The Republican journal., 1914-07-09
Sold bv w. A. HALL. Belfast, Maine.

Miss Mary Hichborn. Church street. took
Mondays steamer for Boston. to attend the
session of the National Y. P. c. u, and Sunday
school convention in that city. She Will be
absent three week. visiting IN fortiano ana
Augusta on her return trip.
DIR. T.. A. Foster of Sacramento. California,
SON. Flaw of Capt. H. M. Griffin, Middle
street. took Mondays steamer Tor Boston 70
resume his observation work IN the surgical
departments of the various hospitals. his
wife and little son are with her parents until
the time of departure for their distant home
Mrs. Edmund ]. Littlefeld and wee dahgh-
ter, Dorothy Albertina. are doing finely. The
little babe has more living ancestors than usual
three great. grandmothers, Mrs. Jane Staples;
Mrs Warren jackson and Mrs. J. E. Llttlefield;
two grandmothers, Mrs. Frank H. Jackson and
Mrs. Issac Littlefeld. and two grandfathers.
Mrs. Maria F. Blanchard. who is engaged in
Bangor the present season, came nome last
Friday to Join her family at the Fourth of July
dinner party at the home of her brother and
wife, Mr. and Mrs Elmer E. Thompson, Church
street, She took the afternoon train for Ban
gor. Old neighbors gladly greeted her in her
n tive town.
Mr.. and Mrs, Charles De Laitre Of Atkin,
Mimi. who are summering at Standpoint
called upon the Misses Hichborn, Church
street, the morning of 1.-The Fourth" in their
private commemoration of the grand patriot
ism of our ancestors! They recently arrived
their native State.
The Ladies' Aid of the Universalist parish
will meet Thursday afternoon, July 10th, with
Mrs. Willard M. Berry. Gilmore street Ihere
will be no meeting OF the society this, Thurs
day, afternoon, because of the occurrence OF
he annual picnic of the members Of Bethany
Chapter, o. E. S. Ito which many of the ladies'
| belong) on this day.
! Elmer E. Thompson and wife, Church street
| entertained the members of his fathers fam.
| lily at q salmon dinner July 4th. Those around
| the table included Henry 5. Moulton and wife.
| their daughter Grace, Mrs. Charles Rogers.
| her husband and three children, Mrs. Maria
| F. Blanchard, Herbert Mixer and wife, Charles
most congeniaI reunion of the children, grand
children and great gIandchil- rem of the late
| j. W. Thompson ana wife.
The residence of Capt. Horace M. Griffin was
| the scene of very pretty christening last Sun
day afternoon. when In the presence OF n'ne-
| teen relatives Rev. A. A. Blair, pastor of the
Universalist church, baptized the infant son OF
DR.. and Mrs. G. A. Foster in the maternal
grandfather's home. The good humored little
fellow looked earnestly il to the ministe. : face
| through the ceremony. apparently endeavorng
to comprehend the solumnity of the rite. The
good wishes of our community will follow this
babe across the continent to his far western
| home.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Buck from Marion, South
Carolina, called Monday upon the Misses HIGH
| born, Church street, in company with Mrs
John C. Showers, from West Palm Beach, Flor
ida, and Miss Desiah Nickes, from Searsport
! Mr.. Buck, lawyer by profession. has been
very seriously i'll and after severe surgical
/ operation is endeavoring to recuperate in the
| bracing air of Maine. He is the youngest of
| the family, of the late Hon. and Mrs William
| L. Buck of Bucksville, S. C. He intends TAX
! ing cottage somewhere in the Bar Harbor
region, with southern FIJI nds. for the hct WEI
Their.
| Sunday evening quite delegation of Stock
/. ton citizens attended the address delivered In
| the Colonial Theater, Belfast, by DR.. Booker
| 7. Washington. upon 1.-The Work at Tuskegee.
| Alabama" Among those listening to this tai
ented colored speaker, introduced by Hon. r.
| F. Dunton, Mayor of Belfast, were CaI and
| Mrs Ralph Morse, Mrs. Jennie M Bragg, Miss
| Mary Hchborn, Miss Elva NJ Randall. Mr..
| and Mrs H. l.. Hopkins, Mr.. George h. HIP
! kins, Capt Edmund Hichborn, Mrs. Nellie b.
/ Colcord, Miss Mabel F. Simmons. Mrs. Everett
Staples and Mrs. Rufus L. Mudgett. None
| were disappointed in their preconceived opin-
ions of the man, his ability. character aud IN
tellectuality. Raised from slave to his pres
ent position-the acknowledged leader of his
race, before the whole world-proves the cali
Der of his mentality.