The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-02-01
SEARSPORT LOCALS.

Ladies' missionary reading Friday after
noon with Mrs. Roulston.
Pike Bros. received cargo of corn We'd
pesday by schooner Cataline.
Nickerson & Bailey received this week
quite large standing order for spools.
Special meeting of Mariners Lodge next
Tuesday evening. A full attendance is re-
quested
Daniel Sullivan has been confined to the
house for some time with with intlamatory
rheumatism.
Any one having an upright piano for sale
at bargain will please correspond, care
bcx ii, Searsport
Ship Tilha f. Starbuck, Capt. Eben Curtis,
has been chartered to load at San Francisco
full cargo for Honolulu.
Miss Annie Stevens, who has been in Bos-
ton for several months, returned by steam
CT Penobscot Sunday afternoon,
Miss Ethel NJ. Nichols celebrated her
eighteenth birthday Tuesday evening by
giving a W List party at her home,
OI dtttQul tli litE l4!utSS VI oluEtS Odl
gem, Andrew Alien has been engaged to
finish the term IN the Mathews district.
Monthly contribution a the Cong church
next Sunday morning Christian Endeavor
day will be observed at the evening meet
ing,
Capt. Geo. A Carver as had the old
school house removed from he shore to the
premises near his cottage and viii utilize Il
for an ice house.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Cunningham gave a
reception Tuesday to relatives of Mrs. Gun
nlrgham. A large company vas present,
and retreslulents were served.
There viii I've Christian Endeavor socia-
ble u the upper conference room this,
THURSDAY evening Miss Evelyn Ford and
Mss Ethel Nichols vii. act as hostesses.
{. T. Gordon, c. f. Adams and L C.
Paine have formed corporation under the
lame of The Searsport Goa Co., for the
business.
Several had falls lave resulted from the
slippery travelling, but it IS au i'll wiad that
blows uobody good. c, o. Sargent < Co.
are selling oil their large stock of creepers,
aud tile black >unths are the busiest men in
town
Capt. Amos Nichols and W fe arrived from
M York by tram Saturday evening. Capt.
Nichols has made the round voyage from
New York to Hong Kong and back in lit
,f,
That has been recorded for some time.
Patrons Of the telephone in this vicinity
are j1st learning Of the cut rates and are i'm
proving the advantage of that method of
communication. As the rates are now, in
addition to the quick despatch, The expense
is very little more than the number of let.
tors required to explain an order
Hal kneeIand, who is attending the Uni
verslty of Maine at Orono, is suffering from
severe attack Of tonsilitis, but at last
accounts was improving slowly. His COL
lege society has spared no pains in his be-
half. They procured from Bangor a special
lst and secured the services of a trained
nurse
Mrs Prudie Putnam, who in her recita-
tions assisted ably in the program of the
Masons and their friends at the public in
stallation exercises last Tuesday evening.
has decided. after the earnest solicitation of
fT,entts, to take thorough course III elocu-
ton. Mrs Putnam informs us that as it
Will ie necessary for her to expend consider
able money during her preparation she viii
be open To engagements for the remainder
of the winter, or until she leaves for Boston.
Mrs. Addie a. Gerry, who lied here the
past week, was the daughter Of James and
Saral J. Richards Of Islesbo She came to
Searsport about sixteen years ago, and has
Hved here nearly all the time since. She
was woman Of very quiet habits but of a
generous and kindly disposition. Mr. Gerry
has the sympathy of friends in his loneliness,
as all his relatives in towp are dead After
a short service at the house the remains of
Mrs. Gerry were taken to Iserboro for In
terueut