The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-01-15
STOCKTON SPRINGS.

STOCKTON SPRINGS.
d. Il Hopkins has reached Porto Rieo. -
Mn. Hopkins has reeeived letters say1ag thai
Is hsd ! fl1e passass ~ was feeling we'll
M. Luther seott - been nj from An attack
,ef No mudaps ille visiting his sistsr and
husband. Mr.. and Mrs. + A. Gardner. Middle
stsssf
NJ. I. s. Titcomb, Sylvan street, left Thurs
day for Exeter. Maine. called there BY the DE-
cease Of his brother from pneumonia He re-
turned by last train. Saturday.
The Current Events Club will again be en-
tertained Wednesday afternoon. Jan. 2lst ~
Mrs. Herbert L. Hopkins. Church street. cir
cumstances preventing the usual attendance
last week.
The Young Ladies' Auxiliary Aid Of the
JJniversalist society will be entertained Fri
dav, afternoon, Jan. 10th. by Miss Lucretia
Flanders, East Main street. for the customary
needlework.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Universallst
parish will meet this, Thursday. afternoon
with Mrs. Harry R. Hichborn. East Main
street. for sewing. All are invited to attend
by the genial hostess.
Miss Susie A. Cousens arrived from Brock
ton Jan. 7th, called home by the critical illness
of her father, Frank H. Cousens, Church
street. the fatality of the pneumonia, few
hours before her arrival, being severe do"
to her on reaching the house.
John Mclaughlin contemplates running
large automobile twice daily between Stock
ton Springs and Bangor the coming summer.
The convenience will be greatly appreciated
by cur citizens, particularly those wishing TO
be left in the shopping districts.
From Cape Jellison piers the following ship
ping report was telephoned Monday evening:
Jan. 9Th. R. & R. Lime Co.'s barge, No. 4, sail
ed, light, for Rockland. JAM 7th. steamer
Millinocket arrived with general cargo from
New York and sailed Jan. 9th with paper for
New York.
Last Thursday gave US remarkably mild
day. With exceptionally fine sleighing-
.snever better" said our Belfast expressman
Manter Decrow-there were many invigorat.
ing sleigh rides in our town and vicinity. One
of Names winter pleasures, excelled by moth
ing the world over.
Harry W. Griffin Of Mattapoisett. Mass, ar
rived Jan. 9Th to attend the burial services o.
his half-brother. Frank H. Cousens. Hi
mother, Mrs. Avalina C. Griffin, who is will
him, was unable to undertake the journey ii
January's treacherous weather-a great dis
I ap pointment to her in her great grief.
Mrs. and Miss Perry of Bath. wife an
daughter of the captain of steamer Milinocke'
arrived Jan. 7th to spend the winter in town
as Capt. Perry is oftener here than elsewhere
The ladies' have taken rooms in Hopkins
Block and are boarding with Mr.. and Mr'
Charles McMann, sekeeping in the block.
Charles Kneeland. D. D. G. NJ. sth Masoni
District, assisted by Lincoln Albert Gardne
as Grand Marshal, publicly installed the Of
ficers of King David's Lodge, F. & A. NJ, c
Lincolnville, Tuesday evening, Jan. 9th. The
were entertained very pleasantly and wit
generous hospitality. After the ceremon
there was reading and speaking, followed
) bountiful supper served in the banquet hal
These gentlemen arrived home about a. m
W ednesday, we'll pleased with their treatmel
nv the Lincolnville brotherhood and the plea
ant trip by carriage.
OBITUARY. Stockton mourns another of hi
r we'll known citizens. MIR. Frank Howal
: Cousens passed to the better life on the morl
& ing of January Z, 1914. after ten days sicl
, ness from pneumonia. The shock to h
numerous friends was the greater because tt
!; fever had apparently abated, but the hea
3 failed to respond to the great strain put upe
i, it by the paroxysms of coughing and struI
e Cling for breath, and conscious almost to II
. last, he sank to awaken in Our Fathers Realr
n where there is neither sickness, trial or deaf
n Mr. Cousens was born in Standpoint. Augu
II, 1856, the son of Capt. Alden Cousens ar
. Mrs. Avalina (Grifin) Cousens. When b.
e nine years of age his father died-Mart
a 10, 1864 and his young mother selllr
n her home went with her babe to the hon
e of her parents, Mr.. ard Mrs. James Grih
:. in her almost Frustrating grief. the p
e ternal grandparents, MI. anu MIs. Daniel
8 Cousens, welcoming the little grandson in
= their pleasant home circle. With them he r
, ma ined until his mother, after years Of Wi
s owho cd. married Capt. Warren F. Griffin al
d ZANE to live in his village home, where, in
e young manhood, the deceased joined them.
r married Miss Carolyn Tibbetts of Frankfol
}. August 8, 1880. Three children blessed tn
r congenial union. The only son, Alden Ware
Cousens, died October H. 1885, when but to-
' months old-a great sorrow to the fond pa
ents. The daughters, Misses Susie A. al
Beulah Cousens, survive to comfort the
mother in this almost Iaralyzi separate
from har cfmnanion of thirtv-th veal