Hi all, Things are moveing along fast. My house got hit by lighten, my computer is down. So I,am at my daughters. But the reunion plans go on. My sister Peg Pert with other are coming up with wonderfull old pictures. Another old picture of the Gray reunion in 1923-4 has come up. Don't for get we need food . I,am thinking 300+ may be there. Look in the Ellsworth Weekly for more about the Gray Reunion See you there brownisue@acadia.net

Interesting .. I have a CHANDLER that was born about the same time (1801) in Georgetown (next to Bristol) and was moved to Addison by her father (Barnabus CHANDLER) sometime in the early 19th century (dates still unknown). Was there a migration from midcoast to downeast? Any thoughts or is this just a coincidence? Wade Merritt merritt@iquebec.com "Fear no art and you fear no reflection." -- Tragically Hip ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Petropoulos <PETRO@TTLC.NET> To: <MEWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 11:54 PM Subject: [MEWASHIN-L] A Query > I have been looking for a long time for information on 3rd Great Grand Mother of mine, Elsie E. Davis B. abt. 1806 in Bristol, Lincoln County, Maine. Married John Eaton Lowell abt. 1822 and they had 10 children of whom Lucy Lowell (Faulkingham) is my 2nd Great Grand Mother. They lived in Jonesport, Wash. County Maine. > If you have any information, I would appreciate any and all. > > Phil Petropoulos > petro@ttlc.net > ______________________________________________________________________________ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement)

(Handwritten at the top of the clipping - Feb 20 1930.) Death of Mrs. John McKnight. The death occurred yesterday afternoon at her home in King street of Mrs. John McKnight after a short illness at the age of 70 years. Deceased was the widow of John McKnight, who for many years conducted a grocery business in Fredericton and sat at the Council Board for some years. A week ago she was stricken with paralysis and from the first it was seen she could not recover and her death yesterday afternoon was not unexpected. Although of a retiring disposition she made many friends, her kindly habits endearing her not only to the members of her immediate family but all with whom she was associated. She was a lover of her home and her death will be learned of with sincere regret. She is survived by two sons, ex-Ald. Ivan McKnight, of this city, who succeeded his father in business, and Milton D. McKnight, of Montreal. A son, Locksley McKnight made the supreme sacrifice in the Great War, and a daughter, Mrs. Douglas Conrod, died about seven years ago. There are four grandchildren, three brothers and four sisters, C. Herbert Kilpatrick, Basil M. Kilpatrick and Fred W. Kilpatrick, of Florenceville; Mrs. Harvey Kinney, of Centreville; Mrs. C. Charles Connell, Woodstock; Mrs. George Tweedle and Mrs. Andrew Kinney, Florenceville. The funeral will take place on Saturday afternoon with service at the house at 2.15 o'clock by Rev. George Telford and interment at Rural Cemetery. (Handwritten at the top of the clipping - Dec. 18, 1930) Mrs. Sarah Edgar Dead. The death occurred on Saturday afternoon at her home in Springhill of Mrs. Sarah Lee Edgar, widow of William Edgar, aged 79 years. Deceased was born at Springhill where she spent all of her life with the exception of 15 years, when she lived in Fredericton. She was held in the highest esteem by all who knew her and her death will be regretted. She is survived by a brother, John A. Campbell, ex-M. L. A., and one sister, Miss Annie Campbell, of Springhill. Her husband died about two years ago. The funeral took place this afternoon with service at the house by Rev. J. G. Berry, of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church and interment at Rural Cemetery extension. The funeral was largely attended, may being at Rural Cemetery to meet the body and pay a last tribute of respect. (Handwritten at the top of the clipping - July 10, 1929) A Sad Bereavement Dr. Aulder L. Gerow and Mrs. Gerow are receiving the sincere sympathy of their many friends on the death yesterday morning at Victoria Hospital of their infant son, Aulder Addison, aged one hour. Mrs. Gerow's condition, which was serious yesterday, is more encouraging to- day, she having had a fairly comfortable night.

(Handwritten at the top of the clipping - Died Feb 20 Buried March 21, 1930) Funeral at Marysville. The funeral of the late Harry Hatch, who died lately at Three Rivers, Quebec, took place at Marysville this afternoon. Service was held at the late home of the deceased at 2 p. m. and at the Baptist church at 2.30 p. m. Rev. J. D. MacPherson, of Marysville, conducted the service. Interment was made in the Baptist Cemetery, with a delegation from the Canadian Legion acting as pall-bearers. Knights of Pythias, of which the deceased was a member were also present. CARD OF THANKS The family of the late Harry H. Hatch wish to thank their friends and relatives for the kindness shown them in their recent sad bereavement, especially Mr. Rotheray, Mr. Fogh and Mr. Parsons, of the International Pulp & Paper Company, Miss Mabel Bruce, the United Baptist choir, Marysville Lodge Knights of Pythias, Marysville Branch Canadian Legion, those who kindly loaned cars, also for the beautiful floral tributes as follows: Pillow, Jennie; broken circle, Mother and Sister; pillow, Mr. and Mrs. F. Gereau and family; gates ajar, International Pulp & Paper Company, Campbellton; wreath, Forest Engineering Department, C. I. P. P. C., Three Rivers, Que.; wreath, Employees Mutual Benefit Insurance Company; wreath, Marysville Branch Canadian Legion; wreath, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Chapman, Moncton; wreath, Archie, Kenneth, Donald and Stewart MacDougall; wreath, Marysville Lodge Knights of Pythias; wreath, Cloth Hall; wreath, United Baptist Church; basket, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bailey; basket, Della and Percy; basket, Mr. and Mrs. George Morgan and family; basket, Dorcas Endeavor Class; basket, G. E. B. Class; basket, Elva; basket, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Morris; basket, Bertha and Jack,; basket, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence White; basket, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Tracy and Mr. and Mrs. James R. Howie; basket, Mrs. Ramey and Mrs. Wilby; basket, Uncle Will, Aunt Nell and family; basket, Mina, Ruby, Dorothy, Lois, Daisy, Fannie, Grace and Mabel; basket, Mr. and Mrs. Redvere Scott, Newton, Mass.; flat bouquet, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Robinson and Charles Stephenson, Detroit; flat bouquet, World Wide Guild; flat bouquet, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Whitebone, Saint John; flat bouquet, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Yeomans, Saint John; flat bouquet, J. Edwin Tracy, Saint John; flat bouquet, Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Hiltz and family, Saint John; flat bouquet, Mr. and Mrs. James Trainor, Saint John; flat bouquet, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Dunlap and family. (Handwritten at the top of the clipping - Mar 21, 1930) Died at Victoria Hospital. The death occurred at Victoria Hospital at an early hour this morning of Isabelle H. Lipsett, aged 56 years. Deceased had not been in the best of health for some time and entered the hospital a few days ago for treatment. She was known and respected by a large circle of friends and is survived by two brothers, David Lipsett, of Minneapolis, and Gilbert Lipsett, of Roxbury. The funeral will take place on Sunday afternoon from the home of Alex. Forbes, 134 Saunders street, service will be conducted by Rev. George Telford and interment made at Rural Cemetery extension.

