The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-11-26
County Correspondence.

PROSPECT. Now the farmers can get corn
and meal near by Ames & Merithew
of Stockton village have received their first
cargo of corn and will continue in the corn
trade. They also keep shorts, middings and
meal, and are we'll stocked up to compete
with body on the bay or river. Mr..
Charles III. Littlefed has had his house
thoroughly repaired, chimney rebuilt, new
ly shinged, clapboarded and painted inside
and out. The painting and paperng was
done by Beas Brothers of Frankfort, and
those wanting painting or paper-hanging
should give them a call. 1t was hard to
bear for few days after election for the en-
thusiastic Bryan men around here. The
writer read both sides, always calculating
that Bryan was ahead like all the rest, but
he was not; and as the surplus knowledge
of the campaign begins to wane, with Me-
Kinley ahead, the people are settling down,
preparing for winter, finishing the blowing,
killing their hogs, and other work, and by
shedding time Mckinley won't be so bad as
he was. Miss Ella Tay, who is teaching
school in the Clark district, and Mr.. Will
kins, Horace Gould, Wendall Marden and
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred A. Lane attended the
Teachers Institute in Belfast last week $50
Pedders have drifted to some more favored
cline than Prospect. The so-called Mary
of Arabia, and 1 don't know how
many more dark-sknned sisters, have not
been here for long while. III. F. Gould
had his grain threshed the last one in town,
and he got 1913 bushels. Nickerson and Cur
It's have moved their machine to Swanville.
,. C. H. Partridge killed hog weighing j4S
pounds and sold it to Clifford & Lafoley of
Stockton for 81 per hundred. Away back
in the palmy days for the farmer we sold a
porker III the same place in war times for
so per hundred and the 100 pound hog
brought $50, Now it is true in lots Of cases
that those inflated dollars did wonders and
gave a good many farmers a send off that
stimulated them to Improvement in a5ricul-
tural pursuits, and to-day that start in he
war has been the making of a lar4e number.
But how changed. In these times the dollars,
with the best calculations, come harder ana
are far between and besides without adj
justing the cost of production by the purchas-
ing power of the dollar. there is no stabil-
| ity or certainty that anything Will pay, aud
labor's best efforts developing resources on
uncertainties will be past number soon.
The farming community will then settle
down TO raising crops that are self support
ing and this country is the best in the world,
as nearly everything can be produced on the
soil. The Yankee has not yet learned to
produce all the needed crops for home use
as do the foreigners who settle here. We have
some Russian settlers who came here as
stone workers, and settled on a rocky hill
where the CID pioneers and a number of
Yankees had tried to make living; but all
gave it up until the Russian tried. He set
tied down with a family among the rocks
and Lodges some ten years ago and has built
IA new house and barn and long hen house,
keeps horse, cows, pigs and poultry and
has changed the wire grass to good hay. He
has lived on the black bread OF Russia and
hardly ever goes to a store, still he prospers
and clothes his family as well as some with
more pretentionS.