The Republican journal., 1896-09-24
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.


PROSPECT FERRY Mr. and Mrs. M. c..
Proctor returned to their home in Dorches-
ter, Mass. last Tuesday Miss Lulu Avery
is visiting relatives in Massachusetts,.
Miss Hannah Heagan and her two nieces,
Emily and Ruby Wilson, visited Mrs. j. F.
Shute in Stockton last week. Mrs. Ada
Mixer of Monroe. visited Mrs. n. j. Heagan
last week Mrs. Frank Clark of Belfast
visited Mrs. w. D. Hartman last Saturday
and sunday. Miss Freda Hartman visit
ed in Bangor last week -. H. g. Somes OF
Mt. Desert called on friends here last Satur-
day and Sunday. George Abbott OF Blue
hill visited at Mrs. E. NJ. Perkins last Satur-
day....B. q. Avery and Clifton Coggins
came up from Bluehill and spent Sunday
| with their families. Capt. Rufus Harri-
man in sch. Delaware arrived in the river
Sept. 10Th with load of corn for Bangor.
JACKSON. Mr. C. F. Fogg had a very mar
row escape from death last Friday morning.
He was returning from Monroe and was
leading his bull, which had been on exhibit
ton at the fair, when suddenly the animal
turned upon Mr.. Fogg and, with his head,
pressed him into the ditch of the road
where he held him for a little time Mr. .Fogg
in the meanwhile got his fingers into the ring
in the animals nose and held as firmly as
he could and at last succeeded in extracting
himself from his perilous position, only to
be pressed again to the earth, but, as he
managed to keep clear of the bulls horns he
again got clear. and this time succeeded in
getting behind spruce tree, and the bull IN
following up got his head against the tree,
where he continued to press. Mr.. F., with
wonderful presence of mind took advantage
of the change of base to remove chain
from the animals neck and alta Oh it to the
ring and fastened it securely around the
tree. He then went in search of help, and
a rifle, and the brute was soon despatched.
This was the first symptom OF anger the
bull had shown; and only by remarkable
GOODNESS was Mr.. Foggs life saved. His
bruises are not serious Town Fair at the
town house next Saturday.
MORRILL,. The firm of Storer Brown,
retail dry goods and groceries has
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Hatch. who. we learn, will take possession
some time i'll October. Mrs. John Berry
and Young child with Miss Estelle Sanborn,
while driving near Wales Miller's in Belfast
last week, were overturned, and Mss San
born was quite badly injured. She had been
visiting at Mrs Berry S and was able to re-
turn there last Sunday. She is slowly re-
covering. Mrs, Berry and child escaped
with slight injuries. About forty of our
towns people attended the fair at Monroe
last Wednesday ...Miss Bertha Hatch is very
sick with neuralgia around the heart and
muscular rheumatism. She is attended by
Dr.. Durgin Of Searsport. We hope to see
her out again soon....M Mrs. Cynthia Blood Is
having her buildings repaired. Mr.. Asa
Stewart does the work. traitor Hatch is
attending school at Syracuse, n. w.. Miss
Winnie Simmons has returned to Camden
Rev and Mrs. esley Wiggin returned to
Massachusetts last Thursday. -. The graded
school taught by Mr. Joseph o. Wlitcomb
of Waldo ia the grange hall is proving
great success MIR. Whitcomb is sustaining
his reputation a skilled instructor Of
youth. The superintendent and scholars
and parents all speak very highly of his
work.
PROSPECT Mr.. and Mrs. Phillip Holmes
of Salem, Mass, spent a week visiting rea-
tives in this section and took the cars last
Friday for home. Wendall Marden, who
is attending the Normal School at Castine,
80 the report goes, was taken down with
typhoid fever and his mother, Mrs Emery
Marden, has gone to Castine to care for him.
Two other young men, Frank Crockett and
Horace Gould, who boarded at the same
place. but came home to vote, We're taken
sick and are now at home. The report now
is that the Gould boy is better and hopes are
entertained that both will be about soon....
The election at the polling place in Prospect
passed off very quietly. No long stories
were told for gold or silver, but dreadfully
sudden panic must have come over quite
number of Prospect voters. Somehow 1t
dawned on quite number OF voters to mark
the cross entirely opposed to their former
expressed sentiments all through the cam
paign. Farmers are singular people In some
WAYS. They are awfully brave in spots ana
awfully meeching and afraid in spots very
generous at times and very stingy and par
smonious at other times. For an men OF
land alongside line fence they will contend
for generations, and never word that has
been said about that line but has been re-
membered all along since the first pioneer
settled. The and his wife, the boys
and the girls, can all go out and tell exactly
where that spotted pine tree stood on
the line $50 years ago and not vestige of it
left for more than 70 years. If farmer was
as set in his political views as he is on his
lines you never would see many changes
town meeting day. Another thing. Ii a
merchant cheats farmer out of 80 cents
he will keep that in remembrance all his
days and never forget to tell of it. But when
it comes to politics they can forget all their
contention in less than minute of their
former views and swallow anything at hand
and rejoice.