The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-04-26

ed Wednesday afternoon. May End, by Miss
Mabel F. Simmons, School street. The hostess
selection of the topic for reading is. what
w omen Can do in The War;"
A little daughter arrived April 23d at the
ONE of MIR. and Mrs. Charles Gilmore. Cape
Jellison, with DR.. Stevens in medical attend
ance. Mother and child are doing we'll with
Mrs. Kingsbury acting as nurse.
Business at the Stockton shipyard is pro-
crossing stesdly, turning over rocks and 'fill-
IN z in" for the necessary foundation on which
to rest the timbers to hold the keel of the ves-
sci to be built the coming summer.
Mrs. James White of Cape Jellison, long
time invalid and patient of DR.. Fairchild of
Searsport, passed away recently. The funer-
al took place Monday afternoon, attended by
Rev. Mr.. Henry. The interment was in the
Cape JelIison cemetery.
Miss Emma Hichborn after three weeks
visit with kher sister, Miss Nellie, and her
brother. Capt. Edmund. in the family home
stead, West Main street. left Monday morning
to resume her position as saleswoman in J. H.
Howes' dry goods store. Belfast.
Miss Hortense Nickerson, who is teaching
school lin Monroe, came home the evening Of
Patriots Day, for a visit with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Nickerson, Church sti eet.
returning Sunday evening to be ready for her
M onday morning duties in the school room.
Eden H. Shute, station agent at South Sc
bee, arrived Saturday night for weekend
visit with his parents, Capt. and Mrs. Eden s..
Shute, Sylvan street, lea wing Monday morning
for home Mrs. Shute and babe are in Water
town, Mass the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. H.
Levine.
April 18th, Mr.. and Mrs. Alvah C. Treat and
Mr.. and Mrs. George c. Fletcher. Church
street residents, drove to Belfast for the day,
the gentle men attending to business matters,
the ladies to shopping, the company dining at
the Windsor Hotel, thus giving them pleas
ant outing.
Mr.. and Mrs. George F.. Hichborn, of Port
land, arrived by afternoon train April 18th to
dine on Patriots Day with their sisters, the
M isses Hchborn, Church street, taking the
Mr.. Hichborn's presence in the passenger de-
partment of the M. C. R. R.
CARD OF THANKS. We, the undersigned, de-
sire to extend our thanks, with deepest appre-
citation of favors shown by our many friends
through the illness and after the death of our
beloved wife and sister and for floral tributes
sent for the funeral. JOHN E. LANCASTER.
NELLIE BERRY.
Mrs. Albert Z. Colcord, East Main street
recently received the announcement of the
marriage of her nephew, Everett Winsnip of
New York. April 18th, only child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Luther Winship of Augusta, to New
York lady. Mr.. and Mrs. Winship went on to
at tend the sons marriage, which was most
pleasing to them. Young Mr.. Winship is Il
broker in New York and he and his bride will
reside at Stapleton, Staten Island.
Mrs. Perry Sprague took Saturdays after
noon train for her home in Brooklyn, N, Y, to
er from Cienfugos. Cuba. She had returned
the pre- vious Tuesday from her trip to Fort
Fairfield to- assist her brother-in -law, Mr.
Baker, in preparing his household furnishings
for their journey to Stockton. Mrs. Sprague
is expecting that her husbands steamer may
be requisitioned by the government and sent
to France with food supplies. All! these are
perilous, anxious times.
The following finely engraved announcement
was received in Stockton April 18th by vari-
GUS relatives and friends of the family: "Dr
and Mrs Herman Granville Hichborn
nounce the marriage OF their daughter Ruth
to MIR. John Draper Woodfn on Tuesday,
April the seventeenth, nineteen hundred
and seventeen at New York" Congratu-
lations and best wishes to the young
couple, who were married by Rev. DR..
Frank O. Hall of the Church of The Divine
Paternity, 5th avenue, New York city. the
ceremony being performed in the chancel of
this Universalst church in the presence of the
INN ediate families of the contracting parties.
Their honeymoon is being spent at White
Sulphur Springs Va.
Friday afternoon, April Goth, our community
was shocked and greatly panied by the knowl
edge that telegram had been received by Ed
gar M. Colcord. Mill street, announcing the
decease of his aunt, Mrs. Frank A. Colcord
(nee Miss Hattie L Rich) on Thursday morr-
ing in Brooklyn, N. Y, from an intestinal
trouble, which had been about her for two
years. On sunday Mr.. Colcord, accompanied
by his son, Mr.. Walter Colcord, arrived by
Boston boat bringing the remains of their be-
loved one for interment on the family lot of