The Republican journal., 1898-05-12
SEARSPORT LOCALS.

Mrs. Hopkins and daughter Ella are visit |
ing friends in Rockland.
Rev. and Mrs o. Ii. Fernad left for Dex-
ter by steamer Wednesday.
w X Morrison of Minneapolis made
call on friends in Searsport Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Curtis of Spokane
Falls are the guests of his sister Mrs. Dun
bar.
Mrs E. l.. Leib, who spent the winter
at Saco, returned home by train Saturday
evening.
Capt. W. X. Gilkey is at home while his
schooner, the Georgia Gilkey, is loading ice
on the kennebec.
Capt A. n. Blanchard, who made a short
visit home last week, left Monday to Join his
ship at New York.
Mr. and Mrs. j. A Clement and Mrs
johnson, who spent the winter in Daytona
Fla. arrived home W ednesday.
Nickerson & Bailey have secured the ser
vices of MIR Herrlck, an expert machinst,
" no Will put their spool machines in first
class condition.
Boats of the B. < B. S. S. Co. line have
changed their schedule, the Penobscot arrv-
ing here Monday and Friday from Bangor
and W ednesday and Sunday from Boston.
Quite delegation of Masons met at their
lodge rooms Tuesday evening in the inter-
ests of the new Chapter dispensation grant
ed at the recent meeting Of the Grand Chap
ter at Portland last week. Committees We're
chosen and Monday evening assigned as the
night Of meeting.
May flowers are very plentiful this spring
Many of our Belfast neighbors, finding this
the best locality in which to gather them
come over by blackboard loads. There is
one caution we have to suggest-don't des-
troy the running vines or pull them up by
the roots, as this soon kills out the plants.
AS near as we can learn from careful in
curing nine of our young men have already
enlisted i'll the several arms of the service
from Searsport-F. W. Shute. James Y,
Ford, Charles Treat, Andrew Williams and
Banning Blanchard in the navy; George
Porter in the marines; Frank and Will
Curtis, and L. Gray in the infantry.
Eight young ladies from here who have
leen employed in Midway, Mass, the past
winter arrived home by train Saturday,
fearing to come by steamer on account of
Spanish privateers, when the most authentic
information assures us there are no Spanish
war ships within 3 100 hundred miles of this
coast.
TIE cold easterly weather has proved bad
for salmon fishing. G. J. Shaw from Sears
Island informs us that only one fish was
taken in his weirs during the month of May
thus far. Some of our enthusiastic trout
fishers have, however, made good catches
at Swan Lake. Four beauties were taken
last week. F. E. Curtis caught brook
trout in the mill stream Tuesday morning
that measured eleven inches.
We cah 60 Belfast one better on shipmates
with Admiral Dewey. Mr.. William kei-
bert, who resides on Mt. Ephraim avenue,
was shipmate of then Lieut.. Dewey on
board the steamer Mississippi when she wa,
burned NJ au attempt TO run by the fortitca
tions at Fort Hudson March H. 1863 Sears
port also has a citizen in the person Of Franz
f. Shute, paynasters clerk ON board The gun
boat Concord, which did good work in the re
cent engagement at Manila, having o.
board one Of the best gamers il the Asiati,
squadron
The base ball season was opened here las
Saturday with game between the Junior
teams of Belfast and Searsport, Notw it'll
standing the poor condition of the grounds
very exciting game was played. When tn,
home team came in for the last half Of til,
ninth, the score was tied, 10 to 10, but til,
necessary run e. win was not forthcoming
and ii boys We're retired one. two, three
Neither side 81 ored in the 10th but in the
18th the visitors got one iuan around on
base oa balls and two singles. When Gilke,
led Oft with two-base hit at the beginning
of tie 18th runs looked sure, but Webber
Cary ct and Bailey fell victims TO McDonald'
strong arm, and 5he game was over, a hard
earned victory for Belfast. The features TO
Belfast were the general all-round work o
the Belfast battery, and one-hand stop of ;
hard liner by Fernald in the sixth Fo
Searsport The features were catch of hare
fly in deep centre by Colcord, the work 0
Bailey first the position being new t,
him, and the general work of the battery
Webbers work behind the bat was goot
for sore eyes. The score: Belfast IL, Sears
pert TO- Batteries, Mcdonald and Raleigh
Porter and Weber.
AN OLD SAMPLER. The postmaster a
this place has received the following letter
under date of Beaman, Iowa, May ), 1898:
DEAR SIR: viii you be so kind as to hant
the following to the editor of some paper
published in Searsport, or to one who haC
the following published some time ago:
"a Searsport, Me-, man has an old tim
linen sampler worked with silk which is in
scribed, "Bluehill Bay, July 9, 1776, Pheb
Parker. The sampler is of coarse linen sucl
AS young ladies used to work 200 years ago.
Reading few days ago one of our low
papers | found the above and was very mucl
interested as l have in my home highl,
priced linen and other articles made by tn
same Phebe Parke-, and as one deeply in
terested would like this published in SOM
Searsport paper that l may find the MAJ
who had the same inserted in the paper tina
l may be able to find out more about Pheb
Parker
Respectfully, "a descendant)
MRS MARY burgess LovERIN.
Beaman, Iowa, Grundy Co.
The sampler referred to in Mrs. Lovern'