The Republican journal., 1899-11-16
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.

| PROSPECT FERRY. X. s. Ordway is visit
ing friends in Belfast and Northport. Miss
Lulu Avery closed successful term of ten
weeks school at Prospect Marsh last Friday.
...... Frank Harding, Jr., spent last Sunday
at his home in this place, returning to Brew
er Monday morning. Miss Hartman visit
ed Miss Edith Haley at Prospect Marsh last
week. =. Miss Addie Partridge of Stockton is
doing dressmaking for Mrs. Anna G. Harri-
man. Miss Fremetta Shepard and lady
friend of Belfast visited Mr.. and Mrs George
Avery last week. Mrs. Emma Luke return
| ed home last week from a two months visit
among relatives in Massachusetts.
| SEARsMoNr. Loxley 7. Ness was repair
ing the walk leading up to his carriage shop
Nov. Sth when the walk gave way and Mr.
Ness fell breaking his ankle. DR.. Mllett was
called. E. True P. Moody and mother have
moved into Mrs. L. Marden's house. Vic
tor Grange held special meeting Saturday
night to confer the third and fourth degrees
upon two candidates. IT. P. Moody has
| engaged with V. A. Simmons for the winter
....Albert Thayer of Belfast visited his
| mother in this place last week. Mrs. G. E.
Bailey is visiting friends in Belfast.
Harold E. Miller has gone to Somervile,
Mass to spend the winter.
| CENTRE MoNTvILLE. Wednesday night,
Nov. Sth, Volney Thompson's carriage shop
/ was broken into again and more tools taken.
The same night DR.. A. D. Ramsay's top
buggy was cut and slashed to the tune of
S25 damage. They also cut the doctors
reins beyond repair. Sheriff Norton was
called out from Belfast, but no arrest fol-
lowed. Miss Della Kane is teaching in the
| Plains district, =. Mrs. f. A. Cushman is in
rather poor health. u. W. Wentworth and
family have returned from Pittstield. NJ.
| NJ. Wentworth has hired for another season
with Volney Thompson....C n. Woods,
who has been at F, A. Cushman's for four
years. has gone to Morrill,. Some candy
and crackers. which it is supposed We're
taken from Vckery & Hatch's store in
Morrill,, We're found under the Frye school
house last week by Rufus Lowell,
APPLETON, Mrs. Caro- Heating has NOV
| ed to Rockland and occupies the J. E. Fro
hook house on Gay street. Charlie, William
and Allie New bert have each captured one
deer. Merton Wordsworth and Will Cum
mings have also met with the same success.
| Clarence Ames has had to keep in the house
several days on account of receiving a bad
cut on his knee with broken glass bottle.
| Our schools closed Nov Sd. Miss Fannie
Gushee, teacher in the primary village school,
| has improved the looks OF her school-room
very much by having the walls tinted and
| hung with pictures. Mrs. Thomas Robbins
recently visited friends in Searsmont. go
Mrs. Katie Newhert is visiting relatives in
/ Waldoboro. Mrs. Rebecca Ripley IS very
| sick and no hopes are entertained of her re-
i covery ....... Clarence Goulding and son Cliff
ford have been in town few days. putting
outside windows and doors on the Cakes
| house and doing other necessary work
on the buildings. Sunday was very quiet
day here. The heavy snow storm put stop
to riding. Only two teams passed through
our village during the day. Frank Carskin
is confined to the house with very bad case
OF blood poisoning, caused by cutting his
hand with a piece of zinc. Mrs. Ly dia
| Vaughn has gone to Union where she will
spend the winter with her sister Mrs. Theo-
dore Tyler. Mrs NJ. q. Clapp has held
meetings at the Union church every evening
| for two weeks, when the weather would
permit. There has been good attendance.
-. Uriah n. Dyer has been making quite
extensive repairs on the long building con-
Meeting his house with the stable. G. f.
Wentworth has also practically rebuilt his
| house, which was one of the oldest dwelling
houses in town. Jesse Wentworth and To-
| bias Wadsworth have done the joiner work.
...... Walter Written and wife are visiting
| relatives in Searsmont.
THoRNDIKE. Cars were loaded at the
Station last week as follows Farwell and
Fletcher, five with hay Thomas Keene, three
with hay ; Fred Rich, one with wood Irving
| Thompson of Knox, one with wood; Frank
| johnson of Freedom, one with wood G. B.
Samps II of Freedom, four with hay; Peter
| Aver of Freedom one with hay MIR, and
| Mrs. Joseph Gordon visited their son Eben
| Gordon in Clinton last week. The Misses
Rena and Ruby Vose are visiting their
| grandmother, Mrs d. johnson, in Freedom.
| 80. Miss Matte johnson of Freedom passed
last week with her sister. Mrs. Jennie Vose.
Rev Ezra Andrews was the guest of
Mr.. Joseph Higgins last Thursday night.
Marcia Bletheu last Saturday,. Mr.. and
| Mrs Mahlon Hatch of Jackson were the
guests of Mr. H M. Higgins Nov. 9TH.
Joseph H. Stevens has sold his winter apples
| to Henry Bacon of Unity. A. S. Higgins
has his new l. and shed nearly completed,
| They are great improvement TO his place..
| Messrs. Blalsdell and Richardson of Clinton
| We're in town last week looking after hay....
Mrs. Belle Hunt is canvassing the town for
tea coffee, spices, extracts, etc, etc. -. The
Portland Corn Packing Company paid the
| farmers for their corn Nov. Z. Every thing
considered the farmers are fairly well salts
fed with this seasons CROP. Mrs. j. f.
Heath has returned to her home after a visit
of several weeks with her daughters in Bel
fast and Waldo. Rev. D. Bracket was in
town last week soliciting aid for the new
church at Jackson Mils......Mrs. Hattie
Higgins visited Mrs. Addie Ward last We'd
nesday. Mrs. Willis Philbrick of China
was the guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Paris Dyer last Saturday and Sunday.
| Fred Philbrick has moved to Palmyra, not
Etna as stated in some of last weeks papers.
80. Miss Edith Lawrence of Freedom has
been stopping few days with Mrs. Emma
| Gordon. Mr.. and Mrs. l.. G. Monroe pass
ed Nov. 4th and 9TH with MIR. and Mrs
| Charles Monroe in Searsport. MIR. Edison
| Webster of Watervile passed last Saturday
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Web
ster. Mr. Smith and wife of Pennington
are boarding at S. A. Collins. They are
| trimming sleighs for Mr.. B. A. Gowen....