The Republican journal., 1892-02-11
Searsport Locals.

SearSport, WIN a popilatl"n OF only lbft
has 100 widows
Ellen and Maggie Sullivan returned to
Waltham Wednesday.
Mrs. c. A. Whittier and daughter arrived
by train from Philadelphia last week.
The grip is gradually subsiding, although
there are several severe cases yet in town.
Miss Margaret Thomas is visiting in town
and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. c. H. Mon
roe.
W. E. Grinnell has loaded schooner Ga
zelle with hay and straw for Hurricane Is
land.
The markdown sale of dry goods at Glenn
ent x Adams has made business lively at
their store ~
Geo. E. Merrill has a very strong founda-
non for the addition he proposes to build for
his griSt mill e.
john L. Sargent, one of our oldestcitizens,
had a stroke of paralysis last Saturday and
IS very low. x. b. /
The SNOW fail the l,a~t week is appreciated
ly Wood haulei> aud they are improving the
opportunity TO Imtm quantities Of wood
The congregational sociable will meet
HIS Til f~iaN. evening win Mrs. Mary \.
Ni,Lo' il stormy ,>1H.n,duntil Friday
evening.
ID liz, become chronic here to have tile
mal ,holt Friday evening. occasioned, il is
said, by spare postal Clerk who works the
l1aiIl lime on that day.
Ilr +. W. could has received a call to at
rcluG convention of New England com
MSS ouers al sea and shore fisheries AT Bos-
ton. This meeting is called TO take action
against The proposed Congressional law.
Freeman McGihery Post is again honortd
~ the department of Maine by the election
"A Hon, A. f. Nickersou. one of It's members
10 the second highest Office within the gift
If the department. thai of Senior vice Com
1nander.
We are in receipt of the following wedding
announcements William B. Ford, Eleanors
Z. blanchard, married Wednesday. January
twentv-seventh 1892 AT home after Feb
rua1y Seventeenth al twenty-one Sargent
street RoXhury, Mass
Miss Holland of Utica, \. Y, with hel
chaperone Mrs, VIM. Beckett of Humboldt
Park, have recently been the guests of John
Kane, the genial and efficient clerk of Mill
ard Avenue hotel. The wedding day is MOI
Vet appointed, but the important event vii
probably occur at the hotel. TIE Chicago
Opinion.
The neighbors turned cut Saturday ant
gave c. c. Hamilton AZ oldfashioned moving
bee Some thirty horses We're in the line
hauling Il stable from the east village to til,
location of his recent lire, where it was land
ed before dark. amid Il great deal of gee-of
and haw-to.
G.. A. Robertson aud Wife left here fol
their home al Augusta Saturday. From in
tilnations to friend we are led to hope they
may at no distant day decide to return ane
make this their home. Searsport extends d
cordial welcome. knowing that Mr.. Robert
sons twenty-five years expert ence in charge
ofschool> at Augusta will he of great hcnet
10 MS as his advice in school matters woule
NE invaluable.
GHosr's LAID. correspondent of The
Bangor News has created considerable eN
element in the north part of this town. uns
towns adjuiuing 10y report that Elliot Clarl
saw ghosts near the graveyard on the west
rry side of Half Moon Pond, He describ
fdthrm as r"lling"ut their graves and us
ing their cuttinS for hand SledS in sliding down
ON the ice to the pond. His son Ernest, VIII,
was not full believer knowing his fathe
had been lighting grip several weeks. tool
ms rifle and Went out to invest gate return
ing in about two hours with the pelts of fou-
Utrers-the largest of which was over sin fee
long.