The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-01-13


EAST THoRNDKE. Miss Nancy Prentiss
and MIR. Littlefield of Waldo spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Prentiss. Mrs.
V. N. Higgins and Mrs. s. F. Files visited
Mrs. F. L. Philbrick, Thursday. e. N.
Cole of Dixmont was in town Sunday.
Henry Higgins is hauling hay for Lincoln
Ward.
EAST SEARsMoNT. Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Stinson of Belfast were in town Sunday
the guests of Mr.. and Edgar P. Mahoney. -.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Mendall of East North.
port were at Henry Mahoney's Jan. 9th. >.
ing few days with her brother, Peter Ames
MIR. A. j. Donnell has placed in the
cemetery nice granite monument in mem
DRY of his daughter Phelia. The work was
done by G. F. Merriam of Lincolnville.
SOUTH MoNrv1LLE. Rev. s. G. Whitcomb
the Free Baptist State agent, has been il
the place the past few days. He leaves here
for the north part of the town where he will
spend Sunday. Herbert Howes spent las
Sunday in South Liberty. Mrs. FREQ
Griffin is quite sick with lung trouble.
John W. Prescott received check for $1t
recently from the seed company of whom hi
procured his vegetable seed last spring. HI
had previously received like sum at thu
Washington Fair as premiums on vegetables
raised from the aforesaid seed. John is
hustler and does not often get left on rails
ing and exhibiting at the fairs a fine display
of farm crops. The people are improving
the fine sleding in getting up their winters
wood and lumber.
SwANvILLE Messrs. Russell Strout and
Geo. Pendleton of East Belfast visited Mr.
Strout's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. D. H. Strout
Sunday. Mr.. Pendleton returned Monday
but Mr.. Strout will remain few days longer
-. Miss Annie Adams of Rockland is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. E. B Greeley Miss
Julia Chase has returned from visit to
friends in Boston and vicinity -. Hon. A. E.
Nickerson has erected fine monument on
his lot in the cemetery. The monument
proper is of polished Quincy granite and the
die is of Lincolnville granite. :. Mr.. and
Mrs. S. D. Greeley and son Kenneth of
Hampden We're visiting friends in town the
first Of the week. Mrs. Harrison Cunning
ham has an old Bible which was once the
family Bible of Alexander Black of North
Searsport. 1t was published in 1928 by N.
Bangs and j. Emory, Boston. Books and
stationery were not as plentiful then as now
and on the second and third pages of the fly
BILE account written with lead:
1852 Marc IS.
Bought l pillow. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4 40
Marc 10, SO gallon molasses. ............1 10 II
pork and beets and turnips. 80. ......... "a
So
Next comes word which we were unable
to make out, but looked very much like this
neivees. .........: NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 80
On the opposite page:
1852
Feb Paid int. Observation-Disclosures. 80
Here occurs another urreadable word)
to new store. Observation-Disclosures. 800
2S Sept Let or paid out cash.......... 10 so
l paid to Rye. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 800
1t is wholly without punctuation marks
or decimal points, but written in smooth
hand. Many of the letters and figures nave
an old-time air about them. The As and SIS
are shaped very much alike and the 9's are
simply SIS inverted. A sheet of plain coarse
paper and addressed to Alex Black, Sears
port, Maine, and bearing the mark of seal
upon its back, had evidently done duty as
an envelope before such things We're invent
ed. Turning to the family record we find
that
Alexander Black 2nd was born Nov q.
1875.
Ruth Mererhew was born March Is 1897.
Alexander Black and Ruth sierethew
We're married Nov. % 1919. Ruth Black
died February the 1877 Sunday morning
aged 40 years 10 months 10 days.
Charles W Black died June 1850
Charles Black died March the 10 day 1858
year 9 months Is days.
Ruby Black was born Dec. u 1920 Died
Sept II 1922 aged q months
Sarah Parker was born Sept q 1924
Died Aug25 1926 aged % months.
VIM. I'll. S. Black was born Feb 1880.
Charles NJ. Black born January 1885
Here the record ends. We think the
VIM. H. S. Black, must be Capt. VIM. Henry
Black, who was Il prominent citizen of this
town and died April %, 1876, aged 46 years,
2 months, II days. His elder son, Charles Fl.
Black OF Chelsea, is well known here, and
always Manifested keen interest in his old
home. The Bible is bound in calf, as all
books were in those days, and shows the
wear and tear Of almost three-fourths of
century all too plainly The new testament
seems to have been studied much more than
the old. Some of the leaves are torn and
some missing. Since it has been in Mrs
Cunninghams possession, however, not
even fly has been allowed to walk across
its ancient covers.