The Republican journal., 1912-03-14
PERSONAL.

Harry W. Clark attended the automobile
show in Boston last week.
fast Thursday on business.
Mrs. Helen Crosby of this city was guest
at the Humphreys-Dyer wedding in Portland
last week.
Miss Eva L. Morris will leave soon to snend
the spring months with relatives in Cambridge
and Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
George w. Burkett is spending few weeks
IN Boston and Mrs. Burkett is the guest of her
daughter, Mrs. Edward A. Wadsworth.
Mr.. and Mrs. True C. Hayford and little
heiene Mosher of Thomaston were guests of
Mr. Ralph Hayford several days last week.
Miss Nellie J. Trussell of Searsport return
ed nome last Friday from visit with her
Drother. Mr.. George c. Trussell, High street.
Mark J. Bartlett, Esq, formerly of Mont
vile, has. been Reelected city clerk of Water
vile, receiving ten votes against five for C. W.
Atchley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph D. Southworth left last
Monday for Boston, Mr. Southwortb to bn,
new spring goods and Mrs Southwortb to visit
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Davis, who have had
rooms In the E. II. Conant house, Church
street, moved last Friday to the Trussel house
on High street.
post card from c. W. Frederick dated
~arch eth' washington, D. c. says: "On the
way to Florida. Shall stop in St. Augustine
until the middle of April"
Mrs. D. N. Bird and Miss Bertha l. Bird are
'ne guests of Mrs. William ~ Todd in Port
iano during Miss Birds vacation from her
school duties in Auburn, Mass.
Albert Perry and family have moved their
household goods from Rockport to Searsmont
where they will make their home on farm, IN
that town.bought by Mr. Perrys last fall.
Mr. end Mrs. Walter G. Hatch of the Heaa
OF the Tide were called to Brockton. Mass
last Tuesday by the death of Mrs. Ernest T.
White, formerly Miss Nellie Murphy of Rel
fast.
Mr. Henry W. Mariner returned last Friday
from vacation trip that included visits ;n
I'VE" lork' Boston and vicinity and in New
hampshire He was greatly benefited bv the
trip.
Mr. and Mrs. c. P. Hazeltine and Miss Mar
garet Hazeltlne are at Tryon, S. c., but Mr.. Fl
writes home that the weather has been v.r,
disagreeable, it having rained ever since their
arrival.
Mrs. William R. Marshall of Winchester
Mass, Mrs. W. c. Tuttle from Boston and Mrs
W. H. Wiggin of Portland were called here
last week by the illness of their father Elisha
H. Conant.
Miss Edith C. Wilson, a teacher in the com
mercial department of the Gardiner High
schooi' was IN Belfast Monday on her way to
spend two weeks vacation with her father
M. 0. Wilson, in Searsmont,
Chief Justice and Mrs William p White.
mouse OF Augusta were guests last week of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bradbury while the
Judge was attending to legal business here
They returned home Saturday.
Mr. C. E. Perkins writes from scnerville
Mass: 81 expect to return to Belfast the last
of this month with liberal supply of good
things to eat and shall open my store at North
port campground for the eighteenth season
At this writing March 10th) there is no snow
in sight here and it is very spring like"
Albert B. Ferguson of New York is mem
ber of the Sophomore debating team which
will meet the Freshmen for the annual debate
at the University of Maine March 18th The
New York Alumni scholarship is to be award
ed to the best debater
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Week at the University of Maine were W. E.
Scribner of Monroe Sidney Evans of Waldo,
Seavey A, Piper of Troy, Emery D. Bickmore
of Stockton Springs, Leonard Treat of Monroe
and Miss Beulah Philbrook of Brewer
Mr.. and Mrs. Prince M. Bessey celebrated
the fifth anniversary of their marriage Tues
day evening March 9TH at their home on Bruns-
wick avenue. About Is guests and invited
friends from Waterville, Augusta and this city
were present. They were married in Dover,
N. H.-Gardiner Reporter-Journa
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Wilson returned last week
from Fort Collins, Colorado, where they had
been for weeks the guests of their son,
Mr.. Jesse E. Wilson, a successful business
man of that place Some one suggested that
Mr.. Wilson had come home to plant his early
peas but he will have to use crow-bar a
pick axe to do it.
Mrs George Fl. Wilbur of Old Town gave d
tea in her home on Fourth street to her friends
last Saturday afternoon from to o'clock, to-
announce the engagement of her daughter,
Helen Jean, to Alfred Pendleton Gilkey OF
Dark Harbor. The house was prettily deco
rated with smilax, carnations and daffodils,
Mrs. Lester G. Wilbur of Bangor Toured tea.
Hon. William T. Cobb, the senior member OF
the Francis Cobb Co., wholesale and retail
grocers, is about to assume the active manage
ment of the business and give the greater part
of his time to its affairs. MIR. Cobb has extern
sive business interests, being senior partner
of the Cobb Butler Shipbuilding Co., director
of the Eastern Steamship Co., and, associated
with Hon. c. E. Littlefield, of New York, owns
and operates the quarries and kilns OF the
Warren Lime Co,-Rockland Opinion.
Capt. Fred Barker of Elmila, n. Y, was in
railroad accident near West Lebanon, Ind.
March 7th, when five were killed and 6U MUIR
ed by the derailn ent of the Continental limit
ed train On the Wabash lailroad, louno Tor st.
Louis. Capt. Barker was on his way to the
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