The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-11-09
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STANDPOINT. Miss Clara Sweetser of
Searsport visited here several days last
week. :. Mr.. Robert Erskine has returned
from Augusta much improved in health....
Mr.. Morris Patterson and Miss Susie Patter
son are in Brewer for few days. IN. c.
Partridge has joined stmr. Cimbria as
steward. :. The infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Heath was buried last Sunday.
MIR. Frank Curtis has moved into Capt
Edwin Grants house at the shore. L. X
| Perkins is employed on tug Ralph Ross.
HALLDALE. Rev. T. R. Pentecost preached
at the Vose school house last Sunday P. NJ.
Rev. J. Washburn of Parkman is visit
| ing friends here. He will preach in the
| church next Sunday morning. Mrs Betsey
Poland Cunningham, aged IS years and 8
months, died Nov. 4th at the home of Fred
Davis, where she was boarding Her funeral
was at the Nose school house Tuesday A NJ ,
Rev. H. Small of Knox officiating. Mrs.
Alice Stewart, who has been spending
several weeks with her mother, returned
home last Sunday. Charlie Colby COM
| peted six months work for c. A. Hall last
Tuesday. Alvin Aver, the travelling
preacher is visiting friends here.
WEST WALDO. We have had excellent
weather to do the fall work, and farmers in
this section are we'll along with their prepare
lions for winter. The next thing in order is
to bank our houses and make our cellars
warm....We have some good farmers in
| this town. Herbert and Herman Paul,
twin brothers, sons of the late r. r. Paul,
are among the best. They raised some ex-
cellent grain this year. John Hutchins
threshed for them with his machine and
threshed 50 bushels of oats in just one hour.
| Mr.. Hutchlns winnows and cleans grains up
in good shape. Arthur Sheldon has carried
on two farms this year and raised good crops
with a very little outside help. He has a
good team and is cheerful and accommo-
dating man. Eli Whitcomb is another good
farmer. He does his work neatly and does
it in season. There are other good farmers
in this town, who will be mentioned later.
MORRILL,. The many friends of Mrs. Har-
riet Achorn were saddened to learn of her
death at Fort Fairfield Oct. 31st, after a long
| illness. Mrs. Achorn was the daughter of
the late Samuel Whitney of this town, and
| lived here until she removed to the Aroos-
took with her husband Cyrus Achorn. Mrs.
| AchOrn was a member of the Methodist
| church in Morrill,, and added to her Christian
character, had most amable disposition,
| which caused her to be loved by young and
old She leaves a husband and several chill
dren.... Mrs. Seliger the bride of our Meth
odist pastor, returned to Augusta last Tues
day, after spending fortnight here visiting
among his Pensioners. Every one seems
we'll pleased with her. In fact she has won
| golden opinions from all Miss Mabel
Hatch returned last Thursday from a five
| weeks visit in Massachusetts. .... Mr. and
Mrs. F. NJ. Adams attended the meeting of
the Waldo county veterans in Brooks last
Thursday. CLERK of Courts WaGlin and
wife of Belfast We're in town Sunday. MIR
and Mrs. Lewis Bryant Of Belmont We're Wis
itors at Oscar Meader's last sunday. Two
powerful sermons from Rev. Geo. S. Hills
Sunday. Rev. W. W. Ogier is expected
to hold Quarterly Meeting at the church
next Sunday at p. IN. Rev. Chas. Seiger
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NoRrHPoRT Miss Helen Cummings of
| Boston, who has nice position as stenogra-
/ pher, returned home Saturday after visit
| to her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Cum
mings. William Weston, who built the
| Swain cottage, is in Boston and vicinity
visiting friends. -. Mrs. MAZE (White) Her
rick of Penobscot is visiting her father, Jas
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for few weeks. =. James W. Starbird, Mrs.
NOVEL; and family of Bangor and Mrs Mary
A Boynton of Rockport, the last sojourners
at Temple Heights, left for home last week.
, ....E g. Freeman, the veteran stage driver,
has the heartfelt sympathy of the people of
Northport in the loss of his son Stanley who
was highly appreciated for his many manly
qualities .....T. Beach, quartermaster of
tine U. S. S. Vixen, formerly the yacht
! Josephine, now lying at Norfolk, Va, just
returned from Bluetelds, has been calling
upon his many friends at the Cove, and left
Saturday for his ship. The friends of the
man who lately committed suicide should
commend The journal last week in not pub
fishing all the particulars in relation to his
| loVe a1talrs. In LOOKING over copy OF the
Assessors book of 1881 the changes that
are ever taking place in a town were wildly
brought to mind. There we re in that year
$50 resident tax payers in town. Now s. of
| that number are dead, and 40 have removed
from town, leaving 125, or one half of the
original number. ..Northport's quota of
deer foots up 8, and one was shot by Bel
fast man. Rev. R. T. Capen of Belfast will
| preach here next Sunday at 3 p. IN.
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