The Republican journal., 1899-02-16
SEAR SPORT LOCALS.

Boston asst Saturday.
No schools in the village Tuesday on ac-
count of the impossible roads.
George NJ. Porter, recently discharged
from the Marines, arrived by steamer Pc
nobscot Saturday.
We are indebted to Charles A. Mathews of
the passenger department of Northern Pacific
railroad ST. Paul, for a handsome military
calendar issued by the company
The bay and harbor We're entirely free
from ice Tuesday and as the back of winter
is broken we can now hope the bay will not
be frozen to impede navigation this winter.
The remains of Mrs Willard Treat. who
died at ST. Paul, Mimi. the 9th inst. arrived
by tram Wednesday. Mrs. Treat was a
daughter OF the late Capt, Joseph Park of
the Harbor.
DR.. and Mrs jackson of Everett, Mass,
Mrs. ". X. Morrison Of Minneapolis and
Charles Pendleton of Elmore, Mimi, We're
in town last week to attend the funeral of
their mother, Mrs, John G. Pendleton.
Ii the weather should be stormy this,
Thursday, evening the Congl. supper and
ente talnment VIII be postponed until Fri
day evening, The committee in charge of
the entertainment sparing no pains to
make 1t as interesting.
The storm Monday night was very severe
here. HE roads were badly blocked and
communication nearly cut off. The mail
att baf
reached here from the Monday night train,
not arriving here until / o'clock Tues lay
afternoon.
Sch. +. l.. Warren, Capt Israel Closson,
arrived last Friday with Il cargo of corn for
Nickerson. Capt. Closson left Portland at
l0 O'Clock IN the morning and arrived here
at o'clock in the evening. The schooner
was badly iced, and looked like an arctic eX
plorer as she lay at anchor the next morn
ing, minus her jib- boom and main topmast.
An item going the rounds of the press
mentions the fact that letter directed to
Aunt Hitty'' of Freedom, Me, was sure to
reach her. Searsport has a lady that could
be more sure to receive a letter addressed
Aunt Amanda than if her whole name
Amanda +. -- was gwen. There are
Two Amanda Els, but only one Aunt
Amanda
Tuesday afternoon a delegation of twelve
more past commanders and delegates We're
IN readiness to start for the department en-
campment OF the Grand Army, now being
held at Bangor, intending to 60 by the
NJ x NJ. The steamer met with an injury to
AeT rudder and was unable 10 make her
trip that day The veterans, nothing daunt-
ed, sought transportation elsewhere and at
last accounts had decided to 90 by train.
Robert Efskine of Standpoint, who has
been SICK Y It'll grip, was suddenly taken in
SANE While riding with his son last Sunday
He got out ot the sleigh and ordered the boy
to dllye home ana lie started ON foot for
Searsro1t He came to the hotel, and not
beng much acquainted asked To have DIS
lr5tl Depu4y Ed. Wentworth sent for Mr.
W eAtW ortA promptly responded and ind
liz the ecnultion ot the brother remained
with hln hls tamll5 and the authorities
ut otocktun We're at once bottled and after
hearing 1t Was decided TO send hiiu to the
asy -uln at Anguish. MIR Wentworth ana
n. c. sh1t- went oyer with hun Tuesday.
OEIrUAHY. Mrs sarah E (BIancharD
Pendlet' n, wife of Capt. John g Penaleton,
quietly passed To the better life on the even
ing ol Iuesda. Feb 7th, at her home ii
SeaEsport, Mrs. PenGleton was born Dec.
81 1851 IL " hal was then part of Belfast. now
the western Part Of SearspoTt She was the,
the daughter of Shepherd and Sarah C,
Blanchard, and was one of eleven children.
only ole q whom, sister, is now living.
ON Aprl! 70. 1886, She was marr ID in Sears
port to Capt. John 6. Pendleton, who with
five children survives her, one son. Clifton
B., having been called away in infancy
The children living are Mrs William X.
Morlson OF Minneapolis, MINI; Mrs. A. A
jackson of Everett, Mass: Charles s PEN
dleton Of Elmore, Mimi; John Louis Pen
dleton OF Saratoga, Cal. and Miss Edith b.
FeHdieton, who has been her loving attend
ant III the home III Searsport. Mrs. Pend1e
ton was much beloved by large circle of
friends. Her loVeable disposition and kindly
spirit, her thoughttulness for others, and her
steady religious faith, marked character
emlnently Christian and of singular gentle
ness and sweetness She was a faithful
wlfe, loving and devoted mother, and
valued friend. In June, 1851, she united
with tile Congregational church in Searsport
OF which nearly half century she has re-
malned a consistent and faithful member.
and mp to the declining years of life an ever
ready helper, Though debarred in later
times from more than occasional attendance
at pubic worship she loved to be there, and
her Bible was daily study, read and re-read
during the months of comparative seclusion.
The last years of her life have been of SLOWLY
waning strength cheered by the visits of her
absent children, and lninistered to with un-
selfish devotion by her youngest daughter.
The final summons came suddenly. Stricken
with paralysis of the brain early on Sunday
morning, Feb. 9th, she remained conscious
only part of the day, and at o'clock in the
evening Of the Tuesday following, as though
falling asleep, she was not, for God took her.
Services was held at the house on Friday,
the 10th, at . o'clock, conducted by Rev. r.
6. Harhutt, her pastor, and interment took
place at the Gordon cemetery.