The Republican journal., 1920-09-30
Thomas II. Marshall Circle will have


the Post is invited.
The regular meeting of Primrose Chap
ter, O. E. S., will be held next Friday
evening at 730 o'clock.
Miss Alice Parker, r. NJ, left recently
for Boston to take special course IN
public health service work at Summons
Colleoe Miss Sadie Nickerson, who has
been taking the same course at Sim
mons, will return to her duties in Belfast
about the first of October. Miss Parker
has been substituting in her absence.
The B. H. S. freshmen and other new
students will be rendered a reception
this Thursday, evening. An informal
program has been arranged. 1t will be
held in Odd Fellows Hall from to 10
followed by dancing. There will also be
program to include solo dancing, read
ings, vocal and instrumental solos.
The local branch of the Saco Valley
Canning Company has already packed
1856, 600 cans of corn and will have $780,
600 or more before the season closes.
They are receiving quantities of corn
from Brooks and Thorndike beside the
local supply. The quality of the corn is
A. No 1. Later they expect to have a
large pack of apples.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles D. Luce of Port
land, who have been spending the sum-
mer at New Vineyard, arrived Sunday
as guests of their daughter, Mrs. C. F.
Leadbetter on the Pitcher Pond Road.
They have leased the Hills house, No. Al
Miller street, and will occupy it. They
accompanied their son, William L. Luce
who visited them at New Vineyard Sat-
urday.
Principal Harry A. Foster of the B. H.
S. began recently to practice number
of students preparatory to organizing two
foot ball teams. He will also> act as
coach during the season and interested
parties are looking for games with out
side teams before the season Closes Mr..
Foster has the happy faculty of bring
ing out the best talent of his pupils in
recreation as we'll as in regular work.
Eleanor L., daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles A. Bruce of this city, left last
Thursday by boat for Boston, where she
was married Friday to Harold Sturgis
Dexter of Beverly. Mass, formerly of
Belfast. Both are graduates of the Bel
fast High school and their friendship be-
gan in school days. She is very popu-
lar young lady and was given several
showers by her young friends. Mr..
Dexter is craftsman for the United
Shoe Machinery- Co. They went to
housekeeping in their new home in Bev-
erIy.
Paul Tapley, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Omar
W. Tapley of Ellsworth and teller at the
Waldo Trust Co., has been in the Tapley
Hospital as the result of a recent auto
accident. In company with Theodore c.
Bramhall he was driving on the Brooks
road when his car turned turtle and both
H..
ley Was at the wheel and received a
double fracture of one of his collar bones
and very slight conclusion of the brain,
His car was wrecked. They were brought
to Belfast by Russell C. Carter who was
autoing in that vicinity Tapley was up
town Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Oscar Olson, little
daughter Marguerite and Mr.. Olson's
mother, Mrs. E. F. Olson. returned to
Belfast Saturday from Weber Pond
near Augusta, where they were spend
ing the summer. Mr.. Olson and family
will leave the last of the week for BAN
sor, and his mother will remain for a
time in East Belfast. Friday the cottage
they were occupying at Weber Pond
was burned, the fire originating from a
defective chimney. They lost ali of
their clothing, bedding and silver The
latter included many of their wedding
gifts. There was no insurance on their
property.
For year Belfast has experienced the
satisfaction of feeling prepared to meet
any ordinary demands for the relief of
its people in times of illness. The en-
ployment of a Public Health nurse, un-
dertaken as an experiment, has proved
so satisfactory that to get along without
such person now would appear nothing
less than a public calamity. We were
very fortunate in securing for this posi-
ton such capable, well trained nurse as
Miss Sadie M. Nickerson. She, and lat
er her excellent substitute, Miss Alice
Parker, have demonstrated in many
homes the tremendous helpfulness of
nurse who can come to the sick room for
an hour or so as needed, and by her
trained ministrations bring comfort to
our suffering ones. Then, too, the nurse
cooperates with our physicians and the
Board of Health in educational work
such as teaching young mothers the pro
per care of their children, instructing in
the precautions necessary in contagious
or infectious diseases, helping with
school children who need special care,
and in numerous other ways The ex-