The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-07-29
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE,

COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE
SwANvILLE. Miss MCGEE and Master
Arnold Davis of Boston are the guests of
Miss Alice G. Kane. General F. S. Nicker.
son of Cambridge, Mass, has been visiting
relatives and friends in town the past week
The L. A. S. at DR.. J. S. Coles last
Thursday was largely attended. Daniel
Nickerson in last weeks it ems should have
read Darrell Nickerson.
BELMONT. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Clark OF
Centre Lincolnville were in town Sunday.
Miss Hattie Jackson is at work in Belfast.
THE weather for the past week has been
poor for haying; many of the farmers have
just begun. The Lend Hand Circle, Or
der Kings Sons and Daughters, will meet
Sunday, Aug. LIST, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. n. B. Allenwood. Topic, expert
ence;' Bible word, disciple" 49,. Farmers
Pride Grange of Lincolnviile whose hall
was recently burned, will entertain the
county grange at Mystic Grange Hall, Aug.
10th.
TROY. The past week, rain has done a
good deal of damage to hay and retarded the
work of finishing up to a great degree.
B. F. Harding prided himself on having the
best piece of oats in town, and after the rain
it was as fiat as though it had been mown,
and is ruined. There has been several
deaths in town recently. Mr. and Mrs. Al
fred Wright buried their baby. Mrs. Sarah,
wife of Francis Call, an old resident of Troy
died from injuries received from fall, after
suffering several weeks. Mr.. John Getchell
who kept a store of general III erchandise at
the Centre, fell unconscious while waiting
upon a customer and died before medical
help could reach him. He had been suffer-
ing from heart trouble for some time, but
was able to attend to business. Miss A lvira
Heath died on the 23d inst She had been
confined to her bed for several years, and by
her death must have been greeted as a
friend. She had no Immediate relatives and
had been an inmate of the family of Mrs,
Payne for long time. Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Knowles of Lowell, Mass are at home
for the summer. Miss Elva Hasty has
been spending few days in town, the guest
of DR.. and Mrs. M. T. Dodge. Miss Nellie
Merrck of Waterville is visiting relatives
and friends in town.. Mr. F. B. Green of
Boothbay spent Saturday and Sunday with
B. F. Harding. Mr.. Winsiow Whitaker is
failing fast. He has been in poor health a
long while. -. Clare Whitney has a slight
attack Of tonsilitis; DR.. Cook of Unity was
called to prescribe for nim.
PITTsFIELD. Sylvester Phinney has come
home to do his haying. He is engaged on a
$4,000 contract of road building at Isle au
Haut. He has had several jobs of this kind
at the same place and his work gives good
of Boston are at the Lancey House to spend
the summer. Mrs. W. W. Cushman and
children of Caremont,N n. H., are visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Holmes, and
other relatives in town. DR.. Cushman is
expected to arrive in few days for short
stay Mr.. Edward Dutton of Skowhegan
was in town one day last week on business
! Mrs. j. d. Wentworth of Hartford
Conn, is spending the summer with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. S. Noble. Mrs
G. d. Starbird Of Lowell, Mass, and Miss
K ate Wells of Fairfield visited Mrs James
| Conner last week Miss Clara Grant has
| returned to her home in Unity after a
visit of several months here with her
| brother, L. M. Grant. Mr.. and Mrs. B. F
Watson of Pennington Falls, Mr.. A. A.
Greenwood, Miss Ida Greenwood and
Master Arthur Hilton of Attica, Ind, were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Kimball last
week. Geo. Emery, who was at work on
the new school building last week, was so
| Frustrated with the heat he had to be
taken to his home and it is thought that he
will not be able to resume work at present
....H. A. Morrell is burning kiln of two
| hundred thousand bricks which will be in
condition this week to fill orders. =. Frank
| Waldron is at home for vacation of sew
| eral week from his duties as head clerk in
drug store at Augusta. Oscar Schmidt ar
rived last week from New York City to visit
his sister, Mrs. L. M. Grant. He will clerk
in Mr.. Grants store through the summer.
...John Erskine is enjoying a vacation
from the drug store of H. A. Erskine. ..
We have traced with interest in The Jour-
nal the visits of Cyrus Roberts and wife of
Lawrence, Mass, and hope they will not
pass by their friends in Pittsfield while en-
joying their summer outing. E. Dins-
more has opened a boot and shoe store in
the store recently vacated by J. A. Morri-
son. Mr.. Dinsmore, after being absent
some twenty years or more from Pittstield
and having tried the realities of western
life, is content to return to old friends and
home and to resume his old occupation.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. N. Shaw have gone for 6.
two weeks outing at G. M. Lancey's cot
tage on the shore of Moose Pond. Guy
Small is home from Brunswick for few
weeks. -. Many of our citizens are at the
seashore and other places of resort. D. Mr..
and Mrs. B. D. Bowden we're in Mercer last
week. Mr.. Bowden will superintend the
cutting of the hay crop on the home farm
occupied by them before coming to this viii
lage.