The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-10-17
WINTERPORT.

Mrs. A. w. Shaw called on Mrs. Ida
Tolman in Newburg, one day recently.
Mrs. Clara Merrill and daughter, Miss
Winnie, were business visitors in Bangor
Wednesday.
William W. Treat, five months of age,
is the youngest owner of a Fourth Liberty
Bond in town.
Walter H. Atwood came from Eastport
Thursday for brief stay at the home OF
his father, Lewis Atwood.
Mrs. E. P. Hopkins was called to Ban
gor Saturday by the illness of her son
Clinton. who is at the home of his aunt.
Capt. j. H. Thayer was at his home
few times last week while his vessel was
discharging her cargo of coal at Belfast.
Mrs. Leslie Downs and daughter Fran
ces left last week for New York, where
they will visit her brother, Harry Ihomp-
son.
Mrs. Margaret A. Niles was called to
Orono Saturday by the illness of her son,
Albion Bolan, who is student at the U.
of NJ
Mrs Willis Cole, who has been i'll over
a month with meningitis, has suffered
two strokes of paralysis and is gradually
failing.
Rev. and Mrs c. A. Purdy were in
Orrington Tuesday of last week to attend
the funeral of their young friend, Miss
Vera Gray.
Mrs. Geneva Freeman was in Bangor
Sunday, called there by the death OF her
niece, Miss Helen Veazie Gerrity, which
occurred Friday.
Mrs. W E. Parker and Miss Gustie
Nealley of New York called on several
old friends in their former home town,
Monroe, Wednesday
At the Red Cross benefit supper, sale
of fancy articles, etc, held at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Clements, Oct.
18th, S138 40 was realized.
Lewis Atwood and r. l.. Clements re-
turned Friday from a business trip to
Milo, Brownville, Lincoln, Oldtown and
other Penobscot county towns.
The newly elected officers of the A. T.
F. Class are: President, Mrs. c. A. Purdy;
rotary, Mrs. Walter Arey; treasurer, Mrs.
E. B. Nealley.
The Burr club was reorganized last
week after years inactivity on account
of work for the Red Cross. The first
social was held Thursday evening and
was well attended.
A notice has been posted in the post
office which requests all those willing to
aid in sickness in town, either profession
al or practical nurses or attendants, to
enroll their names below said notice.
Mrs. George A. Cole, chairman of the
Winterport Women's Council of Defense,
has received but little material from
headquarters as yet The purpose of this
organization is to interest young girls in
the noble profession of nursing.
All churches, lodges, schools, public
gatherings, ETC, are closed by order of
the board of health. All children under
10 are requested to keep off the streets,
and all persons who have grip in their
families should remain on their own
premises until the influenza situation
improves. While the grip has not as yet
reached epidemic proportions, still the
disease is on the increase, and there is an
unprecedented amount of the prevalent
illness in town. Dr. E. P. Goodrich, who
is now our only physician, is making
rom Is to 80 calls day. DR.. Bryant of
Bangor called daily on DR.. C. J. Mason
while he was ill, and DR.. Woodcock, also
of Bangor, was here in consultation on
the case Friday. DR.. Bryant is attending
little Frances Mason who is ill. DR.. E. c.
Newcomb of Newburg has also been
called here to attend several patients.
Among those who have been ill but are
now improving are W. H. Lord, Claude
Ryder, C. S. Curtis, Ruth Ryder and
several others. Alton Young has pneu-
monia and Blandena Couillard and many
theirs are ill with the disease in a light
form.