The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
PERSONAL.

Maine Hills returned last Saturday
from business trip to Boston
Walter j. Clifford has returned from
few days business trip to Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Blaisdell were in
Bangor the past week to attend the Chap
man concert.
O. E. Frost returned yesterday from a
few days business trip to Boston and
New York.
Earl F. Hammons has returned from
Bath, where he has been employed, and
will spend the winter in Belfast
Charles Robinson, who has been visit
ing his son, Harry Robinson. at II Union
street, has returned to Norway, Maine
Miss Florence Dinsmore who has been
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs Irving T. Dins-
more the past week, returned last Satur-
day to her home in Bangor.
That well known and popular veteran,
John A. Mace, was the conductor of the
first passenger train to pass over the new
million dollar bridge between Fairfield
and Benton
Miss Jane W. Ferguson who recently
retired from business was taken ill at
her home on Durham street last Thurs
day, being confined to her bed with a
stomach trouble.
Robert P. Coombs, purser on the
steamer Belfast, alternating during the
winter with Purser F. S. Pierce, has
been at his home here for two weeks
He returned to the steamer Monday.
Miss Annie L. Barr returned last Sat-
urday from two weeks vacation trip
spent with the family of her sister Mrs.
Hall F. Hoxie of Brooklyn, N. Y, and
! with Miss Grace H. Hall in WASHINGTON.
D. C.
Melvin Robbins, formerly connected
with the Penobscot Bay Electric Com
pany in this city and for the past year in
port, has resigned his position and gone
to Bath.
Chester B. Frost of Providence, R. L.,
who was recently operated on for appen-
dicits writes his Belfast relatives that he
is gaining rapidly Mr.. Frost is at pres
ent the purchasing agent of the Hope
Webbing Co.
Belfast friends of Captain Lee H. Ca
hill of Kalamazoo, Mich, will be pleased
to know that he has been promoted to
Major and assigned to command of the
I'd battalion, 338th Infantry, 85th Divi-
sion, Camp Custer, Mich.
Mrs. Iva r. Gordon was called to Ply
mouth, Mass, recently by the serious ill.,
ness of her sister, Miss Annie Rollins, a
graduate nurse from the St Barnabas
Hospital in Portland. Miss Rollins was
a recent guest of her sister.
Miss Louise H. Ferguson will spend the
remainder of the winter on a pleasure
trip including visits in Boston, New York
and Washington, D. C. She plans to at
tend the spring openings of millinery
styles and return home early next spring
Mrs William B. Woodbury. and little
son Frederick Nelson left last Saturday
to remain with the family of MIR Wood
bury's brother, f.. r. Woodbury. of Saco,
principal of Thornton Academy, until Mr..
Woodbury. can Join her at Pennington
Mr. Woodbury. and son, Kenneth john
son, are guests of Mrs. s. W. johnson,
Congress street
Miss Lucy Pendeton, member Of the
Belfast High school, Sophomore class,
left Thursday for Rockland, where she
will enter the Nurses school at the Knox
County Hospital. Miss Pendleton is
about 10 years of age and is good voca--
list. She, with her sister, Miss Eliza
beth Pendleton, have been members OF
the Girls Home family for the past
eleven year"
In personal note from Pasadena Calf,
Miss Sabina c. Morey, formerly Of this
city, says: "Why do you stay there where
it is so cold? We have hot weather out
here and would have been glad to have
let you had little Of our hot sunshine
New Years day 1t was uncomfortably
warm standing Out watching the parade,
the official thermometer only reported 81
egrees, but we all thought it warmer
than that. We had good many days in
December above eighty We have not
had any rain yet and everyone is wishing
for it as it is needed so badly. | suppose
you are carrying around a capacious
knitting bag these days. Everyone or
nearly everyone here is knitting. The
tiremen put in ali their spare tire.
and they have a good deal of ii, doing
their bit They do good work too. PeO-
pie knit everywhere, at concerts, ec-
lures, prayer meetings, in school ami on
the cars"
1t Will Probably be Impossible to Buy.