The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1920-03-18
The News OF Belfast

The Travellers Club will meet next
Tuesday afternoon with Miss Margaret
N. Hazeltine. The speaker of the after
noon will be Mrs. George c. Bosom
Jr., whose subject will be ''To Biskra,
the Ziban Queen"
| Mrs. Eudavilla Cleaves Foster is gain
ing from a critical operation performed
last Tuesday at the Waldo County Hos
pital by DR.. Walter Tobie of Portland as
sisted by DR.. Carl H. Stevens. Miss
Spring, R. NJ, of Portland is caring fol
her.
The Sons lof Veterans Auxiliary will
have supper next Monday evening at
6 O'Clock, to which each member may
invite two friends. Price to friends, 81
cents. The Auxiliary will have wits t
party Friday evening at the home OF
Mrs. Edith Danforth.
The Grade, schools will close tomorrow,
Friday, for two weeks vacation. The
High school will close Friday, March 10Th,
for one weeks vacation. This is neces-
sary for the latter school as their school
year is 81 weeks instead of SO, the Grade
year.
! Cecil Clay returned Saturday night
from Dover, where he attended the March
term of the Supreme Judicial Court,
Judge George NJ Hanson of Calais pre-
siding. Mr.. Clay left Monday noon for
Portland to officially report the meeting
of Names Centennial at City Hall. The
program included addresses by Gov.
Milliken.
Aurora Rebekah Lodge, l. O. o. F.,
will, hold it's annual 1oll-call Tuesday
evening, April 18th, instead of next
week, as planned. At the same time
Past Noble Grand's Night will be observ.
ed and an entertainment given in con-
nection. The degree will be conferred
on class of candidates. and refresh
mentS served.
The Baptist Sewing Circle are planning
to serve parish supper at the church
Friday evening, March Goth, to be follow
ed by social evening. The next meeting
of the Sewing Circle will be Monday
evening, March 22nd, with Mrs. George
Holt, Commercial street. A special invi-
tation is extended to all women of the
parish to be present.
Edmund P. Brown, mail clerk on the
Bangor and Boston run, served 46 hours
consecutively during the storm of last
week. He went on duty in Boston at
p. m. Saturday and arrived in Bangor at
l / a. M, Sunday. He was at once trans
ferred to mail train leaving Bangor for
Bo ston and arrived in Portland at D. m.
Monday, where he and the rest of the
crew were relieved for few hours.
Miss Ruth Hobbs Payson, daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. Fred L. Payson of New
fields, N. H., was united in marriage to
Roy Robert Sears, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Calvin K. Sears of Ludlow, VT, March
10th, at her home by her father. Mr.. and
Mrs. Sears will live in New Haven, Conn.
The bride is graduate of Mount Holvoke
college with the class of 1915 and the
bridegroom of Mddlebury college with
the class of 1917. The bride has fire.
quently visited Belfast as the guest of
her grandmother, Mrs. Sarah E. Pierce.
Mrs. Cecil Clay, president of the Hos
pital Aid and Cub, has received letter
from the Misses lsolne and Hattie Barnes
who are living on their estate, Wyndstone.
| Bristol, K, L., stating that they will be
pleased to meet the expenses of having
the Barnes room, the typhoid room and
the diet kitchen at the Hospital reno
waited. The Misses Barnes are well known
in Belfast, where they frequently visited
their aunt, the late Miss Elizabeth A.
bar les, IN whose memory they gave the
above apartments to the Hospital.
Miss Belle Heating, who has been a
regular substitute in the Saturday Auc-
ton Club during the winter, entertained
the Club last Thursday evening at the
home of Mrs. Norman A. Read. Sumner
was served at p. m. from small tables
centered with primroses and sweet meas
aelclous menu being served The even.
ing was spent with auction. The snecial
guests were Mrs. Richard P. Whitman of
Campello, Mass, Mrs Charles E. Brown.
Mrs. Maine Hills and Mrs. Dana B. South,
worth. Mrs. John C. Pillsbury won the
1lrst prize and Mrs. Clyde B. Holmes re-
| ceived the second.