The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-11-17

| very interesting sermon at the CnurCn laSt
Sunday. C. A. Gilchrest has lately moved
to the Howard Douglass place.. Asa Saw
yer lost mis- horse last week. Mr.. Ed Lam
caster of Burnham was the guest of Chas.
McCorison last Sunday. 80. Mrs. Frank
Thompson is quite sick. ...G. W. Poland of
! New Harbor was at w. NJ. Voses last week.
MORRILL,. Miss Nellie B. Thompson has
been spending the past week at home. -.
Maurice Thompson from Belfast was in town
last Friday and Saturday. .Orrin Nash from
South Montviile was in town on visit of
| several days last week 49,. Mrs. Alvesta
Hatch and daughter BERTHE go to Prov-
dence r, J.. this week to spend the winter
with her brother, Mr.. Alonzo Rowe. Sew
eral of our villagers are having their build
ngs painted Vickery & Hatch lately
had piazza built in front of their store.
The village schools began last Monday,
taught by Thomas Hopkins of Frankfort
and Miss Louise Kalock of Rockland.
Richard Merriam is at home from Massa-
cbusetts.
PALERMO. Dexter Turner's buildings at
Centre Palermo were burned last Wednes-
day evening He had a tiue set of new build
ings with about 10 tons of hay The loss
amounted to more than $4,000; insured for
81, 500. !. Nelson Brown and wife went to
| Unity last week to visit her sister. Mr.
Brown will teach school in Knox this win
ter. L. A. Bowler built his barn few
wears ago for horses. Now he has torn out
the stalls and keeps large herd of cattle.
Last week he had new windows put in to
make the barn lighter. Clarence Young,
who has been dangerously sick with rheu-
matism for the past ten weeks, is gradually
gaining and is able to sit up little at this
writing, The singing school at Ford's corner
| is prospecting under the direction of Mr.
/ Parker of Hallowell. If the pupils will try
as hard as their teacher there is no doubt of
their success. Mr.. Parker is an able in
! struCtOr.
| IsLEsBoRo. Last Sunday Was charming
| day for November, and the attendance at the
churches-both Baptist and Free Baptist
was large. At the former church, Rev. J i.
! F. Leathes of Orrington, Me-. preached in
the evening, and assisted Rev Geo. E. Tufts
at the morning service. The Christian En-
ieavor society meets every Friday evening.
AS quite number of the young people have
recently gone away, the attendance has been
smaller of late, not averaging quite thirty.
.. The schools all closed about week ago
! for vacation and will begin again the first
Monday after Thanksgiving. IA large
amount of real estate has changed hands
lately. Several parties from New York,
Boston and other places, have bought some
| beautiful stes-chiefiy rocky headands-on
which to erect summer cottages. Work is
| now being pushed upon the cottage of
| George S. Silsbee of Boston on Warren
| Mountain. This cottage is one hundred and
twenty feet, six inches long, and three stories
high. Its towers and gables and large swell
! windows will add greatly to its beauty 1t
is smaller on the ground than the Dupee
cottage, erected last season. but will be
/ higher. The builder is Alpheus Pendeton
.... Glover < Co. of Rockland have recently
contracted to build three cottages, one for
DR. r. II. Derby of New York, another for
! Dr. Geo B. Shattuck of New York and an
other for Henry S Howe of Boston. The
two former are to be erected at Shipyard
Point and the latter near che Prall cottage,
! Gilkey's Harbor. E. NJ. Lane of New York
! will build at Babbidge's Point and Nj.
Lewis a short distance south Of the Homer
cottage. MI. David Soul of Philadelphia
and j. F Atterbury of New York are build
! ing new and more extended drive-ways on
| tn If cottage grounds. +. II. A. Babbidge is
building d cottage near Warren Mountain
| rent, near the Isesboro Inn 49,. Near the
southern end OF Warren mountain, a short
distance from the Slsbee cottage Mr.. Scull
has erected an observatory, or look off, by
| building a staging around a tall spruce tree.
Plank stalr-ways lead to the top of the stag
| ing. where there are comfortable seats for a
number of persons. who, after the fatguing
climb, are amply paid for their efforts in the
enchanting view spread before them. A
panorama of unsurpassed beauty meets
the eye. Away to the south and east are
seen the score of islands dotting the Penob-
scot bay, and away to the west and north
are long ranges of distant hills, while Stock
ton, Searsport, Belfast, Camden, Rockport
and RocklanG, seem just at the observers
number of most eligible building sites, and
the price of each is well up into the thou
sands. 1t was originally farm that sold a
few years ago for less than six hundred dol
lars.
PROSPECT VILLAGE The S. B. I. S. wer @
| royalty entertained last week by Mr. and
Mrs. James A. Haley. Mr.. Sellers of Ban
gor, Miss Alma Partridge and Miss Gather
inc Lowe Littlefed favored the company
with some of their pieces, with organ ac-
companist. Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac F. Gould
will entertain the S. B. l. S. this, Thursday,
afternoon and evening". Mrs. Julia Gilman
and her sister, Mrs. Mary Mudgett, have
gone to Norridgewock to spend the winter
with Mrs. G.'s sons. Miss Flora M
Haley closed successful term of school
Nov 9th with an entertainment. Recta-
tons were given as follows: A Leap For
Life, Hanson G. Wentworth; The Drowning
Singer, Catherine L. Littlefeld How He
Does 1t, Maurice Ames What So Sweet as
SIM Showers Katie r Haley. Sneech For