The Republican journal., 1892-12-15

choice yet.
EAST THoRNDIKE. Mrs. d. B. Newell and
family are spending the winter with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. Files. Mr.. Ern-
est Bartlett has moved his family to Dix
mont, where he is teaching. Mr.. Jas. Prem
tiss has bought the John Hunt place.
There is to be Christmas tree at the Centre
Church Christmas eve.
KNOX. w. H. Sprague is on the sick list.
Mrs. B. A. Sawyer has gone to Freedom
to spend the winter with her neice, Mrs. Adj
die Nicholas. w. r. Sparrow, our black
smith, has gone to Freedom to work. Rev.
Judson Bryant has moved into the place
John Colby, our new postmaster, has taken
the office into part of his house and keeps a
line of groceries
! MORRILL,. Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Mears, Mr..
and Mrs. ID. 0. Bowen and Mr.. and Mrs. ID.
w. Mercy rode to Freedom last Wednesday
to attend the. funeral of Mr.. Charles Bellows.
.... Trafton Hatch and Herman Merriam are
, attending school at Kent Hill. Quarterly
/ meeting services We're held here last Sunday
i by Rev. I. r. Pentecost Mr.. and Mrs ID.
/
at Lewiston next week.
| NINALHAvEN. After seven months of idle
ness the Bodwel Granite Company and the
/ Ninalhaven branch of granite cutters have
/ finally reached settlement. The terms are
practically the same those of the Wester-
| ly settlement. Some few notifications and
changes We're made at the request OF both
| parties. By the terms agreed On the bill ends
| March /, 1885. The treaty was in every way
satisfactory. Between $50 and POO men, in
Guiding quarrymen went to work last Thurs
day morning, doing the first stroke of work
| that has been done in the company s yard
since May LIST. Several contracts, including
the Edison building, New York, the Brook
Ign bank building, and the gate house for
the Croton Aqueduct company, New York,
remained unfinished and on these work has
begun.
SEARsMoNT. Mr.. James l.. Bean has open
ed a general store in the Moody building
Mr.. James Fuller is very sick Mr. j. W.
Farrar is teaching his fifth term of school in
North Searsmont. The village school began
| Monday with the same teacher as in the fall
term. Mr.. Willard b. Thayer, another of
our old residents, died at his home here Fri
day morning after long Illness Mr..
ThaNer came here from Sidney. Kennebec
County, III 1889, and operated the Hazel
time mill so-called in the village for many
years, manufacturing principally long lum-
Der. He leaves a Wife two sons, William
NJ, and Albert l.. of Belfast and two daugl-
tiers, Martha who lives at home and Mrs
Emma Barker of Rockport. The funeral,
which was held Sunday, was largely at
| tended by his old friends and neighbors
Rev. F. NJ. brigham conducting the ser
vices.
LIBERTY. Rev. Geo. f. Tufts viii supply
the pulpit of the Baptist Church in this vii
! lage during the winter. There will be IA
concert and Christmas tree at Hall ST.
| George Christmas eve, under the auspices of
| the Good Templars. X. X Prescott of
| Iowa is visiting his brother, l.. l.. Prescott.
| David know]ton, a native of this town, died
at Camden Dec 10. -. Dry hard wood is what
we most desire Mrs. q. y. Palmer has
! joined her husband at Howard, X. l. They
| have rented house and will 90 to house
| keeping. Mr.. Palmer is an officer at the
| Rhode Island State farm. Stinson Tibbetts
| will soon leave town to spend the winter
with his son at Caremont, Va. w. j..
| knowlton is in Y, ashington, ID. Cas-. T.
| Noung was in Boston last week buying goods
l.. l.. Prescott is getting his goods into
his new store. Roller skating has been re-
vived here. DR. j. w. Clongh will soon
occupy his new rooms in the Prescott build
ing. =. Miss Bridget Whel;n who has been
in the families of Messrs. Hunt and Walker
for the past eight years, left for her home at
Newfoundland Wednesday ...L. c. Morse
has bought of Coopers Bros. their machine
for bending Sled I'll nners.
WALDO. Mrs. S. w. Levanseller is at
home from a visit in Massachusetts. Mr.,
and Mrs. B. F. Harding of Troy We're in town
| recently visiting relatives and friends. -. f.
H. Curtis has faith in the resources Of the
State of Maine, not only an agricultural
State, but also for its hidden treasures He
is digging in his dooryard for money sup
posed to have been buried by miser many
years ago. He has unearthed several articles
of tritiing value, but all pointing to plenty
when the big pot is found. 1.-The Maine
| Board of Agriculture will hold Il day ard
evening session at Ritchie Grange Hall
| Dee. 10Th. Raising of Sweet Corn, Sheep
| Hushandry and Dairying are among the sub
| iects to be discussed If they could tell us
how to reduce our stock, without loss, TO
correspond to the size of ollr haymows they
would confer a lasting benefit upon u.s.
| r. Lttetield killed fox last week with the
same kind of ammunition David used when
he slew Goliath, The fox was being worried
| by a dog and Joe SHE'D a rock that laid Rev
| nard low.
SwANvILLE. f. Augusta Nickersontlalgl-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Nickerson fell
| from horse cart the other day and broke
both bones i'll the left arm near the wrist
the arm and the child is doing we'll. !. -Four
| Well. Four of the SIX horse team that took the
| birmingham engine up country have return
ed. The Melissa NJ. has gone into winter
quarters Thursday evening gave us a fine
thunder shower with lightning. The La
dies Aid meets this, Thursday, evening w It'll
| Mrs. Frank Stevens. Last Thursday Mrs
| Henry Beal's daughter told her that her son S
/ wife wanted to see her and as Johnny was