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

ness visitor in the city last Saturday.
Miss Gertrude M. Coombs has returned from
a ten days visit with friends in Portland.
Miss Eda Woodbury. spent Sunday in North.
port with her mother, Mrs. E. c. Woodbury..
Mrs. Della L. Pitcher returned Monday
from an extended visit in Boston and vicinity
| Miss Clara R. Steward went to Portland YES.
terday to spend few days with Mrs. Helen
NJ. Todd.
Mrs. Annie L. Durham is visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Samuel Holbrook, at Libby Island
Light Station. Machias bay
Mrs. Lewis F. Clifford of Stockton Springs
returned home Monday from visit with her
mother, Mrs. Annie P. Brown.
Mrs. E. M. Barrett, who had been the guest
of her son. Roy E. Young, returned to her
home in Skowhegan last Saturday.
Mrs. N c. Partridge of Standpoint arrived
Saturday to spend few days with her niece,
Mrs. Ira M. Cobe. at Hillside, Northport
William A. and Miss Loula A. Mason return
ed last Thursday evening from St. Peters
burg, Fla. where they spent the winter.
Mark ]. Bartlett of Waterville and Willis
W. Washburn of China were business callers
Friday at the Kennebec probate court in Au-
gusta.
Eugene l.. Spear, local manager of the New
England Telephone Company, is spending a
two weeks vacation at his new home ON Mil
Ter street.
Miss Anne Slmonton, ho passed delight
full winter with relatives in Crawford, N. j.,
has returned to Camden, where she will speni
the summer.
revenue official has been in Belfast the past
two weeks. the guest of his sister, Mrs,
Joseph G. Patterson.
Mrs. M. H. Tibbetts and Mrs. Mary S. Bean
of Bangor were passengers on the steamship
Limon, which arrived at Boston May 4th from
Port Limon and Havana,
Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett, who has been the
guest for several weeks of Rev. and Mrs, j,
Wilbor Richardson, will leave today, Thursday,
for her home in Brooklyn, NY.
Capt. A. c. Batchelder returned last FRIDAY
from Boston. where he spent the winter, with
the exception of trip to Norfolk, Va. bv
! vessel, and return. Mrs. Batchelder will come
later.
Misses Annie L. Barr, librarian, and Miss
Grace H. Hall, assistant librarian of the Bel
fast Free Library, will go to Augusta next
Monday to attend the State meeting of Maine
Librarians.
William M, Randall was in Boston recently
to visit his son, Thomas Gardner Randall. who
is in the radio department of the u S. s.
Virginia. the flag ship of the fleet, and greatly
enjoyed the visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Gilchrist of Belfast
were guests of their daughter, Mrs John l.
Snow, for few days this week on their return
from Florida, where they had been spending
the winter. Mrs. Gichrist also visited In New
York, Springfield, Holy oke and Boston,-Rock-
land Opinion.
Mrs. Frederick H. Ingersoll and little son,
who had been the guests of her parents, MIR.
and Mrs. Martin Weber, returned to Portland
last Friday. Mr.. lngersoll has been appointed
superintendent Of the corn canning factory at
Oxford and will soon move his family there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward r. Pierce arrived from
Brookline. Mass, last Saturday and were at
their Church street home until Tuesday
Their plans for the summer are not perfected
at present. They may divide the time be-
tween their Brookline, Mass, and Belfast
homes, as they did last summer
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Anson Crie and grandson
Hiram, returned last Friday from Bunnei Fla,
where they have been spending the winter
Mr., and Mrs. Crie were in Baltimore on Easter
Sunday and heard the famous Billy SUNDAYS
farewell address in that city. Mrs. Crie states
that the evangellst's manner and style of
speech reminded her very strikingy of the late
Rev. J. H. ParshIey.-Rockland Opinion
Mr.. V. A. Simmons returned last Saturday
morning from a trip through the South and to
the Pacific coast. He reported that Mrs. SIM
mons, who is detained at Philadelphia Pa,
with pneumonia, is out of danger but very
weak. Their daughter, Miss Alice E. Sim
mons, has rooms the hospital and will re-
Peter Tower, who celebrated his Tooth birth
day in Cana April oath. as repol ted on the
7th page, arrived In Belfast Monday. accom-
panied by his daughter, Mrs. Julia T. Church
| hill. They were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Dan
| iel Ingalls, and were on their way to Belmont,
| where Mr.. Tower will spend the summer with
his son, Francis Tower.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Emery Cook and daughter
Mildred left Waterville May 4th for St. Louis,
Mo-, where Mr.. Cook is a delegate to the
Brotherhood of Railway Conductors Conven-
tion which meets in that city. They will then
go to Reno. Nevada. for visit with Mr.
| Cooks sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs A,
G. Fletcher, and visit other relatives in the
| West.
| Miss Maude Gammans writes from Del
Monte. Calf, under date of A pril 27th: "Will
I leave tomorrow (28th) for Santa Cruz, Big
Trees and San Jose. Had delightful time in
Santa Barbara, where l was loaded down with
and l SO much enjoyed being with Ralph and
Mrs. Hersey in their attractive home Will
stop at Hotel Utah in Salt Lake City and be in
Belfast to open my home the first of June"
| A personal letter from Mrs. J. A. Fessen-
den under date of Sal Diego, April 10th: awe
(Mrs. Pendleton) are still here having been
de lay ed week and we both have had colds.
We go from here to Pasadena, to my nieces,
for few days and then to Santa Barbara.