The Republican journal., 1919-12-04

The public schools had recess from
Wednesday afternoon until Monday
morning.
The Hospital Aid and Club will meet
with Mrs. Eugene L. Stevens Friday af..
ternoon at o'clock.
Robert Cross has returned from hur.-
ing trip in the vicinity of kineo bring g
with him TWO large bucks.
MIR. and Mrs. Herbert R. Mcdonald
have closed their residence on Northport
avenue and left Tuesday for Nashua, N.
H., to spend the winter.
Fred a. johnson, who has been confined
10 his home on Congress street with an
injured knee for several weeks, is now
able to be about the house and is gaining
rapidly
The annual dance of the Hook and Lad
der Company will be held in the Armory
on Thursday evening, Dec. IS, with music
by Mcheen's orchestra Herbert Benner
is captain of this company.
The costume party given by the Soph-
omores of The B, H. S. in Odd Fellows
hall Wednesday evening under the direc-
ton of their class advisor, Miss Eva
Wentworth, teacher, was a most delight
ful affair. Games were played and re-
freshments served. The student BODY.
the teachers and Supt. and Mrs. E. f.
Roderick were guests.
A double drowning accident occurred
Monday morning, when two of Winter
ports well known young men. Roy Fields
and Fred Perkins, lost their lives when
the boat capsized in which they with
three other men were crossing the stream
opposite the Judge Bowden farm to the
woods on the Frankfort side of the
stream, where they were employed on
the Charles A. McKenney lumber lot.
Capt E. 0 Patterson, a former Belfast
boy, who was Chief Inspector of Ship
Construction, Eastern Division L. S. s,
B., during the war. resigned to take com
mand of the U S. Training Ship Newtou5
On his arrival at Newport News, Va, he
was made Supt. of the Sea Training Camp
at Camp Stuart Va. At present $50 bows
are there to be trained for the merchaQl
marine. Capt. Patterson's ong sea and
construction experience or training makes
him aluable man for this position. MIS-.
Patterson will close their Rockport home
in about two weeks and JON Capt. Pat
terson at Camp Stuart, Va, where they
will reside
P0oRs MILLS. The Ladies Sewing
Circle meets this week with Mrs. Orrjn
l. Wentworth...hIr and Mrs. James
Webster and son of SwanviIle spent
Thanksgiving day with NJ. and Mrs. Ar
thur Thompson.... Richarl Merriam has
bought and moved one Of the Mckinley
barns, George Daggett doing TIA work..
Alfred Dutch has position in the shoe
factory He went to worF last weef....
There were nine dinne- parties in this
vicinity Thanksgiving day. Mrs. Anne
bell Underwood wishes to thank he
neighbors and friends fer tie post card
shower also for fruit and flowers she re-
ceived. She is getting along fine, al
though she will have to have her arm
strapped up some time longer.
Among the festive day poultry to escape
wit h h air lixras x,,are sshf,++ o,d IL ,, ~
special pet geese of Mrs. John F. Chap
man. Mr. Chapman says they weigh
rs pounds, but admits these figures NAV
be a little large For some time they
have been the dread of the younger peo-
pie i'll the neighborhood as they c scount
the proverbial "old hens" for craukiness.
One day recently jeff tested the exture
OF young mars wearing apparel, in
cluding some o. his flesh, and found it
stronger than his belt, as the latter began
to give before VI mad the COURAGE
to reach FOR Jetf's neck and Ioosened his
grip. To make bad matte worse those
who saw his predicament nad the rude
ness tc laugh.
The hennebec journal of last Friday
had the following special from Brunswick
under date of Nov 9th hat is of interest
to our readers:
Local stock holders of the Pejepscot
Paper Company were notified today that
the W. II. Parsons Company of New
York, which owned the controlling in
terest in the Peiepscot Paper Company
had sold their entire holdings to Julius
Barnes of Chicago, who offers to purchase
the stock owned by the minority stock
holders for S65 per share. This deal,
which is one of the largest sales to take
place of manufacturing properties in
Maine for years, includes the Bcwdoin
Paper mill in Topsham, the Topsham
Pulp mill, the Pejepscot Paper and Pulp
mills at Peiepscot, the pulp and paper
mills of the Lisbon Falls Fiber Company
at Lisbon Falls, the extensive timberland
holdings of the Pejepscot Paper Company
in Maine, Quebec and New Brunswick,
the fleet of the Sagadahoc Towing Com
pany, and the valuable shipping facilities
at Belfast.
The company for many years paid divI
dends at the rate of per cent but of late
years it has passed the dividends and put
all the earnings into the further develop
ment of the various properties of the
company"