The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-07-01

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CENTRE MoNTvILLE. There will be a
social dance at Grange Hall this, Thursday,
evening, July 1st, for the benefit of Mr..
William White, who recently lost his build
ings by fire. Ice cream and cake will be
served. =. Miss Fannie Carter has returned
to her home after few weeks visit to rela-
tives in Freedom and Unity. Miss Edna
Thompson returned last Saturday from
Belfast, where she has been learning dress
making. Miss Miriam G. Bartlett, who re-
Gently graduated from the Bridgewater
Normal school, Bridgewater, Mass, return
ed for her summer vacation last Tuesday.
Mrs. G. r. Richards and little son of Wash
ington, D. c., arrived ON Tuesdays boat and
will spend few weeks with Mrs. Richard g
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. o. Bartlett.
UNITY. The outlook for summer visitors
at Windermere Park is encouraging Prof.
Porter and wife of the n. E. Conservatory
Boston, spent Sunday at Hotel Windermere,
Mr.. B. F. Wells of Belfast, Miss Barnard
from Missouri and Miss Kounty from Hill
nois are among the guests. The Clough
anu CObbdStS are uOU y6t open, DuG
will be in a week or two. Misses Eta
Conner of Chicago and May Conner from
Denver, Col, arrived Saturday to spend the
summer here with their mother. Helen
Thomas, Leta Taylor, Mae Kelly and Vivian
Tabor returned June Goth from Waterville,
where they have been attending Coburn
Classical Institute. Mrs. Ellen Hunt is
quite poorly. Mr.. W. G.. Rolfe is having a
hard time with his eyes they are very pain
full. Miss Lena Bartlett returned Monday
from two weeks visit to friends in Bangor
....Dr. M. l.. Damon of Pittsfeld was at the
Central House Monday and Tuesday.
Miss Gertie knights of Fairfield was the
guest OF Miss Olive Rand last week. Mrs
Ellen Fowler had another shock Sunday
and is very low. - Nina Vandeets is i'm
proving. Glare Whitney is at home from
Brunswick, where he has been studying
medicine. Mr.. and Mrs. W. G. Rolfe and
son Charlie of Gorham are in town.. DR..
Thomas went to Waterville Friday to be
present at the graduation of his daughter
Helen. A. r. Myrick expects to have peas
from his garden July 4th. His potatoes are
in blossom.
PENoBscoT. The three-masted schooner
Samos, Capt. Handy, is loading paving for
New York She will take forty thousand.
There will be a celebration of the glorious
Fourth of July on the third, with ringing of
bells, bicycle and foot races, fantastic pa
rade, base ball. foot ball, Examinations and
and Il Il Nv, n
Hutchngs, Rev. Geo. NJ. Bailey and Horace
Perkins, Esq. Arabian pedders are num-
erous and they try to make themselves very
agreeable. Two of them stopped all night
with one of our substantial farmers who is
a pillar of strength in the church The
Arabian, to make all pleasant, said to the
farmer: you Christian me Christian-too.'
"Well," said the farmer there are various
denominations of Christians, Roman Catho-
ic Methodist and Baptists, what are you ?'
80, me Yankee Doodle, just like you" re-
sponded the son of the DESERT. Horace
Perkins is building a dwelling house in
Waterville, where he will reside winters,
keeping his present house in South Penob-
scot for summer residence. =. There will
be large hay crop, but scarcity of all sorts
of fruit. -. Summer visitors arrive almost
daily. There will probably be much larger
number than usual this summer and nearly
all available rooms are engaged. =. A bout
twenty-five bicycles are owned in town. Leo
Sellers, a boy of twelve years, is the cham
pion rider. He can perform with grace and
easel had almost said dignity-all the
tricks he has ever seen done and many of
his own invention. There was pleasant
social gathering at Thomas G. Mitchell's last
Saturday evening. Vocal and instrumental
music and conversation caused the time to
pass on eagles wings. John Norris played
the organ, Virginia Wardwel the violin,
Sylvia Wardwell the guitar Dam the
straits of Belle Isle say the men of science;
so say the downeast farmers.
PROSPECT. The first fruit cart to dri We
through Prospect with bananas was here
last week. There seems to be something
substantial about bananas and the time is
coming when they will be cheap and will
help out the -four barrel among the farmers.
In our sea-faring days we used to know
something about the plantain a similar
tropical fruit, that was fried or baked, and
was cheaper and not so sweet as the banana.
But that does not seem to come into favor
yet. When the Cuban war is settled there
will be a boom in tropical fruit. Even in
Prospect there is talk of some emigrating
to Cuba. -. The roads have been in bad
shape all the spring and 50 far only one BIZ
l,ao
districts our new road commissioners will
never stop rain storms and mud. -. A large
amount of grain was put in here June 10Th.
1t is an experiment to SOW and plant 50 late,
and something that never happened 50 large
ly before. ID. M Ames of Stockton village
was selling the Mccormick moving ma
chine in Prospect recently One thing the
farmer can get cheap, and that will do the
work designed for it better than any hand
work, OR than any other farm machine now
in use is the mower. The most exciting
event in this section was the stampede of
Mr.. e. o. Hatch's cattle. They We're lazily
Jogging to the pasture in the morning; or
rather to put in the romantic, they were
gazing over the rail fences beyond the broad
sloping fields to where line of struggling
alders and bareback bushes marked the dis.
tant landscape, when all of sudden UP
went their heads and tails and all of THAR