The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-10-13
COUNTY CORRESPONDENTS.

THoRNDIKE. Singers from the Station,
Unity and Montvlle will join the Thorn
dixie choir at Center Church next Sunday
at 3 O'Clock to sing for Rev. d. Brackett
Pastor of the Church.
UNITY. The new Unity Pond Improve
ment Co. is doing considerable work on its
| grounds this fall, and will, if it perseveres in
! the good work. soon have ole of the most
attractive lakeside summer resorts to be
| found III Maine. Some of our business
men are so well assured of the future pros
perity of our town that they have begun
building dwelling houses to rent.
EAST SEARsMoNr. Mrs. Amanda Bean, of
Tewkshury, Mass, was at her fathers for a
| few days last week go. Misses Della and
-Althea Mahoney, of East Nolthport We're in
town Friday visiting their sister, Mrs. Edgar
| J, Mahuney. Fred knowlton, of Boston,
Mass, is at Mrs Cummings for two weeks.
.... School in district No, 3, began Oct. 3rd
under the instruction of Miss Hattie Marri-
ner. Mrs. A. Butler, of Somerville, Mass,
| spent a few days last week with her sister,
Mrs. John Cummings Mrs. Nettie Thomas
has been al Brooksvilie visiting her uncle,
Capt. Rodney Witherspoon.
CENTRE MoNTvILLE. Mr. Taylor. the
Blind musician, gave an entertainment in
Grange Hall, the evening of Oct. >, Those
present reported plenty of fun. The Levee
by the ladies of Union Harvest Grange last
ii,
though the number in attendance was not
50 large as was expected, The ring-cake,
guess-cake and grab-bag in the lower hail
occupied the attention of the younger ones
while the ladies and gentlemen danced to
the music of Thorndike and Beunetts' or
chtstra in the upper hall. Oct. ~ they pro-
pose to hold a five cent social at the same
place.
WEST WALDO. Mrs. j. S. Brooks, for
merly of this town, after an absence of eleven
years i'll New Hampshire, is visiting her sis
ter Mrs. Edmund Gross, and other relatives
here. Mrs. Olivia Scanmon and son, of
Eau Claire, Wis, are visiting Mr.. Scammon's
sister, Mrs. Del Nickerson, and will proba-
bly, stop here through the winter Mr.. Geo.
G. Sheldon is at Colby University, Water
willie, and will graduate in 95. Mr.. Joseph
Whitconb is teaching the fall term of school
at Poors Mills and Miss Elida Sheldon is
teaching the fall term at City Point. Mr.
Freeman Cross is clerk in Il wholesale furn-
lture store in atervile... Henry Cur
ney losta nice four-year-old colt last week
He broke his neck playing.
PROSPECT. Forty-eight Changers from
South Branch and nearly the same number
from Granite Grange, North Searsport had
an enjoyable visit to Stockton Grange last
Friday evening. With fine weather, good
moon, a pleasant ride and d royal reception
the evening was one long to aforementioned
The programme was excellent. Stockton
leads i'll musical talent and every body
wanted to stay all night But the Master
got time after a while to strike down the
gravel and it was after midnight when the
company dispersed. Farmers are getting
their crops in this favorable weather. The
apple crop is not an average here, and they
run small. In some of the most thrifty
young orchards the crop will he small and
it is very uneven all around us.
LIBERTY. Elias Skdmore. aged ", is in
New York for medical treatment. "A. j.
Skidmore and j. j. Walker We're in Boston
last week. Danvas Cram and wife are
visiting i'll Bath. Stephen Bag!ey is home
from Middleton, Conn, and is painting his
buildings and will try and dispose of his
. horses. He returns next Saturday. S. T.
Young has fine Matchmaker horse that he
bought in Whiteteld. The Masons occll-
pied their new hall last Saturday night.
Miss Carrie Clough is visiting friends in Bel
fast and Mrs. G. NJ. Hurd is visiting in A,l-
gusta.. City Marshal Crockett and wife, of
, Rockland We're in town last week. The
people are busy harvesting their apples.
. There will be a fair crop. Apples are not
large, but sound. Miss Addie the young
daughter of Briggs Turner, of Palermo,
while visiting at l.. F. Hurd's, in this village
was taken sick with what the doctor pro-
nounces typhoid fever. If such is the fact, it
is the first case Of typhoid in this village for
fifteen years and the only case with one ex-
ceptionfor twenty-one years, and that person
was brought here sick and died here. II
Miss Turner has it she must have had the
germs about her when she came here. Our
village sits up edgeways and so has a perfect
drainage, and with pure water and we con-
tend that we have nothing from which
typhoid is manufactured and when we have
case it is imported.