The Republican journal., 1913-07-10
EAST BELFAST.

| The Ladies Aid met with Mrs. VIM. Vaughan
| yesterday afternoon.
E. W. Ellis and S. X. Richards returned last
Sunday from Gettysburg.
Atwood Mathews has sold his house on
Bridge hill to Elon B. Gilchrest.
William Jacobs of Rockport spent the Fourth
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Brown.
Miss Amy f. Stoddard has been engaged as
organist at Trinity Church through the sum-
mer
Misses Eliza and Olivia Hartman of Sears
port were weekend guests of Miss Ethel
Slavery.
| A party of eight young ladies spent the
Fourth at the Towle cottage and broke camp
| Monday morning
Misses Ruby and Myrtle Tetley OF Peter
boro. N. H., are visiting their grandmother,
| Mrs. E. S. Achorn.
Ralph L. Pitcher and family of Caribou ar
rived this week for two weeks stay at the
Towe cottage.
Miss Ethel Slavery went to Castine Monday
morning to ate the summer school and pre-
pare herself for teacher
An ice cream social was held last Wednesday
night at Trinity Church after prayer meeting
and neat little was Melted.
Mrs. Kate Leary returned home last Sunday
from Searsport, where she was called by tn e
illness of her brother. Peter ward.
The little daughter of MIR. and Mrs R. G.
Mossman has returned home from the Waldo
County hospital and is slowly convaescing.
Frances Clark second daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Herbert Clark. operated on for ade-
noids July 3rd by Drs E. D. Tapley and Small
Miss Maude Healey left for her home in
WOODSTOCK, Conn.,, last Monday after ten
days visit with her friend, Miss Isabelle Towle.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. Pendleton arrived home
Monday from Greenvile, where they spent the
Fourth with their daughter, Mrs. Sidney
Young
Warren Ryan's store on the Robbins road
was broken into last Saturday night and cigars,
tobacco, and what money found in the
drawer were taken
The ladies of Trinity Reformed Church have
set the date of August 9Th for their annual
sale, supper and entertainment Full particu-
lars will be given later.
The following item from the Wakefield
Mass, Daily Item is of local interest as Mr..
Hamilton was native of Swanville and Mrs
Hamilton is an aunt of Mrs. Fred N. Saverv of
East Belfast:
The reunions of Civil War veterans and
army nurses. now being held on the battlefield
of Gettysburg on the seth anniversary of that
decisive and memorable conflict, has special
significance and interest for Mrs. Margaret
Hamilton of Elm street, past national president
of the Army Nurses Association. Mrs Ham,
ilton is now at Gettysburg.
When she was not quite II and school girl
in Rochester. N. Y, she became intensely de-
sirous of doing what she might to aid the
cause of the Union. Against the wis hes of
her parents who We're we'll to do and had
place of influence in Rochester, she took the
only field of endeavor open to her-nursing
the wounded and dying.
While picking her way among the bodies of
the heroes after the Gettysburg battle, she
came across Charles R. Hamilton of the 10Th
Maine Regiment. After giving him prelimi-
nary relief while he lay wounded, she nursed
him in the Union hospital Her unselfish
devotion and attention to Mr. Hamilton and
other victims won the wounded mans heart
and after the war was ended they were mar
ried in West Philadelphia. Mr.. Hamilton
passed away here in 1900. There are five
daughters.
Mrs. Hamilton's interest in patriotic y ork
q" in all matters affecting the G. A. r. and
Army Nurses Association has never faltered
in the half-century that has since elapsed.