The Republican journal., 1892-01-07

SearSp0rt Locals.
This being the week of PRAYER union meet
ings are held each evening.
Mrs. E s. Cyphers left for Boston by
steamer Penohscot. Monday.
Mrs. H. o. Appeby and family left by
train Wednesday to Join Capt. Appleby at
Boston.
There is a great deal of sickness in town.
Twenty cases of Ia grippe developed here ON
Sunday
The annual meeting of Penobscot Engine
Co., will take place at their hall this. Thurs
day, evening.
W. E. Grnnell loaded schooner Gazelle
with hay and straw for Long Cove, Tenant 5
Harhor, this week.
An effort is being made to organize local
minstrel company, To give an entertainment
ior the Grand Army.
Fred Gray lost a valuable horse at Mount
Waldo last week. He had been offered $3.50
for the animal Il few days before.
During the past year, 1891, there We're
thirty-slN deaths III Searsport. against fifty
III 1883. and thiltN-stNen i'll 1880.
The steamer Lewiston surprised every
one by her arrival here "Wednesday morning
after the severe gale ot Tuesday.
The skating. which Was interrupted by the
soft weather, is again good. and the Young
rtoplo are enjoying il day and night,
Frank and Fcrdi Peterson left Monday for
Eocb tand, where they will take course in
the onneroiaI College AT that city.
q, tie an excitement was created by the
hurllmg out Of Henry WMtcomb's chimney
duung the gaie Tuesday evening.
Tia tiag-stait al he monument was blown
down, Thursday morning, breaking i'll sew
trHl pieces by TIE force IL the tall
The annual meeting of tn, Mariners
Lodge. /. \. NJ. lor The election of officers
Win take place / ues,ay evening the l-th.
l.. W. Wentworth left for Boston 10y train
" Wednesday, morning auld Will receive me>.i-
cal treatment at the Homeopathic Hos 1tal.
The monthly contribution at the Congl
church. announced Tor last Sunday. was post
,olltd and Will he called tor neNt Sunday
morning.
luder tie new law the town clerk is re-
uurcd to appoint registrars. j. ii. Sullivan
las appointed W. {. Mathews and E. W.
ItoIhuns
= \. E. Nic>crson. member Of the executive
council UepI. If Maine, will install the Off
GERS al Freeman MctilNrrN Post this, Thurs
day, evening.
The remains Of Capt. Jesse Carver left
Port Stanley, Falkland Island. NOV. 18th for
MonteN ideo and will he forwarded from that
port to Searspurt for intcrment.
On FRIDAY Miss Emma Spuidtns broke
through the ice on he pond in lniichannel.
and hut for the efforts of Harry Dow would
no doubt have been drowned.
The following were the officers elected by
Sears Lodge L. O. @. f.. for the next term !:
John Putnam, y. G.: f. b. Smith. Y. g.: b.
O. Sargent, Sec: c. E. Adams, Treas. In
>talatlon Monday evening Jan. 18th.
During the heavy weather last Thursday
schooner William H. Jewell was driven
ashore in the cove. but fortunately struck on
Il sandy beach and WAS hoate,l with very lit
lie damage.
Arson Smith, proprietor of the stage route
between Stockton and Belfast. makes one of
the hest drivers ever on this route. He is
prompt, ohliging and careful, and notWlth-
standing the bad roads Of late. has been ON
lime.
Prof. Lee of Bowdoin, will lecture in the
congregational house next Monday evening
on "A Summer in Labrador with the Bow
dom College Expedition" Illustrated by
Stereopticon. Tickets 30 cents, of Clement Il
Adams.
News was received here recently of the
death at Alton Bay, \. H.. of Mrs. Abigail
Tripp, widow OF the late Ben amin Tripp
Mrs. Trip was at one time quite noted as
an advent preacher but was stricken With
blindness several years ago
4. J. Nickerson has associated himself
with his brother +. H.. formerly of Swan
VILE and bought the business OF the Paris
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