There will be a genealogy fair held at the Alexander Elementary School on Route 9 in Alexander, ME on Sat., July 8, 2000 from 10-3. There will be another genealogy fair held at the Charlotte Elementary School in Charlotte, Maine on Sat., July 22, 2000 from 9-3. This will be part of the 175th anniversary of the town which is being celebrated from July 14-22. For those people who cannot come to the fair, you are invited to send me a Wanted Poster of people you are researching. Include your name, snail mail address, and e-mail address. I will put them up on the wall at the fairs. Wanted poster must include the name of a place in Washington County or Charlotte County, NB or both. Send the wanted posters to Sharon Howland at this e-mail address or snail mail them to: Sharon Howland 19 Chase Rd. Baileyville, ME 04694. People at the fair enjoy reading the posters. You never know who might be at the fair researching your ancestors. Sharon Howland Co-editor of WKRP (Washington/Charlotte Kounty Records Preservation) Founder of the Washington County, Maine Records Preservation Fund Author of: Calais, Maine Vital Records Prior to 1892 Vital Records of Alexander, Maine

Hi, I'm not sure about renting computers in Calais, BUT Maine is one of the "most wired states" in the nation and I believe EVERY PUBLIC LIBRARY has a computer hooked to the internet. If Calais Free Library doesn't have one, pop across the bridge to the St. Stephen Library. They have 3 or 4 available for public use. Cross customs (suggest you use the Milltown bridge - less congestion) and follow Milltown Blvd all the way down along the river, bearing right at the foot of the hill. Passing the Intern'l Bridge (Calais) travel along until you hit the traffic light. Go straight through. Go out behind the Tourist bureau and park. Library is new brick building on your right. Tourist bureau is in the old train station. Look for a list of their genealogical holdings to be posted on the Charlotte Co. web site on the 8th July update. Enjoy your trip! Marilyn Strout Charlotte Co. Coordinator

Does anyone know if the Boston-States listers are having another genealogy fair in Waltham this fall? Linda

