The Republican journal., 1897-09-09

Mr.. and Mrs. J. @. Adams are visiting in
Camden, Rockland and Lincolnville this
week.....H. E. Howes Las contracted to
finish barn for B. F. Fuller on the Sever
ance farm. He has Willie and G. S. Adams
at work for him. I'd @. Peavey is shingling
his house. J. S. Bartlett is working for him.
Miss Inez Peavey began school at Nc
Farland's Corner Monday. The school did
not begin in this place Monday on account
of the teacher, Miss Sibyl Mariner, being
sick. 1t will begin week later Mrs.
from few weeks visit to her son, Prof.
J. F. Knowlton of Ellsworth
HALLDALE. Rev. James Washburn of
Parkman is visiting friends here. Rev. T.
r. Pentecost preached a very interesting
sermon at the Vose schoolhouse last Sunday
and son Leon visited in Auburn last week,
...M Mrs. A. E. Sisty and Miss Celia Pom
tiers left for their home in Ohio Aug. 3Oth.
They will stop in Boston and Lowell on
their way. Mrs. j. F. Hazel went to Ra
zorville to preach last Sunday ). Mrs. Han
nah Green left for her home in Franklin.
VT, Sept. 1st.. Mrs. Clara Sawyer lately
moved to Belfast. E. W. Puffer and fam
lily left for their home in Lowell, Mass last
Saturday. Miss Hannah Vose began the
school in ireland" last Monday. Miss
Susie Vose attended the State Fair in Lew
iston last week
MONROE. DR.. Sewall and wife and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. George, from Roxbury, Mass.
are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman
Atwood. Every one in Monroe looks for
ward to the Dr.'s annual visit, for he left
many friends made during his years of
practice here. Miss Agnes Morrill, and
Mrs. Freeman Hussey of Winterport were
the guests of Mrs. Franklin Chase last Sum
day.. Mrs. Hannah Conant, who lives
about a mile from this village, had shock
last week from which it is feared she will
not recover. She is SO years old =. The
Monroe fair is near at hand and preparations
are being made by almost everyone to help
take care of visitors. Miss Eva Cook is at
tending the fall term of school at Castine.
Miss Birdie Lincoln from Massachusetts
is here stopping with her grandfather, John
Strattard. Minnie Lincoln, who has been
here, has returned to attend the fall term of
school.
LIBERTY. Rev. Geo. R. Berry and family left
for their home in Hamilton, N. Y, Monday
....1 he trot which will be held here Satur-
day, Sept. 18th, bids fair to have good list
OF entries and large crowd of people.
Those who attended the Eastern State Fair
at Bangor speak of it as a very tame affair
Mrs. R. j. White and son Stone of St. Louis.
Mo-, are visiting her brother, j. j. Walker.
Ralph l. Morse left for Bates college
Monday morning, as did Harry Brown for
the M. G. Institute at Pittsfield. Willie l..
Carglll has returned to Pittsfeld for his
second years course, and Don Walker has
gone to Colby University. One of the per-
sons injured at the train wreck near Etna
village. He left here with his mother last
Friday. THE village High school began
Monday. ... Work has been resumed at the
tannery. Arthur Richie, Esq, spent Sat
urday and Sunday at the Etna Campmeet-
ing. Mss Grace Chadwick of Rockland is
quite sick at the Sanford House. Mrs j
o. johnson is not improving as fast as her
friends wish... The summer soiourn-
ers have nearly all lett town,
PITTsF1ELD. Our village schools and the
M CT. began Monday. The f. B. and Nj
versaist churches We're re-opened Sunday
and services resumed after a few weeks
vacation. The Methodist people do not take
any vacation except to attend campmeeting
There We're none from this place on the
ill-fated train which met with such serious
accident Sunday while on its way from
Dover, FoXcroft and other towns in that i
cinity to the Etna Campgroun A wheel
broke on one car, upsettng it, killing one
outright and seriously njuring 80 or more,
some of whom have since died. Physicians
were Immediately summoned from Water
vile, Pittsfeld, and other surrounding
towns on the line of the road. Four went
from here, Drs. Griffin, Porter, Goodrich
and Marden. DR.. F. J. Taylor is confined
to his bed with typhoid fever or he would
have been there also. Dr. W. G. Marden's
knowledge of surgery, acquired in the hos
pitfalls ,.served him we'll in this emergency..
Mrs. Nelson Vickery has returned from a
visit to friends in Unity. Rev. R. E. Bis
bee of Chicopee, Mass, was in town one day
last week. A. NJ. Jones, Bates 1890, was
stopping at DR.. Taylor's last week. Miss
Maude Bracket is clerking in W. B. Mills
& Co.'S store a few weeks. -. Mr.. and Mrs
h. L. Spaulding and son Earle, MIR. and
Mrs. Frank Randlett and Mrs. Albion With
am, returned last week from the Hackett
family reunion, which was held in Madison.
. Mrs. Robt. Dobson, Mrs. S. R. Haines
and F. W. Briggs have left Old Orchard,
where they stopped several weeks, and gone
to the White Mountains for short sojourn.
William c. Chapman of Camden has been
visiting his sister, Mrs. B. F. Spaulding, the
past two weeks. He dates his ancestry
back to 1915, when Ralph Chapman emigrat-
ed to America and he has history of all
the Chapman families since that date. He
is smart man to be travelling around alone
at the age of 81 years. Rev. G. l.. White
and family have returned from Ocean Park,
and he occupied his pulpit Sunday. Mr..
Richard Hackett, formerly of this town, but
for several years a resident of Lowell, Mass.
is in town.. Mr.. and Mrs. William Harris