The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-08-26

PRESQtE ISLE.
Here, as at Caribou. we We're met bv a COM
mittee, and ample arrangements made for our
accommodation and transportation. | went to
the Pressure Isle House where | found Weeks,
formerly of the American House Belfast. He
had only taken the house two days before.
and therefore was labOring under some dis
| advantages, not having the location of the
rooms fairly in his head. Some of the party
had to have large box stalls where they could
lie down without getting cast, and others
wanted this and that, and there was consider
| able delay in getting the caravan housed. but
| finally the animals were all assigned cages, to
| the satisfaction of every body Pending the
settling question Dr. Freeman. one Of the
leading men of the place. noticing probably
| my meek and innocent look, whispered in my
| ear for me to take Mrs. George and come with
| him. There was a look of trust in his eve.
| which led ME to wink at Mrs. e., and take my
| grip and follow him. He took us to his house,
and gave lis beautiful room, and if any one
of our party Jared better than we did, would
| like to know it. DIR. Freeman and wife and
| daughter made our stay very pleasant and if
ever l catch them on our rockboun,e coast.
| shall try and reciprOcate. The Dr. is an Old
| settler, having begun some thirty years ago to
| sow pills up there. OF late years he has given
| up practice, and is now engaged in mercantile
pursuits, in the hardware line, occupying
store forty feet front and eighty feet deep. and
| doing a large business. Presque Isle is larger
|
| look partly by reason of the big fire they had.
| which burnt up most of the business places
and when they were rebuilt, better and more
expensive buildings took the place of the old
ones. The Presque Isle House and Phair
| House both creditable hotels for much
| larger places than Presque Isle. | found quite
a number of familiar faces there. Ed. Wiggin
has a dry dock where he hauls up watches and
repairs and caulks them He has all the bust
ness that he can attend to. | met another old
| a M 70 Il
whom most all the older people at home will
remember. He has been here some sixteen
years, and is engaged in the furniture business.
| tumbled on some old Bangor acquaintance
in the Perry boys, whose father used to run
the old Hatch house in the days ''befo de wah."
One has grocery and general provision
| store and another is engaged in the dry goods
and clothing business. He is now building a
very handsome hall, which is much needed.
Pressure Isle Is very pretty place, and a bust
| ness place too. There are some as handsome
farms in that vicinity as lay out of doors. DR..
Freeman furnished us with team, and we
drove about the town looking it over as if l
were millionaire, but i was not, for had
been should have started bank there. There
is an opening for some capitalist to make a
dollar. The nearest banking place they have
is at HOultOn or Bangor, and there is not >ha-
| dow of doubt but what bank would pay well.
There is lots of business done there, and to do
business merchants often need more money at
| l.
They don't want ga bank whereon the wild
thyme grows,' but if they had one wherein
notes well secured on 30, 60, or 80 days would
| grow, the bank would raise good crop. When
the cars hauled up at the depot saw the ge-
| NAL face of Geo. Rowell of the Portland Adj
vertser, in the crowd, his dimples showing as
plainly as a fork hole in a pie crust. His pleas
ant and agreeable wife was with him. and
learned that she was formerly Pressure Isle
| lady. George was there on a vacation, and was
Strengthening the fish in a manner suggestive of
the destruction of the Sepoys. In the evening
we gave grand exhibition in the church.
Edw Wiggin, Esq, of Pressure Isle, mot our
| Ed welcomed the party, and Mr.. Atwood
responded. Then Fred trotted out his speakers
| in the 2.20 class, and gave few exhibitions of
speed. Then he showed up his trick speakers,
and hurdle leapers. Finally he concluded the
performance under the big canvas, by leading
| out a green roadster, which he assured the
spectators was trotter, but it jumped and
bucked and frightened the ladies', and the
meeting broke up, after giving three rousing
cheers for the good people of Presque Isle. |
drove out during the day by the farm of Mr..
ParsO ns, whose sister resides in Belfast. The
| farm contains some 200 acres, and it certainly
looked like farming to see the place. The hay
had been got in and the fields resembled i'm
mense velvet lawns. There We're fields con-
tanning acres of potatoes, and others of differ
ent kinds of grain, while herd of sleek and
fat cows gave evidence that you could spread
your butter thick as you pleased ut his
house. l don't know that ever saw a finer
looking farm than this, certainly not in the
East.
l tried to learn why the town was an Isle.
We salt water fellows have an idea that an isle
| is not an inland affair exactly. One lady said
to me, "1Ou never heard anything called an
isle that wasn't one did your and Immediate
ly forfeited all future claim to her friendship
by saying Certainly l have. kerosene Hep
| Orr GEnRGE