The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-05-31
STOCKTON SPRINGS.

Mr. j. H. Gerrish, Sylvan street, went
to Greenville last Saturday to enjoy a
few days fishing.
Mr.. H. L. Hopkins, Church street, ar
rived home May 22nd from weeks bust
ness tarry in Boston. e.
Mr.. and Mrs. McLane of Old Town
have recently moved into the Ellis cot
tage on Church street.
Miss Maude Merrithew, Church street,
went to Thomaston last Saturday to re-
main until Tuesday, returning by iitney.
Mr.. S. B. Merrithew, treasurer of the
Stockton Springs Trust Co., was bust
ness caller in Bangor Monday afternoon,
going up in his automobile.
William Smith has sold his pair of
heavy truck horses and bought single
horse, being unable because of sciatica to
do his usual hard trucking
Mr.. j. E. Littlefeld of Brewer, was a
business caller in Stockton, May 22nd.
Our shipbuilding interests are beginning
to loom brightly on the horizon.
DR. and Mrs Harold E. Small and babe
Winston were in Belfast last Saturday
and motored to Monroe Sunday, spending
the day with the doctors parents.
Miss Gladys Cole, daughter of Capt
and Mrs. Charles Cole, School street, ar
rived home last Saturday after spending
the winter in Bridgewater, Mass.
Dr. H. Everett Hichborn, after ten
days visit in town, the guest of his
cousin, Harry R. Hichborn, left last Sat-
urday for his home in Cambridge Mass.
May 23d brought Stockton a heavy
thunder shower, the electrical display be-
ing brief but exceedingly vivid, the cur
rent affecting many citizens very per-
ceptibly
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Univer-
salist parish will be entertained this,
Thursday, afternoon by Mrs. Simeon F.
Ellis at her hilltop home, Church street
All are cordially invited.
Mrs. Albert C. Colcord, East Main
street, left May 21st for Portland, to visit
relatives and represent Bethany Chapter
o. E. S. as delegate to the Grand Chap
ter in it's annual session in that city.
Capt. Edmund Hichborn returned Sat
urday from Bath, where he is watching
the completion of the new four-masted
schooner, Maude M. Morey, which he
will command as soon as ready for sea-
Mrs. Willard M. Berry, Gilmore street,
left Friday for Caribou, where she Will
remain the guest of her daughter-in-law,
Mrs. E. H. Doyle, during the business
errand of the latter's husband in New
York.
The Auxiliary Aid of the Universalist
society will meet tomorrow, Friday, alter
noon with Mrs Edgar M. Colcord, Mill
street. All the young lady members are
invited to participate in this work of will
ing hands.
Mr.. Frank w. Collins of Rockland ar
rived May 22nd, to look after his hotel
property, The Stockton, relative to spring
regulations, in conformity with the
wishes of the present proprietor, Mr. F.
S. Humiston.
Mrs. Walter Dreamer of Dedham,
Mass, is at present the guest of her
friend, Miss Mabel F. Simmons, School
street, having arrived Saturday night by
train for few days visit with her Cas-
tine classmate.
Our neighbor, Mr.. George H. Hopkins
seems steadily recuperating from his re-
cent operation for appendicitis and at this
writing, Monday, is able occasionally to
walk from his fathers home, Church
street, 'down street"
Miss Esther Ellis arrived last Thursday
by Boston boat from two months WISH
with her sister and husband, MI and Mrs.
Harry E. Winslow of Quincy, Mass, and
is with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Simeon
F. Ellis, Church street, for the summer.
Samuel E. Rendell, West Main street,
last week sold his business block-noW
occupied by L. A. Gardner as his hard
ware store-and the small plot of land IN
the rear to P. L. Hopper IA Main street
grocery merchant) who buys the property
as an investment and will plant garden
| on the land this season.
Capt. Eden S. Shute, Sylvan street,
arrived home May 22nd from his business
trip to Providence, R. l., leaving again
Thursday for Gloucester, Mass, to take
command of the 4-masted schooner Jack
sonville, belonging to the firm of Miller &
Quincy of Providence, this being the third
vessel which he has sailed for this COM
pany. A compliment to our neighbor
Work at the Stockton shipyard is
steadily progressing, the blacksmith shop
is already completed and the blacksmith,
Edward Batchelder of Frankfort, IS II
town. A large quantity of timber is on
the ground and more expected soon ano
quite large crew of men is at work II
the woods. all of which promises launch