The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1921-12-29
STOCKTON SPRINGS

Miss Faustina Harding of Searsport
was visitor in town last week.
Miss Bertrice Rand is passing the holi-
days with relatives in LAGRANGE.
Miss Pearl HIATT left this Monday
morning for a short visit in Brownville
and Lagrange.
Sch. Lavinia M. Snow is due to arrive
at the Cape Jellison piers with 500 tons
of hard coal for up-river points.
Miss Inez Hanson arrived Saturday
afternoon from Bangor for a Christmas
visitswith her parents and sister.
Joseph Commow arrived home last
Thursday from Bathurst, N. B., after an
absence of several months
Mrs. j. B. Porter of Brownville was a
guest at the home of her brother, II. H.
HIATT for several days last week.
Ashley Leach, who has been steam
boating on the Great Lakes since last
spring, arrived no me last Thursday.
Maurice Pendleton came from north
ern Maine Saturday, to remain until
Tuesday with his mother and sisters.
Mrs. Amy G. Coleman and her daugh-
ter, Ada Frances Coleman, left Tuesday
to pass the remainder of the winter in
M.dfield, Mass.
Mrs. Willard Harding and her daugh
ter Justina left Monday morning for
Camden to spend the week with the for
mer's mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morton Carleton ana
their children were Christmas visitors at
the home Of Mrs. Carleton's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. L. S. Titcomb.
Edmund j. Littlefield arrived home
Saturday night from Lake View to pass
the holidays with his family, after an alb
sence of several months
Miss Addie V. Partridge is a guest at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Hard
point home fortnight since.
Local horsemen are promoting a racing
meet on the ice of Half Moon pond next
Sunday, weather, ice, snow, temperature
and several other factors permitting.
The Maude M. Morey, Capt E. L.
Hichtorn, AMI the Stockton built schoon.
ers Alcaeus Hooper and A. Ernest Mills
are chartered to load coal at Philadelphia
for Mack's Point.
E. Benz Arnold's railroad outfit has
been laid off for the winter, which
brought him home for the holidays, also
his brother FRED, Robert Nickerson and
Gilbert Mason.
Mrs. c. A. Snow was in town Monday
calling on friends. Mr.. and Mrs. Snow
are passing the holidays with the formers
parents in Standpoint and will return to
Richmond the last of the week. ..
Mr.. and Mrs. c. O. McMann, with
their children, are loca led in the summer
residence of Mrs. H. G. Hichborn, having
moved from apartments in the home OF
Capt. and Mrs. E. S. Shute last week.
Vance Wells, who went from the U. of
NJ. to his home in Wilton to spend
Christmas with his mother. arrived Tues
day afternoon to pass the remainder of
the holiday recess at the home of Capt.
and Mrs. Eden S. Shute.
Everett and Arnold Knox, sons of
Capt. and Mrs. George Knox, arrived
home last week from New Orleans, after
an absence of some two years. Both
young men have had berths on the ship
ping board S. S. Furley, Everett as mate
and Arnold as second engineer, and the
ship has been in South American waters
for many months.
This is the season for trapping but no
one is berred from shooting fur bearing
animals, as in the case of a local rabbit
hunter during recent thaw who man.
aged to shoot mink on Griffin brook.
All records were broken in October, no W.
ever, when Clyde Merrithew found two
mink drowned in an eel pot which he had
set in the pound of his tide weir off the
point south of the Lawrence cannery.
The X. of P. basket ball five of Prospect
invaded Denslow hall last Wednesday
night and did the Dempsey to Carpen-
tier five of locals to the tune of SO to Is.
With three good men of the home tea m
the result was never in doubt
the moment . comparison Of size was
made. While the game was in progress