The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-12-26
STOCKTON SPRINGS.

from Portland for an indefinite stay.
Miss Ruth Smith arrived on the lit
for a visit with her grandparents, Nj
| ! and Mrs. j. W. Lambert.
Mrs. Albert Norris Is down from Ne,
York for the holidays with her parents
Mr. and Mrs w. w. Ellis.
Mrs. Earle R. Richards with her tw
children left Friday morning to pass tn
holidays with her parents in Bosom.
Miss Nellie Hichborn has closed he
home and will pass the winter in Beltas
with her sister. Miss Emma Hichborn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin P. Patterson
left the 18th for New Bedford, Mass.
after spending the summer in town at tn
home of their parents, Capt and Mrs
Franklin A. Patterson.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Clifford were il
the village Friday afternoon, having ar
rived Tuesday from New York to visit
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs, Edward C.
Clifford, now living in Standpoint.
Capt. and Mrs. Perry Sprague are due
,, to arrive for Christmas with Mrs.
Sprague's mother, Mrs Susie Rendell,
| returning within a few days to New
York, where the captain will take out a
transport.
Mrs. &c. A. Snow, on three weeks
vacation from her school at Greenville,
with her parents at Standpoint, visited
Mrs. Alfred Fayle to attend the Chautau-
qua. Her husband is now on "Y'' work
at Camp Humnhries, Va.
The Chautauqua closed the evening of
the 18th with a crowded house, which
supplied sufficient enthusiasm to secure
requisite guarantors to insure its return
next autumn. The three speakers and
the musical entertainers for the three
days were in every instance acceptable
and some gave rare pleasure.
The indication now points to a salts
factory showing at the close of the Red
Cross Christmas RollE Call, although the
totals of the solicitors will suffer to the
extent of some 80 memberships which
have been renewed since July first in
regular course, before word was given out
about the countrywide campaign.
The schools closed Friday for vaca :
ton of one week. In both the high and
intermediate rooms were Christmas trees
with appropriate exercises. Mrs. Leach
of Penobscot, principal of the high school,
will utilize the vacation by bringing her
household goods to town, her husband
having found employment in the ship
yard. Miss Amy Heron, assistant, will
pass the vacation at her home in Water
vile.
Mrs. Mary Daley, aged rs, died at the
nome of her son Crosby on Friday morn
ing. She was born in North Carlisle,
N. B., and came here with her sons from
Bathurst, N. B., several years ago. Her
husband, Timothy Daley, has been dead
a score of years, and she is survived by
several sons and daughters and number
of grandchildren. The funeral took place
Sunday, lRev. Harry Hulley officiating.
The burial was in the village cemetery.
Just bit more frequently than once IN
blue moon, the ordinary round OF simple
village life may be varied by wealth OF
extra events so out-of- the ordinary that
the occasion goes into the records as an
extraordinary one. Such is the case with
December 18th as applied to this commu-
nifty. The early mornings dour northeast
wind deferred few from joining the pro-
cession to the shore; then as the gray
skies turned to blue tie Gladys M. Tay-
| lor took her splendid plunge into the har-
bor Before the crowd could melt away
the big seaplane slipped across the sky
and gave many their first view of flying
machine, and one could but pause to won
der what those sterling old fellows who
built ships in the historic hollow half
century ago would have thought had sucf
a spectacle appeared in the air at an ole
time launching. But such is the powel
of the magazines and the movies thai
even the first airplane to traverse thu
blue above Penobscot bay was not move
thing. The hotel and the Masonic dinini
room let for the day catered to a lare'
number at noon; then at 8 o'clock CAM
the next to the last session of the Chau
tauqua at the church. At 730 p. m. tn
old meeting house was packed for tn
final entertainment, and at the clos
Crockett's moving pictures showe
Douglas Fairbanks in Denslow Hall t
those who didn't know when they had ha
enough. The four masted schooner Gladly
M. Taylor, virtually ready for sea, move
gracefully down the ways at 1916, Will
the chilled spectators sent up cheers q
greeting, and the Camp Fire Girls an