The Republican journal., 1919-05-01

The Memorial Sunday exercises will
be held in the Baptist church May 25th,
when Prof. Calvin N Clark of Bangor
will speak to the Thomas H. Marshall
Post and its allied bodies at the special
+ request of the veterans Prof. Clark has
supplied this pulpit the past winter.
AT THE BATTERY. B. L. Davis has
I been at the Battery several days the past
week looking after improvements at his
cottage, including the piping for city
water..... Ben. Ames Williams and family
OF Boston will arrive early in May to
| spend the summer at the Howard cot
tage...... Lieut.. James T. Sleeper, who re-
Gently received his discharge from the
service, also plans to come early in May.
Mrs. Sleeper will join him in June at the
close of the college year at Beloit, where
she has been substituting for Prof Sleep
er during his service in transport work.
Rev George S. Mills and family of
Bennington, Vt, will spend July at the
Battery, as MI Mills has received his
discharge from Y. Nj c. A. work in the
training camp. Mr.. Mills was formerly
pastor of the Belfast Congregational
church and will supply its pulpit during
his visit in July.
LINE ISLAND" A deed was record
ed the past week in the Waldo County
Registry conveying Lime island from
Louise Palfrey Norman, wife of Guy
Norman of Newport R. l., to William H.
Morrison and George G. Fletcher, both of
Stockton Springs, ct ais. The new own
ers will use the property for fish weir
purposes The island has rs acres and is
one of a chain on the south of lslesboro.
In 1918 the island was decided by Thorn
dixie, Sears and Prescott to Erastus Foote.
1t appears that they did not hold clear
title as it was outside of the three mile
limit, and deed was recorded in 1888
conveying the same property for the State
of Massachusetts, and Maine to Erastus
Foote Al that time these two States
held all the Maine islands and wild lands
in common, but soon after Maine bought
Massachusetts, holdings. Later Lime Is
land became the property of Edmund c.
Frye of Camden, who in 1918 conveyed
il to Guy Norman.
AFTER MANY YEARS. The grove of
large locust trees at the top of Wilder
hill on the Carleton Doak farm were cut
during the winter and Id for a good
price to the builders of the sch Jennie
Flood Kreger The above item appeared
in The journal of April 18th and last
Thursday the following note of unusual
interest was received and which we are
pleased to give our readers. Mr. 0. E.
Frost, the builder of the schooner, has
also promised the chip requested. Mrs.
Davis is the daughter of the late Solomon
and Lydia Brown Hollis and cousin of
Fred Waldo Brown, Esq, and Mrs. AIDE
laide Chase Quimby of this city. She
also has many former school friends at
/ what is known as the Head of the Tide:
Reading, Mass, April %, 1919
| l29 High Street
! To The Belfast journal: In late num-
I Der of your paper was more than inter-
ested in a short item under Citypont
news, pertaining to the grove OF locust
trees at the top of Wilder Hill which had
/ been cut and went to the builders OF the
JENNIE Flood Kreger. | wonder if anyone
except myself know how the locust grove
! happened to be there. My mother once
owned that corner where house was
built and passed much of my childhood
/ there. The house burned some years ago.
Now fifty years ago | was nothing but
child. Wishing to beautify our home
grounds / dug up over in the cemetery
some small locust trees and with nothing
better than small fire shovel dug holes
and set out the little locusts, my mother
/ looking on and making fun, but every
tree lived and began to spread, as locusts
will l remember my uncle, who lived
where Mr.. Doak now lives, remarked one
day that those trees would spread all
over that side of Wilder hill and be
nuisance" felt quite proud and elated
to read that my trees were the means OF
putting dollars into some ones pocket;
also that they would be carried to foreign
ports or sail the seas. Certainly we build
better than we know. | would be glad OF
one little chip as a souvenir OF the day
fifty years ago that | started grove
which gained or became SO much con-
sequence. Yours,
GRACE ULMER DAVIS