The Republican journal., 1897-08-12
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE,

! BELMONT. Mrs. Martha Mcnamara and
daughter Addie of Camden are in town
| visiting Mr.. and Mrs O. F. Allenwood.
Mrs. Emma Morrill, was in Morrill, last week
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Herman Mer-
RAM. Irving A. Hills is at work for G. G.
| Abbott of Belfast. o.. One of the smartest
old ladies in town is Mrs. Mary Wyman,
who is So years of age and has tramped all
the loads of hay cut on her farm this season.
Her sister, who lives with her, Miss Keziah
Farrar, is SO years of age, went burberry
ing on Turnpike Mountain Camden, last
Thursday climbing to the very top of it.
They are the daughters of the late Rev.
Sands Farrar of Lincolnville. Frank o.
| Allenwood saw deer about one mile from
his home one day last week -. James H.
James of Belfast is at work for Harrison
Farrow during the hay season.. Willard
Morse and Fred Trask have bought new
| bicycles.
MORRILL,. One of our aged citizens, Mr.
j. w. Cross, passed away last week. The
| funeral was held at his late residence, Rev.
Geo. Hill officiating. He leaves a widow to
whom he had been married 60 years, and
eight children. Mrs. Mamie Higgins and
Miss Rosa Cross of Boston, are visiting their
father, Mr.. l. W. Cross. Mrs. Written
and Miss Mary Mason of Montyille were VS.
itors in town last Saturday and Sundav
Mr. Thibodeau, a brother of Rev. A. D.
| Thibodeau, is here on a VISIT. Mrs. John
Carter Of Maiden, Mass, and her sister,
Miss Fannie Williams of Freedom, We're Wis.
itors at Mrs. Deborah Thompson's and Mrs
D. o. Bowen's last week, Mr.. Silas Storer
and daughter, Mrs Della Wiggln, spent sew
eral days in Waldoboro last week . Mr.
and Mrs. Wilder of Searsmont We're visitors
in town and at church last Sunday. -. Miss
| Georgia S. Pratt of Belfast attended church
here Sunday She is visiting her uncle, Mr.
Jesse H. Frye of Montville. Mrs T \.
| Pearson is spending fortnight at North
| port Camp Ground .... Mr.. D. W Morev is
| improving slowly.
IsLEsBoRo. The Dark Harbor Side Walk
Club held a sociable at Union Hall last
Thursday evening. Ice cream and cake
were served. About SO We're realized. Two
Maine girls, Miss Wilder of Waterville and
Miss Belanger Of Oakland. belong to the
orchestra at the Isles borough Inn, and their
musical gifts are highly spoken Of. Mrs.
| NJ. J. Shaw OF Waterville and Mr. Frank
Washburn and wife of ThJmaston, who
have been boarding with Capt Hobart A.
! Dodge, left for their homes on Monday last
Miss Evelyn Pendleton and her sister
Grace arrived last week from Massachusetts
and are visiting their father, Capt Lorenzo
Pendleton.... Mrs. Bradbury and daughter,
mem bers Of fremont Temple Baptist church,
Boston, are boarding with Mrs. Charles
Hatch. The hotels, boarding houses and
private families seem to be full of summer
tourists and visitors. The Sunday services
at the Baptist church are largely attended
as 10 also the Christian Endeavor society on
Friday evenings. ...Some or 10 Masons
| turned out last week and moved about 10
acres Of hay and got it into the barn gratis
| for Captain Babbidge, who is sick in the
hospital at Boston. We We're visited last
Friday by a severe thunder storm with rain
and hail. 1t struck barn on the bluff and
badly wrecked it. Two young men We're
near by loading hay on cart We're pros
trated for a time. Several others We're
partially shocked. Lillian Tucker will
play here every night during the week.
PITTsFIELD. Races at Union Park four
days the past week closed Saturday night
We hear that there has been large attend
ance.. A. H. Burse has been active as su.
perintendent of the water works the past
week. He will be appointed as superintend-
ent in place Of Oramel Murray, who will
soon resign to attend to his duties as post
master. Allen Hackett arrived home re-
Gently from a trip to California. ...J S.
Hazeltine and family are taking a weeks
outing at Tilson cottage at Lake Sebasti-
cook. Miss Lois F. Parks of this village
and sister of the three Parks Bros, Insur-
ance agents of this place, was married few
days ago to Mr. Franklin S. Tabutt of Prov
idence, R. l.. Herbert WEIGH of Portland,
formerly of this town, has been visiting old
friends and relatives the past week. Miss
Hortense L. Bunker of Pittstield n H., has
been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. C. W. Lucas
Miss Lila Morrow is visiting her friend
Miss Pauline Read at Richmond. . Roy
| Libby, who has been with an electric firm
III Boston for several years, arrived recently
Mrs. Libby accompanied him and they will
spend the remainder of the summer here. -.
Prof and Mrs. B. A. Farnham of Chicago
are visiting their parents, MIR. and Mrs W.
d. Farnham. Prof Farnham has had charge
of the shorthand and typewriting depart
ment at the Bryant & Stratton Business
College, Chicago, for the last three years
His old classmates and friends are glad to
welcome him....A yoLng man seventeen
years old, by the name of Davis was drown
ed Saturday while out getting pond lilies
His father and mother were over here at the
races. Mrs. Dora Lewis, who had can
Ger removed at a hospital in Boston some
time within the past year, is again very low
with the same trouble and cannot recover
THE fall term of Maine Central Institute
begins Monday, Sept. 9th.
A GREAT SURPRISE IS IN STORE