The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-03-03
Snow Bound at North Searsport,

Which was formerly Blacks Corner. situat-
ed near Swan Lake, which was formerly
Goose Pond.
Our North Searsport correspondent sent
US, after the big storm of Feb. 1st, the fol-
lowing veracious account of the situation at
his home. We were unable to print it at
the time, but now put it on record as part
of the literature of the blizzard of 1898:
Now, Mr.. Editor, don't suppose you ever
have any cold weather or billiards. down
your way, so will give you little sketch
of the one we have had up here. Think of
being snow bound for nearly whole week
| no communication with the outside world ;
| telegraph and telephone wires all down ;
| lights all out with the exception of few
| empty oil barrels stuck up on wood pile /!
Mr. Editor, it has been cold up this way
so cold that the fishermen on the pond had
to bring home the trout they caught because
| they froze before they could get them off
| the hook and back into the water The men
| who were hauling ice had to stop work, as
| before they could get to the ice houses the
ice froze so thick that it stalled the horses
! 1 thought 1 would see just how cold it
| was and hung out three Thermometers, one
above the other The mercury of the first
went down into the second and the second
! into the third, and the third went out of
sight.
| 1t SHOWS up here sometimes, Mr. Editor.
BY actual measurement the snow is now ten
feet deep and it is still showing as l write.
| We how I'm lo6 In,
Dodge's Corner to find the surveyor, who
lives down that way. Dodges Corner was
formerly called Skunksville n honor of one
of its former residents. All one-story houses
are out of sight with nothing but the Chin
ney Of the hotel sticking out For three
days and three nights no one ventured out,
unless on snow shoes. The stage driver has
not been seen for three weeks. The last
time he was seen he was making a trade
with our shoemaker for snow shoes for his
horse, so that he could get from Dodge 3
Corner to Swanville, P. o., formerly called
Sleepy Hollow. | do not mean to insinuate
that the good people living on that road do
not keep the road open, because they intend
to; but the trouble is the rabbits are all
! under the snow.
Now, Mr.. Editor, we up here at the Cor
ner do not depend upon rabbits to break
the road out. We have an invalid CORPS,
which is much better. Our surveyor. who
by the way, bought the old schoolhouse in
| district No. 9 and intended to take it down
and build a hen house, has changed his
mind. He is shlngling a snow drift near
his barn, and when the snow melts thinks
lie will have good house. The school
! house is for sale.
| 1t blows up this way sometimes, and this
was one of the times. 1t blew so hard that a
| two-nch anger hole through nard wood
| plank was worn to six inches in size by the
wind. 1t blew ten cords of spool timber
| from this village to Nickerson & Baileys in
| Searsport village, and not a stick was lost.
| Our eN-postnaster told me 50 The spool
| timber was his, and his word is as good as
| gold. | think If We had had that bar bed
Wire fence the school committee promised
us we might have saved the spool timber.
/ kLoNDIKER.