The Republican journal., 1914-09-03
Sold by w. A. HALL, Belfast, Maine.

for Boston. Aug 9th. schooners Grace Cham
bers and William Mason arrived, light. to take
lumber freights, and sch John R. Penrose
sailed with lumber for New York. Aug. 18th.
steamer City of Philadelphia arrived. loaded
and sailed with paper for Boston. Aug. 10th.
steamer Millinccket arrived with general
cargo from New York to load paper for New
York.
The regular monthly outing of the Current
Events Club during the vacation season was
observed Monday, Aug. 3lst, by blackboard
ride to Penobscot Park, and shore dinner
served at the Pavilion on the screened porch.
Seventeen ladies', including several guests of
members of this literary society, were seated
around the tables, as follows: Mrs. Angie
Mudgett, Mrs. Lucretia Flanders. Mrs. Abbie
Treat, Mrs Eleanor 3. Colcord, Mrs. Amanda
B. Frye, Mrs Blanche F. Staples, Mrs Sarah
A. Morse. Mrs. Jennie M. Bragg. Mrs. Lilias
S. Emery, Miss Leora Partridge, Mrs. Ada P.
Griffin, Miss Mary Hichborn. Mrs. Izah T. H.
oanborn, Mrs Vena M. H. Ryder, Miss Nellie
Hichborn, Mrs. Florence F. Levine and Mrs.
Elizabeth Foss. The dinner was delicious and
the ladies were in excellent humor for appre-
ciating the glorious sunshine and beautiful
shore scenery. After time some INDUCED in
playing auction bridge while others roamed
about the park enclosure until, through the
generous hospitality of guest of the occasion,
those ladies wishing to glide over the sparkling
waters of our cha, ming harbor were taken in a
hoe hoy ha Of II llu
guarded port and back to the park, few of
the party preferring to board the big steamer
Millinocket, loading at the Cape Jellison piers,
instead of rounding the f1ash-hght buoy at
the harbor entrance. The homeward drive
was uneventful, the entire recreation being
one of the pleasantest enjoyed by this ladies'
association.
Horace Marden of Berkeley California. a ma
tive of our town, who in company with four
teen other young men of the old town of Pros
pect left "Hichborns Corner" together in 1851
to try their fortunes in the then alluring gold
fields of the newly admitted State, after an alb,
sence of sixty-t three years returned to call
upon the few remaining acquaintance of his
early life-before his years had rounded out
their first score. His clear remembrances of
persons. buildings and the topography of the
town are astonshingiy accurate, especially in
one who has led a very busy life, realizing as
he expresses it, "the varying fortunes of an
early Californian but retiring from success
fully managed lumber business after twenty
five years to revisit his childhood's home, gaze
upon landscape, river and once familiar scenes,
before settling to spend his remaining years
with a daughter and family in Berkley, Cali
fornia, his life companion having passed away
six years ago after fifty one years of entire
domestic harmony. This gentleman, travelling
alone, and giving no sign of his four-scor.
years and three, laughed heartily at the ques-
ton asked him: "Did you cross the continent
alone?" His one regret, he says. is that he
could not have arranged to come to Maine
early enough to have seen bis parents, the late
Mr.. and Mrs. James Marden, once more. One
sister. Mrs. Faustina Fl. (Roberts) Noyes of
Vinalhaven, is all the member OF his fathers
One sister and one brother are citizens of Cali
fornia. His fund of anecdotes is deeply in
structive and highly entertaining, and it seems
pity he cannot be induced to write out at
length these tales of California pioneer ex-
periences, which several magazines have offered
to publish. Mr.. Marden goes to Boston, New
York, Philadelphia and Washington, D. c., on
his homeward journey, going by the Southern
Pacific Line.