The Republican journal., 1896-10-15
County Correspondence.

| LAO AICu Iio wal plb. MdSJtT Modrl Syl-
vester, son of Mark Sylvester, was bitten
seriously on the ankle by dog There
will be meeting at Halls Corner school
house, Sunday afternoon and evening, Oct
| loth under the auspices of Mr.. and Mrs, j
| A johnson. All the schools in the town
except Nos. 2 and closed Friday for two
| weeks vacation before the winter term.
| Mrs. Hester Morse and son Willard returned
home Sunday from a visit to Lowell, Me.
| They brought fine deer.
| PROSPECT FERRY. Mr.. and Mrs. W. H.
Sanborn of Belfast visited friends here last
Saturday and Sunday Arthur Grindle
came down from Bangor and spent Sunday
with his father in his new home. Sch.
Lizzie Lee, Capt Leroy Walls, arrived in
the river Oct. 10th aud will load stone at E
| l.. Warren's quarry. Sch Elizabeth
| Foster, Capt. Evander Hartman, is lying in
the river loaded with lumber for Boston
Mrs. Evander Hartman spent several days
| in Bangor last week. Mrs. Jessie Harding
arrived home from Boston Oct. 7th. . Miss
| Oranna Harding closed successful term of
| eight weeks school here last Friday. An in
teresting program by the scholars was en-
| joyed by all present.. Mr.. and Mrs. Elden
Pendleton of Stockton Springs visited Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Heagan last week. Mr..
Herbert Mixer went to Mt. Desert and spent
Sunday, Oct. 4th, with his family Mr..
| Charles Wardwell and Miss Lizzie Lang of
Bluehill called on Mrs. Anna Hartman
| last Thursday.
PENoBsCoT. Sch. Myronus of Ellsworth,
Capt. Chatto, is loading paving for Philadel-
phia. She is a three master, 2S4 tons gross,
and is the largest that ever came up the
Bagaduce to Northern Bay. Sch. Smith
Tuttle, Capt: Bryant, sailed for Boston Oct.
Sth, brick laden. The architect is making
| plans for the rebuilding of the steeple of the
M. E. church, demolished by the lightning
| last summer. Mr.. William Bissett will i'm
mediately put crew on his quarry to cut
| paving during the winter. Doctor Ham
mond, a negro gentleman. lectured in the M.
E. church Wednesday evening to a large
and appreciatiye audience. Mr.. Ernest C.
| Perkins is at home after a years absence.
He has been appointed captain of the
| schooner of which he has been mate for two
years. Merrill Perkins has returned after
a three years absence in California. Mrs.
Sarah Treworthy, evangelist, has been hold
ing a series of meetings in the Dunbar
school house with marked success. The
yacht Malard of Bangor, lying at anchor in
| Northern Bay, was run into by schooner
| Addie Clement and dismasted. Her bow
spirit was also carried away. Mr.. Pearl
Atherton of Bluehill is teaching a music
| school at South penobscoJ. -. Your humble
servant has fine vloioncello bought Of DR..
Moses Adams Of Ellsworth in 1915 by Joseph
Wardwell of Penobscot. Master Reuben
| Devereaux is digging up the remains of the
Massachusetts ship Sky Rocket, which was
| destroyed by her own crew in the disastrous
retreat from the siege of Bagaduce Aug IA
1879.
PTTTsEIELD. W, L. Pushor, cashier Of the
| bank, has been sick several weeks with
typhoid fever, but is improving There are
! several cases OF the fever in town but all
seem to be on the mending hand. The Rey-
noIds boy on Middle street, in our immedi.
ate nelgborhood, who has been sick several
weeks, is just beginning to sit mp little
Mrs. Reynolds, the boys mother, is pros
lltoo i
Her aunt, Mrs. Abbe Spaulding of Benton
is caring for her. George A. Sylvester
came home from Boston last week on ac-
count of sickness, but is getting better,
Mrs. Dora Lewis, who went to hospital il
Boston about four weeks ago for treatment
has returned home. Mrs d. D. Winslow
is visiting her daughter, Mrs A . P Durham
into his new house on Nichols street
parsonage is being built on Bowdoin stree
pear the Institute, through the energetic
efforts of Rev. 6. l.. White, the pastor of the
Free Baptist church. -. Notwthst nding the
hard times there is one industry in our towl
that does not flag, and that is Bryant &
Co.'S mill for lumber and finishing of al
kinds. Several new machines have beeI
added recently, which enables them to get
out their orders in the shortest possible time
Competent workmen are employed ant
everything is done in systematic manner
They have orders for ten houses on hant
now and are rushing the work. Among th
orders they have filled during the past sum
mer are the following: All the material
IOf Iue new TdllGOdu buildings at BarCI6CC
n. H.; two large houses for H. S. Green
Dover; all the inside finish and lumber TO
w. II. Skeletons residence, Lewiston; al
the material for the Moody cottage at Goo
Will Farm, Fairfield all the finish ant
fancy windows for church at Sangerville
all the lumber and finish for FL. E. Ordway's
residence ON Nichols street in this village
also the material for A. J. LADDERS new
house on Hartland avenue. The material TO
the new piazza and portico for VIM. Dob
sons house was furnished by this mill, ant
many other buildings i'll different parts of th
State have been furnished by this company
.... Mr.. d. NJ. Parks has been to Dallas Tex
as, recently on business. Mrs. Parks an,
their little daughter Agnes, who had beel
visiting Mrs. Fred Dyer in Portland, return
ed with him last week. Mss Pendleton 0
Camden has 80 far recovered her health a
to return to Pittsfeld and resume her worl
as trimmer in Rufus Burns millinery store
.... Mr. and Mrs. j. S. Davis returned las
week from their visits to Belfast, Knox
Brooks, Swanville and Thorndike.
good delegation from Pittsfield attended TIL
State W. G. 4. U. Conv ention and all join il
thanking the Belfast ladies for their kind