The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-07-06
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lea. which is to load paper for the Great
Northern Paper Co. at Cape Jellison. While
in town he was the guest of his sister. Mrs,
Cora E. Dow.
DoDGE's CORNER. Mr.. and Mrs. Bloomfield
Reed motored from their home in Southwest
Harbor, Mt. Desert, last week to visit Their
aged mother. Mrs. Nancy Dow, who is quite
low Mr. and Mrs. Ernest r. Nickerson and
family of Portland arrived last Saturday and
opened their new bungalow for the summer.
.. Miss Ethel Burdette of Boston arrived
last Sunday morning to visit Mrs. F. E. Stin-
son for few days. Mr.. and Mrs. E. A.
Matthews and family of Union were at their
cottage last Sunday.
MARSHALL Ross. The residence of Capt
and Mrs A. M. Ross, was the scene of pretty
home wedding Saturday noon, July LIST,
when their fifth daughter. Emily Jackson
Ross vas married to Harold Willard Marshall,
son of Mrs. Julia Marshall of Everett, Mass.
The double ring service was impressively per-
formed by Rev. Thomas ]. Martin of the Con-
gregational church The couple was unattend-
ed The bride wore her going away suit of
blue tatfeta. Those present included the FAM
lilies and few intimate friends. The house
was handsomely decorated. The parlor. where
the ceremony took place,w banked in daisies
and ferns. the couple standing beneath we'd
ding BELL and the dining room was in yellow
roses. After a wedding breakfast, the couple
left on the Boston boa: on bridal trip, after
which they will reside in Everett. The bride
is accomplished and popular and has many
Mfg. Co.
THE Tom THUMB WEDDING. Union Hall was
filled Wednesday night, June 28th, with an I'M
usually delighted audience, for never has there
been prettier affair in it than the Tom Thumb
wedding given under the direction of Miss
Jones of Kansas City, Mo-, for the benefit of
the Methodist Sunday school, The stage was
very prettily arranged and every detail of a
big society wedding was carried out, the fol-
lowing children taking part: Bride, Alice
1rundy, four years; groom, Jay Fairchild. 5
years; best man, James Ainslee; maid of honor,
Maxine Dodge; bridesmaids, pink: Jane Flet-
cher, Hazel Peterson; (Blue) Alice Gray, Beryl
Thompson; ring bearer. Lewene Towers;minis-
ter, Horace Porter; minister's wife, Edith Will
liams; father and mother Thumb. Andrew
Eames, Winnifred Rich; father and mother
Midget, Lloyd Thompson, Lucy Staples; grand
father and grandmother Midget, George Lit
tlefeld, Reta Colson; grandfather and grand
mother Thumb, Cecil Worcester, Myra Web
Der; brother and sister of bride, Elizabeth and
Carl Sawyer; brother and sister of groom,
Frances Park, Harrison Jackson;rej ected lover,
Clyde Hamilton; cousins of bride, Leah Col
son, Beatrice Rich, Violet Meyers; old maid
aunts, Gladys Rose, Phyllis Kneeand, Rather.
inc Cunningham; ushers Charles Card, John
Frame; guests, flowers girls mattresses, etc.
OBITUARY. The many friends in town of
Horace G, Peaslee were panied to learn of his
death, which occurred June 26th at his home
in Park fter painful illness of four months
of complication of diseases. He was son
of the late Washington and Jane (Gilchrist)
Peasee and was born in Prospect in 1859,
coming to Searsport with his parents when a
boy. He began to follow the sea with Capt
w
and continued in that ship until he became
second officer and remained in her until she
was wrecked on the coast of Australia near
New Castle. He later sailed in an official ca
pacity with the late Capt. Henry T. Lancaster
in the ship John Bunyan, and in other vessels
on the Pacific coast until he retired from the
sea and returne to Searsport to make his
He was employed as house carpenter for
many years and was an effcient workman and
most agreeable companion with his fellow
workmen. He was very popular with the
town people during his long residence here.
In early life he married Miss Mary c., the only
daughter of Capt and Mrs. John c. Blanchard,
who survives him, and he is also survived by
one brother, Merrill H. Peaslee of Searsport.
who have the sympathy of the community in
their sad bereavement. The funeral services
were held at his late home Wednesday after
noon and were largely attended. Rev. Thomas
J. Martin of the First Congregational church
officated and the nterment was in Bowditch
cemetery at Park. The bearers were Capt F.
N. Park, J. A. Park, L. C. Eaton and
W. C. Pendleton.. The news has been
received of the death last week in Minneapo.
lis. Mimi. of Mrs. Sarah E., wife of Milton
Kneeland. No particulars as to the cause of
her death have as yet been received. She was
the daughter of the late Foss and Emily
(Lane) Hamilton and was born in Searsport,
July 20, 184S. After her marriage to Mr.
Kneeland she resided in ,Searsport for many
years, and was engaged as fashionable Dress
makerNuntl their removal to Minneapolis sew.
eral years ago. She was woman of beauti-
full character, loving wife and mother, and
had many friends in Searsport who regretted
to learn of her demise. She is survived by
her husband, by two sons, Eugene and Ray
Kneeland of Minneapolis, and one daughter,
Miss Emily F. Kneeland of Minneapolis; by
three brothers, Warner T. Hamilton of Mime.
apolis, Charles c. Hamilton of Winchester,
Mass. who was in Minneapolis at the time of
her death, and Josiah L. Hamilton of Sears
port.
Senator RurIeiph'S Public Service