Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-31
BELFAST.
Revere House Is Quilted by
Fire, Sunday Morning.
Moody House Slightly Dam
aged BedeII Resigns.
Augustus Perry, Beifast's Grand Old
Man, Passes Away at Age OF 81.

Still" were given, Sunday, and the fire
ladies were kept pretty busy The frs
came from the boarding and Iodginl
house On Spring street. occupied by Mrs
| Moody 1t was a burning chimney and
was soon under control when the chemi-
Gals were thrown on. This was about 2.3t
T. NJ
| At ~ NJ. Monday, an alarm was rung
in from the Revere House just across the
street from the Moody house. The fire
| companies responded Immediately and did
such valiant work. that the fire was con
| fined to the interior of the building. with
| the exception of breaking through the
| roof The entire building was Quilted. Ii
was worth some $1,000 and insured To-
$500. and owned and occupied by Homel
Carter as a lodging house The fire was
| discovered by Ralph Snow, a ledger, who
saw smoke rising around the radiator III
his room. When the fire company arriv-
ed, the flames had made rapid Roadway,
and with a low pressure of water in tn,
hydrants, it was necessary to use the
gasoline fire engine. Much credit is du,
Chief Shute and his men lor keeping the
fire under control for the building is a
| fairly large one and thanked on all sides
by wooden houses, or buildings
The death of George Herrick occurred
Saturday night, at the Herriek home
stead in Northport. Mr.. Herrick was
born in 1923, the son of the late Job ano
Sallie (White) Herrick. One son, Percy
who lives on the homestead farm, sur
wives. The funeral will take place at his
late home, at o'clock Wednesday after
noon.
Wilbur o. Colby of Belfast, son of w.
O. Colby of Market street is seriously i'll
in Camden with typhoid pneumonia. Mr.
Colby who, with his brother, Harry. re
Gently bought out restaurant in Cam
den, was in Belfast for Christmas, re
turning. next day to Camden where he
was taken suddenly i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Chenery of Bos-
ton, with their children, governess anc
maid arrived Saturday morning for {
brief visit at The Pastures, Mr.. Chenery's
Belmont farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pennington of New
ark, N j., arrived in Belfast Thursday
and We're guests until Saturday at thu
Windsor.
NJ and Mrs. J. Everett Roberts o:
&orthfeld, Vt, are guests of Mr.. ane
Mrs Walter Richards oil Miller street.
Mrs. Clara Batchelder and Miss Addit
Edwards of Rockland returned. Mondag
morning, to their home, having passed
Christmas week with the formers daug..
ter. Mrs. s. s. l.. Shute, Park street
Miss Louise Webber has been confined
to her home on High street for a few
days, by illness.
Mrs. Asa A Howes is critically i'll
her home on Church street.
Miss Mary Hayes is ill at her home
on Bay View street.
The annual parish and church meeting
of the North church will take place
Thursday night. supper will be servet
at O'Clock, by the Guild, the COMMITTEES
being Mrs. J. w Jones, Mrs Zion b.
Gilchrist and Miss Evelyn p. Morrison.
The Woman's Alliance of the First par
sh will meet, Thursday afternoon, at IN
home of Miss Caroline White. Mrs. "
B. Swan will read Religious Intelligence
and Mrs. Frank r. Woodcock an origina.
paper on The Jesuit missionaries
The engagement of Miss Gladys Pitcher
their only daughter was announced a.
a luiClitOlt SlNtil dl lil- nome Oh DeI pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Il. s. Pitcher, o.
Northport avenue, where she is passing
the holidays, to Prof James Taylo.
Sleeper, of Beloit College, Beloit, Wis
Miss Pitcher is teacher of music in the
public schools of Chelsea, a graduate o
the New England Conservatory of Music
where she completed the four year,
course in two and one-half years. grad
uating with highest honors. She thet
took post graduate course of one year
specializing in the cello. She is very ac
complshed in both piano and cello, ane
a most charming young woman MI
Sleeper is the son of Rev and Mrs. w
w. Sleeper of Wellesley Mass. The fam.
lily passed last summer at The Battery
summer colony near Belfast, where tn,
Pitchers have bungalow, and the en-.
gagement is the elimination of the ro-
nance of the seashore The wedding will
not take place for year or more.
Augustus Perry, Belfasts Grand Old
Nan, and the oldest citizen in Waldo
County, died at 3 O'Clock Saturday
morning at his residence in Cedar
street. For several months he has been
in failing health, watched over with
ttliueItSl care Dy MS daughter, MISS
Julia Perry whose life has been de-
voted to him. Mr.. Perry was born il
Camden in 1916, the son of Cakes and
Nancy (Rogers) Perry When a boy
his parents moved to Belfast, settling
at the Head of the Tide, where Mr.
Perry passed much of his youth. Fol
20 years he was clerk of the money
order department of the Belfast post
office taking the position at the age Of
10, when most men are thinking of re-
firing from an active life. He resigned
this position at the age of 90, having
been for years the eldest employee il
the post Office department of the Unit
ed States. Since retiring he had liyet
quietly at his home. and until the pas
year had made a daily trip down town
greeting and receiving greetings on al
sides as he passed along the streets
His life was one long song of prais,
TO his Maker and ne often said that h
attributed his longevity to clean living
total abstinence from alcohol and to
bacco He was revered member 0
the North Church and beloved by al
who knew him.
TWO dar~htere Mrs Clarence O