest pattern, and includes new
reaper and binder, hay tedder, manure
spreader, harrows, plows and carts Allen
Knowlton, an employe of the Express 20. IN
Belfast, is at home for short time on SICK
leave. :. The sick people in town are improv-
ing and are delighted to- have a chance to crawl
ont and take a sun bath Among them are
YOUR scribe and wife, who have been confined
to the house for more than three months.
The town clerk informs me that the
death rate in this town the past winter has
been greater than ever before. The num-
her of deaths recorded since the new year
came in is fifteen -. The schools in town
will begin April z4th with the following teach
ers: Primary, Mary A: Brown; Lower village
Mrs, C. M. Aver; South Liberty, Lola Powell;
Davis-Prescott Mrs. Geo. McLain; Sherman
Corner, Ruth Knowlton; Bradstreet. Sadie
Boynton; Hostile Valley, Elizabeth Beaulleu.
Mrs. ]. w. Clough has returned from Pa
lermo, where she spent the winter MAJOR
Hatch of Detroit Mich, Mrs. Walter Gushee
of Ludlow, Mass, Mrs. Carrie A. Smith and
Miss Lutte K Hatch of Somerville, Mass
were in town last week, called here by the
death of their mother, Mrs. Enos Hatch. The
funeral services were held at the home OF her
daughter, Mrs. John Sukeforth,, rev. n. w :
Abbott of Palermo officiating. In loving re-
membrance of the fondness of the deceased TO-
flowers there was profusion, including Easter
lilies, roses, carnations, violets and MINOR MINOR.
telles L. P. Critics, who left town SNORT
time ago. is at present located near BOSTON,