This transcription is of a taped meeting of the Alexander-Crawford Historical Society on May 18, 1982. The speaker was Reed Holmes, author of several books. As with the previous condensations names and other words that could not be transcribed exactly are in italics. Comments, explanations, and additional names are in parentheses, and direct quotes from the tape are in quotation marks. A man's voice was the first on the tape. "Tonight I feel honored and fortunate to be able to introduce our speaker. Mr. Reed Holmes is a world traveler and an author. As Jane said, he has traveled from Missouri to be here tonight with us, but another thing which will endear him to you is the fact that he has strong ties in Jonesport, Maine and hopes to be back there before long. He has written several books. . . . The title of tonight's presentation is ‘Jonesport to Jaffa in 1866, Scandal or Success.. I'm pleased to introduce Mr. Reed Holmes." A condensation of Mr. Holmes' talk follows. "The Forerunners" is the story of George Jones Adams and the 156 people that went with him in 1866 to Jaffa. Most of them were from Jonesport, Indian River and Addison. Some were from New Hampshire, some from other parts of Maine. Why would a group of people from Maine go to what was considered by everyone at that time a land of desolation with no promise left in it. What happened that caused that group of people to fail in their endeavor, or did they? That's still the question. They went to assist in the return of the Jews to their land of promise, Israel. They felt themselves to be part of the fulfillment of prophecy. Mr. Holmes first ran across the story in 1942 when he spent the winter in Jonesport. It seemed that some people didn't want the story told, that there was something about it which was not very complimentary to their ancestors. There were still people living in the Jonesport area who had made that trip in 1866. There were three members of one family who had been children on that journey. One of them was born over there in 1866. Another was twelve years old when they went and the third one was about six. Mr. Holmes spoke first with the eldest, Tressa Kelly. She had a candy store on the main street in Jonespor, and was about 88 years of age. The central figure, no matter who was telling the story - "whether it was Leonard Wilson who was the best story teller in town as they say - I suppose Lawrence Norton is now, but Leonard Wilson was then" - the major character was a man by the name of G. J. Adams. They called him, G. J. "There was one fellow by the name of Tim Drisko who had always tried to tell the rest of the neighbors that he was a charlatan, that he was - he was duping them. And he tried every which way he could including one story which put him off in a field in back of Ball's Hill and he met the devil back there. And the devil said, ‘I got you.' He said, ‘ I'll give you three chances. You name something that I can't do and I'll let you go free.' So he said after some thought, ‘Move Moose Peak Light back up on top of Ball's Hill.' And the devil said, ‘That's easy.' And just like that the lighthouse was up on Ball's Hill. And, he said, ‘You've got two more chances.' And, the second one, he said, ‘Well, would you drain all the water out of the reach clear out to where the lighthouse was. Just drain that whole thing.' And, the devil said, ‘That's easy.' And the first thing he knew there were fish flopping on the bottom of what was ocean, and Tim was getting worried. And, then he had an inspiration. He said, ‘Mr. Devil, you show me a bigger liar than G. J. Adams.' And, the devil said, ‘You're free. You're free.' And, Tim was telling this in the midst of a church meeting, a prayer meeting, no less. Trying to get the people to understand what was going on. He was supported by George Drisko, the editor- journalist at the paper over here in Machias. He was supported by a number of others, but still people were going to go with this G. J. Adams, George Jones Adams." Who was G. J. Adams? Some people said his eyes were set so close together he could look down the neck of a Johnson's Liniment bottle without squinting. George Drisko didn't like G. J. Adams. He published the following description of G. J. in the "Machias Union." "G. J. Adams is of medium size, black curly hair, sharp dark eyes, intellectual forehead, Roman nose, lips that shut tight as a clamshell, showing great earnest if not absolute obstinacy. His countenance is Jewish and he claims to have a little Irish blood in his veins. He has an exceedingly glib tongue, and his quotations from the Holy Writ are always on hand. He appears to be some years older than Adam, hale and hearty and ready for any emergency." A Mr. Bradbury described Mrs. Adams. "Mrs. Adams is quite fat, very fair and has seen some 45 summers. Her face is oval. Her neck is short, bust, full as a prima donna's. Her eyes, dark blue and sharp. Her voice, pleasing. Her tongue exceedingly voluble and her command of language great. When not excited or angered by opposition, her conversation in intelligent, lady-like, and quite agreeable. But, oppose her peculiar doctrines and you stir up a hornet's nest at once. Her appearance is not so lady-like, and her tongue runs like a pepper-mill." G. J. Adams was born in New Jersey in 1811. He was one of the Adams family who was very prominent in the development of the United States. Very little is known about his early life, but there is reasonable certainty that he was indulged by a doting widowed mother who probably fed his ego as she struggled to feed his body. He had at least one sister, Mercy, and possibly one other who became a Mrs. Stevens of Newark, New Jersey. I mention Mercy because some of you may be familiar with the Garden Theater and the name Tom Lynn. Tom Lynn and George Adams were friends, and Tom Lynn married George Adams' sister, Mercy. G. J. Adams grew less than other boys his age, and made up for it by being feisty and quick to anger. He learned early that an adversary could be subdued by words as well as by fists. As a young man, when his integrity was under attack, he fought with sarcasm and invective. Soon after he had completed his apprenticeship as a tailor he responded to the evangelism of Wesleyan revivalists, and was soon charming the multitudes as a Methodist preacher. He spoke in rented halls and theaters in the largest cities in the country, filling them to capacity. He had a flair for dramatics that helped him with his preaching. He really wanted to be an actor. A theatrical producer in Boston by the name of Purdy heard Adams preach and was impressed by the way he could spiel off the scriptures by heart, and move the audience from tears to laughter and back to tears again. Purdy needed a drawing card for Shakespear's Richard the Third and he approached Adams and Adams was delighted. He did very well, until the cast wanted to go out and celebrate. Adams couldn't handle liquor, and he became roaring drunk. There is no doubt that he was an early alcoholic. They could not get him away from the bottle once he got onto it. And, so the play became very, very interesting. They kicked him out after nine days. His wife finally sobered him up. He went back to tailoring, which is what he had been apprenticed as. Then the Mormons came to town. More from curiosity than anything else, he went to hear what they had to say and he was spell bound by their stories. He was baptized. He was ordained and was soon preaching. He said "I try to preach from three to five times each week and work with my own hands to support my wife and my son besides." Joseph Smith, the Mormon leader, was very much disturbed about his feeling that the Jews would shortly go back to Palestine from all over the world. He wanted a man named Orson Hyde to go over there to see what the situation was, and to dedicate land on the Mount of Olives for the return of the Jews. Orson Hyde went to New York City which was then George Adams' home, and George Adams was completely enthralled by the story that Orson Hyde told him. When Orson Hyde left New York to go to Jerusalem, he took George Adams with him. George Adams didn't go the full way. He went as far as England, and the Mormon Church administrators in England decided they wanted to keep this spell binder. And so he stayed there and Orson Hyde went on to Jerusalem. Eventually Adams came back. Today there is memorial garden on the Mount of Olives in honor of Orson Hyde's visit. Then Joseph Smith was killed by an assassin, and Orson Hyde went west with Brigham Young. Joseph Smith's assassination was the end of the world for Adams, and G. J. did what he had done before. He got roaring drunk. And for almost 20 years, he went back and forth between preaching and acting, and always having a fuss with the local editors. That was especially true with Springfield, Massachusetts. They very nearly ran him out of town. Sam Bowles was the editor of the Springfield Republican. G. J. seemed to be making a go of it but he got so fed up with Sam Bowles that he got drunk again. But, this time after he sobered up, he really went on the wagon. This was in 1861 and he decided to fashion his own church which he called the Church of the Messiah. He went to Maine. There he founded the headquarters of his Church of the Messiah. He moved down the coast preaching until he got to Indian River and Jonesport and Addison. Nobody responded to his preaching like the people there and within a few months he had congregations all over the place, and especially in those three towns. He started a newspaper, and in that paper, The Sordid Truth, he started telling them about the return of the Jews to Palestine, that the Messiah would shortly come, and that the whole thing needed somebody there to help. And in 1865, Abe McKenzie, the leading merchant and postmaster of Indian River, and G. J. Adams went to Palestine to scout out land, just like Joshua and Caleb did when they were sent by Moses. They even called themselves Joshua and Caleb. They came back, and where everybody else was saying this was a land of desolation with no opportunity at all, they said there was all kinds of opportunity. They said it would be the beginning and they would be at the foundation of this, and would apply the leverage that will help to bring the Jewish people back to reestablish Israel. That's what they proceeded to try to do. By the next year they had a ship and supplies ready, and in August of 1866, they boarded the Nellie Chapin which was built at Addison Point. They put prefab houses on board the Nellie Chapin and lumber from Whitneyville, and set sail to Jaffa. The Sultan of Turkey wouldn't allow them to purchase the land right off, so they were forced to camp on the beach. Mr. Holmes showed a photograph of the group camped on the beach in September of 1866, showing G. J. Adams under an umbrella speaking to the group. The picture showed a horse that they brought with them, and a yawl boat from Indian River, and some of the doors that would go on their houses. They finally built their community five minutes walk inland. They built over twenty houses and established a remarkable agricultural settlement. They farmed the area around to the north and to the east of Jaffa. They introduced potatoes, and flowers like hollyhocks. G. J. Adams was the brain in back of this, but he didn't have enough business sense. Abe McKenzie should have been there, but he was going to go the next year with another ship and another 100 people. He was lining up an export-import business so that they would take lobsters and sardines from Jonesport over to Jaffa and Jerusalem. They were building a second ship that would carry lumber for them from Whitneyville and that second ship was to be in coastal traffic along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. The colony itself failed. They ran into many difficulties including polluted water. Nineteen of the 157 people, many of them children, died within the first six months. Add homesickness. Add the fact that when these Americans came in, everybody raised their prices. These people went over with an average amount of money of approximately $500.00. Adams, himself, had invested about $5000.00 in the venture, and then borrowed another two to three thousand dollars which as things began to fail, he couldn't repay. And, his creditors began to hound him. And, he couldn't get any sympathy or help. What did he do? He got drunk every day. And, he and his wife got into a tiff that broke out into the street and his feet of clay began to show. And, most of the people came home. Over twenty of them stayed, however. A macadam road surface was being put down from Jaffa to Jerusalem in 1868. Some of the Maine people worked on that road and a Yankee, Rolla Floyd, drove the first carriage with the first pay-load from Jaffa to Jerusalem. He became the founder of modern tourism and tourism is the leading industry in Israel today. The Burns brothers built a nine story hotel. If the people had only waited a year or two, they would have been amazed, because that colony became a hotel center for thousands. And, their three story building that they left was the first hotel in that hotel center. When the railroad was built from Jerusalem to Jaffa the station was put across the street from the colony. G. J. Adams said before they left Jonesport, "One of these days where we are going to build will become the commercial center of modern Israel." What's the city that is just north of Jaffa? Tel Aviv. And on the land across the street from the colony, there's a railroad station, and the beginning of modern Tel Aviv. From 1867 until now, most of the offspring of the families who returned to America have lived under a sense of embarrassment and chagrin. They have felt that their forefathers were duped by a charlatan, but it's not so. The Jaffa colony was probably both a success and a scam. The venture of G. J. Adams and all that followed him to Jaffa cannot be counted as little people. They were indeed the forerunners of modern Israel. Fourteen of the houses that the people from Jonesport built are still there, although they are in such bad repair that nobody can live in them.

