The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-11-12
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.

PROSPECT CENTRE. The heavy rains have
done much damage to the roads ,... Work
has started at Mosquito Mountain with a
small crew.. Mr.. S. NJ. Knowlton was in
Belfast and Brooks last week on business
... Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Grant of Kingman
are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Goodwin Grant and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
KiIlman. Fred Dockham has his cistern
all completed. Mr.. Fowler, wife and
daughter of Massachusetts are spending
their vacationswith Mr.. and Mrs. J. Colson.
49,. Daniel Thompson is repairing his barn
and having new doors. &C.. Mr.. F. L. Ward
has returned from Ninalhaven, where he
was employed at stone cutting. Mr.. and
Mrs. Ney killman of Hancock are spending
few days with Mr.. k.'s parents, Capt. and
Mrs. R. Killman. John Rainey has finish
ed the bridge which completed the drive
way to his house. Mrs. S. Reed is on the
sick list.
BELMONT. Sibyl A. Mariner has gone to
Newton Highlands, Mass, to visit her
brother, Henry W. Mariner. From there
she will go to Howard, R. l., to visit her
other brother, L. J Mariner, who has en-
ployment there. 81. E. Elms made a flying
trip to Camden on business Saturday,.
Inez E. Allenwood returned Saturday from
two months visit to relatives in Boston
and Lowell. Geo. W. Morse and SONS. A.
c., Herbert, Willard and Samuel, and Thos
Greer, accompanied by Albert Knight, will
start for a hunting trip up-river sometime
Oh ~, i
James F. Churchill, j. Willis Fenwick and
Fred Brewster and families have moved to
Belfast. Mrs. Nathan Wellman is on the
sick list. Mystic Grange is alive now and
holding some very interesting meetings.
Questions are discussed at nearly every
meeting, and the writer, a member of the
order, thinks that other members of the P.
of II. will see Mystic Grang stand at the
head of the sister oranges of the State. =.
The Lend-a-Hand Circle of Kings Daugh-
tiers is in a tourishing condition and holding
very Interesting meetings. The last meet
ing was held with Mrs. Julia Churchill. The
subject Wisdom, was generally discussed
and the members had each verse from the
Bible containing the word Wisdom. They
will meet Sunday, Nov. 22d, with Mrs. H
z. Farrow. At the last business meeting
the following officers We're elected for the
next three months: Pres, Augusta A
Cooley Vice Pres, Emma Elms; Sec'y,
Bertha E. Ems Treas, Mary E. Churchill ;
Chorister, Ella Churchill.
MORRILL,. About sixty persons, mostly
children, assembled at the house OF Mrs
Margaret Wood last Tuesday evening to
celebrate the 10th birthday Of her youngest
daughter Miss Althea Wood. Many beau
tiful presents We're brought. Ice cream and
cake, apples, candy and raisins, We're served.
All seemed to enjoy the occasion very much
Mrs. George Sheldon is visiting her
daughter in Boston, Mass. MIR. Alvin
knowton returned home for a visit election
week, and left again for Lawrence, Mass,
where he rinds employment Mr.. Asa
Stewart went with him and expects to work
at his trade there, carpentering, the coming
| winter. Miss Poor of Searsmont has been
visiting her friend, Miss Oracle Simmons,
for several days...... Rev. H. |. Holt an
nounces series of revival services, begin
ming last Sunday evening. ID. X. Dickey
reports that he found that the staple that
held the paddock on his factory had been
drawn and partially replaced. He thinks
some one did it that was interested in his
line of work. -. Mr.. Joseph 0. Whitcomb
of Waldo and Miss Mary II. Mason of Mont
Vile closed their labors as teachers of the
fall term of our village school last Friday.
Both are very successful teachers, and their
work here is highly commended by all in
terested. Mr.. Whitcomb started the next
day for the State College at Orono, where he
proposes to take the college course. Both
schools united in grand exhibition at the
Grange Hall last Friday evening with the
following programme, which was listened to
by an audience of at least $50: Rec, A
Leak in the Dyke, Edna Thomas; rec,
School Hours, Alice Newell; rec, Vacation
Days, Addie Daggett; rec, Punctuation
Marks, Six little girls rec, Railroad Cross
ing. Bertha Wood Song, Mildred and Arvilla
Daggett; defamation, Andrew Richards;
rec, Best of Life, Georgia Blake; dialogue,
"Much Misunderstood Man, Minnie Woods
and Maurice Pearson; dec, Grandmother
Druff, Hobart Blodgett; dec, 1t Might Have
Been, Hattie Meader; dec, Our Banner,
Stanley Brown; defamation, Israel Wood
bury; dec, When Teacher gets Cross, Mag
gle Woods; tableau, Murphy on Bender;
dec, The Dead Doll, Ethel Merrithew dec,
The Old Farmers Elegy, Cora Richards;
dec, Merry Children, Tommy Woodbury.
dialogue, Flower of the Family dec, Spell
ling Kitten, Joanna Simmons; instrumental
duett, John Vickery and Mabel Hatch dec,
Six Times Nine, Althea Woods dec, Feb.
22d, Charles Meader; defamation, Lay
fayette, Ar thur Leonard tableau, Essay on
Man IS. A. on NAM, Richard Merriam; reci-
tation, Bertha Woodbury.; rec, Indolent
10, Willie Meader; rec, Eta Merrthew;
rec, No Never, Charlie White rec, Banks
of the Tennessee, Minnie Woods; rec, The
Tale of a Nose, Donald Vickery rec, A
Flag on Every Schoohouse, Alice Dickey;
dialogue, Warm Reception, Arthur Leonard,
Mabel Hatch, Harry Simmons and Bertha
Woods; closing with defamation by
Joseph o. Whitcomb, Esq.