The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-03-18
SwANv1LLE. Percy L. Nickerson closed


1t is a ten-pound boy. The L. A. S. at d.
W. Billings was largely attended and much
enjoyed. They will meet with Miss Martha
NJ Nickerson Thursday, March 25th. Mr..
and Mrs Lamont O'Hanley are young peo-
pie who are highly respected by all who
know them and have the best wishes of their
friends for long and prosperous voyage
through life. In the town report in last
weeks issue the $500 for highway should
have been 1900. The school board met at
F. 81. Cunningham's last Saturday and re-
elected Mr.. 81. c. Marden superintendent of
schools. Mr.. Marden made very careful
superintendent and his reelection shows that
| his labors were appreciated. Mr.. E. G.
| Marden is on the sick list. The Swanville
Centre sociable will be postponed until one
week from next Wednesday on that account
.... Miss Vina Nickerson is in Hampden
keeping house for Mrs. S. D. Greeley, who
is stopping with her sister, Mrs. W. E.
Damn.
| SEARsMoNT. Mrs. Abbie Morse, the noted
Spiritualist medium, died quite suddenly last
| Thursday afternoon. She had been sick
with pneumonia but was very much better
and considered out of danger. She had
callers in the forenoon and ate her dinner
/ Soon after dinner she had an ill turn and
died before the doctor could be summoned
The cause of her death was heart failure
Mrs. Wentworth of Knox conducted the
| funeral services Saturday afternoon. She
leaves husband and two sons, Mr.. John
Hart of Burnham, son by former mar
| riage, and G. E. Morse of this town.. Mr..
A. X. Paul of Boston, Mass, was in town a
few days recently. The School committee
have elected A. l.. Maddocks Superintend-
ent of Schools. Misses Alice NJ Poor and
Hattie Bean are attending the spring term
of the Normal School at Castine.. Mr.. Bert
Toothaker has returned to his studies at
Bucksport Seminary. Mr.. John c. Rob
bins of Biddeford has been spending a week
with A. l.. McCorrison.
Brooks. Frank Whitney of Burnham and
Bert Sawyer of Foxcroft visited friends
here Friday. In a letter from Rev. F. S.
Forbes of Santa Barbara, California, to
friends here, he writes that he now has new
potatoes ready for the table and has peas
past the blossom. LIN reply to the Sears
port correspondent we would say that either
the Simon S. Forbes or the John NJ. Dow
farms in the west part of this town can be
bought this spring. Both are in good con-
dltion and contain about 200 acres of land
They will besold as the owners are growing
old. John G. Lane has let his place to
Dana Reynolds for the season and he will
continue to travel for the same rm that he
has been at work for. Mrs. Lane has gone
to Orono to visit her parents . Walter
Packard has another little girl to care for.
-. Isaac S. Staples has been confined to the
house with the grip for the past week Mrs.
Staples has been sick for the past two weeks.
-. Mrs. Geo. w. Lewis has gone to Boston
to join her husband, who is in business
there Miss Nina Tasker will 90 to Boston
soon to take position as nurse in a hosp-
tall. Mrs. Berry of Thorndike has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs Charles
F. Bessey, of this town.. And now Charles
is proud of his Guinea pig trade, after all.
The stock has received valuable additions
recently and the little ones are the delight of
the children. Augustus Curtis is boarding
in the family of Hiram Michaels. Mrs A.
B. Wentworth is still very sick and but
little change is noticed in her condition
.....It is very sckly in this vicinity
and the doctors are kept busy
Mrs Winnie Chase stopped with Mrs. T.
A. Elliott while Miss Media Dodge had
short vacation. Il. G. Reynolds, Charles f.
Bessey and Wm. n. Crosby are the trustees
of the Brooks sinking fund. The family
of Horace Roberts has been quite sick.
Our young people very much regret the I'M
timely death of young Mark Shibes of
Knox, who has often attended the enter
tainments in this place and with whom we
We're all acquainted. -. Mrs. Susan Little
field of Belfast is visiting her old home in
Brooks. The selectmen will now receive
proposals for support of the poor of the town
for the ensuing year. All bids should be
put in before the first day of April, when
they will be considered. Miss Mabel Bes-
sey has returned from Thorndike, where she
spent three weeks with her sister, Mrs, Ber-
ry... Miss Grace Dow will not go back to
Castine this spring, but is assisting her
father in the store. The family OF Nathan
iel Evans will remain in Brooks this sum-
mer. VIM. Roberts has been under the
weather for the past few weeks. Miss
Mabel Ellingwood, who the past season has
been away and learned the dressmakers'
trade, has decided to go into business here
She will have rooms with Mrs. Josephine
Fogg and will work at the homes of her Gus
toners when they wish it. Mrs. Huff and
daughters have had more work than they
could do the past season. Mrs Bin Stan
| tial has also been kept busy. There is al
ways work in that line to do. Charles W.
Lane has dog called Jack that is something
of a curiosity from the fact that he is now
eighteen years old. He has kept the dog
from pup and knows his age. I'D. Miss Min
ME Day has returned from Boston, where
she spent five weeks in visiting friends.
A. B. Stantal is in Penobscot county this
week collecting for the Great Eastern
Fertilizer Co. DIR. A. W. Rich was no.
titled Tuesday of the death of Uncle
Thorndike Rich in Unity. The funer-
al will be held to-day, Thursday, at
the Union church and the remains will
be taken to Jackson for interment. Miss
Ella Mathews is spending the winter with
the family of Alfred Hubbard in Thorndike
E. G. Holbrook is off the road this bad
| weather. and is spending the time at home
with his family DIR. q. W. Jenneys, dem
fist, who settled here last season is having a
good run of business. Mr.. Reynolds of
Unity has been quite sick at the home of his
son-in-law, Fred W. Brown, Jr., Esq of