(Handwritten at the top of the clipping - Feb 4, 1930) Died in Hospital. The death occurred in Victoria Hospital at an early hour this morning of John A. Fletcher, at the age of 46 years. Deceased was born at New Maryland and lived in and about Fredericton all his life. He was employed with Fred McLaggan near Stanley and was brought to the Hospital last night for treatment, his death occurring a few hours later. He was respected by all who knew him and his death will be learned of with regret. He is survived by two brothers and two sisters, Wesley E. Fletcher, of New Maryland; Medley E. Fletcher, of Fredericton; Mrs. Bessie Dougherty and Mrs. Everett Nason in the United States. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. (This entire note is handwritten on a one inch square of paper and pasted on the center of the page.) Mrs. McGinnes (or McGinnis) Sister died April 16, 1928. Mrs McG. Died at her funeral. (Handwritten on the top of the clipping - Jan 8, 1930) Died at Victoria Hospital. The death occurred at Victoria Hospital late yesterday afternoon of Mrs. Sarah Charters, wife of Harry C. Charters, of New Maryland, at the age of 52 years. Deceased was only at the hospital a few days, where she underwent an operation. She had been a lifelong resident of New Maryland, where she was held in the highest esteem by all who knew her. She is survived by her husband, four sons, Robert, Daniel, William and Joseph; two daughters, Mrs. Harry McNeill, of Fredericton, and Miss Margaret Charters, at home; her mother Mrs. James Horncastle, of Fredericton; six brothers, Rankine, Edwin, William, Allen, Percy, Horncastle, of Fredericton, and Hilton, of New Maryland; three sisters, Miss Margaret Horncastle, R. N. of New Rochelle, N. Y.; Mrs. Edward Simmons, New Maryland, and Mrs. Arthur Wetmore, of Cardston, Alta. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon from the home of her mother, 47 Saunders street, with prayers at 1.50 o'clock by Rev. A. F. Bate and service at the Church of England, New Maryland, at 3 o'clock and interment in the adjoining churchyard.

Sorry to disturb the whole list with this, but would a current resident of Calais e-mail me. I need some info on renting a computer while I am in the area. Thanx. Whimz1@aol.com

Two people have written to tell me that the person who gave the talk to the Alexander-Crawford Historical Society about St. Croix Island was Frank Fenderson and not Frank Fenlason as I said. I checked the list of tapes that was sent to me when I first started on this project, and the name for tapes 7 and 14 is Frank Fenderson. But, just above for tape 6 is Harold Fenlason. May I plead "old eyes" as the excuse for my mistake? Alta

Hi Listers, Pennfield Parish now has first 7 parts of the 1851 census loaded, dealing with the surnames ACUS through HAWKINS, courtesy of Chris Larsen. http://rootsweb.com/~nbpennfi/ If you find any broken links please let me know, Marilyn Strout

Hi Listers, St. Croix Parish has been updated with the following info: 1 1881 Census, Parts 1-4 (includes pages 1-11) (under Census) 2 St. Croix Island History (under History & families) - courtesy of Alta Flynt & Alexander-Crawford Historical Society 3 Description of Bartlett Mills - courtesy of Lester Bartlett (under Villages) All the above info can be found at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbstcroi/ If you see a broken link, let me know. More updates coming throughout Charlotte County, over the next couple of weeks. Marilyn Maxwell Strout Charlotte County Coordinator

I have been much enjoying Alta's transcriptions of conversations among heroes of my valley youth and would suggest that the Frank Fenlason who spoke about St. Croix Island must be my father's old friend, Frank Fenderson of Calais, who has done so much to further the cause of St. Croix Valley history. Downeasters can't be bothered saying FendeRson, so his name would have sounded like Fendason or Fenlason in Alexander as it always did in Calais. A recently published, well illustrated report of a local history project by students of Calais Memorial High School dedicated to him spelled his name as we used to, Fenderson, but I'm nonetheless sure that they pronounced it properly. Thanks to Frank and to Alta! Tom

(Handwritten at the top of the clipping - June 20, 1929) KILLED AT SAINT JOHN Four Year Old Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Hiltz, Hit by Car [The Canadian Press] Saint John, June 20 — Four year old Myra Hiltz, daughter of M. and Mrs. Lawson D. Hiltz, West Saint John, was almost instantly killed at noon to-day, when she was struck by a car driven by W. L. Harding, ex-Commissioner of Public Works. The child was knocked down and the wheels passed over her head before the driver of the car could apply the brakes. It was said the car was proceeding slowly from the city to Mr. Harding's home in West Saint John and that the child ran out immediately in front of the automobile. Dr. A. F. Emery, coroner, said an inquest would probably be held. (Handwritten at the top of the clipping - 1928) DIED BROWN — Suddenly at Marysville, April 18th, Estella Blanch, beloved wife of George M. Brown, of this city, aged 46 years. Funeral from her late home in George Street, this city, to-morrow afternoon. Service at 2.30 o'clock by Rev. F. H. Holmes, M. A., and interment at Sunnybank Cemetery. (Handwritten at the top of the clipping - Jan'y 6th, 1929) DIED FLANAGAN — Suddenly at Marysville on January 6th, Thomas J. Flanagan, aged 67 years. Funeral from his late home at Marysville to-morrow morning, leaving the house at 8.30 o'clock. High mass of Requiem will be celebrated at St. Anthony's church, Devon, at 9 o'clock by Rev. Father Donahoe and interment made at The Hermitage. (Handwritten at the top of the clipping - Dec 23, 1929) DIED BIRD — Entered into rest at 143 Charlotte street on December 23rd, Jane Hanning Bird, widow of James Bird, aged 79 years. Funeral from home of her daughter, Mrs. James Pringle, to-morrow afternoon. Service at 2 o'clock by Rev. J. G. Berry and interment in the family plot at New Maryland. (Handwritten at the top of the clipping - Aug 12, 1930) Buried at Rusiagornis. The funeral of the late Irvine Moore, who died suddenly at Rusiagornis on Sunday morning, took place yesterday afternoon and was largely attended. Service at the house and at the United Baptist Church was conducted by Rev. Mr. Killam and interment was made at Rusiagornis. The pall-bearers were six sons, who also acted as mourners, Robert, Hartley, Edgar, Leaverett, Ansel, Winston, Philip and Chauncey Moore. The other mourners were Allan Boyle, Austin Boyle, Zopher Phillips.

