The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-12-20
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
Deferred from Last Week.

HALLDALE. The heavy ice storm broke
the shade trees badly in this vicinity.
A. L. Ordway and Ira Leathers, who
have been here packing apples, left for their
homes in Exeter Dec. 6th....C. A. Vose is
teaching the school in this district .. C. S.
Taylor of Sidney is in town packing apples
for A. l. 1fall......J. E. Hall went to
Waldo last week and bought several lots of
apples. Nv. A. Hall took Frank Choate to
the insane asylum in Augusta last week :. .
c. A. Hall finished threshing last week.
Rev. j. Washburn returned to his homellast
week.
MORRILL,. DR.. Walter F. Brown of
Norridgewock was in town last Friday and
Saturday. calling on his old friends. =.
Mrs. Oscar Meader has been very sick the
past ten days with pneumonia. Mr.. Ed
ward Payson of Waldo is also very sick. ...
Nine of the members of Honesty Grange
visited Mystic Grange, Belmont, last Thurs
day evening and enjoyed their visit very
much. 1t is announced that Miss Millett
of Belfast will preach here next Sunday at
! the usual hour. The recent snow storms
started numbering operations.
| CLARKE's CORNER prospect Miss
| Ella Moore of Frankfort was in town Dec
| 9th, the guest of Mrs. Abbe Clarke...
| Freeman Partridge has bought nice horse
of Fred Clarke. Miss Bertha Partridge
began her school in the George Dist Dec.
3D.. Mrs Sarah Clarke visited her son,
Fred Clarke, Dec. 9th. He is in very poor
health. Melvin Clarke, the magnetic healer,
starts Dec. 10Th for trip through Brooks,
Belfast, Searsmont, Warren, Union and
| Waldoboro. DIR. Thomas Dorr is expected
in town this week to visit his patients.
Mrs Ida Cole is at work for c. II. Cross.
John Butterfield will build new house in the
near future. Apple buyers are numerous
and the price of apples is higher. ...Elden
Smart was in town Dec. 9th. Leroy Gross
arrived home from Boston last week -.
Lester Dow of Searsport visited in town
Dec. Sth... Hiram Clarke has his new
store about completed and is having a fine
trade. He is located at Wards corner
LIBERTY. Miss Mabel E. Stevens return
ed Monday to Pittsfeld to take up the work
of another term at the Maine Central Insti-
| tute. -. Walter Clough, who went to Color
ado for his health some time ago, is reported
as improving Donald S. Walker, Colby
| '04, returned to Waterville a few days ago
after spending Thanksgiving at home....
Supt. Arthur Richie has been substituting
in the lower village school on account of the
illness of the teacher Will Pierce, who
went into the woods in the northern partsOf
the State few weeks ago as a chopper, has
returned home, having received an injury to
his back from a falling limb. Arthur
Richie, Esq, attended Probate Court in
Belfast last Tuesday. Pearl Wing has
gone to Bangor to engage as chopper in
the woods Messrs. Earl Drummond and
others, who went from here to the West
several years ago, are expected to return
soon.
PROSPECT. Chester Clark has arrived
home from Massachusetts and gone to work
on Mt. Waldo. -. Messrs. Folsom and Burrill
of Corinna are packing apples in the New
York settlement this week. Kingsbury
and Clark have the largest lot there. -. On
our trip through the New York settlement
after the big snow storm we saw deer
| tracks without number. John F. Libby
now keeps corn and meal, besides the best
stock of groceries on the river.... VIM. @.
Spinney is running good stock of grocer
les, with corn and meal, and also sends out
cart with groceries and a delivery team.
go. The rural free delivery route is only
one mile from our place now, and we have
not yet learned why the George and Clark
settlements should be specially favored.
THE snow has come this year before
most people were ready for it,. The young
men go away so fast now that there are but
few men to chop wood. Amos Partridge
has returned to Belfast from a visit to re-
lativeS in Prospect. 80. The apple buyers are
waiting for a car to ship their Prospect
and Stockton apples. go. B. Gray is
gathering in the taxes. =. Eggs are 30 cents
per doz., and the hens have begun to lay.
1.-The hog killing season is now on. The
largest hog in this vicinity is 700 FOUNDER
raised by Loring Griffin, Stockton Springs.
Corn has been cheap, and a 3OO-pound pig or
hog is common thing here.
UNITY. There were the usual number
of family gatherings in this place on
Thanksgiving Day, and they did justice to
the bountiful dinners served. -. Thomas
Cook, who met with a serious accident a few
weeks ago, is improving slowly. His many
friends are glad to hear he is so comfortable.
Arrangements are under way for an
entertainment and Christmas tree at the
church on the evening of Dec. oath. Much
enthusiasm is shown and doubtless all will
be done that can be to make the affair a
success. 80. Frank Bartlett has his ice house
nearly completed. I'VE regret to say that
Mr.. Ed. Woods and family moved to Fair
field last week. He thinks of securing en-
ployment in car shop there. He sold his
farm to Il Mr.. Fogg from Detroit, who will
take possession as soon as convenient. :.
Mrs. J. G. Whitney, who has been suffering
from a serious attack of appendicitis, is a
very little better at this writing. Pear
Reynolds and wife are rejoicing over theil
} nice great boy, who was born recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. d. Jackson and little daugh
ter went to Fairfield last week, visiting.
Little Gladys Giles spent several days in
, Troy recently, with Mrs. A. Whitaker anG
; daughter :. Estes & Ward from Troy think
, | nf loading a car of nOtatOaS at this station