The Republican journal., 1921-06-30
STOCKTON SPRINGS

OlOlhlON SPKlNGS
MIS-. Sarah p Twiss returned after ar
absence since Friday in Bangor.
Miss Una Leach returned last week
FROM visit in BrooKsville and Castine.
Dale Hartman, member of railroad
outfit, now at Houlton, spent the week.
end with his family in the village.
A. M. Ames, H. R. Hichborn and A.
M. Holmes were in Bangor Friday to
participate in the St. Johns Day cele-
bration.
! Mrs. Lewis Humphrey and young son
left Friday for their home in Portland
after a visit with Mr.. and Mrs Angus M.
Holmes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elisha Patterson and
their young son returned Thursday from
| brief visit at the formers old home in
Hampden.
Miss Virginia Porter of Brownville and
the Misses Bertrice and Thelma Rand of
South Lagrange were the guests of Miss
Pearl HIATT last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Avery will leave
the last of the week on a motor trip to
New York State, the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. E M. Lawrence of Rockland.
Dennis Elliott, older son of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. W. Elliott, fractured his right
forearm Tuesday of last week while act
ing as quartermaster of Knights butcher
truck.
The Current Events Club enjoyed a
held day Monday at Lowder Brook, the
Itinerary calling for picnic dinner at the
home of Mrs. Katharine Farris, one of
the members.
Everett S. Grant of New Haven, Conn,
arrived Friday to Join his wife at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Lillias S. Emery,
and will remain until Thursday reviewing
the scenes of his boyhood.
Miss A. M. Callahan, treasurer of the
Charles E. Fogg Co. of Boston arrived on
the boat via Belfast Wednesday morning
OF last week and returned Thursday,
after flying visit with friends in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. James M. Parker return
| ed Wednesday night of last week from a
motor trip to Mt. Desert and Ellsworth
and will leave the last of the present
week On their trip which has California
as their ultimate destination.
Mrs. Fred Smith and her daughter Vir-
ginia left Friday for Cedar Lake camps,
| after short visit with the formers pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lambert.
Miss Ruth Smith, who has been stu
dent at Bangor High school, returned to
Bangor Saturday, after a short stay in
! town.
Charles Foster, who had his bicycle
stolen from the schoolhouse in Frankfort
| on the night of the graduation, has re-
, covered his property, it having been
| found beside the road in Prospect, where
| the scamp who purloined the conveyance
shot it into the bushes after riding as far
as seemed prudent.
Angus M. Holmes came near losing his
car for the second time within year
hen it caught fire under the hood las
| Thursday while making a run to Sears
port Fortunately he had an extinguisher
which quickly settled the hazard, but the
car is temporarily out of commission.
Everyone should bear in mind the
change of time on the railroad. The
morning train now leaves at TAT, con-
| slderably later, and the afternoon train
| leaves at 3:01, nearly half-hour earlier.
from BANGOR the morning train arrives
| at GAO, and in the afternoon at 4:54
An interested but prudently retiring
gallery witnessed the taking of an unus-
ually large swarm of bees from an elm
! tree by E. d. Bickmore one afternoon
last week. This was the second swarm
| this year to leave the finish in the gable
! OF the residence of Mrs. Grace w. Brit
| to- For day or two the swarm had re-
NAMED in the high branches of an ada
cent elm, and then singularly enough, in
stead of leaving, collected on the main
| trunk no more than dozen feet from
| the GROUND. A few days later yet an
| other, but smaller swarm, was taken
from the tree by Charles Bennett.
The hearing ordered by the U. S. Dis
trlct Court on the petition of the receiv-
ers of the East Coast Fisheries Co. with
plans for reorganization to be held in
Portland today is of deep concern to this
village where one of the company's sar-
dine canneries is located. It is common
report that the Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co.
of Gloucester, Mass, which owns the
caDnery at Lowder Brook, is in difficult
ties and is concentrating its business in
its home city. It is said that the Plym-
outh plant has been sold and that the
East Boston and Stockton plants are Of
fered for sale. 1t is of vital interest to
this community that these two indus
tries survive. Both plants have had
equipment of improved type installed
which has never been used.
The section of the Atlantic highway
through the so-called Stockton woods,
which first and last has been the cause
of an enormous volume Of highly en-