The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-09-02
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE,

COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE
CENTRE MoNTvILLE. Mark Bartlett and
Wales Bartlett have entered the University
of Maine at Orono. Jacob Cain, an aged
resident of this town, died Friday. The re-
mains We're inferred near his former place of
residence in Liberty. Mrs. Martha Miller
of Portland was called here by the death of
her father, Jacob Cain -. Miss Miriam
Bartlett, who spent the summer with her
parents, has gone to Adams, Mass, to teach.
....M Mrs. George Frye spent last week at
Northport Camp Ground. see. Mrs. John
Brown of Poor's Mills is the guest of her
daughter Mrs. V. Thompson.
PROSPECT. Misses Flora Haley and Sarah
Kiilman Of Prospect Village visited Misses
Addie and Jennie. Crockett of Stockton
Springs last week. South Branch Grange,
Prospect, has voted to hold the Grange fair
Sept sd in Prospect Village, Miss Nora
Emerson of Prospect has a class in music.
She is skilled as a teacher of music and has
quite class in Prospect. The potato crop
will be short and so will the bean CROP.
4M lSS AlLLle boNuta VI OdlAdltd ldlu3
Mass, visited at Lizzie Lanes last week.
Miss Maria Heagan has improved and last
week visited Mrs. Sarah Lane. Grain is
ripening slowly this year. The earliest
sweet corn has got along. having filled in
this wet, foggy season.. James A. Healey
has been furnishing the mutton and potatoes
and some garden truck for the Fort Point
HnfA b,t his OH ,lnS Y1,n
business there.
CENTRE LINCoLNvILLE. Mr.. Percy Drake
left Saturday for Massachusetts,, where he
has employment. .. Mr.. Emery Parker has
been called to New York by the illness of
his son Ernest. Miss Caro- Billings and
Mr.. Nelson McDougall of Rockland spent
last Saturday and Sunday in town. .Aub-
rey Tower spent his vacation at home and
returned to his work in Waverley last Tues
day. Miss Lizzie Gerlack, who has been
at L. f. Benefits for the past few weeks,
has returned to her home in Jamaica Plain,
Mass. .Chas. Drake left Saturday for
Rockland, where he is to live with his sister,
Mrs. Ella Patterson. Miss Alice Keene
and brother James have returned to their
home in Jamaica Plain. Mass. Fred Clark
and wife, who have been visiting Austin
Mariner, have returned to their home in
Charlestown, Mass.
NORTH STOCKTON SPRINGS. The family
of Lyman Partridge started in hay-rick
for clam-bake at Searsport Harbor last
Thursday, and when they passed Ephriam
ErnerSop'S tla ba1 M fall
the rick and the wheel went over her BODY
She is attended by DR.. G. A. Stevens and
| at last accounts was improving rapidly
DR.. Collier and wife of Brooks are visiting
at Mr.. Marion Staples. Mrs. Melinda
Bray of Frankfort is visiting her niece, Mrs.
| Freeman Partridge. Mrs. Bray is very
smart old lady, eighty-nine years old. She
reads all the papers, can converse on any
subject, and enjoys visiting her friends.
Mr.. Floris Partridge is visiting friends in
Rock land. -. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Ho mes
of Salem, Mass, visited at Mr.. n W.
Staples last week. -. Willie Jacobs had a
party last Thursday evening on his 18th
birthday. The evening was pleasantly spent
in dancing and treat of candy and pea
nuts was served. -. Miss Bertha Partridge
visited friends in Frankfort Monroe and at
Hermon Pond last week.
| BELMONT. Mr.. and Mrs. CAMS Farms
worth of South Boston are visiting Mrs. F 8
brother, Mr.. Geo. W. Knight. Mr.. and
Mrs. Michael Collins of Belfast were in town
Sunday visiting at L. NJ Clark s. Mr. J.
| FL. Cooley of Old Town was in town the
| fl rst of the week. Fred Churchill, who is
employed in Boston, was at home the last
of the week. =. Mr.. and Mrs. Miles Pease
| and number of others attended the Ad-
vent Campmeeting at Was hington Sunday.
| ....Quite number from this place attended
| the campmeeting at Northport Thursday
.Messrs. L. F. and F. o. Alenwood are
in Bangor attending the Eastern Maine
State Fair. Mr.. and Mrs Herman Merriam
of Morrill, were in town Sunday. =. Miss
| Olive Bryant of Waterville was in tewn the
first of the week visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
! Thomas Churchill. Hollis NJ. Lamb is in
Bangor attending the Deaf Mute Conven-
ton. Mrs. Abble Ingerson of Woburn,
Mass, and Mrs. Roxie Frye of New Jersey
| recently spent few days very pleasantly
| with their cousin, Mrs. Clara Bowdoin,
whom they have not seen for more than
| thirty years.
| APPLETON. Walter Gushee, wife and
daughter Vera, left last Thursday for Con-
cord, New Hampshire, where Walter will
be principal of a grammar school. Miss
Edith Gushee is in Boston for treatment for
the eyes,. Mrs. Sarah Sprague of Penob-
scot is visiting friends here. George Nor
ton and Miss Grace Hicks attended the Sun
day school convention in Nobleboro We'd
nesday. .Messrs. Jameson and Norwood of
Warren have done a nice job of plumbing
for NJ F. Hanley, Esq, who has made ex-
tensive alterations and repairs on his tene-
ment over F. L. Davldson's store Nv. C,
Perry, who has been in Dorc hester, Mass,
for several months, has returned home. -.
Emma Merle Ripley has returned to her
home in Bath after a visit of three months
with her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. 81.
Page. M. r. Simmons is at Northport
Camp Ground. u. S. Gushee and wife re-
turned last week to their home in Franklin,
Mass. Our farmers report the potato crop
failure. Miss Florence Hanley of Boston
has been in town few days, the guest of