The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-23
SEARSPORT LOCALS.


town this week.
Misses Maud and Julia Brown are visiting
friends in Boston.
W. T. c. Runnells made business trip to
Rockland this week.
Christmas services in the Confer u ce room
next Sunday evening
Miss A. n Carver and Henrietta Gilkey
returned home Saturday.
Fred r. Sweetser arrived home by train
Saturday evening for the holidays.
Jessie Nickerson is home from Wellesley
Tor the Christmas vacation.
Grace E. Field will spend the remainder
of the winter in Wilmington, Del.
Shepard Shute has a situation with G.. C.
Hamilton at SO Green street, Boston.
The Gospel meetings will be continued at
the M. E. vestry until further notice.
An account of the wedding of VIM. n.
Fowler will be found on the I'd page.
Mrs. S. A. Parsons of Pennington is visit
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. n. M. Weber.
SoPt' u aiAOS ~ L al anu uduRDl6I dTdC6
have gone to Fanueil, Mass, for the winter.
Bert Cocord entertained small company
of friends with Whist last Wednesday even
ing
Photographer W. c. futile will open his
studio next Monday noon until Thursday
p. In.
Robert Hichborn, who has made several
voyages with his father, arrived home Sat-
urday.
Mrs. E. c. Morrow, Frank E. Morrow and
Fred Ellis, Jr., went to Boston by steamer
Penobscot Monday.
Clement & Adams will sell their Christ
greatly reduced prices.
Bark EVE Reed, Capt A. T. W hitter, sail
ed from New York Dec. 2Oth with general
cargo for New Zealand
Sch. R. W. Hopkins, Capt. G. w HIGH
born, sailed from Philadelphia Dec. 18th,
with coal for Cienfuegos.
Mariners Lodge, F. & A. NJ, will meet
next Tuesday evening for instruction. Re-
freshments will be served.
The Methodist Sunday school will ha e
Christmas chimney aud entertainment at
the vestry on Friday evening.
The Congregational Sunday school will
Will have a Christmas tree and entertain
ment at Union Hall Friday evening.
David W. Kane, who has been employed
on yacht Merlin during the summer months,
arrived home by steamer Saturday,
Isaac Wallace while chopping the ice
around the dam at Merrill's Mill Mondav
broke through and received wetting.
We were misinformed in relation to the
movements of DIR. I. Prescott Morey He
will still continue to do business at the old
stand.
Any person finding fountain pen near
the Post Office will confer great favor on
one of the high school scholars by leaving it
with the postmaster.
Transformers of the First Congregational
Church are informed that the annual parish
NEE ling will be held next Friday afternoon
IN the conference room. A large attendance
is desired.
The Searsport Whist Club will be enter
talued at g. A. R. hall, Friday evening,
Dec. 31st from to u i. M, by Mrs. C. d.
Adams, Mrs. G. M. Mic hols, Mrs N. F. Gil
Key and all members are requested to come
in costume, masked
News was received Monday that Capt. J.
Z. Merrthew arrived in Boston Tuesday,
remaining there until Friday, when he left
on a through train for San Francisco Capt.
Merrthew was bearing up well under the
fatigue of the journey
The old brig H. H. Wright seems destined
not to reach the gold fields with the Cam
den, n. j., party. On Dec. 18th she went
ashore on Cross Ledge, Delaware Bay, while
on the way from Portland, Me-, to Philadel-
plna and will probably be total loss
The following young ladies from this viii
lage and Park have gone to Midway, Mass.
where they have employment in the straw
shop: Prudence Beach, Esther Beach, Kate
McGllvery, Prudence Griffin, Hattie Knee
land, Elsie May Towle, Lila Cyphers, Clara
Sweetser, Linda Colcord, Rowena Cocord,
W. Frank Smart had a narrow escape from
drowning, Monday noon. While skating on
the mill pond off Meyers Point he broke
through the ice in the channel and but for
the quick thought and activity of Bert Col
cord, who with several of his schoolmates
went promptly to Smart's assistance, would
doubtless have been drowned.
Freeman McGilvery W. R. c., at their an
nua meeting last Thursday, elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year: Mrs. j.
b. Sweetser, Pres. Mrs. E. E. Black, S. V.
c.; Mrs. E. R. Young, J. V. c.; Mrs Rilla
Whittum, Sec. Mrs. E. A. Small, Treas
Mrs. Anne Sargent, Chap. Mrs. Orilla A.
Whitcomb, Con-; Mrs. Emma Sargent, Asst.
Con. Mrs. E. o. Colson, Guard hrs. M. A.
Treat, Asst Guard; Mrs. E. O. Colson, Del
egate; Mrs. Amanda Curtis, Alternate
OBITUARY. Died in Presque Isle, Nov is,
Geo. W. Putnam, aged 63 years. Mr.. Put
nam was born in Searsport in June 1884 and
was a son Of the late Silas and Nancy Put
nam. He first married Eudoxa Mitchell, by
whom he had two sons, Samuel and Charles,
the latter dying here in 1874 Samuel moved
to Pressure Isle with his father about 1888