The Republican journal., 1884-12-25

MoNR Wilder Parker mas been drawn to
serve al the Jan. term OF court from thi. town.
jeff Neaiey, our collector, SAYS he never saw 80
hard times to get money for taxes AS at present.
Mrs NJ f. Carter has fun stock Of Christmas
goods which she is selling very cheap.
SEAKsMoNr. We aye having a very Interesting
singing school mere tins winter II is under the in
atructon Of DIR. Young If Lincolnville... MIR A.
II. Clement is building new black smith shop
There more shops now III town than there il
work, but we hope the old saying may prove tru
that the more shops we have the more work there
will be to do....Mr. II. L. " oodcock of Belfast
has been Try ing to negotiate for some swamp land
i'll this town with a view going into the cranbcr-
~ business, but could not make the necessary ar
raugements- Last Friday and saturday were the
coolest days of the season. The mercury reached
Is below. capt Isaac Darby has arrived home
and will remain for the winter. He reports freight
Ing as mot very good this season.. MIR Eliiah
Luce has had steer running wild for some time.
which he has been endeavorilg to catch. He lid
not succeed until a few days ago when number Of
people turned ont with dogs and captured him
CAMDEN. The following officers of Camden
Lodge Il. OF ii. were elected last Monday night ::
Dictator, Oliver Farnsworth; Vice Dictator, 5. @.
Day; Assistant Dictator NJ {. W hitmore; Report
er, l.. Nj. Remission; Financial Reporter f. G.
Fletcher; Treasurer, A. F. Miller; Chaplain, T. r.
oimOnton; Guardian, J. III. Rollins; Guide, c. W.
Akin; sentinel, b. +. Adams; Medical Examiner,
0. W Stone. Capt. VIM. Pierce is still quite
sick His son is here from Boston attending him.
....Capt ID ). Martin, whose vessel is loading at
savannah for South America, came home by rail to
make his family n short isit Thermometer 16
below Saturday and raining Sunday The law
yers have all been attending court at Rockland the
past two weeks and consequently it has been very
quiet here There will be grand Leap ear Ball
at Megunticook Hail next Monday night under the
management Of Mrs. Isaac Cocmts, Mrs. W. &.
Alden, Mrs. A. Ii. Knight, Mrs. q. II. Cleaveland,
Misses Julia and Myra Knight, Mae Morse and
Myra Coombs ...At the annual meeting Of Geo. S.
Cobb Post. G. A. r., the following officers were
elected Com, J. S. Cleveland; 5. v, c. p. Wiley
j. v C.. E. ID. Harrington; Q. NJ, Alden Miller,
Jr. Chap, Gideon Tower; Sur, S. E. Jones; o. of
the D., S. X. TarboX; o. g., j. f. Clark.
NINALHAvEN. Thayer and Mrs. Partridge, men
toned last week, were both indicted before the
Grand Jury at Rockland.. Friday and Saturday
of last week were the coolest days we have expert
enced for years. The mercury went down to
twelve below zero. No work was done at the sheds
on Saturday. The Pioneer was unable to make her
trips between this place and Rockland for the two
days, which something unusual. Sch. Mar
tin Bates, of this place, went ashore last week on
the eastern part of the island while working out of
the place where she had loaded cargo of wood.
The vessel is quite badly damaged. The larger
part of the cargo has been saved. ...At a meeting
of the citizens last week to elect delegates attend
the convention of fishermen at Gloucester, Mass,
Dec 27 the following were chosen Edwin Lane,
of the fishing firm Of Lane & Libby; Capt Hiram
Lane of the firm of Lanes Island company; Capt
Stephen Ii. Dyer, Philip Pierce and Joseph Conant
-. Hon. Moses Webster returned from Boston
last week where he had a cataract removed from
his eye. He is all right now -. 1t has been very
sickly here for some time Mrs. Jane Green aged
"a, the oldest person in town, died Saturday of
last week -. The following were elected officers of
Island Home Encampment l. o. o. F. on Friday
evening of last week b. Mills, c, p; A. n Blood I,
Geo. Hoyt, S.; j. S. Black, t.. Our traders are
making fiue display of Christmas goods. The
lobster fishermen say If they had decent weather
they could do well.