The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-12-01
Scar SPORT LOCALS.

giving in town.
by train Friday evening.
Mrs Mary Perkins will spend the winter
with Mrs. Lebbeus Curtis.
Fastnet Erskine, who has been teaching
in Orland is at lrome for a vacation.
The young ladies to give whist party
at G. A. r. hall next Friday evening.
Almond Park who has been first officer of
bark Mable | Myers arrived home Wednes-
day.
Mrs Jennie c. Hunter left Wednesday
for Medtield, Mass, where she will remain
during the winter.
The Congregational Sunday school text
books for the new series may be obtained at
Miss Sargant's store.
Fannie E. Smith, who has been visiting
friends in Boston and vicinity, arrived home
by steamer Wednesday.
Hattie Kneeland, who is attending the
University of Maine, was at home for
Thanksgiving and returned Tuesday.
Sunday on account of the blizzard, and
very few people ventured out of doors.
The ladies' mission meeting, Congl., will
be held tomorrow, Friday, afternoon with
Mrs. Nancy Coleord and her daughter, Mrs.
R. F. Colcord
Capt B. F. Pendleton celebrated his sixty
ninth birthday by giving birthday party
Tuesday. All of his brothers and sisters,
with other relatives We're present.
Frank Studley's boat went adrift Sunday
night from the cove and landed on Sears Is
land without any damage She was blown
up high and dry on the sandy beach.
Frank Gross and E. G. Averill nave re-
turned from Greenfield where they have
been on a hunting expedition. They brought
in handsome deer that weighed nearly 200
pounds
Mrs. c. C. Hamilton of Boston and Mrs.
George f. Darling of Providence arrived by
train Saturday evening being called to
Standpoint by the sickness of their mother,
Mrs. B. +. Rice.
A report from W. R. Gllkey in the schoon-
er Georgia Gikey that he had arrived safe
~ at Charleston, S. c., was very gratifying
to friends after reading of the fearful disas-
tiers from the late storm.
Harry Gross, who is in the employ of the
West End 4. r. Co., Boston, aud John
Briggs employed by the New Haven and
Hartford r. R., who have been spending
One of our old farmers says that W. NJ.
Merrithew must have experienced some
hackaches before he got those 250 bushels of
carrots dug, to say nothing of the nearly 500
bushels of other vegetables he raised.
The following have been drawn to serve
as Jurors at the December term of the United
States court in Portland Capt. I. c. Park
and d. Y. Mitchell as grand jurors. and j.
W. Brock and Willis Downs as petit jurors.
The Thanksgiving service at the Congl.
church Thursday evening called out large
audience and the address of Rev. H. W.
Norton attentively listened to. A large
choir from the two churches was in attend
ance.
Capt Charles Closson in schooner A. j.
Whiting rode out Sundays gale IN our har
nor, proving, as We have always claimed,
that Searsport has a safe harbor m a gale off
shore and the best holding ground on the
coast
Sch. E. L. Warren, Capt. Israel CIosson,
Jr., sailed from here Friday loaded with
hay for Boston and made a harbor at Rock
land, where she rode out the gale without
damage. She proceeded on her voyage
Tuesday.
Rose G. W hite, president of the L. a. S,
has sent petition TO Freeman McGilvery
post for signatures requesting the iegisla-
ture to pass law forbidding the DISSERTATION
OF Memorial Day. The petition is being
largely signed.
One of our sea captains says the late
storm reminds him of the one Dec, %, 1853.
when Capt John W. McGilvery was wreck
I'D in bari on Cape Cod. Hundreds of
vessels Were LOST, and within distance of
tour miles twenty seven vessels were wreck
ed on the cap9.
Monthly ntrihution at the Congregation
al church next Sunday morning. Commun-
ion service n the afternoon at 80. En-
deavor conservation meeting at 615. 1t is
expected tha- Rev. Gowan C. Wilson of the
Maine Bible Society will speak at the even
ing service. No collection.
Telegram was received here Tuesday
evening announcing the finding of the body
of Ellerson E. Patterson, boat-keeper on
pilot boat Columbia, which was lost near
Scituate, Mass, in the late gale. Mr.. Pat
terson was born in Searsport, and had made
his home for many years with Capt. and
Mrs. Dennis Griffin. He was young man
of exemplary habits, dilgent and honest
and his upright course had won him many
friends in town who regret his untimely
death.
Staples the stage driver, had rough ex-
perience in his attempt to make the train
Monday morning. He started out with a
double team, as usual got stalled in snow
bank near Stockton Springs, and broke the
pole to his wagon. Abandoning that rig he
brought the n all through on horse back
until he secured a wagon at the Earbor
After battling with the snow drifts for near
ly seven hours lie arr we'd in Belfast too late