The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-05-17
STOCKTON SPRINGS.

Mr. and Mrs. Percy Partridge gave an
other of their social dances in Hichborn
Hall on Wednesday evening.
Mr.. H. l.. Hopkins of the shipbuilding
firm of Hopkins Morrison & Gardner,
left Monday on a business trip to Boston.
The Red Cross Workers will be enter
tanned Wednesday afternoon, May 23rd,
by Mrs. George c. Fletcher, Church
street.
Messrs. w. H Morrison and l.. A.
Gardner of the Stockton Shipyard firm
made business trip to Boston last week,
returning Friday night.
Miss Mabel F. Simmons left by steam
er from Standpoint Friday afternoon for
weekend visit with friends in Castine,
returning Monday morning.
Mr.. Louis Barrett of Stone House farm
has recently purchased an Overland car,
which is now in Belfast and will be de-
livered to him the present week.
Mrs. Albert C. Colcord returned last
Saturday from weeks stay in Rock
land the guest of her daughter and hus-
band, Capt. and Mrs. Harry D. Shute.
Miss Louise Shute, like many other
young people in the village, has recently
had a very slight attack of German
measles, from which she has recovered.
The following out of town people were
here to attend the funeral of Frank B.
jackson: Mr.. and Mrs. Eben Hatch of
Belfast and Mrs. Ella Twombly Coombs
of Camden.
The Ladies' Aid of the Universalist
parish is invited to meet this, Thursday,
afternoon, with Mrs. Harold E, Small
May propitious weather promote goodly
attendance
Mr.. John Decker, whose family are oc-
Copying rooms in Hopkins block, began
running Sunday on Cars through iitney
from Rockland to Bangor, finding the
roads in very bad condition.
Mrs. Carrie A. Gardner arrived home
Wednesday, May 9th, from two months
tarry in Boston with her son, Russell o.
Gardner and family and her sister-in-law
Mrs. Russell P Goodhue. Welcome home!
Mrs. Everett Staples, Church street,
requests that all Red Cross workers, hav-
ing "slings" in preparation, will finish
them and bring to her as much before
Saturday of the present week as possible.
Mr.. James H. Griffin of North Adams,
Mass, arrived May It'll by Boston steam
er for brief visit with his mother, Mrs
Annie X Hartman. He left by Thurs
days boat for Boston, en- route to his
home.
The Morrison Fisheries Company took
1900 bushels of fish Monday, May 7th, a
good haul for the beginning OF the week!
The little fellows of the tinny tribe seem
to be making an effort to reduce the high
cost of living.
Mrs. Lucia tShute) Hopkins of Camden
dined with Mrs. H. L. Hopkins Thurs
day, MAY 10Th, after visiting her mother,
Mrs Charles Shute at Standpoint and
went to Belfast in the afternoon to take
the jtney for home,
Mrs Mary G. Hartman, Standpoint
Road, came from Old Town May 9th where
she had spent the winter with her daugh-
ter and husband, MIR. and Mrs. George
Daley, spending the night with Mr. and
Mrs. Wellman Hanson and opening her
home the following day.
The Boy Scouts will give the Seniors
of the High school-three young ladies'
a Graduation Ball on the evening of June
7th in Denslow Hall A knightly act,
Sir Scouts! We congratulate you, one
and all; and felicitate the young ladies
upon having such gallant friends.
Card of thanks. Mrs. F. B. Jackson
and daughter and husband, MI and Mrs.
Edward |. Littlefield, desire to extend
thanks and hearty appreciation to the
many friends here and elsewhere for kind
ly attentions and floral tokens, given in
their hour of deepest sadness in their re-
cent bereavement in the decease of the
cherished husband and father.
Our young neighbor Mr.. George H.
Hopkins, now a patient at the Tapley
Hospital, Belfast, is steadily convalescing
and it is hoped he may be able to sit up
the latter part of the present week. His
wife has been with him every day but
one since his operation. We hope to see
him soon in town and again upon the
street.
Last week gave us seven days of con-
tinuous rain, fog and mist, interspersed
daily with times of varying length OF
timorous, half-hearted sunshine, the tenn
perature being unusually low for May.
However, the chief of the weather bureau
declared that there is no foundation &C
cording to the records of his office for the
oft-repeated assertion that the climate of
New England is changing - growing
colder
Mr. and Mrs. Alvah C. Treat, accom-
panied by Capt. Edmund Hichborn and
sister, Miss Nellie, as guests, motored to
Rockland in the Treat car May 9th to
witness the launching of the three-mast-
ed schooner Frank A. Morey, from the
Cobb-Butler yard-John j. Wardwell,
master builder. She was named for Mr..
Frank A. Morey, ex-mayor of Lewiston,
a part owner, and christened by his
daughter, Mrs. Ruth Morey Coffin. She
was built for the Boston firm of Rogers &
Webb for the coastwise trade and is al
ready chartered for two trips from Hamp-
ton Roads to Gardiner, Maine, with coal
at Sc per ton. Her carrying capacity is
$50 TONS After dining at The Rockland
the party returned in the afternoon, hav-
ing greatly enjoyed the fine launching
and DleaSant outing.