The Republican journal., 1921-07-21

| Among the nominations July 14th by
Governor Baxter were DR.. Orris w.
Vickery of Belfast, medical examiner
for Waldo county, and DR.. Carl H. Stew
ems of Belfast, county examiner for
insane convicts.
The clothing factory in the Grange
Hall, so-called, on Field street, and man.
aged most successfully for several years
by Mrs. Belle Lawrence Gates, recently
closed. Mrs. Gates is in poor health and
| is at her home on High street. .
At the annual meeting of the Belfast
High School Alumni Association held
last Tuesday, Will R. Howard was elect
ed president; Helen D. Wescott, vice
president; Norman A. Read, treasurer
and Mabel A. Craig, secretary. The an
nual picnic will be held little later in
the season.
POoR's MILLS. C. A. Mckinley vis-
tied his sister, Mrs. Cole, the first of the
week.. Marian Brown, R. N of Boston
is at home for visit with her mother
and brother. Mrs. Etfie Davis of Lynn
Mass. has been here visiting her BROTH
ers, Nell and Delbert Rolerson.. -. Cushion
! Wade of New London, Conn, who has
been here spending a few weeks with his
sister, Mrs. j. A. Hartshorn and Other
I friends, has returned home... Mrs. F. l..
Toothaker recently spent the day with
Mrs. F. I. Wentworth.... Mrs Margaret
Wood has been visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Arthur Higgins. Miss Dora Brown
has returned to the city after a three
weeks vacation at her home here.
In personal note from Nahant, Mass,
Aug. c. Knight, who has recently return
ed from Florida, says: 81 am sending
you July copy of Unity, which is
magazine of the New Thought movement,
containing in its first article considerable
about DR.. Quimby. He is acknowledged
by all the metaphysical bodies as the re-
discoverer of Christian Healing except
the Christian Scientists. These bodies
number some hundreds of thousands all
over the world and DR.. Quimby's phil
osophy is in daily practice and his fame
is growing. | think the time is coming
when pilgrimages will be made by his
followers to Belfast. Mr.. Horatio Dress
er, one of the leaders in Boston, has writ
ten History of the New Thought
Movement" which has so much about
DR.. Quimby in it that there should be
copy of it in the Library. Mr.. Dresser is
reading proofs of another book now on
DR.. Quimby, so | was told today"
Miss Margaret l. Nickerson, whose en-
gagement was recently announced to
Malcolm Staples of Reading, Mass, was
given linen shower last Wednesday
evening at the home of Miss Laura Nor
ris, Upper High street. The many dainty
gifts will be placed for a short time in
her hope chest as the wedding is to take
place in the early fall. The dining room,
where supper was served, was in green
and white, the colors of the class of 1918.
of which the majority present were men,
bers. The table was centered with a
dainty bride deluged with confetti. The
place cards and favors were all in the
class colors. The remainder of the even
ing was spent socially and with music.
Those present were Misses Myrtle Simp-
son, Alice Wardwell, Essie Piper, Vera
Greenlaw, Chastine Stevens, Ruth Wiley,
Doris Coombs, Mrs. John Motalla of
Winthrop, Mass. Miss Nickerson is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Nahum M.
j Nickerson of East Belfast, who have
been living the past winter in Somer-
vile, Mass. They are at present at their
| East Belfast home. Mr.. Staples was for
merly Monroe boy, but has been in
Reading for some time