The Republican journal., 1922-05-18
STOCKTON SPRINGS

at the foot of School street.
Miss Intz Hanson came home, May 7th
from Bangor for q fortniahts vacation
with her parents and sister.
Clark's barber shop and pool room ha.
removed from the basement of Hopkins
block to the Masonic block.
Sheriff Littlefield was in town Tuesda,
forenoon IN attendance on the funeral Of
his late deputy, Willard Nj. Berry.
| PeieQ G. Griffin arrived Tuesday from
Boston to continue work on his summer
cottage at the foot of School street.
Norman d. Griffin, who has been en-
ployed as a carpen er on the finish of the
new mill at Lincoln, returned home Fri
day.
Road Commissioner j. M. Staples ha.
opened gravel pit on the land of A. D.
Goose which fills long felt need Of the
Care district.
Road Commissioner j. NJ. Staples has
opened q gravel pit on the land of A. d.
Goose which fills a long-felt need of the
Cape district
Capt. Sewall Lancaster was in the vii
lage, May II, for the first time in month,
warmly greeted by many friends, who re-
gret his i'll health.
The high school sho.y played in Pros
pect Saturday evening to a good house.
The players were well received and report
an enjoyable evening.
Edwin T. Hatton OF Bangor came down
Saturday for the week. end at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Wellman L. Hanson on
the Sandy Point road.
The fence at Mt. Prospect cemetery is
being repaired and painted by Messrs.
Staples and Spaulding, earnest searchers
for escapes from idleness.
The meeting of the Current Events
Club on Wednesday the 18th, was held at
Wardwell's rooms, the assigned hostess
for the date being absent from town.
E. w. Doyle left, May 10, to return to
his home in Caribou. Friends of Mr.. and
Mrs. Doyle will be glad to learn that the
condition of their youngest child 10 great
ly improved.
Principal E. S. Grant and several of the
teachers were in Bangor recently attend
ing the teachers convention, returning
SuIuUSl0StIC ONCI tAC AOIoOAC ooAASSoS1
which they heard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvah c. Treat accom-
panied by Mrs. Flavius Hopkins and Mrs.
William Killman of Prospect, motored to
Frankfort on Wednesday for dinner
party at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Boyd.
The board of assessors has completed
its work and turned the tax book over to
the collector, S B. Merrithew. All who
feel deep yearning to get the matter off
their minds will do well to put on their
shock absorbers and call at the bank.
Sch. Maud M. Morey, Norfolk to Ban
Qor with coal, came into the river, Friday
night. Capt. Eden S. Shute, in New
York on business trip, joined Capt +.
L. Hichborn at Port Reading and made
the trip down to the coal port and home.
w. II. Morrison, H. H. Hawes and S.
B. Merrithew, members of the committee
on school housing Improvements, were in
Bangor and Orono last week incidentally
attending the Inauguration of President
Little while seeking an interview with
DR.. Thomas, State superintendent OF
schools. Measurable advancement of the
project was made as result of the con-
ference.
Mrs. Mary F. (Goodwin) French, widow
of Francis L. French, and an old time
resident of Sandy Point, died early Friday
morning at the home of her son Charles
A. French after long illness at the age
of SO. Besides her son she leaves daugh-
ter. Jennie, wife of Rev. John Wathen of
Woonsocket, R. l. The funeral was held
Sunday. Rev. Herbert H. Knight officiat-
ing and the burial was in Sandy Point
cemetery.
The funeral service for Willard M. Ber-
ry called large gathering of relatives and
friends to the family home on Tuesday
forenoon. Rev Ashley A. Smith of Ban
gor officiated in simple service, sympa-
thetically Offering words of consolation
and hope. There was an abundance OF
floral tributes. No one in this village is
untouched by the feeling of sympathy fol
the bereaved family.
A. D. Goose recertly ploughed up po
tato which was sprouted after being in
the ground all winter. He plans to breed
a frost-proof variety from this seed.
However indicative of mild winter, the
spring is again backward, as springs eter-
nally are in Maine. According to aspara-
gus cutting on one patch, spring is ten
days later than last year. But the swifts
have come, and the thunder in the Chin
ney induces perennial hope.
Ivory George, for many years resi-
dent ON farm in the northwest part oi
the town, and one of the few remaining
civil war pensioners died Sunday morn
| ing aged about 82. He is survived by q
daughter, Minnie wife of F. j. Clark,
who has cared for him since the death OF
his wife a year or two ago, and son,
Henry, a resident of Prospect. Mr.. George
has been an invalid for more than gen.
Grafton, and had not visited the village
for many years.
From William Avery has been received
q copy of a special edition OF the Long
Beach Daily Telegram, showing numeIo Gus
l views of this Southern California coast
city of 1900 population. Beautiful
streets, tine homes and large business
blocks abound. There are recreation piers
and elaborate bath houses, n'everything,
including a harbor constructed in the
open sea by a long breakwater. The
writer recalls this place as a desolatt
little town of cheap bungalows. two
shack saloons, a long flimsy bath house.
| a wonderful curving beach, and the worst
water a man ever tried to drink and for.