The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-04-05
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.

WALDO. Llewellyn Kenney has moved to
the \. E. Clary farm. Frank, young son
of j. E. Ellis, fell on the ice recently and
fractured his hip. Edward Evans, l.. M.
Bryant, G. W. Shorey and Fl. E. Wentworth
have had their cows and heifers dehorned-
about one hundred head in al....At the
Evans was elected Superintendent of schools.
Mr.. Evans has held the office for number
of years and our schools have made progress
under mis- direction. The spring term begins
May 9TH.
| PROSPECT VILLvGE. The S. B. l. S. will
meet this, Thursday, afternoon with Mr. and
| Mrs JOSIAH Colson... Mr.. Frank K. Lane
of East Wilton is visiting his Old home. His
sister, Miss Amy Lane, who has been con-
| fined to her bed for several years, is very
poorly. High School closes A pril
| 18th. -. Mrs. Clara Brier of Maiden, Mass.
visited Mr., and Mrs q. III, Littletield last
week. Quite number of our townsmen
intend to go to California for employment on
! stone. c. II. Partridge is buying add ship
| plDS 10 DOSbpU fancy tRSS,lOE WHICH ne gives
good price. The many friends of Richard
| Kilman will be panied to learn of his severe
illness. He is with his sister, Mrs. Abbie
Thompson, in Stockton Springs
NORTH STOCKTON SPRINGS Miss Flora
Haley of Prospect visited ISIS Addie Crock
! EFT last week. Win Jacobs invited his
friends to dancing party at his home one
evening last week and they spent very en-
/ joyable evening. ... Miss Alma Partridge of
! Prospect called on friends here recently
a small company of neighnors met at Mr..
Freeman Partridge's last Wednesday even-
| ing. Mr.. Melvin Clark and wife of Pros
pect We're present and Mr.. CLARK entertained
the company by singing, and playing the
violin. Capt. Charles Parks is having one
of the mineral spring buildings moved to
the village. Mr.. James c. Lanpher's barn
was badly damaged in a recent gale. M 1888
| Clarice Partridge has employment at the
j village.
IsLEsBoRo. Several of the new cottages
are nearing completion, chiefly those of
Messrs. Marked, Platt, Riggs and Shattuck.
The cottage of the latter contains fifty
rooms 1t is not quite so large as that of
Jas. Lawrence, which is building on Warren
Mountain, aud is about $50 feet long. .....
George Bird and Herman A. Lewis of Phia-
delphia began the foundation of their cot
tages about month ago. A large force is at
work. Recently quite little rocky pasture
| land was sold for thousand dollars an acre,
| and some for three times that amount. Some
of the houses of the Inhabitants of the town
rent for about $500 for the summer months !;
but the large cottages built by the visitors
| have a rented value of 81 800 to s., 800 for
the season. David 81. Smith recently built a
new store at Dark Harbor, an 81 A. Dodge
is erecting another near by. During the
last two weeks in March the roads were dry
and dusty, but prior to that time, for six
weeks, there was either deep mud or high
| bubbles No snow. These bad roads made
it hard for many teams engaged hauling
| building material from the wharves to the
cottage sites.
APPLETON. While the people in the neigh
boring towns of Union and Hope are suffer-
ing with an epidemic of grip and pneumo-
MIA, whole families in many cases being
down with sickness, up to the present time
there has not been one serious case requlr-
ing the services of ply sician in this vicin
ity. We sincerely hope we may be spared
visitation of the malady .... Frank F. Carr
finished six weeks term of private school
here Friday with a sociable and dance in
the Grange Hall in the evening. This was
Mr. Cars second term of school in the viii
lage district and all unite in saying he has
been a very efficient and profitable teacher.
Mr. Carr returned Sunday to his home in
Albion, bearing the good wishes of a-host of
; friends gained during his stay with us......
The artesian we'll which Mr.. A. E. Poland
is boring on the Sullivan farm for Mr.. Cakes
of New York has reached depth of 300
feet. The well is located on the highest point
Of land on the "Ridge," on the farm recently
bought by MIR. Cakes of B. f. Simmons.
Leonard Worthing, who was indicted for
maintaining a nuisance by the grand jury of
the recent term of court in Rockland, and
escaped arrest by pleading sickness, is now
apparently as well as ever. Leonard has
remarkable faculty for evading punishment
for alleged crimes. Our teamsters who are
hauling casks and hay to- Rockland and
| Camden say they never saw the roads 30
good at the time Of year. ..... Clarence Sim.
mons has been elected superintendent Of
! schools.