Py ned stone will a 2.03 there is a limited demanu it nelp. Cranberry Isles. ion. Miss Mary A. Carroll's school in district No. 40, G. No. 1 closed June 23. Four scholars were the Maine not absent one-half day-Elwood J. Spu:- d at East- ling, Percy E. Bunker, Frank Wedge, Oss car Wedge. Absent only one-half day eduction in Ernest W. Spurling, Willie F. Spurling. d steam- During the last years of the Rev. B.F. usion trip Stinson's life he used to preach regularly Camers is at Cranberry Island. Since his death, which occurred Nov. 19, 1887, there has comrades been but little regular preaching on the State, or Islands. This summer there is some d may be preaching at Islesford supplied by clergy- men who are spending the season there. Rev. Charles Whittier, general missionary tickets for castern Maine, who supplies preaching The and general pastoral care to churches with- d at out a pastor, spent January and part of and April with the Congregational church at Tremont. While there he learned that orn- Cranberry Isles had no regular pastor. So and in July he came again to Tremont, and $4.00 went to Cranberry Isles where he preached two Sundays on the large island, and vi i- would ited the people at their homes. He has orey, now gone to Springfield, Me. If the peo- local ple of Cranberry Isles would make a united D. effort they could, with the help of M Whittier, secure the services of a regular pastor. They are a prosperous communi- ty, and can support one pastor easier than some towns can support three or four.