The Republican journal., 1896-05-28

port called on MS sister, MIS-. "A. II. Ma
honey, Sunday =. Ella Marden has gone to
Belfast to work. Mrs. c. Poor of Belfast
is visiting her mother, Mrs. Eliza Donnell.
....Delia Mahoney of East Northport spent
May 18th with her sister. Mrs. E.. P. Ma
honey. Mr.. Cross of Morrill, was at Arad
Mahoney's Sunday.
CHINA. A very pleasant wedding occur
red at the home of the brides parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Isaiah Wiggin, Wednesday, May
20 at P. M, the contracting parties being
Mr.. Charles E. Bailey and Miss Mabel Maud
Wiggin, both of China. After refreshments
were served Rev. Geo. M. Jones of Etna
performed the ceremony in a very impress
sive manner. The presents and congratula-
tions of friends were many Mr.. and Mrs.
Bailey started Thursday morning for
weeks outing in eastern Maine.
IsLEsBoRo. The carpenters will have Mr.
Fuller's cottage at Dark Harbor finished in
about two weeks and Mr.. Brackets new
cottage is nearing completion. Geo. f.
Williams has Capt. Dodges barn up and
shingled. -. Quite number of people are
down from Bangor renovating their cottages
for the summer Mrs. J. o. Hayes and
family arrived on Saturday $ boat for visit
to her father and mother. :. Mrs. E. W.
Pendleton, who has been a trip with her
husband in sch. VIM. I'll, Sumner, came on
Saturdays boat. Capt E. F, Williams
lost valuable ring q years ago and sup
posed he lost it at Gilkey's Harbor in the
winter when hauling out boat. Last week
while planting his garden he was scraping
up the manure at the back of his barn when
he discovered something he took to be an
old brass ring, but on picking it up he dis
covered the square and compass inlaid with
jet. He said to himself, that belongs to
some Mason, and was very much surprised
on looking on the inside to find mis-
name engraved there in full. The road
machine was in constant use the past week,
fitting our roads for summer travel.
MONROE. Memorial day will be observed
here as follows: At A. NJ, the comrades
detailed to decorate the different yards in
town will attend to their duties and report
at Town Hall at 8 o'clock, when the decorat-
ing squad under command of Thomas
Clements will march to the illage cemetery
and mark all soldiers graves with the Ameri-
can flag. At 1870 the procession will form
in front of Union Hall, in the following
order; Officer of the day, II. B. Wingate /;
music by fife and drums decorators. fifteen
comrades and thirty young ladies'; E. NJ.
Billings Post, Geo. B. Ordway, commander;
all soldiers who served in the late war ,
pupils of the different schools in town, E. c.
Dow, Supervisor; Morning Light Grange
and citizens generally. The column will
march to the cemetery and around the
monument the G. A. r. services will be
held The graves will be decorated with
flowers by the young ladies of the town.
After the exercises the column will return
to the town hall, where dinner will he serv-
ed. At two o'clock Hon. Hugh Chaplin of
Bangor will deliver the Grafton. Mrs. D. A.
Nye, Mamie Haley and son visited at Frank
Nye's in Bangor last week =. Memorial ser
vices We're held at the church Sunday by
Rev. David Bracket of Brooks The church
was beautifully decorated and the music by
a male quartette from Newburgh was fine
.... The Odd Fellows will have an anniver-
sary supper May 2Sth at the Town Hall. 1t
has been year since the lodge was or
ganized. Supper % cents a couple; pro
gramme after.....Mrs. Alice Grant and
Phebe Shaw went to Liberty and stopped
two days at DR.. Whtcombs. They were
much pleased with his location and the
pretty village of Liberty. DR.. W hitcomb
Will be in this village one day this week at
his office where all of his old patients, who
wish, can consult him. E. FL. Neatly has
large crew of men at work on his new barn
on his farm. Mr. and Mrs. Colson have re-
turned to their home in Monroe from Brooks
PROSPECT. Charles Harris and wife spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. I.emuel Ames of
Prospect Lorng Griffin and his two SIS
ters Mrs. j. NJ, Ames and Miss Maria Crit
fin, visited Mr.. and Mrs Lemuel Ames last
week. Luther A mes was at home recently
for day. He has employment in Bangor.
Miss N. j. Trevett is spending few
weeks with her niece, Mrs. Grace Ames..
Mrs. Dudley Gilman, who has been poorly
through the winter, is much improved. ..
Miss Alice Young is at home. She has been
az ooluy polHt' MI SudW, WHO resides on
the Standpoint road from Prospect, had a
slight shock last week .Zetham Berry and
wife, who moved to one of the back towns
some three years ago, have visited Mr. and
Mrs Fred A. Lane. -. Sanford Libby was
along the stream fishing the other day, and
more trout take the hook than last year,.
The auction sale of farming tools and furni-
ture Tuesday on the late Capt. W. D. HIGH
porn farm resulted in low prices The
frost nipped the early potato leaves last Sat-
urday night on low land about here
Thomas BURDEN is the most driven with
business OF any man in town just now. He
Is shearlng sheep, and embarrassing rooms
is his calling His bill for whitewashing
SCHOOL, ouses inside is quite an item in these
gold standard times. The fish peddlers
from Verona got in ahead this year with
fresh and smoked alewives. What is the
matter with the fishermen along the bay
and river that Verona should beat them?
....Levi Clark, who has been keeping gro
cerIes in the Clark district has begun rum
ming his team in this vicinity with groceries,
and will take orders to deliver ANYTHING in
the dry goods and hardware line at the low
est prices When the free delivery of the
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