The Republican journal., 1888-02-02

FREEDOM. No mails have reached us sine
Thursday last and to-day (Monday) we are com
pietely showed up DR. Billings is poorly an,
has suspended practice for the present IL. DR. p
r. Luce and wife were caught here by the storm
'...John Carter arrived home last week. :. Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Bellows are much improved b,
their long visit in Massachusetts,
PALERMO. The last two weeks of January hav,
been very cold and trying to cellars, and tw.
heavy falls of snow followed by high winds hay,
filled the roads with deep drifts. We have had bu
httie good shedding thus far although bare grount
Is not our worst shedding. Those who did the
leaning on bare ground and ice were the luck,
ones.. We had no mails from Wednesday unit
Monday.
LlNCoLNNll.LE. Quite number of our youn.
folks are laid up with the measles and cankerrash
school in Dist. No. has had TO close on ac
count of the measles. In some instances whoi,
families are affected. W. L. Hall has zen spend
ing Il few weeks with his parents......Mr. F. II
Levenselicr has just closed very successful tern
Of school in dist. No. The school in the Martin
Dist. closed Friday, Mr.. Eugene Cillcy teacher.
NINAiHA'EN. Our correspondence having fail
ell Ia arrive We borrow The following from the well
filed l"cal columns 81 the Ninalnavcn Echo. Sch
T. NJ Bonnie. the packet plying b, twcen here and
Belfast is stuck fast in the ice here. Indication.
are now that she Will remain sealed up unit
spring The captain and mate were seen this wecl
! vending their way to the Pioneer seeking a pas
sage to their home in Belfast, until the fiigid
weather alatcs sufficiently to th;w the vessel out
....Geo. CHM and others have been making daily
passages 70 Green's Island on the ice. Old resi-
dents tell US thai ii is the frs; time for grea;
many years that the same thing has been done III
January - i Communications with North Haven
from the main land come by TIE way of Ninalhav
en- at present on account Of the racket being frozen
III the ic'.. The Thoruu@hfalc al North Haven is
frozen ever HAT pedestrians are crossing on the
ice.
| MoSI. IilE. 4. NJ. Plummer our first select
man. was ut Palmyra 20 look aiier a paupc. case
and decided that lie belonged to Montyille as he
| followed hi mothers residence. School in dis
tlict Ne. closed last week. II had been under
the care of Herbert Woods of knox an expert.
encctl tcachcr....-. Nellie Howard Of this town
closet successful term of school in district No
| II last wees The storm last week was very
| severe il town, ard SUNDAY the mercury wa the
lowest il Has been tili, vintc.-l1 deg below il,
the carly morning L nder the present manner Of
breaking roads it took until sunday night to make
some of the sections pas>abie. Tit met bod adopt
ed this Nin.cri5 novel one adopted to save cX-
rense ~ Long sections of road were sold t" the
lowest bidder, hence the delay in breaking them
ont. In time like this, when roads are drifceI
fun, every team and every man in town ought to
be on hand ut the earliest possible time and work
W vj ti,,I, f..,,o
to Freedom was not carric, after Wednesday tie
18th ON accuunt Of the roads. We are not censur-
ing those who bieah the roads. for we think they
have worked WE'LL only they required little
larger crew
s"tTH Mo>TNIiIE. The .>t"iin lat Thursday
w;Is the hardest We have had here for wears. The
mail stage left here Thursday morning for Belfast
! and did not get back till sunday night Quite !;
| number of limc-cask teams went to Rocklan,l
| "Wednesday night and had to stop over until sun
| dav..--laet saturday morning WAS the coolest
here this winter, - below. Nice time for the boys
| to play checkers. Maud Cam. Cora Pe:se.
Werner and Mamie Bennett have got the humps.
.-....Thc town of Montville voted last spring for
the scectmen To sell the breaking of the roads at
auction. They aye finding now that it does not
work Is nicely As they anticipated. Mrs. il. c.
| Pottle has dictionary that was printed in Edin-
| burgh, scotland, and dated, Aug lG l111... While
the Young folks were playing at the socablc last
Wednesday evening. Eden Pcasc drew h- arm
back quickly, striking Ralph Cain in the eye hurt
| ing him quite badly.
| kNoN. The storm which reached liz Thursday
morning WAS of the worst for many years.
About Is inche, of snow fell which added to the
| - inches Of the other storm makes our roads
almost impossible. 1t took men and yoke Of
cattle with light Sled all day saturday to break
hall mile of road. There not team of any
kind except the breaking team seen on our roads
from Thursday morning until Sunday evening,
| when stage (Which left us Thursday put in an
appearance, ard to add to our loneliness we miss
ed the journal for the first time in wears 1t was
no small disappointment assure you.... Saturla =
the murcury was down TO 20 below, and many
We're the frozen ears and noses of the men on the
road. one man trozr All the toes ON one foot.
saturday night wa, called the coolest OF the sea
son. Cellars have frozen this winter which never
froze before, The frost Is deep in the ground and
it must be late before the spring work can be
done. .Jcrry Welt 81. is worse again Ms
Bachelor is impro, Ing and ABLE to set up.
THoRNDIkE. The school in district No & closed
! last Thursday. Ii has been Il very successful
term. The teacher gave good satisfaction. Mr
Daniel Gordon Will open Il private school at the
school house in this district Feb. 18th The storm
which Logan here Thursday morning WAS very
severe. At twelve o'clock the wind was blowing
gale from the northeast and showing very fast. 1t
continued to snow through the night and next
morning the roads were impossible. No teams
were seen from Thursday until Monday morning.
Freedom and East ThoIntlihe were without mails
during this tilGe. The fall of snow is estimated
from Il to Is inches. SUNDAY morning Was The
coolest We Rave had the thermometer registering
81 hcloN z.ro..,...AEr. nathan Plilbliel. Of this
place was taken sui'itnly i'll last Thursday ict
He Is noW gaining quite rapidly. Miss Laulie
Wand arrived hcmc Monday night from Gorha!,
where She has beer attending The Normal Schoa'
She will return i'll about ten day Leap year
bail at iiarmon's Hall this Thursday evening
+ SwANNGrLE cur mail carrier, Mr. W j. Math-
cws, merits special thanks for getting the mail
Through Thursday. lie LEFT North >tarsport in
ihe morning and by passing through fields and
door. yards and by-lo;d> succeeded in getting to
Belfast and back far H. here where he left his
team and proceeded to the end of his route with
tie mail BAG ON his shoulder. MI Matthews has
been distinguished fol his Kind and ohiig cling acts
through life, but we think in tins case he used re-
marketable energy and perseverance to deliver
our papers on Thursday. The Post Office in this
place WAS changed from the store of T. II. Nicker
son to that OF W. Il. Mason Wednesday Feb lst
Mr.. Nckvrson has held the Office OF Post Master
about li,c Years, succeeding his father, Emery
Nickcrsun in that position and has proved him self
to be an obliging, prompt and honest official. N.Y.
Mo-,