The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-01-27
NoRTHpoRT NEWS.
Plenty of snow now.

Mr.. Emery Brown of Rockland was in
town Sunday.
Capt. A. F. Elwell is filing his ice house
with splendid article from Knights pond
The schools at the Cove did not keep Mon
day. On account of blocked condition of
the roads in the back parts of the town the
scholars failed to appear
Mr. and Mrs. Irving Lear received their
first addition to their family last Wednes-
day night. 1t is boy and tipped the beam
at - pounds. The babe is doing nicely, but
the condition of Mrs. Lear is still such as to
cause uneasiness to her friends.
A lady informs US she has knit thirty-four
pairs of mittens and four pairs of stockings
this winter, and she thinks it about time
some one should take her into consideration
and propose at once, for there is nothing
like having plenty of mittens on hand for
such an occasion.
Capt. E. S. Drinkwater and Fred Smith
were in Rockland last Friday on business,
and it is limited that Mr.. Smith will soon
show the boys how easy it is to keep at the
head of the procession when the snow gets
settled and he gets better acquainted with
the gait of his new trotter.
The old-fashioned down east snow storm
OF Sunday proved to be genuine one in all
respects, and Monday morning it was quite
evident that good deal of it could be spar
ed just well as not. However there is no
cause to grumble or find fault, for it is what
everybody was wishing for and it is just
what everybody got and we should be
thankful there was not more of it.
Mrs Charles Knights met TIL rather pc
culiar accident last Thursday. A young
boy was whiting a piece of wood when
she reached down for something, and on
raising her hand it came IN contact with the
knife the boy was using in such manner as
to intliot bad cut on the little finger and
down the side of her hand cash was made
clear to the bone. 1t was "a queer perform
ance nevertheless. 1t has caused Mrs
knights considerable Inconvenience and
will deprive her of the use OF her hand for
some time
One stormy afternoon the latter part of
last week the crowd at the corner grocery
larger than usual and as all the i'm
portant questions of the day had been set
tied to the satisfaction of al, il was noticed
that two old mink trappers We're keeping
an egg box warm. Some one said "Well,
Job, how is the mink business this winter ?"
''Not very brisk" he replied, i've lost
three so far" "How was that, did some
one steal them?' Eyes" answered
the trapper. How could you tell there
We're three minks stoen?" was asked
"Tell?" replied Job; that was easy enough.
In the first place the trap was disarranged,
and in the next place | could tell by the
smell of the trap, and the three times | went
to my trap those smells gave everything
away; and in fact | couli almost smell out
the Teller that got them "Wen sir" broke
in Shedd, the other trapper. ~ can tell you
one thing. there never was but one mink
caught IN Shaw's brook and that was many
years ago. 1 caught him myself " Tell US
about it Shedd, spoke up the clerk. 'Well,
sir, began the old trapper, II was sitting
down on big rock an one leg was hangin'
down easy IKE, near the water, an L was
filling my pipe, an just as l struck light
happened to look down. an by hockey, right
on the toe of my boot sat the prettiest mink
| ever saw. was sorter dumb for a minute
but SAYS to myself you are mine. So what
do you 'spose | done?' 81 cannot imagine"
said the clerk. "Well, SIR said Shedd, 81
held my jacket open like this Showing the
crowd how he opened his coat) and at the
same time | gave my foot a toss up and III
be whipped if that critter didn't land right
in my inside pocket Of my jacket Yes,
sir, and then legged it for home, an when
got there, and Went to take him out of my
pocket he was deader than nit, having
smothered himself to death, and l have never
seen mink in that brook from that day to
this >;