The Republican journal., 1920-09-16

The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist church will meet
| at the parsonage, Court street, Friday
| afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. All women
| are urged to attend
Miss Edith M. Southworth, who for
several years has made her home with
her uncle, the late Capt R. W. Warren.
has taken apartments in the B. C. Dins-
more residence on Court street and will
soon occupy them.
POOR'S MILLS School commenced
Sept. 7th with Miss Maud BRYANT of
oearsmont as teacher.... The Sunday
school picnic was held last Saturday at
the hall and was enjoyed by young and
old.....Mr. and Mrs. Charles White of
Worcester, Mass, have been guests of
MIR. and Mrs. Maurice Wood. Alfred
Dutch is at his home with Mr. and Mrs.
II. II. Wentworth on a vacation He
has been on the ship Creagmere down to
Cuba'.'.Mrs Irwin Wood and children
nave gone to North Haven to visit her
! parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kittredge. MIR
ana MIS-. j. A. Hartshorn have gone to
Ne" London, Conn, to visit Mrs. Harts-
horns brother and will also visit in Hart
ford and Middletown, where she has a
son and sister,. Mrs. Sarah Lewis and
Wilder Lewis of New Hampshire and Mr.
and Mrs. Lincoln Hamilton and Miss
Elizabeth Cooper of Boston were recent
guests of Mrs. Underwood Albert Shea
OF South boston, who has been spending
few weeks with his aunt, Mrs. H. H,
wentworth, returned home last week
Mrs. Luella Brown was called to Wafer
vile by the illness and death of her sis
ter, Mrs Clements. Her daughter Mrs.
Anna Davenport, has been keeping house
while she was away.
COOPERATION THE KEY NOTE. The
majority of Belfast and Waldo county
women, irrespective of party principles.
prejudices or former attitude to the sniff
rage question, have taken up in most
dignified and loyal manner their mart in
politics. Their cardinal motive is pure
ly patriotic one and their first desire is to
CO. operate with the men of their respec-
tive parties in ultimate good first. last
and always. The most experienced soon
found they had much to learn. Thew
respected each others belief when if was
hrm enough to be expressed, but those
who registered no preference were the
legitimate working ground of both par
ties. The chairman and committee assist
ants openly encouraged and assisted to the
best of their ability; but there was also
most powerful element of many indi.
viduals who worked quietly and efficient
ly. Women seem to know almost intui-
| lively what were their friends affiliations.
They not only had their own conferences.
but they conferred very often wi h the
men of their respective parties. Although
election day was one of the most incIe-
ment of the season it did not deter them
from going to the polls. A stranger to
conditions would never have realized If
was the first time the women of our
vicinity had voted. For the past two
weeks politics has been the principa)
subject of conversation in the homes and
at all public gatherings. There were manv
genuine surprises when women volun-
tarily broke away from family adherence
to party principles and very adroitlv
gave their reasons for their indepen.
dence. Among the summer residents
who registered here in the Republican
party were Miss Anne C. Crosby. Mrs
Powell Clayton, Mrs. Ralph M. Johnsoo
and Mrs. William " Pratt, all ardent
suffragists of the consistent kind. Mrs
Charles Connfelt of New York, who is
spending the summer here, was also in
terested and Jealous. She is member
of the Col. Theodore Roosevelt family
and must do something to further the
cause SO she loaned Mrs. Pratt her tour
ing car and the latter used it all the
afternoon to bring women who lived at
| distance to the polls at Ward 8, Late in
the afternoon Mrs. Pratt asked if there
were many more to bring in and was told
| that all had voted. But even then she
knew of one who was detained at home
with small child. Women also worked
at the polls all day side by side with the
men and did their part as the above
shows. in getting out the voters.