The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-05-11
STOCKTON SPRINGS.

The ladies of the Congregational parish met
May Sd for the purpose of cleaning the chapel
The Auxiliary Aid will meet tomorrow, Fri
| Main street.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Holmes of Lowder
Brook and daughter Evelyn left by boat Mon
day for Boston.
Misses Maud and Ruth Merrithew, Church
street, went to Bangor last Friday, returning
Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Alice T. Doe and daughter, Miss
Blanche, spent last Saturday in Bangor, re-
turning by last train.
Mrs. Ella Sanborn came from Morrill, May
4th to visit her daughter, Mrs. Seth Brown,
leaving Monday for home.
The Ladies Aid society of the Universalist
parish will meet this, Thursday, afternoon
with Mrs. F. = Patterson, East Main street.
Mrs. L. S. Titcomp, Sylvan street, returned
Saturday afternoon from Pittsfeld. leaving
her aged mother, Mrs. John Dearborn, i'm
proving from a recent ill., turn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Herman, Water street,
are receiving congratulations upon the birth of
daughter May 3rd, mother and babe doing
we'll DR.. Stevens is in attendance.
Sunday with her uncle and wife, M. and Mrs.
Albert R. Bennett, Middle street She is
student at Shaws Business College, Bangor.
Archie Bowley of Rockland spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. L. S. Titcomb. His father
ran weir here several years ago, the young
man driving the mail team for Mr.. Willard M.
Berry.
Monday May sth. was mild and beautiful
day, and all the week pre- ous gave us similar
weather. with but little rain and drying winds.
so that the oads are now very good in all di-
rections.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rupert Dorr moved this week
to Camden, where they will conduct board
inghouse. Her son. Everett Grieve, will con-
tinue to act as musician for MIR, Crockett in
his moving picture shows.
Mrs Susie A Rendell arrived recently from
Fort Fairfield where she spent the winter
with her daughter, Mrs Ada R. Baker, and
family, and will remain with her mother Mrs.
John Rendel, Cross street, through the sum-
mer.
Mrs. Carrie A. Gardner, who recently
turned from spending the winter in Boston,
has leased her Middle street house to MIR. VIM.
Averill, Supt. of the new sardine factory 10
be erected in town. and is boarding with him
and wife.
George S. Staples of Pittsfeld, with his
daughter Elizabeth and son Henry, spent SUM-
day with his mother, Mrs. Horace Staples West
Main street, returning M onday by early train.
His oldest daughter. Miss Margaret, is now at
home after successful operation for appen-
dicitis in Bangor.
Mrs. Albert c. Colcord, East Main street,
LETT last Thursday for Rockland to visit her
daughter and husband, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry ID.
Shute, in their newly established home. She
will visit her sisters, Mrs. Julia Winship in
Augusta, and Mrs Gertie Robinson in Port
land, before her return.
VIM L, Cleaves, for the past thirteen years
resident of Biddeford, arrived in town last
Thursday to spend few days with his nieces
Misses Lizzie B., Evelyn L. ard Ethel Cocord,
East Main street. Mr.. Cleaves is engaged in
carving on his farm for an aged cousin, Mrs
Hill, and has a very pleasant home.
Miss Hortense Nickerson came from Pitts
field Thursday afternoon to remain over Sun.
day with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs Leroy
Nickerson, Church street. She left Monday
morning to resume her studies at the NJ c. l.,
ha1 H.
year.
Albert M. Ames, Church street, returned
Thursday afternoon from his 26th consecutive
attendance uI on the annual Grand Lodge of
Masons in Portland-a most pleasant occasion,
as usual. Mrs. Ames spent the time of his
absence with her maternal grandmother, Mrs.
Gooding Grant, in Prospect, joining MIR. Ames
at the train on his return trip.
Rev. Charles Mann of Portland, who has ac-
copied a call to fill the pulpits of the Congre-
gator al churches at Standpoint and Stockton
Springs, preached his first sermon here last
Sunday evening. Mr.. Mann was the first pas
tor to preach in this church and his many
friends are GLAD to welco me him again.
Mrs. j. P. Miller and daughter Ardra ar
rived April goth from Aiken, S. c., to visit her
sister, Mrs. Seth Brown, Middle street. She
encountered snow storm the previous day in
Boston - marked change from the hot
weather of South Carolina, where roses were
profusely blooming. She left May 4th for
Dark Harbor, Me-, where Mr.. Miller will soon
join her for the summer.
. Work is progressing favorably on the wharf
at Merrithew's Point, and it is thought that at
/ the end of the present week, the weather be-
ing favorable, it will be sufficiently advanced
to start on the building of the sardine factory
which it is hoped will be ready for work the
first of August The floors of the building
will be of hard wood instead of concrete, as
enormously stated last week. and easier for
operatives.
Capt. Eden S. Shute, Sylvan street, left Fri
day for New York in response to call from
the firm of Baker, Carver & Morrell, to take
immediate command of vessel for sea voy-
age. name of vessel and destination as yet
unknown here. Having recently sold the two
vessels in which he was large owner to very
good advantage, Capt. Shute had intended re-
manning at home for the summer, but decided