The Republican journal., 1898-10-06
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.

COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE
CAMDEN. H. M. Bean, the ship builder,
has bought the B. F. Adams residence on the
corner of High and Mountain streets and will
| move into it in the early part of December.
MIR. Adams will vacate it the first of October
and repairs and improvements will take
place. Joseph Bryant has offered twenty
five dollars reward for the body of his son
Edward who WAS drowned Sunday, Aug. IS,
between Camden harbor and the islands.
LINCoLNvILLE CENTRE. VIM. Mckinney
has on hand a few more wagons, and also
horses and harnesses, which he will sell or
exchange. The members of Tranquility
Grange have their stable nearly completed
and it is fine one. There will be a socia-
BILE at the Town House Friday night. Oct. It'll
Ice cream and cake will be served, Come
one, come all. Mr.. Good win, the travelling
man for the D. NJ. Osborne Co., stopped at
VIM, McKinney's over Sunday. Geo ID.
Spauding of this place and Albert knights
OF Boston have gone to Charleston for A few
days hunting Mrs. Geo, ID. Spaulding and
Miss Wood called on Miss Hattie Hooke
Sunday Miss Flossie Young has gone to
Camden. where she viii finish her trade in
millinery this fall.
UNITY. Mrs Adam Myrick has been
very sick but is better at this writing ....
Sadie Pillsbury has gone to Lawrence,
where she has employ ment. -. CalIie Fuller
returned Sept. 2Sth from Boston, where she
visited friends and went to Pittsfield Oct 81
to take charge of a millner's shop. The
infant son of MIR. and Mrs. Ed Hunt was
buried Oct. 1st....Mrs II. B. Rice returned
from Liberty Saturday,. Mrs. Darius Gil
man of Dover, n. H., former resident of
Unity, was in town last week calling on
friends. Mrs. Glsteve Blanchard has
moved to Belfast and has let her farm to
Eugene Stewart, DIR. A. Thomas of
Waterville was i'll town last week, called
here to visit "a patient Mrs. John Vandeets
is quite sick The w. Il, @. is still pros
pering They met with Mrs. A. H. Myrick
Sept. 2Sth aud Oct 9TH. Miss Ida White
house returned to Portland last week ..
Mr.. n. c. knights is improving slowly.
LIBERTY. The event of the week here
was the two days exhibit of farm products
at Hall St. George by John W Prescott of
this town. The entire exhibit was grown on
his farm, and one hundred and seventy-tve
varieties were shown. He said he could
have pat in fifty more, This exhibit couldnot
be excelled by any one farm in Maine, and
possibly could be not duplicated from any
farm in New England. The whole communi-
tv was surprised at the magnitude of the ex.
hibit and all say that barringfruit, there was
more than to be seen than at the State
fair i'll Lewiston; more than at the Monroe
fair and four times as much as at the North
Knox fair in Unity. Hall St. George is
quite large hall, 15x40, and it was full
Two wide tables extended nearly the entire
length and one across the end and all were
packed full and there was large lot on the
stage. The question that interests us is
this: If MIR. Prescott can do all this with the
clip OF an aged father and one hired man,
besides filling large barns with hay and
grain, cellar with fruit, potatoes and other
vegetables, and corn house full of golden
corn, why can not others do the same? Is it
in the man or in the land? We are of the
opinion that, like our navy, it was not the
ships or the guns that gave us our great VIC
tories, "but the man behind the gun Fol
lowing are varieties of the different kinds
Apples, "A; potatoes, II; beans, % peas, 3
squash, %; pumpkins, %; cabbage, 4, besides
purple; beets, 6 CARROTS, ,: onions, 2; tur.
nips, 4; gourds, = kale, /; cault1ower. q
kale rabi, ia species of turnip) watermelon,
ripe, 2; musk melon, ripe, 2; cantaloupe, 2;
grapes, 3; winter radishes; butter pickles
and preserves. The exhibit included sofa
pillow made by Mr.. Prescott's grandmother,
80 years of age, without the aid of glasses.
There was also on exhibition in the hail
flag captured by Capt. E. E. Hatch at Ma
Mia. 1t was not the regulation Spanish
flag but some kind of Corps flag. 1t had
five stripes, three red and two yellow, with
several crosses. Mrs. W. D. Sanford visit
ed friends in Rockland last week. =. Ellis
Berry and wife of Troy visited friends in
this village last week. -. The officers of
Georges River Lodge, F. & A. NJ, will be
installed at their lodge room Saturday even
ing, Oct. 9Th lat p. M, A. W. Ward, d. ID. G.
NJ, of Thorndike installing officer. None
but Masons and their ladies are invited.
Supper at the Sanford House. Mrs. Han
nah Knowlton, widow of the late Samuel
Knowlton. was found dead in her bed last
Friday morning. Mrs. Knowlton had been
partially insane for nu mber of years
She was a pensioner by reason of the loss
of son in the army and was under guar
dianship. She was buried Sunday from the
home Of her son-in-law, G. N. Stevens.