This is a condensation of a transcription of an audio tape of the April 20, 1982 meeting of the Alexander-Crawford Historical Society. Frank Fenlason gave a talk on St. Croix Island. As with previous condensations comments, explanations, and additional names are in parentheses. (I found two spellings for the first grantee of St. Croix Island, Pierre Dugua Sieur de Mons, and Pierre du Gast, Sieur de Monts.) St. Croix Island was first settled in 1604 by a group of French men led by Pierre du Gast, Sieur de Monts, a Huguenot, or French Protestant, who had been to North America with earlier expeditions. He received a commission from King Henry IV of France to colonize and govern the region from the 40th to the 46th degree north latitude - roughly from Pennsylvania to Cape Breton. de Monts' expedition was financed by wealthy Huguenots and he "departed France on April 7, 1604 with about 120 men and two ships. With him was the king's geographer and historian, one of the great men of France, Samuel de Champlain. In the company also was a Catholic priest and a Huguenot minister as there were many men of both faiths in the crew." They arrived in Cape Le Havre in Nova Scotia on May 8, 1604. de Monts sent Champlain along the coast to find a suitable place for a settlement, one that could be easily fortified and defended. Champlain sailed around the southern end of Nova Scotia and entered the Bay of Fundy and finally ended up in Passamaquoddy and found an island that he thought de Monts would approve of. de Monts arrived on the island about June 27, 1604. He liked what he saw and he named it Isle of St. Croix or in English, Island of the Holy Cross," because the meeting of the rivers above the island resembled a cross. The island was easy to fortify because vessels could not pass up the river except at the mercy of their guns. The settlers immediately built "defenses, houses, barracks, bake ovens and a hand operated grist mill. Gardens were planted on both the island and on the main land. In August de Monts sent his vessels back to France for additional supplies. This left him with 78 men to finish the necessary buildings and do the gardening to supply them with the vegetables to go along with their salt meat, hopefully enough to get them through the winter." The soil on the island turned out to be mostly sandy and very poor for raising crops. "So with short supplies, de Monts did not have long to wait for winter. The first snow fell about October 6 and from then on things got progressively worse." The cold was severe, and there being no spring on the island, they soon became short of fresh water. "It was impossible to get to the main land for water because of the floating ice cakes." Champlain concluded in his writings that there is six months of winter in this country. They were also very short of firewood as they had cut down most of the trees on the island for the fortifications and lumber for the buildings. Scurvy broke out and almost everyone suffered to some degree. "Of the 79 men, 35 died, two of them being the priest and the minister. It is said that the two were buried in a common grave hoping that they could get along better in heaven than they did on earth." On June 16, 1605 a vessel arrived from France with provisions. "On the 18th de Monts and Champlain set out to find a more suitable abode, but the search was not successful so de Monts returned to the St. Croix determined that he would return with this group to France. The arrival of another French supply ship with 40 men changed his mind." He decided instead to dismantle the buildings and move the settlement to a place called Port Royal, a location Champlain had explored prior to the settlement on the St. Croix. The next important date was 1613 when Captain Samuel Argyle of Virginia visited the island. He was on a mission to destroy the French settlements in the area and he burned what remained of the settlement. "No further interest was shown in the island until after the Revolutionary War. The Treaty of Paris which ended the war contained provisions that the St. Croix river was to be the boundary between the United States and the British territory." There was a dispute for many years over where the St. Croix was located as it was known locally as the Schoodic River. The British claimed every river from the St. Croix to the Penobscot and the Americans claimed every river from the St. Croix to the St. John. "Ward Chipman, a Loyalist who had settled in New Brunswick finally obtained a copy of Champlain's map and gave it to Robert Pagan of St. Andrews, and using this map, Pagan did some archeological work on the island and discovered the remains of the French settlement. As a result, in 1798 a decision was finally made. The Schoodic was the true St. Croix as named by de Monts." Through the years, the island was owned by different people from Red Beach and Robbinston. In 1856 the U. S. Coast Guard bought two thirds of it for a light house. On June 25, 1904, the 300th anniversary was commemorated. "This was sponsored by the Maine Historical Society. There were representatives from France, Canada, the United States, along with many warships from these three countries. A plaque was unveiled to commemorate the occasion." It must have been a tremendous celebration because the island could not accommodate all the people and there was also a large observance conducted on the Canadian mainland opposite the island. The island has been known locally and on many maps for different years under different names. It was known as Neutral Island during the War of 1812 because the boats from Eastport would go up to St. Croix Island, or Neutral Island, drop the provisions, and boats from St. Andrews would pick them up. They carried on trade as if no war existed. Later it was known as Bone Island. This was possibly because the graveyard of the men who died in the first winter was on the southern end of the island over the sand pits, and due to the erosion from storms and rains and so forth, bones started to appear. It was also known as Docia's Island. That name is pretty hard to eradicate. Professor Ganong said that there was a girl by the name of Theodocia who lived in Bayside and was quite popular with the young men of the area. She used to take them over to the island for a visit, so the island was locally known as "Doshie," as in "going up to see Doshie." And the French, feeling that must have been a French derivation, called it Doucett to make it sound French. One of the interesting parts about this Docia island is that when the commemoration was held on the main land they passed a resolve that from then on they were going to call it St. Croix Island. "So, back a few years ago, St. Andrews or somebody down there, erected a sign along Bayside, ‘Historic View, St. Croix Island' and in great big brackets underneath, ‘Doucett Island.'" In 1932 William H. Parker and members of his family wanted the National Park Service to approve the island as a national historic site, but the Park Service refused because they did not have full title to the island. In 1935 Senator Wallace White of Maine introduced a bill in congress to authorize St. Croix as a national monument, but no action was taken. In 1949 Senator Owen Brewster introduced a similar bill and this was approved with the exception that they would receive full title to the island before it became a national monument. That same year a second commemoration was held in Calais at the new Calais High School and again dignitaries from France, Canada and the U.S. gathered for the occasion. Judge Harold Murchie was master of ceremonies. William Parker whose family owned part of the island, had a friend, an attorney from Augusta, Ernest L. McLean, start the necessary title search. This work was later turned over to two local attorneys, Elbridge Davis and Francis Brown. This required extensive work because some of the fractional titles were as small as 1/240th. In 1967 the deed was finally accepted by the U.S. government. On June 30, 1968 a formal dedication of the island as a national monument was held at Red Beach, with many dignitaries from both countries present. The latest event was the dedication of the new Interpretive Shelter on the main land at Red Beach on October 2, 1981. An organization was formed in Calais called the St. Croix Island Association. It's main purpose is to work with the Park Association on affairs such as the building of the Interpretive Shelter. The National Park Service didn't have money for this construction. "So with the help of the Georgia-Pacific Company with some money and materials, the Thomas DiCenzo Company with some Red Beach granite, the Votech School (Washington County Vocational Technical School) - we were able to get the Votech School's carpentry course crew to go down and work - we were able to build the building with a minimum of cost to anybody." There was a brief interruption of Mr. Fenlason's talk to discuss Americans and Canadians moving back and forth across the border. Mr. Fenlason said, "Years ago one of our local city officials in Calais was up for reelection and his opposition claimed he should be defeated because he wasn't an American citizen. He was a Canadian. But, he won again."

