The Republican journal., 1896-12-03
NORTHPORT NEWS.

Mrs. Nellie Dickey is visiting friends in
Camden
Mrs. Hattie Gatchell Of Boston is visiting
her mother, Mrs. Chapman.
Mr.. Elery Herrick of Brooksville is visit
ing Mr. and Mrs James Wight.
Mrs. VIM. Drinkwater has returned from
a weeks visit to friends in Boston.
Mr.. r. A. Packard, we hear, will build a
cottage in the spring on the lot he bought
recently on Nicawa Point at Temple Heights.
Whooping cough is causing unpleasant APP
prehensons on the part of parents who have
children liable to catch this contagious dis
ease.
Mr.. Maurice Leadbetter of Vinalhaven has
returned home from very pleasant visit to
his aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Crockett.
For the past month there has been con-
siderable sickness in this part of the town.
and several of the stricken ones came very
close indeed to the shadow of death, but
they are improving, and their relatives and
friends now feel confident their restoration
to health will be speedy and sure.
We have in this town one house in which
four generations are living. They are Mrs.
Lucy Bullock, aged 90; her daughter, Mrs.
Jane Hart, aged IS; her granddaughter,
Miss Jane Hart, aged IL and her great
grandson, Albion Hart, aged T. Mrs. Bull
lock has lived in the house since she was
10 y,
Lincolnville line on the shore road, and is
said to be over a century Old.
Thanksgiving day was a very dull one out
of doors. 1t showed, it drizZled and it tiz-
lied nearly all day Still Everybody was
smiling and happy and the turkey and the
goose hung high; III fact, 50 high, that we
don't know that any attempt was made to
bring them down from their lofty perch on
the market by any one here, consequently
the chicken and the sparerib furnished the
bill of fare to the entire satisfaction OF all
and as every body felt perfectly satisfied
there was no need to grumble about the
weather or the day, and we do not,
a striking illustration of absentminded-
ness was recently experienced by a lady
| friend Of ours, who was rather forcihly
brought to the consciousness of her mind
! The lady having prepared the dinner and
! being anxious that the man of the house
might enjoy it while it was piping hot, has
tened to call linn in from his work. Sc
grabbing the Instrument from a nail where il
/ hung, she stepped outin the yard t. blow it
! ElevaJing the instrument to an angle OF
/ about 10 degrees, she prepared to blow, bu1
before she could get the storage battery o.
| her wind to work something slipped down
| the incline OF the instrument ana landed
| against her chin very forcibiy. For a mo
ment she felt very much surprised, or be
widered, she could not tell which, but hel
observation-disclosures disappeared at once anG
| her establishment can be better imagined
| than described when she discovered that it
was the steelyards instead of the horn that
caused purple bunch to disfgure the other
wise fair and pretty chin. The man of the
| house was a little later to dinner that day
than usual, and as he entered the outer
odeldoe; spirits of turpentine and balm O
| gilead buds. He entered the kitchen and tC
relieve his anxiety the lady told him the
story of the pea sliding down the beam. Il
| is all right now =; the man carries a watch
/ and, as he says, sit is more agreeable for al
concerned, and much more reliable thar
wind"