The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-03-29
SEARsPORT LOCALS.

returned
from visit to Bangor Monday.
MIR. and Mrs. Tyler Crockett left Monday
for few weeks visit in Boston.
Woman's missionary meeting at Congrega-
tional parsonage Friday afternoon.
Monthly contributions at the Congrega-
tional church next Sunday morning.
A. E. Nickerson has loaded schooner A.
Hayford with hay for the Boston market.
At recent special meeting of Penobscot
Engine Co. it was voted to continue the or.
ganization
Steamer Castine came in here Wednesday
Templar to attend the funeral of Sir knight
Emery \. Bunker of Islesboro
District deputy Grand High Priest Jones
OF China will make his official visit to Sears
port Chapter next Monday evening A full
attendance OF the members is requested.
A general invitation is extended to the
c-tizens OF Searsport to attend the supper
and sociable at the Searsport House this,
l
+. H. Park advertises in another column
that he has taken the agency for steel cell
1ngs and side wall finish. Several ceilings
put up by Mr.. Park in town are so beautiful
that they have became very popular here.
W. F. Runnells of Newbury port, Mass
who made short visit to his parents here
last week, was stricken with pneumonia on
his return to his home. The latest advices
report him somewhat improved
1t is very unusual circumstance to have
the roads dry and dusty in the month of
March The travelling from here to Belfast
the past week has been as good as it is in
summer Several bicycles were seen on the
streets Monday.
Quarterly meeting service at the NJ E.
church next Sunday, conducted by the pas
tor. Love feast at 945 a. M, and at the
closing of the preaching service the sacra.
ment of the Lords supper will be admins
tered.
Easter services will be held in the NJ E.
church April 10th. In the morning the pas
in the evening an Easter concert will be
given. A cordial welcome is extended to
all
A telegram received here Monday an
nounced the death of Clarissa n, widow of
the late Charles 6. Carver, in Brockton,
Mass. Her remains were brought here by
train " ednesday evening aud the funeral
services will take place from the residence
OF Mrs. Clara Carver to day, Thursday.
The schools in town will open April 9th,
with the following teachers: High school.
Mr. Milton 2. Dutton, principal assistant,
Miss Fastnet Erskine; intermediate. Miss
Jeanette Rice, Primary. Miss katherine
kneeland; No. !, iHarbor) Miss Addie
Crockett; No. Z, Miss Eudavilla Cleaves
No s, Mr.. Andrew Allen; No. 8. Mr.. Fred
Nickerson.
heF. H W. Norton has made arrange
Ments with Capt. Coombs of steamer Cas-
tine to have that boat come tosthis landing
April 10Th and take all who would like to
spend day in Belfast at the NJ E. confer
ence and hear the lecture of Bishop Fowler
on abraham Lincoln. The boat will re-
turn after the lecture in the evening; fare %
cent for the round trip.
OBITUARY. Died in Searsport, March % /.
Isaac 9. Closson, aged SO years. Mr. Clos
son was native OF Sedgwick Me, and was
born February, 1881. Early in life he Ell
gagged III trade and was in active business
IN Name and Massachusetts for many years
AT one time he ran a Wholesale wagon in
AroostoUk county and was very successful.
lie afterwards moved to Haverhill, Mass.
and was engaged i'll the boot and shoe bust
ness. About eleven years ago he retired
from business and took up his residence in
Searsport. He married. first, Joanna Her
rick Of Sedgwick, by whom he had one child,
who died in infancy, and with its mother is
buried at their old home in Sedgwick July
10, 1863, he married Harriet H. Kneeland of
Searsport, who with a mother, two brothers
and sister survives him. His mother,
brothers and sister reside in North Sedg-
wick, where his remains We're conveyed by
steamer Castine for burial. He was a mem
Der of St. Andrews Lodge, F. & A NJ,
Bangor. Funeral services were conducted
at his late residence by Rev. r. G. Harbutt
after which Mariners Lodge performed the
Masonic funeral service,
The traditional liberality of our maratime
people who on the deck of their home built
ships have carried the American flag to
every cline of the New World peculiarly
fits them for pioneers in stretching forth the
right hand of fellowship to such of our
Southern brethren as thinking we were in
earnest when said, the union of States
had been restored at Appomatox, and &C.
cepted the situation, believing that war legis-
lates and reInoulds and revolutionizes public
opinion. Such Is the Confederate Colonel
Harry Weissinger OF Louisville, Kentucky,
who has been invited by our Grand Army
Post to deliver the Memorial address at
Searsport. Knowing this fact, at the ANIMAL
March meeting $50 was unanimously voted
by the town to defray expenses, thus placing
the town on record that not dissenting
voice had been raised against the arrange
ment. This was very gratifying to the CON-
inittee and members of the post who have
been Instrumental in bringing it about.
Coz. eissinger is the man who so royalty
the Maine delegation when they
visited Louisville, Kentucky, to attend the
18th National Encampment of the G. A R.,