The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-12-27
WINTERPORT.


Downes of West Winterport, are spend
ing the holidays in Massachusetts,.
Edwin Hopkins, who is employed in
Newport, is very i'll at his home in the
village, being threatened with pneumonia.
Mr. and Mrs A. L. Blaisdell spent
Christmas with his brother and wife, Mr..
and Mrs ]. W. Blaisdell, at the Windsor
Hotel in Belfast.
The three collections, Sunday, Dec. %,
at the NJ. E. Church, are to be given to
the committee on Syrian relief for the
war sufferers.
Armand Joy, principal of the High
school, and Miss Laura Pratt, assistant,
left for their respective homes on the
noon train, Friday.
Mrs. David Smith went to Portland
Wednesday, where she will spend the
remainder of the winter with her son
Arthur and family
The High school closed Friday for a
two weeks vacation. The town schools
also closed for ten days to begin again
Tuesday, January L.
Mrs. Patrick Cuddy is displaying a
service flag in honor of her son, Norman
j. Cuddy, who recently enlisted in the
U. S. Aviation Corps.
Judge Ellery Bowden and Walter A.
Cowan, who were appointed to assist the
drafted men in filling out their question
aires, have begun their duties.
Several automobiles were on the street
Sunday. The mild weather of the pre-
vious week, followed by the freeze of
Saturday night made the roads hard and
safe for motoring
Mizpah Rebekah Lodge elected officers
at its regular meeting, Wednesday of last
week. The installation will take place
at it's regular meeting, Jan. Is, and Mrs
Helen Hopkins of Brewer, D. D. P, has
been invited to install.
The shipment of Red Cross surgical
supplies, bandages, dressings, sheets,
fracture pillows, oakum pads, handker-
chiefs, napkins, ETC., was the largest,
numerically, yet sent out by this branch
of the Red Cross service.
C. C. Moody, who has been established
in business on Lower Main street for
nearly thirty years, is selling out his
entire stock of dry and fancy goods,
millinery, etc Mr.. Moody has the offer
of a lucrative position in Washington,
D. c., and will probably accept when his
business here is closed out. Both Mr..
and Mrs Moody are lifelong residents of
the village and their departure will be
regretted by large circle of friends
The Red Cross drive came to a sue
cessful close Monday evening. Miss
Louise Smith was chairman of the COM
mittee and enlisted the services of the
entire Grammar school of which she is
teacher. Joshua Treat, Jr., had Red
Cross booths at both stores, where Mrs
Treat and other solicitors obtained sub
scribers, and many homes have the Red
Cross service flags in their windows,
which were illuminated Monday evening
according to instructions from head
quarters.
The entire town was saddened last
week by the death of Myron Rich of the
National Army, which occurred at Camp
Gordon, Georgia, Dec. II, from the
measles followed by pulmonary compli-
cations. Mr.. Rich was the first of
Winterport's men either enlisted or
drafted to die in the service. He was
the son of George Rich and his mother
died in his infancy. Besides his father
he leaves brother Marley, and his STEP
mother who has been devoted to him all
his life, and upon whom the blow also
falls heavily. Myron was young man
who was very devoted to his home, and