The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-04-05

iAllEN". trcd Young has some nice early
NuH- IT. IS vi one Thursday ten weeks old, for
i'r Session market, for -. 1t weighed a. pounds
-....I h" recent frc-hct carried away a pile of
boards u"u fahys SAW mill belonging to John Ii.
ha,h
-1>ia roI>f Mr.. g. + Black who has been in
a., en.li'o' of Tie Metropolitan lns. Co. has been
promoted 30 Asst. superintendent. The sad in
tlis'uc" of Tie death Of Eu-ti- French of St.
Paul, formerly of sandy Point WAS received Mon
d.y. The dispatch gave no particulars only that
hr WAS accidentally KILLED Mr.. f. NJ. Hartman
bits gone "trip to Boston with Capt Joshua Abbott
in the sch. Mary Baker. Mrs. Hartman is visiting
Ms. Joshua Abbott at Verona -. The owner, also
tie captain Of the steamer silver star, came from
~. Desert the first of last week and left with the
steamer for Bar Harbor Oh Thur-day-.... Mrs
Eutetl Er-ln,c rpDmlled from Belfast on Monday
NIrr X, ms heen }i-tins her mother . Mr. A.
V ~harc ba- again joincd the steamer katah.lin
ri how matchmal. This year closes the twenty
500 yraI that Mr. 4 L. French has served as dis
tiut cierk, 'aii. IT. W French was clerk for
uyerts I've s,.f. ncturc him. and Capt Zetham
rrauot tatlo- NJ apt II. W served the twenty
dse YEAR. preceding him, thus making seventy
n'e trin- that thc three men have served In that
capacity.
NWA>NIILE. J. II. Nirkc1son is making prep
a1ations for mad time by putting in 900 bushels
oi corn and Ice tons Of feed. lie has employed
iAc citizen with their teams to do the work The
last snow made while it lasted the best going for
rhe winter .1he Iadic-' Md society will meet
it'll Mr.. \ s. \ickcr9on, Thursday afternoon
and evening, \ irii l2lh At the last meeting Of
Tie society with Mrs. Josiah Nickerson. those
present were favored with some very nice sing
ing. Mrs Priscilla Barter, aged ST years. mother
of Mrs Nick ioined IN the singing and was
Abcmlly alpiauded when she sang the tenor of
Coronation. Mr.. h4enath -trout is visiting her
daughter, Mr. A. +. >ickerson.f. II. Nicker.
sou, Principal Of Dexter High School, has had an
advantageous offer Of a position in "A school in New
hampshire which ne was obliged to decline ac
cnunt Of the Dexter peoples unwillingness to re-
tease him He has since resigned the position of
principal Of the Dexter school to take effect at the
c!osc of the year d.. Emery W. Cunningham re-
ceived word last week that The engine and other
hAings for his new steamer Melissa were com
plcted at Brewer, Me. He Immediately despatched
team for 1t and intends AS soon as possible to
complete the steamer end have her ready for bust
mess. Mr. Cunningham lately measured the lake
and found its length q be three miles and nearly
one half w X. Peavey, one of our assessors, is
making the annual ts,l on the taxpayers OF the
town. He thinks there is falling of in stock
oxen especially.
SEARsMoNT. Mrs. George Brown, who moved
to the village from Hope about year ago, has
moved back to her ON home :. .R. J. Dunton is to
move into the Craig house. At a meeting of the
stockholders of the NJ +. church last Sunday it
was voted to paint and renovate the house both
outside and in. The estimated cost is $3.50. We
learn that the seectmcn have decided to have an
inquest on the fire of March %. In your account
of this fire you said that many thought the fire was
accidental have yet to see a man who was at
the fire express such an opinion, but many who
were not there argue that wav. The prospect now
isvery good fora new building on the same found :.
alton. The new building if built will be about 20
feet longer and feet wider. An effort Is to be
made TO form a stock company to build it. :. The
following resolutions adopted by the NJ. f. Church
explain themselves:
Whereas In the providence of God the BaptIst
church in Searsmont have lost their house of wOr
ship by fire, therefore:
Resolved, That we members of the NJ. E. church
and society of SeaTsmOnt extend to the members
OF the Baptist church and their families our hearty
sympathy in their great loss.
Resolved, That we most cordially invite them to
unite with us in worship, and we also profer
to them the free use of our church whenever they
may desire it.
Resolved, That e copy Of these resolutions be
also be entered on the records OF our church and
published in the Republican journal. Horace
Muzzy. Geo. NJ. Stlphen. James l.. Moody. Com
mittee.