The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-11-10
COUNTY CORRESPONDENTS.

friends at kent's Hill. Mrs. n. Simmons
has been quite sick with rheumatism around
the heart, but is gaining slowly. ... Mr.. F.
w. Shepherd went to Boston last week to
see about his hay. Mabelle Park has re-
turned from Canook Lake, n. H.. after an
absence of three months. We are all glad
to see her.
CENTER KNOXVILLE. Jesse Frve's apple
crop this fall is said to be about 800 bushels
He had 500 bushels Of Baldwins. IS. j.
Tasker is to build house next summer. He
has the cellar ready now... Clifton Morse
will build barn next spring. He has the
| cellar wall nearly completed. w. A. Po-
| land raised good crop this year, viz: POO
bushels of corn, 127 bushels of small grain,
so bushels of potatoes, and lot Of apples
and garden truck.
FREEDOM. Leforest Wiggin, a former resi-
dent of this place died at his home in Clifton
dale, Mass. His booty was brought here Oct.
2Sth for interment in Pleasant Fl i'll cemetery
| The entertainment at Music Hall, Oct
18th, consisting of drama and Sociable
was success both financially and socially
village for their help in CARRYING ON the
work of the Y. /. Society. business is
lively at B. B. Bryants pant shop. MI
Small, OF the Bangor Theological Seminary
preached at the church Oct. @Oth.
SwANvILLE. The Ladies' Aid Society met
at Mr. Josiah Nickerson's October 9th
Fifty Were present. The smallest, but not of
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son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nickerson, eight
and half months Old. He was able to
climb up by chair and trot it all about the
room We had as usual, bountiful supper
after which there We're poems and music
vocal and Instrumental The next l.. A. S.
is t. meet with Mr.. and Mrs. Henry NJ
Chase, Nov. 17th. Rev S. l.. Hanscom spoke
at church Oct. 30th on the Inspiration
of the Scriptures.
PROSPECT. 0. B. Gray has sold his apples
| to Herbert Black. Eastman Clark and G. w
| Pendleton have delivered their apples on the
| Searsport wharf to go to Bangor and Chi
Joseph A. Partridge, of Belfast. WIS.,
tied at c. H. Partridge's recently. Mr.. !
| A. Haley and wife We're at the wedding in
| Winterport of Mr.. George Bean and Miss
Elizabeth Haley... Arthur Boyd has sold
his hemlock bark to the tannery at Bucks
port o. b. Gray and George Harding are
hauling it, and it looks like old times to See
teams loaded with bark ......C. o. Hatch
bought flock OF sheep i'll Swanvile last
week, and more are wanted. Cali on the
| writer. Freeman Partridge, Prospect. . Mrs
Ia ~ 4,,f i
IS years Old, is one of the S1narteSt old la
dies III town. Another, Mrs. Betsev Cum
mings, of about the same age, has been fail
| ing somewhat of late. Mr.. leXan,ier Cum
mngs, now past ninety years. is ENJOYING
his Old age and is pleasantly situated.
The pleasant weather has been Very favor
able for farm work. More blowing will he
acres now. c. H. Partridge is blowing a
large pasture piece and others are turning
over the oldest pieces to SOW grain and seed
anew, using phosphate in the spring.
| NORTH Troy. A number from this town
attended the meeting of the North Waldo
Agricultural Society at Unity. Oct. both.
Jesse Smart of this town, was elected Presi-
dent Tor the ensuing year. A pleasant oe-
casion of the past week was the Ladies Cir
Gle which met with Mrs. S. E Cook.
Tuesday Oct 25...... Recently invita-
tious We're extended to attend knit
| ting bee at the pleasant home of Mr. and
| Mrs. b. f. Harding. About fifty guests
We're present. At o'clock tables We're tast-
lily arranged in the dining-room laden with
i4il t,ft
heartily received. The company being COM
| posed of women plenty Of takers We're
| present, and no element was lacking to make
the occasion one of unalloyed pleasure
| Warm enconiuns upon their host and host
tss We're exchanged among the guests. -.
Mr. O. b. Rhoades has been making i'm
provements upon his blacksmith shop and
| barn His colt, which has been sick, is gain
/ ing slowly. Miss Elizabeth Rhoades has
gone to Pittstield. :. Mr.. Percy Martin and
and wife, of Pittstield, We're in town recent
/ ly.,, Our best wishes attend Mr.. and Mrs
Louville Sanderson for their future happiness
and welfare. Mr.. George Lamb, of Port
land, is visiting his brother, j. c. Lamb, at
| West Troy.
| STOCKTON SPRINGS. Mr.. S A. Randell
has gone to Boston on business, and will be
absent some time. -. Mr.. Adrian Trundv is
spending several weeks at home. The
White Diamond Club has moved from the
rooms they lately occupied into rooms in the
building adjoining. The room they va
Gated is occupied now by Mr.. Rowell, shoe
and harnessmaker. -. The drama to be given
by the Y. P. c. L. was not presented De-
tober 29th, on account of the inclemency
of the weather, and has been Indefinitely
/ postponed. The Frankfort Cornet Band
i will give a concert and ball in Denslow
! Hall Tuesday evening. Nov. S....A large
I number from here attended the funeral ser
vices of Mr.. Robert Doe in Sandy Point
Oct. 30. Mr.. Doe was an active and earnest
worker in the Grange, and will be greatly
missed from that order Mrs Fannie
Bridges left last week for Massachusetts,
/ where she will spend the winter with rela-
tlvts. The sad news of the death of Can't
Chas. DevereauX i'll Pensacola, Fla, of
typhoid fever, came recently. Capt. Dev-
ereauN leaves a wife and five children. The
oldest son. Willie is in Pensacola and has
been very i'll with the fever, hut is recovering