Harold Fenlason told a story about Percy L. Lord. "Percy L. Lord had an open prescription room. You know. There were glass show cases in front, but you would look out into the prescription room. Percy L. Lord was a real act. He was tremendous. And, we made things with liquids a lot, and you'd have a bottle, see, and one of these graduates and Percy L. Lord . . . this would be the bottle and let's say this is the graduate. He'd dump it out of the bottle in there and there would be lines on it and he'd go - - must be on the bottom of the meniscus, that's right. (A meniscus is the curved upper surface of a column of liquid.) And, so he'd go like this and he'd go - oh, very serious. And, you know what, he would do that and he'd always over fill it and he'd pour it back in the bottle which nobody ever should do. And, then he'd go back and forth like this and finally - with great gravity - oh, very serious - he would carefully pour that into the four ounce bottle and everybody would say, ‘Oh that Mr. Lord, he's so careful.' So careful, my eye. Any good pharmacist, including Percy L. Lord, would never put it back, and could hit that bottom of the meniscus just right on the button. No problem, you could do it. But, Percy pulled all this nonsense. And, he was a great old humbug, too, I'm going to tell you. This may bother some people. So anyone used to go in and say, ‘Mr. Lord, I don't feel very good. I got chills. I got fever. I got this and that.' And, he'd say, ‘Yes, well I think I could have a remedy for you.' And, he'd go out back and he'd get a four ounce bottle or a six ounce - four ounce usually - thirty five cents - and he'd go and take off this - go through this same routine - oh very carefully - and put it all and he usually have to put a ‘shake' label on it. Put a little powder in there to make it look good. Now, I - ‘If you take this,'- and he would give them directions and put them on the label - ‘I'm sure you will be helped.' And so they'd go away. They'd take the stuff. They would be helped and they would be very happy. So, the punch line of the story is this. A year later, they'd come back with this bottle and say, ‘Mr. Lord, I need some more of that medicine.' And, it didn't faze Percy L. Lord a bit. He'd say, ‘Hum-m, yes, well,' and so he'd go out in the back room and concoct something else, and come back and he'd say ‘Now, I must explain to you, we have recently had some new shipments of drugs and they are somewhat different, and you may notice that this is a slightly different color or it might be a definitely different color. Don't let that worry you, and you may notice that it doesn't smell exactly the same or it doesn't taste exactly the same, but this is the fault of the new material. This is your prescription.' And, they believed him absolutely. P. L. Lord could do no wrong and they were cured. . . . And, a wonderful guy. I have nothing but great admiration for P. L. Lord. And, he was a big man of Calais." Every drug store had a shelf of patent medicine, Lydia Pinkham's and Fellow's Compound and others. One was Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. There was Piso's Cure for Consumption with the following advertising. "I believe Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life. The best cough medicine is Piso's Cure for Consumption. Children take it without objection - by all druggists - 25 cents." Many of the patent medicines including Lydia Pinkham's and Atlas Bitters, had a large percentage of alcohol. Harold Fenlason said, "I must note this that there were many of these patent medicines and they were a high alcoholic percentage and people who took these things a lot were running around half drunk most of the time. Maybe, they didn't know they were drunk, but they felt pretty good." Everyone had to take some "Bitters" in the spring. The worse it tasted, the better it was supposed to be. "It was like putting iodine on a cut - no hurt, no cure." Cascara sagrada was a laxative and a lovely Latin name was Romulus Persiana. Fluid Extract of Romulus Persiana. There were Kickapoo Indian remedies that included Kickapoo Indian Sagwa, Indian Oil, Indian Salve, Indian Cough Cure, and Indian Worm Killer. "They had four or five things and they guaranteed that it would, you know, cure anything." Congress by passing the Pure Food and Drug Act put an end forever to some of the nation's more bizarre nostrums. It was a time of Indian snake root oil, electric belts, tonics and phosphates, pills, powders, elixirs, herb teas and aphrodisiacs. An advertisement for Lydia Pinkham's said, "This applies to women regardless of taste, caste or color. The ambitious girl striving for school honors; the shop girl, anxious, eager, worried, for she must keep her place; the society woman, all climbing too high. What follows? Nervous prostration, excitability, fainting spells, most likely organic diseases of the uterus or womb and many - many other distressing female troubles. Oh, women, if you must bring upon yourselves these troubles, remember that Lydia E. Pinkham's is a vegetable compound that has done more to relieve such suffering than any other remedy known." Lice remedies were the next thing discussed. A woman told a story that when she was in school and Helen Mahaney was her teacher, there was an epidemic of lice in the class. Miss Mahaney had hair long enough so that she could sit on it, and she caught the lice, too. She told the whole class to go home and that the only ones who could come back to school were the ones who did not have lice. Foster Higgens and the woman telling the story were the only students in the class the next day. Helen Mahaney was a good teacher and the school principal. The woman telling the story said that many people didn't want to use the Blue Butter lice remedy and they used Quasher Chips. The chips were steeped in water and you soaked your hair in this water. You wore a cap for three days and used vinegar to get rid of the nits. Kerosene was another home remedy for head lice. Some remedies for rheumatism were: "Wear the eye tooth of a pig. Carry three potatoes in your pants pocket. Carry in your pocket the triangular bone from a ham. Put a copper cent in your shoe. Carry a piece of burn out carbon from the arc light as a prevention or cure for rheumatism. Of course you have to find an arc light in the old cars - might be a little difficult. A ring made of a horse shoe nail is good for rheumatism. Wear a brass ring to cure rheumatism. To prevent rheumatism put glass knobs under the bed posts. Say, that's pretty good. That's easy too. A dried eel skin tied above a joint kills and prevents rheumatism. So all you have to get is a dried eel skin. That'd be pretty good. Do not throw out the water in which you wash your feet in the evening until the next day for fear of rheumatism. That's pretty good. Carry a coffin nail to prevent rheumatism. A salted mackerel tied on the feet cured rheumatism. A raw salt herring with the bone taken out applied to the neck, tie a handkerchief over it and keeping it on all night cures rheumatism. Rheumatism can be cured by sleeping on a sock that contains powdered alum. That would be pretty easy, a little alum. A bee sting will cure rheumatism. Render a buzzard into grease and use this for rheumatism. A red flannel worn about the wrist will cure rheumatism, and it says sleep with a dog to cure rheumatism. The dog will absorb the disease and become crippled."

