The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-03-14
STOCKTON SPRINGS.

Mr. L. S. Titcomb has recently beer
suffering from severe cold.
The Red Cross will hold its regular
meeting at the Masonic banquet hall or
Friday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs w. H. Morrison returned
last Friday from a months stay in bos-
ton and vicinity.
Mr.. and Mrs. George S. Wardwell re-
turned last Friday from their trip te
Rockland and Camden.
The public schools throughout town
closed last Friday for the annual spring
vacation of two weeks.
Mr.. John H. Howes has sufficiently re-
cuperated from his recent illness to ven
ture upon the streets in good weather.
Mrs. Charles P. Staples took train last
Friday for Boston to Join her husband
who will be in that city on business Tor a
week.
Mrs. Frank B. jackson came from Bel
fast for weekend visit with her daugh-
ter and husband, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward l..
Littlefeld.
Mrs. Susie A. Rendell, accompanied by
her little grandson Master Richard Baker,
has gone to Brooklyn, N. Y, where she
will remain the guest of her daughters,
Mrs. George CHM and Mrs. Perry Sprague,
for a month or six weeks.
Last Sunday brought us boisterous
snow-storm. The March lion was roar
ing loudly after his week of lamb-like ap-
pearance. However, Monday morning
dawned bright and clear. the snow melt
ing on all southern exposures.
Donald Sanborn, early last week, lost
his glasses while coasting in the village
and anyone finding this expensive pair OF
tortoise-shelled trimmed spectacles is re-
quested to kindly leave them at the store
of his father, Mr. Bion B. Sanborn.
Mr.. and Mrs. George C. Fletcher and
son, Master Eden, returned last Satur-
day from a months tarry in Boston and
adjacent towns They attended the
funeral of Mrs. Fletcher's uncle, MIR.
Lemuel S. Harding, in Maiden, Mass.
The community hears with pleasure of
the marked improvement in the condi-
ton of Mr. Harold Halves, who has been
a great sufferer since the unfortunate &C
cident-the breaking of the leg above the
knee-in the shipyard several weeks ago.
Mr. Emberg and son arrived last Fri
day from New York to spend week
with his family, before returning to join
the oil tanker carrying naphtha and gas
oline to France and England, upon which
they have been employed for the last six
months.
An entertainment and ball will be
given in Denslow Hall sometime next
week, date and particulars to be given
later on bills at the post office. This is
to be for the benefit of the Red Cross
working fund, and 1t is hoped the patron
age will be liberal, as money is greatly
needed to purchase necessary materials
with which to carry forward this worthy
work.
Stockton Springs held its annual town
meeting on Monday, March 18th, electing
the following citizens ticket Moderator,
Frank L. Blanchard; Town Clerk, Walter
F. Trundy; list Selectman, Alvah C. Treat;
End Selectman, Irving Harris; 3rd Sc
lectman, Simeon F. Ellis; Treasurer and
Collector, Simeon B. Merrithew; New
member of School Board, John H. Ger
IRISH. 1t was voted to exempt from taxa
ton all citizens in the U. S. Service,
whether in army or navy. The remainder
of the business followed the regular rou-
tine with some increases in appropriations.
March 5th, Mrs. Eden S. Shute and
daughter Louise went to the N. M. juno
ton to meet her son, Mr.. Eden H. Shute
boy Eden, Jr,, to remain for time with
his mother, his wife having been called
to Newton, Mass, by the serious illness
of her mother, Mrs. j. A. Flanders, for
several years resident of this village.
Mrs. Flanders is a patient in the Newton
hospital, critically i'll rom double pneu-
Gil f,,l
Her entire family is in Newton during
their great anxiety regarding their be-
loved mother. Fullest sympathy is ex-
tended to the husband and children in
their trying hours of suspense.