The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-09-29
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.

New YORK.. MT. henry MCCdSllu anu
family have moved to the Phillips place in
Searsport.. Misses Matte Littlefeld and
Jessie Marden have arrived home from Old
Orchard where they were employed. Mrs.
Ellen Holt has been seriously i'll, but is
now improving. Much sympathy is ex-
pressed for Emery Calderwood, who was
called to Portland recently by the severe
illness of his brother Walter, who died later
at the hospital. He was private in the
First Maine. :. Arson Smith and family of
Brewer visited at WILDER Ridley's recently.
IA Band of Mercy was organized in the
Roberts school by the teacher, Miss Bertha
Partridge, last Friday. The name chosen
the children are much interested in the
good work. Mr.. Lemuel Perkins and family
of Monroe are visiting friends in town..
Miss Stella Nj ckels of Belfast is visiting
Miss Inez Staples and other friends.
PITTsFIELD. Mr.. and Mrs. Marden of
Swanville have been visiting his son. DR..
W. C. Marden of this place. They started
Sunday morning for home after stopping
two days. Miss Grace Davis, who has had
a position as typewriter and stenographer in
the Metropolitan National Bank in Chicago
for the past two years or more, has been at
home visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
FL. Davis. She started Sunday morning on
her return trip accompanied by her mother
as far as Boston where they expected to
meet her sister, Miss Susie Davis from New
York to spend a day with them as she could
not leave her business to come home this
fall. Postmaster Oramel Murray has re-
covered from his recent Illness. Mrs. II.
c. Farnham and daughter Florice of Bangor
have been visiting her sister, Mrs. L. O.
Haskell. ID. S. Davis, a man over ninety
years old, went with his team Monday up to
his farm in Palmyra miles to see about the
orchard, etc. Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Vickery
went to Boston week ago to look after the
interests of the fall and winter trade. Mrs.
Isabel Vckery is visiting friends in Thorn
dixie. Rev, Abel Walker, an aged and re-
spected citizen and one of the Oldest clergy
men of the Free Baptist denomination, died
at his nome in West Pittstield Sept. 21st....
DIR. M. L. Damon went to Houlton Sept. 18th
as delegate to the annual State convention
of the Independent Order of Forresters. -
DR.. and Mrs. E. p. Goodrich attended the
Monroe fair. Mr.. and Mrs. c. Ii. Berdeen
have young daughter.
BuRNHAM, A very pleasant home we'd
ding took place Sunday, Sept. 18th, at the
residence of VIM. II. Kimball, when his
daughter, Addie r. Kimball, and James p
Holt of Augusta We're united in marriage by
William H. Kimball, Esq. Only the imme-
diate relatives were present. The rooms
were prettily decorated with flowers and the
bride was beautifully attired in tan serge
and blue silk, trimmed with cream lace
After the usual congratulations the party
partook of a bountiful dinner prepared for
the occasion. Later the party broke up, ex-
tending their best wishes to the bride and
groom for their future prosperity. Mr.. and
Mrs. Holt left Sept 25th for Augusta, where
they will make their future home. Private
William Wyman of Co. X, 1st Me. Infantry
Vol. who died at the Augusta City Hospital,
Sept. Dist was a son of George Wyman of
Burnham and was 20 years, months and 10
days old. The deceased leaves father and
mother, seven brothers and two sisters to
mourn their loss. He was a young man
much beloved by all who knew him and the
family have the sympathy of all in this their
great bereavement. The funeral services
were held at Burnham Sept. 23d at . p. NJ. 80.
Mr. and Mrs. John Bossler have Just return
ed from Belfast and Rockland where they
visited relatives and friends. Everett Lib
by, who went to Montana in July on bust
ness, is expected home every day. lie will
shortly begin repairs by lengthening the
barn on the Nash place, and expects to
winter 1000 sheep from Montana on this
farm, The we'll known Doe & Co.'S lumber
lot recently changed hands nd Hiram Nc
Alister is now the owner He will prob
ably strip the lot. There is fine spruce
hemlock, Eastwood and all other varieties
usually grown in northern climates, all of
old growth. =. .Messrs. Wilson and their
families from Boston, of the Wholesale
jewelry firm of Wilson Bros. of that CITY.
have been spending few weeks with B.
Dodge at the pond, but recently returned to
their homes.
PROSPECT C. 0. Hatch's dog freed
hedgehog in an apple tree close to the house
one morning recently and Mr.. Hatch used
couple of charges in a gun to quiet him.
The corn crop is the best for years, and the
bluejays, squirrels, crows and everything
that likes corn come in for share. The
springs and wells are getting low here and
rain is wanted. The turnip and cabbage
crop have matured and with some cool and
wet weather now expected farmers will
have an abundance of everything. This
season will pass for an extra year for corn,
beans, onions, beets, pun pkins and grain,
with enough apples. Mr.. Emery Calder
wood, who went to Portland last week to
visit his brother Walter, who died in the
hospital soon after his arrival there, carried
the remains to Vinalhaven for burial Since
The Journals report of last week we have
learned that the young man Sprague of
Prospect who enlisted in the Sixth Massa-
chusetts regiment with Charles Partridge
took his name from the roll and did not 90
to Porto Rico and now the report is that the
Lindsey young man is in the Second Massa-
chusetts Charles Partridge is in the Sixth