It's been a while since I posted the last condensation so an explanation is probably in order. I am a volunteer transcriber of audio tapes of the Alexander-Crawford Historical Society. (Washington County, Maine) These transcriptions which I have condensed are of meetings or interviews with local people, and all date back to the early 1980s. As with previous submissions anything in quotation marks is an exact quote from the tape. Parentheses mean a correction or addition, and something that I couldn't really understand is in italics. Some of the members present at this meeting were Jack Dudley, Jane Dudley, Pliney Frost, and Millie Winckler. This tape is a very interesting, and sometimes amusing, talk by Harold Fenlason of Calais, Maine. It is so lengthy that I have split it into two parts. Mr. Fenlason was a druggist and from the things mentioned on the tape, I'd guess from the early 1900s to maybe the 1940s. When asked about his training as a druggist, he said "I just hung around Fred Twist's store and he showed me." The tape begins with a discussion of some of the tools of the druggist. They used a torsion balance which wasn't terribly accurate - " not anything like a good analytical balance but pretty fair, and those balances cost about $60.00." They used graduals for liquid measurements. They were made of glass and were tapered with a foot on the bottom, and English measurements on one side and metric on the other. They also used apothecary's weights. There were mortars and pestles of all sizes for mixing. It was a rule to always stir to the left with the pestle. If you stirred to the right, you were considered a rank amateur who didn't know anything about pharmacy. They would scrape the bottom of the mortar with a spatula, and stir some more, and if there were still lumps put the mixture through a sifter. Ointments were made on a glass. The druggist would start with Vaseline, cold cream, Unguentine, or something similar and then mix in the powder the doctor prescribed to make a special ointment to treat a specific problem. One standby was a sulphur ointment for itch - often made of lard, sulphur and kerosene. A blue ointment with mercury was for lice. It was called Blue Butter. They used funnels, and a hydrometer jar. "This was a cylindrical thing and it was quite high, like this - about that big - and this was for finding specific gravity of liquids. And, you'd have a hydrometer and you'd put the liquid in the jar and drop it in and read it off just about like you do with battery acid now as far as that goes. But, it was bigger." The specific gravity is the measure of strength. If the liquid "had a higher specific gravity, you could translate that into a percentage of strength." The pharmacist used a pill tile, a pill roller and a pill cutter. He had a conceal machine and a suppository machine. Before Mr. Fenlason's time a percolator was used to "digest drugs with alcohol or alcohol and water and so forth and make a solution of some kind, but that's a very old machine." He made pills. "You'd again put a powder together and you'd use what they called a pill incipient which was a sticky liquid that was used to bind the powder together. Gum arabic was one and one - I'm going to blow this name, I know - gum trajacins. (Gum tragacanth in my dictionary) That's a terrible word. But, we used those and it helped to bind the powder together and then after you got that all together in a mass, you rolled it out in a roll about like a pencil like this and you rolled it to a certain length, and then you had this pill tile - that's the way I did it. And, you laid it on there and there were little marks all along. Say if you wanted ten pills you'd roll this out until it was ten of those little marks long. take a spatula and cut it off. And, then you'd take these little increments and roll ‘em and you'd come out with a round pill. And we'd use a powder - you'd use a powder after you got all through - like a podian which kept it from sticking. And so, that was a very interesting thing. But, they don't do that any more." There was a conceal machine. "A concealwas a little rice flour disk, and - well, you know, it was about like this and it came and made a little scoop across and then another little lip and then you could put and seal it together. And, the purpose of those was to put powders in there and then, at least theoretically, the patient swallowed this thing and didn't taste the very bitter powders as they frequently were very bitter." Today when you take a prescription to the drug store you get factory made pills or capsules. In the old days the druggist might give you a fluid extract, tincture, syrup, elixir, powdered extract, or a thing called spirits. Druggists also made "a thing called an emulsion which was a combination of oil and water and it was a very tricky thing to make." An emulsion was "a combination of oil and water put together in a certain routine so it came out creamy. If you didn't do that you just had a mess of oil and water in the bottle." One well known commercial emulsion was Scott's Emulsion which was made with cod liver oil. For reference the druggists used the Materia Medica, the United States Pharmacopeia, or U.S.P., and the National Formulary, or N.F. They also had Remington's Practice of Pharmacy which combined material from both the U.S.P. and the N.F. Drugs that were commonly kept in the home then were Sweet Spirits of Niter, used for a fever, Paregoric. for a stomach ache, and Ipecac if someone swallowed something they shouldn't, or if they were coughing a lot. "Paregoric's technical name is camphorated tincture of opium". It is a "narcotic but it was sold under the classification of exempt narcotics. What the druggist had to do every time he sold paregoric, say if he sold 72 ounces - he would take their name and write it in a book and say that on such and such a date John Jones got two ounces of paregoric and that was open for inspection to the narcotics fellow who came around. There were certain families, or certain people, who really were what we called paregoric fiends, and their practice was to go from drug store to drug store and if they could con some unsuspecting clerk into selling them four ounces or eight ounces, they'd love it. But, anybody who had been in the drug store any length of time would say ‘Oh, no. I'll give you two ounces. That's it.' Then you could only get two ounces every so often. You'd come in the next day and they'd say ‘No, sorry, can't do it.' But, this paregoric among other things was used to put on baby's or small children's gums . . . when they were cutting their teeth, that's right. Of course, it was a narcotic. It worked very well, and I guess some rather unscrupulous parents were not above giving these little kids a slug of paregoric when they wouldn't go to sleep. I'm sure that was done. Not the best thing to do but they did it." Laudanum is a tincture of opium. A tincture is an alcoholic solution. Laudanum was used for pain. Narcotics were kept in a special cabinet with glass doors and a lock. The prescriptions for narcotics were kept in a special file. Before Harold Fenlason's time prescriptions were pasted into a book big enough to have 15 or 16 prescriptions on a page. One of the duties of the boy who worked in the drug store was to paste the prescriptions into the book. Millie Winckler interrupted to say: "Harold, do you remember Lomie Laughlin." She paid Millie two cents for taking a prescription for headache powders to the drug store. "I can see him now with his little spatula taking out on the papers so much powder for each one, and I think a dozen powders were ten cents." Harold Fenlason continued with a description of headache powders. He said a big seller locally was Percy L. Lord's headache powders. Percy L. Lord was a Calais druggist. "Headache powders were made of aspirin, acetanilid and caffeine. And, I think in entirety maybe seven and a half grains or something like that. But, in any event this was Percy L. Lord's private formula, and he had little envelopes all printed up with his name on it, Percy L. Lord's Headache Powders." The powders were put on a special paper of a certain size. The papers had to be folded in a certain way. The druggists mixed so many powders that they had to have a "quick way of arriving at the proper amount to put in the paper, and what we did, we took a broom handle and shaved it down until it was - oh, about that big around and tapered a little and then chopped off on the end and then we took a counter-sink. We'd drill into this little broom stick piece - about that long. And, we'd drill in until we thought that was about the size we wanted. Then we would press that into the powder, level it off and dump it on the paper and weigh it. Then we'd keep adjusting, either countersink more or sandpaper some off until that little blob of powder would weigh exactly what we wanted. That's how we made powders. You just slap it into that, dump it out here. That was it. You didn't have to weigh anything. You could make ‘em fast." Another method of dividing powders was "if the powder would stick together at all, you put it in a block, you know, about maybe this size. Then you'd take your spatula and make little marks and then you'd move those out and take each one, and you'd have to check that on the balance and make sure they were pretty close." Doctors wrote the prescriptions in Latin. "Nobody could understand that except a real professional." Harold Fenlason had taken Latin in high school, "but it had nothing to do with Latin in a drug store, I can tell you. Nothing whatsoever except maybe the endings. But, in a matter of oh-h a few months, I learned all the pharmaceutical Latin that anybody would ever need. Because a good many times it was just a matter of putting ‘um' or ‘ii' or ‘ae' on the end of an English word. Then there were a few trick words that you had to learn. On the bottom of a prescription you have something like M with a line through it - a flourish; "e-t," "s-i-g," two dots and then you'd have a thing that looked like - - there was one dram sideways. O. C. S. . . . So, you'd have that. Then you'd have ‘-i-d-a-c'or yes, ‘-i-d-a-c-d-i-h-s. . . . Now what this meant was you'd have one teaspoon-full three times a day. A-c would be ante cibum which is before meals. P-c would be post cibum which would be after meals. Then you would have an h-s which stood for horum septum or some such thing which meant bed time, anyway. (My dictionary says hor. decub. stands for hora decubitus and means at bedtime.) So you had all this mumbo jumbo stuff and all it meant was take a teaspoon-full three times a day and at bed time." (My dictionary shows the symbol for dram as a number 3 with the top half shaped like the top of a 7. The symbol for ounce is the same as the one for dram but with a line through the top part like a European 7.)

