The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-06-14

KNOX The n f. Telephone Co. has re-
Gently asked and has been granted permits
sion to erect poles and wires in this town.
A line under construction between Burnham
and Brooks, with branch to Freedom vii
lage, will cross this town.. Geo. W. Brown,
who has been critically i'll with pneumonia,
is recovering .. Newell White has removed
to the II. Small place, which he recently
bought. VIM. Banton of Milo visited
relatives and friends here recently. ID. !.
Watts, who is Oh the road for a Portland
concern, spent Sunday with his family....
Newell White recently added a new press TO
his printing outfit.
| BURNHAM. Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Bowden of
| Brooks were in town last week visiting re-
| latives and friends. Mr.. and Mrs Elmer
| Flye of Clinton will in few days move to
Bangor, where they will reside for time
! So. K. A. Conant has started up his bust
ness and the prospects are that this new
| industry will prove Il success. .... William
| Woodland has his new house all completed
and will move in in a few days. 1t is finish
ed throughout in a workmanlike manner. -.
Eli TWitchell'S family have moved to Win
slow, where they will remain for the pres
ent.
SEARsM0NT. Nh and Mrs. L. c. Poor,
Miss Bacon, Miss Alice simmons. Misses
Josephine Knight and Mary McCorrison at
tended the commencement exercises at
Castine last week....Dr. p. A. Croker has
greatly improved the looks of his buildings
by newly painting them. u. B. Cobb has
made extensive repairs on his buildings
putting on bay and dormer window
The friends of f. S. Cushman are glad to
see him on the street after an illness of sev-
eral weeks. Mrs. r. Fitzgerald has gone
to Belfast for a brief visit ID W. Farrar
has gone to Washington, ID. C., where he
has a situation in the Census department.
.Children's Day was observed at the NJ,
| +. church last Sunday. Rev. g. NJ Bailey
preached to the children at 10::,O A. NJ, and
the Sunday school gave concert in the
evening.
1sLEsBORo. The summer visitors have
been arriving for week or more. The Rev
DR.. Leighton Parks, Rector of Emmanuel
church, Boston, came with his family June
9th. j. T. Atterbury of New York and j.
r.. Bracket of Baltimore came June 9Th.
Every steamer brings some. A good many
OF the cottages are occupied by servants,
who have come in advance to set things in
order. The servants of the Minturns of
of New York came June 9Th Mr.. Henry
). Howe, whose cottage was completed a
year ago, has recently, at great expense,
added some five acres to his ornamental
grounds Upon parts of these have been
planted many hundreds of pieces of choice
shrubbery brought from California. Adioin-
ing these are several acres of native forest
that have been partly cleared and beautitied.
At the entrance to the grounds, two stone
towers have been erected, one on each side
of the driveway. Between this lot of Mr..
Howe and that of DR.. VIM. Prall of Albany.
n. Y, stands on the John Gilkey Point
the pretty cottage, of Swiss style of archi-
lecture, of DR.. George Shattuck of Boston.
In this cottage there are forty rooms, finish
ed in great elegance and variety. There are
open fire-places in many of them, though
the whole house is heated by furnace, with
hot and cold water in the bath rooms. In
some of the sleeping rooms are beautiful
mirrors the length and width of the doors, |
set as panels in the doors. In addition to
these forty living rooms there are forty-nine
other small rooms, such as closets, bath rooms |
rooms lined with red cedar for wooens and
furs, rooms for storing trunks, etc At an
exceedingly low valuation, over 500, 600
have been added to the taxable property of |
the town during the past year. :. Work on |
the public roads began last week. A new |
road machine, the Climax has been bought. |
Workmen receive twenty cents an hour.
Quite large delegation went to Castne to |
the closing exercises of the Normal School,
June 9th. Of the seven Islesbore young |
people in attendance during the past term,
four were in the graduating class, viz, Miss
Leutner Hatch, Miss Caro- NJ. Parker, Miss
Nettie M. Heal and Miss Katherine Pen
dleton. Among the graduates, also, was
Miss Helena L. Wright of Wilton, former
IslesbOrO teacher of rare ability, whose ser
vice, for few terms, DIR. E. D. Williams
fortunately secured. Ion Sunday, June
Sd, the Baptist Sunday school took up col
lection amounting to fourteen dollars, for
the India famine fund. During the past
few months the benevolent contributions of
the Society for outside work have been over
eighty dollars.