The Republican journal., 1897-10-07
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.

BURNHAM. Laura Ellis, Mrs. Eddie Ellis
and Mrs. James Applin of Belfast visited
Wm H. Kmball and wife recently. They
were en- route for Hallowell, where Mr.. Ellis
and Mr. Applin have employment at stone
work. Mrs. Addie r. Kimhall of Augusta
visited her father, VIM. II. Kimball, last
Friday y.J. E. Hart and VIM. II. Kimball
Belfast last week.
NORTH STOCKTON SPRINGS. Miss Lucy
Cunningham of Belfast is visiting Mrs.
Melvina Crockett. Mr.. WILDER Ridley has
been employed in Monroe for several weeks.
Mr.. Arthur Haley and Miss Jennie
Crockett had birthday party at Mr.. Haley's
Friday evening. The evening was pleasant
ly spent in dancing, with Mr.. James Jacobs
as musician. and nice treat was served.
Everyone had good time. Mrs. Arthur
Moore of Monroe is visiting her father, Mr..
n. w Staples. The Centre Sunday school
has been well attended during the summer,
and last Sunday extended an invitation to
Rev. Mr.. Fisher of Standpoint to meet
with them next Sunday. Mrs. Maggie
Staples and son visited relatives in Monroe
last week. Mr.. John Littlefeld and Misses
Matte and Addie Littleheld expect to start
Monday for Boston in search of employ.
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FREEDOM. The repairs on Freedom Acad-
emy are nearing completion, The rooms
will be supplied with new furniture and the
entire building heated by steam. Geo. I.
Read of Belfast piped the building. 1t is
now one of the finest school buildings in
Waldo county, as the repairs have been
thorough and complete. DR.. SmalPs new
house is nearly ready for occupancy -. Mr..
J. [. Watts is putting his house in fine order
and will open another hotel. Mr.. Fred
Nichols will begin work at once on a new
stable, and report says he will build new
house. Rev Mr.. Whittier of the Maine
Missionary Society occupied the pulpit at
the Congregationalist church last Sunday
morning and administered the ordinance of
baptism. Five were added to the church.
THE Ladies' Circle will be entertained
Thursday afternoon, Oct. 7th, by Mrs. Alb
bic Lamson. Mrs. Carter B. Keen has re-
turned from Rangeey and will remain here
short time before going to Washington,
D. C....Mrs. Fannie Carter has gone to
Boston for two weeks. When she returns
she will bring large supply of hats and
bonnets and a much larger stock of millin-
cry than usual. -. The Ladies' Club will be
entertained at IL a. M, Oct 18th by Mrs D..
r. McGray.
PROSPECT. Lemuel Ames is building an
L to the two story house of Capt. Harding
in the Ferry District and is also building a
piazza and finishing everything up to date.
Some few men are at work ON what last
year was the Warren quarry in Prospect.
j. F. Libby is getting his store stocked with
winter goods. His trade is helped out by
the many stone workers on the different
quarries in the vicinity. L. G. Cumming
was around last week hunting for delinquent
tax payers on the late John Brown tax book.
80. Prospect is now expecting to place an
iron bridge on the stream where the Ellis
bridge so-called has given out. ..,. George
Partridge has bought the William George
farm for a sheep ranch. The Nickerson
threshing machine of Swanville was thresh-
ing grain through here last week, and the
threshers report the straw tough and slow
threshing Grain got into the barn in good
order goes through a sweating process that
creates moisture, say in about the second
week AFTER that makes it harder to thresh
than it would the day it was put in the barn.
The grain crop here turns out fairly we'll for
early soWn. But late sown is Very poor and
some lots will not be threshed. The light
in the summer house on the top of Mt.
Waldo has been gone some time now. The
weather is fine for the fall work and good
deal of plowlng is done. Farming goes on
for next year, pay or no pay There is some
times consolation in short crops. We shall
get more for our apple crop this year than
we did last year for seven or eight hundred
bushels, and we can gather the crop this
year in day and half There are farmers
here who wilt get more money for their po-
tato crop than they did last year. The bean
crop was never much depended on in Waldo
county, but in other places they We're raised
at the low prices. Most of he low-priced
beans raised in the State of la st years crop
are probably slowed away and not picked
over yet. Kind Providence does not show
her bounty on all crops all the time and the
cheap food products 50 much talked about
are likely to be mighty high sometimes, and
perhaps before spring you will see food prod
ucts such as New England raises above the
war prices.