(Handwritten at the top of the clipping - September 16, 1929) Died at Nasonworth The death occurred at Nasonworth yesterday of Mrs. Ruth Noble, wife of W. J. Noble, the well known lumberman, after an illness of eight weeks, at the age of 82 years. Deceased was before her marriage Miss Ruth Smith, of Russiagornis, and during all her married life had resided at Nasonworth, where she was held to high esteem by all who knew her. She is survived by her husband, four sons, Arthur Noble in West Palm Beach, Fla., F. L. Noble, of Springhill, Clarence L. Noble, at home, and Randolph S. Noble, of the head office of the Royal Bank of Canada, Montreal; two daughters, Mrs. T. D. Bell, wife of Rev. Mr. Bell, of Jacksonville, and Mrs. H. F. McMurtrie, of Springhill; and a sister, Miss Annie Smith of Regina, Sask. The funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, with service at the United Baptist church at Russiagornis by Rev. David Patterson and interment at Russiagornis. Randolph Noble, who has been spending a few days in Atlantic City on account of poor health, will arrive here to-morrow at noon to attend the funeral. (Handwritten at the top of the clipping - Jany 26, 1929) LATE R. H. FLEMING Many at Funeral This Afternoon of Late Robert H. Fleming - A Profusion of Beautiful Flowers. The funeral of the late Robert H. Fleming took place this afternoon from his late home in York street and was a large and representative one, people in all walks of life being present to pay a last tribute of respect to deceased and sympathy for the family. Rev. J. G. Berry, of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church conducted an impressive service while the Devon Quartette sang several hymns. There was a profusion of beautiful floral tributes from friends and relatives in different parts of Canada and the United States and many telegrams of sympathy. The pall bearers were Charles A. Burchill, Thomas Fraser, C. D. Holder, Donald F. Cameron, George H. Clark, J. Fred Ryan. The chief mourners were J. H. Fleming, A. C. Fleming, John F. Harvey, John A. Fleming, John Emery, Carleton Fisher, W. A. Adam, Fred Segee, George H. Jewett, Richard Gremley, Roland Shaw, Frederick Shaw, George Ross, John Haines, Robert Gay, Henry Anderson, W. A. Lindsay, John Green, Thomas Niles, Dominic Goodine, Joseph Walker, T. C. Burpee, Charles Biggs, Edward O'Connor, T. Amos Wilson, Charles Welsh, George Sinclair, S. H. McFarlane, Roland Murray and Wm. J. Lawson. Interment was made in the family plot in the Old Burial Ground.

(Handwritten at the top of the clipping - Feb. 7, 1928) Death of Aged Resident. The death occurred this morning at his home on Smythe street of William Charters Haining after several months' illness, at the age of 84 years. Deceased was born at New Maryland, being a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Peter Haining. He had resided practically all his life in Fredericton where he was employed for many years with the late H. A. Estey. For some years he carried on a general trucking business until the infirmities of old age forced him to retire. He was a man of kindly habits, a lover of his home and family, respected by all who knew him, and his death, while not unexpected, will be learned of with sincere regret. He is survived by two sons, George E. and Lee R. Haining; two daughters, Mrs. Woodford Coy and Miss Blanch Haining, and one sister, Mrs. William Rossborough, all of this city. The funeral will take place on Thursday afternoon with service at his late home at 2.30 o'clock by Rev. Dr. G. C. Warren and interment in the family plot in Rural Cemetery. (Handwritten at the top of the clipping - Mar. 14, 1929) Death of Well Known Woman. The death occurred this morning at New Maryland of Mrs. Annie Sinclair, widow of the late David Sinclair, in the eighty-seventh year of her age. The late Mrs. Sinclair was born in the Shetland Islands, being before her marriage Miss Annie MacKay. Some fifty years or more ago she and her husband came to Canada, locating at Kingsclear for a few years before going to New Maryland where they became known for their thrift and integrity. Mr. Sinclair passed away in 1902 and for some years Mrs. Sinclair resided with their son, William. She was a staunch Presbyterian and until her health failed about a year ago was a faithful attendant at service. Since the establishment of St. Andrew's Church she frequently drove in on Sunday and took part in the service. Of a kind, motherly disposition, she was known to all her friends as "Grannie" and many a dark hour was brightened by her kindly help and assurance. She is survived by three sons and two daughters, David Sinclair, Edmundston; William of New Maryland; Robert Sinclair, of Dorchester; Mrs. Robert Shaw, of New Maryland, and Mrs. A. C. Fleming , of this city. She also leaves thirteen grandchildren and one great grandchild. The funeral will take place on Saturday afternoon with service at her late home at 2.30 o'clock by Rev. J. G. Berry and interment at New Maryland. BORN. SHAW — At Penniac, N. B., on August 17th, 1932 to Mr. and Mrs. Hazen A. Shaw, a daughter, Betty Jean.