The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-08-02

Peerless Casualty Co. of Keene, n. H, is
working hard for 5000 Liberty Bond,
which the company has put up as bonus
to agents writing S25,O0O of new bust
ness from June 1st to Sept. lst. Mr.. Cock
has obtained over one-haf of it and is
making big hustle to get the other half.
During the last two weeks he has had a
better business in Belfast than at any
time for year. He paid satisfactory
claim to Harvey N. Foust last Saturday.
Mr.. Cook will be the only agent in this
District that will get the Liberty Bond.
Mrs. Ruth Burr, for the past few years
stenographer to Charles F. Halves in his
insurance offices at Bangor, has received
clerical appointment in the office of the
adjutant general at Washington, D. c.,
and leaves shortly to take up her duties.
Miss Burr is one of the most experienced
and most capable stenographers in the
business. She took the Civil Service ex-
amina tons few months ago after special
post graduate training at the Gilman
Business School. Miss Burr is promi-
ment in social and musical circles also,
and her departure will be regretted by
many friends who, however, will con-
graduate her on her appointment and
wish her every success in her new work.
Miss Burr is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred w. Burr of Searsport.
Of all Searsport's natives who come
home after an enforced exile for ten
months, no one is more delighted to be
back than DR.. Amelia Clewley Ford,
head of the history department of Mil
waukeeDowner College in Milwaukee,
Wis. Searsport is Justly proud of DR..
Ford who has achieved many notable
things, and whose literary work appears
at intervals in the American Economic
Review, of which DR.. Davis R. Dewey of
Massachusetts, Institute of Technology is
editor. DR.. Ford has written for this
publication several articles, her review
of two-volume work, DR.. Clarence W.
Alvord's The Mississippi Valley and
British Politics, having been published
in earlier editions. Dr. Ford was born in
Searsport and received her early educa
ton here, but she finished her element
airy schooling in Maiden, Mass. She
missed the larger education obtained
from voyages to foreign ports, which so
many of her Searsport friends enjoyed,
as her trips to Barcelona, MarseiAes and
the West Indies were made when she
was only an infant. After three years
course at the Bridgewater, Mass, Nor
NAL School, she taught five years, one of
them at Buzzard's Bay, on Cape Cod,
and four in Revere, Mass. During these
years she fitted herself for college by
studying nights, and at every odd inter
val she could snatch. DR.. Ford said she
''could not be happy, even in Heaven,
without a college education" She en-
tered Radcliffe College, formerly Har-
ward Annex, in 1900. Here she won two
scholarships of $3.50 each and did the
four years work in three, receiving her
Bachelor of Arts degree with magma cum
laude, next to the highest honor award
ed. When some time later chapter of
the Phi Beta Kappa Society was organ
lied at Radcliffe, she was elected men,
Der. This was an especial qualification
to her as membership in this society
is based on distinction in scholarship.
After graduating she became a teacher
again, this time in Melrose, Mass, but
feeling the need of special training for
her chosen field, American History, she
took UP graduate work at the University
of Wisconsin, in the Fall of 1905. This
university ranks with Harvard and Co.
tory study. She studied not only under
Prof. Frederic j. Turner, now at Harvard,
but also under Prof Paul S. Reinsch, now
our minister to China, and Prof. Edward
A. Ross, the well known sociologist and
writer, and listened occasionally to the
lectures of DR.. Richard Ely, the dean of
1AliSllSdu AohS opSiI iii "
years at this work, winning scholarships
again the second and third years, receiv-
ing the degree of Master of Arts in 1906,
and the highest degree, that of Doctor of
Philosophy in 1908. Her Electoral dis
sertation," as it is learnedly called, was
long pamphlet entitled Colonial Preced- !
ents of our National Land System" In
it she drew considerably on the land his
tory of Maine. Before finishing at the
University, she received the appointment
to the headship of the history depart
ment of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. College, and
has been there ever since. Her activi-
ties outside her classroom work are as
follows: Secretary of the Wisconsin His
tory Teachers Association; Member of
the National Historical Association; Mem
Der of the Association of Collegiate
Alumnae; Active in suffrage work; gives
historical talks before various women's
clubs, and as has been said, writes occa-
sionally for publication.
SEARSMONT.