The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-11-10
SEARSPORT LOCALS.

fupUOgrapD6r IuUUlt COMES uoAG
Nov. H. for week.
Laura NJ. Carver left by steamer Wednes-
day for Foxboro, Mass.
Charles Barney and wife have returned to
Everett, Mass, for the winter.
Capt. Henry P. Talpy has sold his house
on steam boat avenue to Mr.. Brett of Boston.
Capt. A. F. Whittier arrived home from
New York last Thursday evening by train.
Capt. l.. A. Colcord, who has made trip
in schooner Gladys, arrived home Monday
evening.
Mrs. Lillias Nichols will spend the winter
with her sister, Mrs. d. P. Nichols, in NAL
den, Mass.
The young people will give another of
their popular sociabes at G. A. r. hall Fri
day evening
The ladies of the Congl. church are re-
quested to meet in the conference room next
Tuesday at , p. m.
Mrs Lucy A. Nickels has gone to Lowell,
Mass, to spend the winter with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. G. H. Jennison.
tIlHOTu NlGn0IS returned from w llIluldntC
Saturday, bringing, as a result of his hunt a
buck that weighed over POO pounds.
The Ladies Missionary Reading Circle of
the Congl. church will meet with Mrs.
Hopkins tomorrow afternoon at o'clock.
The monthly contribution at the Congl.
church, due last Sunday, was postponed
until next Sunday on account of the storm.
Quite d party went from here to Belfast
Tuesday evening to attend the special meet
ing of Corinthian Chapter Royal Arch
Masons.
Mrs. Ruth Dyer celebrated her eghtieth
birthday Tuesday. Quite reception was
given her by friends and neighbors in the
afternoon.
j. C. Dutch and Chesley Mathews, who
have been employed in the shipyards at
Bath during the summer, returned home
last week
Willie Rice has seen three deer near the j.
H. Eames place several times recently.
These are probably the same animals seen in
other parts of the town
Don't forget the picnic sociable at G. A.
r. hall this, Thursday, evening The wives
of the veterans and ladies of the Relief
Corps are invited to be present.
j. E. Harding of Rochester, n. H., spent
few days in town, ard left Tuesday morning.
He was accompanied back by his mother,
who will spend the winter in Lawrence,
Mass.
f. NJ. Gilmore's dances in the school house
at Moose Point are becoming very popular.
Twenty couple We're in attendance last Fri
day evening. He proposes to continue them
during the winter,
The ladies' whist club of last year, having
funds III the treasury, gave whist party al
the hote. last Friday evening. Mr.. Grinnell
furnished the party a fine lunch. and ali
pronounced it very enjoyable occasion.
QUICK DISPATCH. Capt A. " Nickels
telegraphed to Montevideo from Searsport
after ten O'Clock in the forenoon and receiv-
ed an answer to his message in time to take
the boat for Boston, which arrives at two
o'clock p. III.
The Rockland Daily Star OF Nov. 4th has
extracts from Hon. d n. Mortland's lecture
on his trip to Europe, delivered recently at
Rockland. The numerous friends of Mr..
Mortland in his native town would enjoy
hearing the lecture and we hope sometime
he may be induced to give it here.
The Waldo Co. Veteran Association, at
the meeting in North Searsport last Thurs
day. voted to accept the invitation of mem
bers of Freeman McGilvery Post to hold the
next meeting Thursday, Dec. 1st, in Sears
port village. Committees have been ap-
pointed and it is proposed to give the assoc
citation a rouslng welcome.
Mr.. and Mrs. j A. Clement Mrs Prud
ence Johnson and Capt. Amos Nichols and
wife Left by train Thursday morning for
Daytona, Florida, where they will spend
the winter. They will be joined in Boston
by Mrs. E. d. Col31rd and daug hter Maude
and at New York 10y Capt. w. V. Nickerson
all OF whom expect to spend the winter in
Florida.
1t is reported that Russell Sage has sold
the railroad from St. Stephen to ST. John to
the Grand Trunk r. h. Co., which has Sc
cured running rights over the Wash
lngton Co. r. R. to enable them to compete
with the Canadian Pacific, with St. John as
a winter port. 1t is further rumored that
they are negotiating for the franchise of the
old shore line route through here.
George NJ. Porter of the U. S. Marines,
one of the heroes of Guantanamo, arrived
home by tram Monday evening on a thirty
days furlough. Mr. Porter comes Of fight
ing family, his grandfather and father hav-
ing been among the early volunteers in the
civil war. His great uncle on his grand
mothers side was soldier of the war of
1872 and his great great grandfather was in
the Revolutionary war.
NORTH sEARsPoRT ITEMS
Eden G. Smart is building an ice house.
John Hutchins has moved to East Belfast
E. W. Thompson Las his new house near
ly completed.
The dance at the Grange hall was de-
cided success
There will be a dance at this place Nov
10TH If stormy, the next fair night.
Comrade Brown of Freedom attended the
veterans meeting at this place.