The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-10-03
PERSONAL.

Mfs. Louise b. Brooks is assisting Miss Nell
lie d. Hopkins in her closing out sale.
Mrs. Thomas Orne of Cushing was the guest
the past week of Mrs. Mary Wadsworth.
Mrs. B. H. Conant will succeed Mrs. Daisv
Bliss as maker in the Ferguson millinery store.
William McCormas left the Soldiers Home
at Togus last week on furlough to 60 to Troy.
Mrs. True Hayford has gone to Lynn, Mass.
for visit, and later will go to Florida to ioin
Mr.. Hayford.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Hervey Howes of Boston
have been spending two weeks at Howes
Point, Quantabacook.
Miss June K Hills left last Thursday for her
home in Boston after visit with her sister.
Mrs. Marion E. Brown.
Miss Harriet Weaver of Allentown, Pa, re-
turned home last Friday from visit at the
home of Ralph Hayford.
Orlando E. Frost delivered an address before
the Milo federation at the Methodist church in
Milo last Thursday evening.
Miss Millie Mitchell left Sept. goth for Hag-
erman, New Mexico, where she will spend the
winter with her uncle, s. D. Mitchell
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Bray and Mr.. and Mrs.
L. J. Pottle spent the weekend at the Groesch-
ner cottage on the South Shore. Northport.
Carl Cottrell, who has been summering in
Pittsfield and learning the undertakers trade.
is at home for the winter-Rockland Courier.
Gazette.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benz. F. Wells returned to
their home in Auburn last Monday. They
were called to Belfast by the death of Mr..
Wells father, Benz F. Wells.
Misses Mabel and Lytle Townsend have en-
tered the Ferguson store, the former to learn
the millinery trade with Miss L. H. Ferguson
and the latter to clerk for J. w. Ferguson &
Co.
At the meeting last week in Bath of the
Maine Federation of Women's Clubs Mrs. Reu-
ben .Sibley of Freedom was appointed mem
Der of the standing committee on Household
Economics.
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Chase, Mrs. C. H. WAL
den, Mrs. B. H. Conant and her guest, Mrs,
Frank A. Conant of Santa Barbara, Calf. re-
turned last Friday from a sojourn at Rocky
Point, Pitchers Pond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace J. Morton of Chicago,
who have been spending several months in Bel
mont, left for home last Saturday, accompa-
MED by Mrs. o. c. Cammett, who will spend
the winter with them.
Miss Louise Brown arrived Sent. 26th frou
Boston, where she had been for the past year
and expects to spend the winter months in
this city with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs Fred
w. Brown on Ceder street.
Mrs. Henry Lloyd has closed her summer
home on Main street. and with Miss Chenery,
who had been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Hor-
ace Chenery, left Monday for New York Mr.
Chenery accompanied them to Boston,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. P. Read of New Jersey, Will
liam c. Whitney and the Misses Whitney of
Boston,who spent the summer at Saturday Cove
left Sept. 25th for their homes. They are regu-
lar visitors, coming early and staying late.
Harold and Hugh Hayford spent their vaca-
tions at the home of their brother Ralph. Both
Hospital in Waverly, Mass, and are registered
in Pennsylvania. Hugh has entered jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia He had been
on private case the past year and Harold will
succeed him.
Mrs. J. Frank Rich of kockland, who attend
ed the meetings of the Maine Federation of
Women's Clubs in Bath last week, is chairman
of the State committee on education and de-
livered an address on that subject Wednesday
afternoon. T. he address, very able one, has
papers.
Mrs. E. W. Pendleton and her sister, Mrs,
Laura j. Scott, came over from Islesboro last
Thursday morning and joined the Dickey ex-
cursion to Togus Friday morning They
stopped in Watervile Friday night, and from
there made flying visits in Oakland, Skowhe-
gan, Solon and Kineo, returning via Bangor
and Bucksport, and expected to reach home
today.
Graduates of the University of Maine around
1896 will be interested in the announcement of
one of the members of that class, Frederick A.
Hobbs, ESQ.,. counselor at-law at South Ber-
wick, as a candidate for attorney general of
the State. Mr.. Hobbs is Progressive and says
so in a letter in which he appeals to the Re-
publican members elect of the incoming legis-
lature. Scott Wilson of Portland has been in
the field for this position since the State elec-
ton.
Rev. Henry N. Pringle has resigned as Sec
retary of the Christian Civic League of Maine
to accept position as assistant superintendent
of the International Reform Bureau with head
quarters at Washington. Mr.. Pringle has been
connected with the league for II years and has
been extremely prominent in the enforcement
department. He has many times been assault
ed, three times seriously, at Eastport, Bar
Harbor and recently. last April, in Waterville,
but made reputation for fearlessness in car
rying on the work of the league.
Kingsbury B. Piper of Fairfield was appoint
ed State pension clerk to succeed the late
Major George E. Dodge of Carmel and assumed
the duties last Friday. Mr.. Piper was born in
Monroe in 1866 and attended the public schools
of that town. He taught school for ten years
in California and on his return resided for a
number of years in Augusta, where he was en-
ployed as clerk in the Vickery-Hill Publish
ing Co. offices. He then went to Waterville
and engaged in newspaper work and for three
years was editor of the Waterville Sentinel
and later editor of the Fairfield Journal. He