The Republican journal., 1900-04-19
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.


VIII and Ed Jacobs, Mr.. 7. NJ. Lathrop
and Miss c. Ada Partridge. Mr.. Iathrop
was thrown from horse the same after
noon, but received no serious INJURIES.
Mr.. Clifford Staples has an abscess on his
arm. Mr.. Fred Eames is in Prospect, with
his wood saving machine.
SEARsMONT. Mr.. and Mrs. V. A. SIM
mons and Alice Simmons have gone to
Boston to select spring goods. .Superinten-
dent Adams met the teachers last Saturday
Tor examination for schools. :. "A. Millett, NJ.
d., has been appointed by the Maine Medical
Association delegateto the annual meeting
of the New Hampshire Medical Association
to be held in Concord May 81, 1900. Rev.
and Mrs. G. M. Bailey, Rev. F. NJ. Fowler. John
Lane, Miss Emily F. Miller, Miss Edith Far
rar and Miss J. f. Mcfarland will attend the
Conference at Belfast this week. IA. G.
Caswell is attending court as grand juror.
....Dr p. A. Crookers family is in town.
MORRILL, Burton Daggett went to Mas
sachuSettS Stweek, where he finds employ
ment. T. r. Dickey went with him and will
return after weeks visit to his aunt in
Andover. Russell Gray and wife from
Massachusetts are at Elisha Merriam's. MIR.
Gray has been an invalid for some time and
is under DR.. T. \. Pearsons care. IL DR..
Pearson says there is more sickness at this
time than at any time before in his six
years practice. Miss Alice Dickey finds
employment in Belfast....... Mr.. George
t,.J,p -icif A
gave a graphophone concert to small au-
dience at the Grange Hall last Saturday
evening. -. Several of our citizens willattend
the NJ f. Conference in Belfast this week.
PROSPECT. Clifton Hartman has shipped
in schooner that is loading stone at Mt.
Waldo for New York. This vessel carries
stone for the Chicago post office. Charles
Gray was thrown from a horse last week,
Turner Lothrop also got a good hoist. The
boys must be careful when the frost breaks
through. Fred Eames has been through
here saving wood. Miss Ada Partridge of
Stockton Springs visited friends in town
last week. -. The first woodchuck got out to
the sun last week. -. The ship loads of ice in
the jams along the stream are almost gone.
To look at some of the heaps slowed in all
shapes, and some 20 feet deep, it would seem
that it must take weeks to clear them.
large amount of rubbish of all kinds was
left on the intervales. On the moving land
along the stream it will take number of
days to clear the drift wood and Sods and
sometimes rocks that came down frozen into
the ice. But the freshet has left its big deposit
for grass in some places. This is the BAN
ner year for losing fencing on the stream
The big cakes Of ice broke all the fences
down and away they went. Mr.. J. r.
Ryan of Hampden has bought number of
COWS in this section. Miss ldella Kings
bury has gone to her home in Frankfort.
She has been staying with her sister. Mrs
Bert George of Prospect.
STOCKTON SPRINGS. In the mention of
the death of Mrs. Henry Halves last
week. misprint made the name read
"llaines" We regret the error exceedingly.
Mrs. Halves was formerly Miss Callie Rem
dell, daughter OF the late VIM. and Emme-
line Randall of this place. She was about
forty years of age. and her untimely death
robs her husband and young family of Il
most devoted wife and MOTHER. Friends
of Mrs. Sarah Smell are glad to know that
she has returned from her winters stay
with her son. Clifton. in Edgartown. Mass.
and has opened her house for the summer.
Mrs. Henry Moulton is visiting relatives in
SearSport... Mrs. George Clifford has re-
covered from the attack of neuralgia of the
heart. which alarmed her friends last week
Mrs Edward Hartman. who has been
confined to the house for several weeks with
a severe cold, is now able to be out. Mrs
John Kendall and Miss Elva have both been
suffering from the grip-lik colds have
prevailed to great extent throughout the
village for the past month The many
friends of Everett $ Grant of Stony Creek,
Conn. are glad to see him once more in his
native town. lie arrived Thursday to join
his wife. who With THEN little daughter has
been spending some weeks with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Staples. Mrs. Co
burn of Natick Mass, arrived Thurs
day. and is the guest of her sister. Mrs
Daniel Thompson. Mrs Octavia Heagan
visiting Mrs. Avalina Griffin. Mrs. Nancy
Gerrity. daughter Helen and son Joseph,
returned Friday to their home in Bangor. -.
Mrs Wilbert West went to Frankfort Sun
day to visit relatives Elvin Staples was
in Castne on business trip last week..
Miss Clara Ridley come from Prospect last
week to take the care of her sister, Miss
Emma, who is quite seriously i'll at Capt.
C. 5. RendelFs... Mr.. Viles has bought the
Gilmore house. and will take possession i'm
mediately ...Sylvester Pendleton arrived
last week, and his wife and daughter Cert
trude returned Monday from Massachusetts,
where they spent the winter. Mrs. }.
Frank Scoop of Springfield, Mass, has leased
the Albert Kelley house for a year, having
come to this locality for her health. She is
accompanied by her daughter and the child
of a friend. Mrs. Elman Dickey, Jr., and
children left Monday for her mothers home
in Waldo, her husband having recovered
from his recent illness. -. Remember the
masked ball in DenSlOw Hall, this, Thurs
day. evening, under the auspices of the
Church Street division of the V. l. S. Put
on your mask, and help to make it success.
Clarke's orchestra of four pieces will fur
nish the music, and ice cream and cake will
be served.
WINTERPORT. Easter Sunday was ap-
propriately observed at the Methodist
church. The audience room was beau
tifully decorated and the music was good
The Sunday school concert was held in
the morning and was very interesting The
program was as follows: organ voluntary;
anthem, choir; prayer, ID. ii. Piper; hymn,
choir; rec, Why the children love Easter
song, Dear little bird, class of little boys
and little girls; Easter message, Young
ladies; Easter lessons, "a girls address, Rev.
ID. III. Piper; anthem, choir: benediction.
The announcement by the pastor that he ex-
pected to leave this conference this spring
was received with deep regret by his entire
congregation. During his two years pastor
ate here he has greatly endeared himself to
the people, and it was the earnest wish of
young and Old that he might remain with us.
The sad news was received last week by
Mr.. Isaiah Rich, of the death of his only son
N U1r W,,IN.