The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-10-28

| ing for Conant & Co., Belfast. -. A. j. Clary
has work in New Hampshire and will leave
in about one week. -. Will Ames of Sears
port is making the rounds with his thresh-
| ing machine. Grain is light especially oats
some lots weighing less than fifty lbs. per
bag.
BUcKsPoRT. Mr.. and Mrs Frank Buck of
Orland celebrated their golden wedding at
their home Oct. 18th. reception was
| given from to at which a large number of
friends and relatives were present. Many
valuable presents were received. An IAN
cent table was an object of much interest.
The table held, besides other articles, Mrs.
Bucks wedding bonnet and cap worn by
Mr.. Buck when baby. Among those pres
ent from Bucksport were Mr.. and Mrs Geo
| Bodgett, Mrs Pond, A. F. Skinner, Mrs.
| Woodman, Miss May Woodman Mrs. Thos.
Swazey, Rev. VIM. Forsyth, Mrs. F. P Per-
ry, Edw. Swazey, Mr.. and Mrs. Edw Buck,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Lee, Miss Barnard and
Miss Lottie Barnard. -. Fifty members of
the Castine G. A. r. and Relief Corps arrv.
ed Thursday evening on steamer Silver Star
! to partake, by invitation, of the annual har-
vest supper of the local veterans and their
ladies'. About one hundred sat down to a
bountiful supper Commander Col. S. P.
| La Gros delivered the address of welcome.
There were also speeches by Capt. Hiram
| Fogg and others, singing, Rotations war
stories and general soCability until late
hour, when the visitors sailed home by the
| light of the harvestimoon. Misses Frances,
! and Lottie Swazey arrived home Oct. 18th
| from Boston trip. Miss Caroline Wood
som arrived home Thursday from visit to
relatives in Clinton. Mr.. and Mr.. Rufus
! Emery arrived on the Thursday evening
train from a trip to New York and Boston.
APPLETON Mr.. and Mrs Tolman Young,
who have been visiting their daughter, Mrs.
| f l. Davidson have returned to their home
in Liberty Miss Lottie Young is in Bos-
/ ton buying her winter stock of millinery....
Mrs Charlotte Hawkes. is boarding at f. L.
Davidson s.. Mrs Knowlton of Montville
| is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Caro- keat-
| ing. Orman Keen of North Appleton,
who is attending High school here, was hit
! by bat while playing ball, and a broken
| arm was the result Miss Addie Davis is in
Concord, n. H, where she viii spend the
winter with Mr., and Mrs. Walter Gushee
Mrs Sophia Fuller has moved to Wash
ington. Miss Etfie Mitchell is teaching in
the Young district. Mrs. II. c. Pease is
visiting relatives in Winthrop, Mass Miss
Linda Annis is spending a few weeks in
! Boston. G. I'll. Page and wife returned
Friday from three weeks visit with friends
in Nashua, n. H, Boston, Lowell and Ma
tick, Mass, stopping on their return few
days in Bath. Miss Edith Gushee has re-
turned from Boston, where she has been re-
ceiving treatment for her eyes. 50. A bert
Stuart is in Boston. Mrs. LetOy Jackson
is visiting in Atlantic, Mass. Bonnie
Keller and Clarence Simmons came home
from Castine Friday, returning Monday.
The number of scholars in our district has
been increased within the last three weeks
by the number Of u, by the arrival of two
William Sleepers and Edwin
! Browns.
PROSPECT. Mr. and Mrs. Frank X. Lane
of Castne are visiting Fred A. Lane and
wife of Prospect. There will be a shortag
i'll cats IN this vicinity soon. An old, Wild
voracious tomcat has been getting his living
by catching the kittens and partly grown
cats, and all the young cats have to be kept
housed nights. Everybody is Interested in
coon cats here now and the kittens are
named, and some names are from noted
places and persons. A few names that
know are Babylon, Pontius PLATE, Louisa,
liam Penn and Valparaiso. Since the coony
strain has got along the cat has been thought
more of and more than double the cats are
kept, and mice and rats have increased.
News is rather scarce this week 80 will tell
cat story. When | first came onto this
farm, some 40 years ago, started in keep
ing bachelors hall, and for pets we kept
dog and cat and along in the spring the cat
had some kittens. A little distance from
the house under shed an old skunk had a
| lot of little ones, and after the kittens were
big enough to go out they got notion
somehow that they could play with the
! young skunks. Along in the first OF the
evening was the time they used to try. AS
| nearly as l could find out the young skunks
were too high tempered to have kitten dig
cling their hind feet into their hide in clinch
and nearly every evening their play ended
in fight. But the old cat had the hardest
part to bear, for the old skunk went for the
cat and scented her every time the young
ones got to fighting. But after a while
the skunks left and the kittens grew
up to be quite large, but they all We're
taken with tits and Sach is as would
scare almost anyone. We laid the fits
to bites or scratches from the skunks
There are two or three kinds of fits that
cats have, and these cats seemed well
enough until suddenly their nerves SEEM
ed to strain to desperate tension and
as quick a flash, if they happened to be in
the middle of the room, they would iump.
say nearly II feet, and strike the finishing
over the top of the window with their fore
| paws, and before you could think, or hardly
see how it was done, they would strike once
in the middle of the floor and go I'D the
other side of the room. OF course such COM
pany was little scary, so we began to get
| rid of the cats. But the old cat was the
hardest customer. She was desperate in
| fit. One day we got hold of her and althoupb