The Republican journal., 1914-03-12
PERSONAL.

DO0pOn anu Vicinity.
Miss Belle Keating spent last week in
Northport.
Mr.. Fred E. Smyths returned to Boston
Monday from brief business visit in Belfast
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bradbury plan to leave
the last of this week for New York for their
annual spring visit.
Lewis Pendleton of Camden, who has been
seriously i'll with pneumonia at Bucksport Sem
mary. is improving.
George Coombs former Camden resident
now located in Boston has been visiting friends
here. = Camden Herald.
Clarence E. Read, W.A.Mason and Bernes O..
and Charles B. Norton went to Boston Tuesday
to attend the auto show
Mrs. Annie Carney and Miss E. Maude
Barker are spending several days with rela-
tives and friends in Bangor.
Miss M. Alice Pitcher was in town Saturday,
enroute to her home in Northport from Isles
boro, where she has been teaching school.
Sheriff Frank A. Cushman, who has been
suffering for several weeks with severe cold,
is improving and will be down town this week
Mason l. Stevens of Northport has gone to
Orono to attend the lectures and demonstra-
tions of the annual "Farmers Week" at the
University of Maine.
Miss Lena E. Howes, who has been employ
ed in this city for the past two years.is spend-
ing vacation with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. L. Howes in West Liberty.
Mrs. James S. Hartman and Mrs. C. E. Nc
Intire are in Boston, where the former is the
guest of Mrs. F. A. Shubert and the latter of
her brother, W. H. Bird, and family.
Rev. and Mrs. Charles B. Ames returned
Saturday from Boston, where they had been
since their marriage, February 23d, and are at
the Unitarian parsonage, Church street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer A. Sherman went to
Boston Wednesday. Mrs. Sherman will visit
the family of her brother, Elmer I. Rankin ir
Mansfield, Mass, before returning. Mr.. Sher-
man will remain a week.
Rev and Mrs. Harraden S. Pearl arrived in
Belfast Saturday and are guests at the Field
homestead, Primrose Hill for the present.
Mr.. Pearl went to Bangor Monday to cast his
vote in the city election.
Miss Hattie M. Black returned Monday frona
Boston, where she went to buy summer goods,
She was the guest of Mrs. Freeman Cook in
Somerville, Mass, and in returning spent Sun
day in. Auburn with her sister, Mrs Oscar
Meader.
Albert Gunner left Monday to sail from Bos-
Co.. xpbo ha mil.
spend about six weeks with relatives. Mr..
gunner recently came to Belfast to join his
brother, John Gunner, and is employed in
the Mathews mill.
Misses Louisa H. Ferguson of Belfast and
Miss June K. Hills of Boston arrived in New
York last week from sojourn in Bermuda,
Miss Hills has returned to her duties in Bos-
ton and Miss Ferguson is attending the New
York millinery openings.
Mrs Adella C. Packard, who has been liz
Bangor for the past year. is i'll at the home of
her mother, Mrs. Mary Wadsworth, Upper
High street. She was accompanied here pss
her son Anse, who returned Immediately to
his studies at the University of Maine.
Walter Beaulieu, who has been in North
western Canada for the past year, has returned
to his home in West Liberty. He says with the
therm orneter at so below zero up there it is
not as cold as it is here at 10 below. He liked
the country very we'll, but had longing for
old Maine.
Mrs. j. Frank of Rich of this city was the
guest of honor and speaker at the February
meeting of the Bangor kindergarten assocla.
ton As chairman of the Maine committee OK
School Patrons of the National Educational as
socation and the general Federation or
Women's Clubs Mrs, Rich also made an inspec-
tion of the educational institutions -Rockland
Opinion.
Friends of Mrs. Frank E. Busse, formerly
Miss Maude Ellis of Belfast, now of Jerome
Idaho, will be sorry to learn that her husband
has suffered another ill turn and that he has
been ordered to take year of complete rest.
If he is able the family will come to Belfast
early and spend the summer here.
Belfast friends have received letters frone
Moritz Nelson, who is in the U. s. s 8 Des~
moine at Tampico. Mexico, saying that yellow
fever was epidemic at that place and that no
one from the ship is allowed to go on shore,
ana the SIedueI 10 oSASSASN ~ -
vent mosquitoes from coming to the snip from
the infested section
Miss Stearns,a former resident of Castine and
now making her home with Marx Devereux in
Penobscot, has recently completed quit
made up of 1040 pieces, this at the advanced
age of "a years. is most remarkable and worthy
of mention. Miss Stearns is enjoying good
bealth and is as interested in all things as she
was ten years ago.
L.C. Bateman of Auburn has been elected
an honorary member of the Luther Burbank
Society of Santa Rosa, California. This Will
bring him all the bulletins Of the society and
also the right to give cards of admission to any
and all of his friends to visit the experiment
farm where Mr.. Burbank does his work. Near
ly 1900 inventions have been made by Slr Bur-
bank at this place and the work is still gong
on. Honorary members and their friends who
visit California find this place one of the great
sights of the State.
Hon. L. M. Staples of Washington was In
Portland last Friday and the Press of that city
saws: "What business he had here was purely
legal and he had no time to do any other busi--
ness than which Immediately concerned him.
The fo, mer Senator looked as he always mas,