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

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son visited friends in Bucksport last'week.
.... Miss Emma CHM is at home on her va
cation from Auburndale, Mass....W c.
Randall returned to his home in Providence,
R. l., July 21st.
UNITY. 1t has been quite lively at Win
dermere Park the past week. Mr.. Shaw
from Belfast with some friends from Massa-
chusetts are stopping at the Clough building.
A party of Unity girls with Mrs. Joseph
Libby as chaperon are in the same build
ing. Mr.. Charles Taylor family have been
at his cottage. Some Fairfield people are in
the South Shore cottage. There are some
hotel boarders. Mr.. Quimby and wife from
Amesbury, Mass, are visiting 81. II. Grant.
....Nellie Hamilton returned from Montana
last week. MIR. Melvin Needham from
Nebraska is visiting Charles Stevens 80.
Miss Harrington from Boston is at J. R.
Tabor S.. Mr.. Augustus Stevens and wife
from Troy were in the village Friday. Mrs.
Bertha Earl spent few days in Belfast last
week with her mother, Mrs. Rackliff. -. Mr..
Rolf has begun making cans in the corn
factory. The prospect is not very good for a
large crop of sweet corn. Mr.. and Mrs
Henry Kelley and daughter of Fairfield are
the guests of Mrs. Samuel Kelley. Mrs
Coombs and daughter of Bangor are i'll town,
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Taylor.
They spent few days at the Park. go Mrs.
Gerrish went to Bradford last week to visit
friends. :. Mr.. and Mrs. Hill and Joseph
of E,i Snll loo nnlr II,
Park, they occupied the South Shore cot
tage. Almost every young gent and lady
in the village has a bicycle. Some nights
there will be dozen or Is on Main street.
There are some good lady riders.
HALLDALE. Asa Hail. who was so badly
hurt last week by being thrown from his
wagon, died Monday evening, July 18th,
aged so years and % days. Friday morning,
July 10th, he took milk to the cheese factory
in Freedom. On returning home when driv-
ing into his dooryard one of the milk cans
fell from the wagon which frightened the
horse, causing him to run through the slight
ly opened doors into the barn. The doors
were badly shattered and Mr. Hall was
thrown from the wagon with great force,
terribly injuring his head and neck also
giving his nervous system severe shock
DIR. j. W. Mitchell of Freedom was called
who did all in his power to ease his suffer
ing while he lived. Mr.. Hall was a good
citizen, kind husband and indulgent
father. He will not only be missed By his
family but by the community in which he
lived. The church has also sustained
great loss, as he had been one of the pillars
many years. He leaves a wife, two sons and
three daughters to mourn their loss His
funeral was from the church Wednesday
afternoon, Rev. David Bracket of Brooks
officiating The remains were inferred in
the family lot in the cemetery on the hill....
Mrs. j. F. Hazel returned from Massachu-
sets last Tuesday. Almost every farmer
had considerable hay out, during the dull
weather last week, which was badly black
ened. The crop will be good if good weather
can be had to Secure it. Mrs. Diantha
Stevenson returned home from Lowell,
Mass, where she spent the winter, last
week. She was accompanied by her daugh-
ter, Mrs. E. W. Puffer and two children
PALERMO. Your correspondent recently
had call from Mrs. A X. 2. Leighton of
Bangor. Mrs. Leighton is a daughter of the
late Elder Nathaniel Robinson, one of the
early settlers of Beaver Hill, now Freedom.
She visited Freedom, where her father and
grandfather used to live, and Palermo
where her father lived from 1904 to 1910 and
where he was pastor of the First Baptist
church for six years. Mrs. Leighton was
anxious to visit the places where her father
spent his early days and wished to view my
grandfathers barn where her father was or
dained to the ministry and held meetings
before any schoolhouse or meeting house
was built. She gathered some keepsakes
from the farm where he lived in 1905. In
1906 he took up the farm where Eli Carr
now lives when it was wilderness and
built the first buildings there. Maud Nell
sons children of Haverhil, Mass, are visit
ing their grandmother, Eliza Nelson..,,.
Miss Gertie, the two-year-old child of Frank
Brown of n. Palermo, was kicked in the face
by horse last Sunday. The horse got
loose and ran into the yard where the child
was at play. The toe-calk struck her upper
lip, the heel-calks struck her in the forehead
inhicting terrible gashes. $50. Miss Lena
Fowler, the youngest daughter of Charles
Fowler, aged 80 years, died Monday of last
week. The funeral occurred Wednesday
at the home; sermon by Harry Hinckley
Her relatives from abroad were her sister
Lizzie of Washington; her brothers, Edward
of Randolph; Alvin of Chelsea and George
of Freeport, also her unces B. Sherman and
Thomas Carpenter of Liberty. ... Harry
Hinckley was called to Boston this week on
business. :. Miss Edith Nelson has been
quite sick for two weeks.
BROOKS. Nathaniel Evans has been in
Whitefield looking after his property inter-
ests there. Simon Cilley of this town, at
the age of "a, looks after his farm interests
every day and works part of the time,
John M. Dow, at the age of SO, is at his farm
experimenting the harvesting of his hay
crop. He will NOW over more than one hun
bred acres the present season.. Our cloth
ing manufacturers are just now uncommon
ly busy. Miss Mabel Rose, who has had a
present of nice riding outfit, has been hav-
ing lots of recreation horseback riding
She prefers it to the popular craze of the
bicycle. -. Will White, wife, and son Carl,