The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-11-22
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.

UNITY. Mrs. Mat; Pendleton and two
daughters went to Rumford Falls last week
to visit her sister for a few weeks. Nellie
McGray from Burnham is stopping in town
at present. learning telegraphy.. Charles
Walker and family of Belfast are visiting
his brother, Elijah, for few weeks. .... Mr..
Nealey, the photographer from Hampden,
was here three days last week taking Or
ders for pictures. E. D. Chase is building
All addition to his house.. ....Dr. Claire
Whitney, who was very sick last week, is
able to attend to business. Among those
who spent last Sunday here were Mr.. and
Mrs. O. P. Estes and Mrs. G. T. Whitaker
of Troy, and Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus Iiillman
of Thorndke. :. McCauslin 4 Stone are
still handling apples and potatoes quite ex-
tensively.. Augustus Morse died very
suddenly of heart failure Nov. 14th. He
was helping S. W. Rollins thresh when he
expired. He leaves wife and one child to
mourn the loss of devoted husband and
kind father. Much sympathy is felt for the
bereaved family.
PROSPECT. Miss Ella Partridge of Bel
fast visited relatives here last week. MIR.
Darby of Belfast was in town last week on
business. Chester Clark, who left last
spring for Massachusetts, to work on stone.
has returned home. Leonard Burden and
Eastman Clark have sold their apples to
Herbert Black of Searsport. go. Election is
over and the talk is dwindling down to few
words Thank sgiving and the butchering sea-
son, with fixing up for winter is the topic
now :. The Arabian Marys, loaded down,
are on the road again with trnkets, Yankee
notions, etc. II. F. Gould raised this season
$50 bushels of turnipS. ......C. III. Partridge
has Al sheep, and all good ones, to winter.
j. II. Littleteld, l. F. Gould and O. B. Gray
have good tlockS, and sheep have done fine
ly this season.....I. F. Libby, or rather his
boys, have bought small schooner for a
freighter up the creek with goods for the
store; and in the fishing season she wlllfgo
down the bay few trips to accommodate
the fishermen who want to try their luck
around Isle au Haut 90. Bert Hopkins, who
buys hay, apples and wood, has bought a
schooner for carrying freight. He will have
400 cords of wood, mostly hardwood, cut
from his lot this winter.
STOCKTON SPRINGS. Mrs. Lewis Barrett
and children accompanied by her aunt, iss
Fannie Aludgett left home Nov l4th to Join
Mr.. Barrett in South Windham, Maine,
where he has employment in powder mill.
80. Mr.. Bion Sanborn left last week for a
hunting trip. Mrs. James Tleat is so far
recovered from her severe i'll less as to be
able to leave her room, and her friends hope
soon to see her ut....Mrs. Harry Harri-
man left last week to join her husband in
Philadelphia and remain with him while
the Cramp steamer, of which he is to be list
officer, is being completed. 1t is under
stood that said steamer is to run between
san Francisco and Australia. -. Mr. Harry
5. Park returned FIR day night from a four
days business trip to Bangor and vicinity.
Mrs Fannie Bridges arrived from Bel
fast Friday to visit her niece, Mrs. Everett
Staples, Jr. Mrs. b., though resident of
our village has been boarding in Belfast for
the past two years ana her many friends
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Elmer Thompson recently finished shing-
ing the buildings OF Mrs. Avelina Griffin.
MI Walter Kimball of Boston arrived BY
train Saturday night, returning Monday
accompanied by his wife and little daugh-
ter, who will spend the winter in Maiden,
Mass. Miss Mabel F. Simmons came
from the Castine Normal School Monday
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her mother. Mr.. Elman Dickey returned
Sunday from ten day visit to his son in
Newport. Maine. Mr.. Milton f. Carter,
who had been very i'll for the past two
weeks, passed away Sunday evening. The
funeral took place Wednesday afternoon at
his late residence, Rev A \. Smith of Bel
fast officiating. The deceased was very
strong Universalist and a regular attendant
at church, even when failing health made it
a great effort for him to be present. Mrs.
Carter was a native of this place, formerly
Miss Amelia Griffin, and, at the time of her
marriage to Mir. Carter she was the widow
of the late Capt. Freeman Randell. Their
home has been in Belfast until two years
ago, when failing health compelled Mr.
Carter to leave business, and they moved
here The remains were taken to Belfast
for interment in the family lot. The SYM
pathy of the entire community is extended
to Mrs. Carter in her great bereavement
.... Mrs. George Clifford has been quite i'll
for several days of neuralgia of the heart,
but at the time of this writing is somewhat
improved. e. Mrs. Jennie r. Staples moved
Thursday into the eastern portion of the
Oliver Treat house. Five new wool dresses,
prepared by the ladies of the Current
Events club for the little girls at 'The
Home" in Belfast, will be sent to them the
middle of the week. The club is invited to
hold its next session, Nov 2Sth, with Mrs.
Ralph Morse. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all.