The Republican journal., 1900-01-18


amount raised by supper was about S..
| There is still complaint about the scarcity
f, of water and some of the wells are dry.
Frank Marden spent three weeks visiting
| friends in Bangor and Oldtown and returned
home last Saturday. Watson Nelson went
to Camden last Sunday. James Soule,
who has been sick for the past year, has
been much worse the past week.
| SEARsMoNT. Dr. Adelbert Millett has
been appointed pension examining surgeon
at Belfast. f. b. Cooper and wife Of New
port were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Brown last Friday and Saturday R. F.
Dunton, Esq, and wife and Master Willie
were in town last Saturday. :. Victor Grange
enrolled twenty three new members last
| year. Mrs. Charles Plaisted and daughter
arrived from Nova Scotia last Thursday and
are at Joshua Lncoln's. See page 8 for
the vital statistics of 1899.
| PROSPECT FERRY. G. R. Hill and wife of
| Wlnterport visited Mr.. and Mrs. W. D. Har-
riman last Saturday and Sunday Miss
Addie Partridge of Stockton Springs is do
| ing dressmaking for several about here.
Mrs. A. S. Wilson entertained the Ladies'
| Circle last Friday evening, and very pleas
ant evening was enjoyed by all present..
The young people had a sociabe at the
schoolhouse last Saturday evening 1t was
well attended and all pronounced it good
time. Willard Batchelder is in very poor
health.
| CLARK's CORNER Prospect). Mr.. and
Mrs. Almon Young Of Jackson were IN
town Jan. 18th and 18th, the guests of their
| daughter, Mrs. Gabriel Brown. Mrs. Ida
Cole had party Saturday night and served
a first class supper. Fifteen were present,
| including Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Larrabee,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Brown, Ernest Robertson
and enough Clarks to make up the company.
MIR. and Mrs. William Overlook and son
George and Miss Lasrabee of Stockton
i Springs were guests of Eastman Clark last
Saturday evening -. Forest Clark, wife and
daughter of Stoc kton Springs were at the
Corner Sunday -. N. E. Brown, wife and
son of Belfast were guest of Nell Clarke
last week. Mr.. Brown wants to buy farm
NORTH TROY. Mrs Reuben Rhoades is on
De6n
quite sick with pneumonia is now GONZALES
cent DR.. M T. Dodge attended him. C.
E. White has employment this winter at
K tahdin Iron Works, where he is working
with his span of horses. 80. The North Troy
Reading Club was very pleasantly enter
tanned at the home of Mrs. E. D. Sidelinger
Jan. 18th. The next meeting will be held
OF of n ID ID1..
10Th $50, Frank Walker of Thorndike has
leased the Carleton Mills for term of three
! years beginning the middle of February. Mr..
Walker will put in rotary and such other
machinery as he d GEMS necessary for the i'm
provement of his business, both in saving
and grinding, He wishes the co operation
of all former patrons of these mills and will
DO all IN his power 20 merit their approba
| ton.
CENTRE MoNTvILLE. Mr.. and Mrs G. O.
Jordan, who have been visiting Mr.. and
Mrs N. P. Bennett, have returned to Jamai
ca Plains, Mass. George E. Nash and fam
lily of Camden spent two days here last
week....W c. Thompson returned to How
ard, R. I Jan. 9th 80. Jan. 9th Farmers
Institute was held at Grange Hall The
meeting was addressed in the morning hv
Sec'y Mckeen. AS it was very cold the
moderated and there as good attendance
in the afternoon to hear Mr. Adams The
hall was well filed in the evening to hear
| the very interesting remarks of Sec'y Nc
Keen, Mr.. Adams aud Mr. Ellis. Sheriff
| Norton, Deputy Geo Jackson, Detective
Odlin and the jurymen visited the scene of
the fire last Saturday. Interesting develop
ments are expected. Some of the stolen in.
struments have been found in an ash hole in
the house where the Blakes lived
PROSPECT VILLAGE. Mary A. Mckay,
| Preceptress of Bucksport Seminary, was the
guest of Miss Agnes Ward Jan. 18th and
14th Miss Ward has returned from the
Seminary for fortnghts vacation prepare,
cory for the spring high school in Prospect.
The many friends of Miss Carrie Grant
will be pleased to know she arrived safely
in San Francisco and is thoroughly enjoying
her visit. She is pleased with the climate
1.-The village school will have a sociabie
in the Grange hall in the n ear future. Mr.
and Mrs. George West of Frankfort and Mr.
and Mrs. C. o. Hatch of Stockton Springs
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. G. 81. Partridge
last Sunday A goodly number from here
will attend the Odd Fellows installation in
Searsport Jan. l9th and the Masons install
iation in Stockton Springs Jan. nth.
Died at her home in Pros pect, Jan. 10, Mrs.
Hannah Curtis, wife of Mr.. Edwin Curtis.
The funeral was held Jan. 18th and the in
terment was in Prospect cemetery.
LIBERTY. On her birthday last Thursday
evening, Miss Gertrude Kelley was very
pleasantly surprised by party of young
| people, six in number, meeting at her home.
A very pleasant time was reported by all.
| She was presented with fine lace pin.
A q. E. sociable was held Thursday even.
| ing, Jan. 18th, in Crockett's hall The re-
| ceipts were about So co.. Misses Blanche
Moody and Emily Skidmore expect to start
! for the West soon. Miss Moody will 90 to
| Excelsior, Mimi, and Miss Skidmore to
Wisconsin. Il. P. Critics of Boston, who
has been spending few days here, has re-
| turned home. Mrs. Hattie Clough has
gone to Massachusetts to visit her sister
Mrs. White, and her son, Walter Clough,