The Republican journal., 1901-03-21
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
Deferred from last week. I


CAMDEN. Fire in the Megunticook wool
en- mill Tuesday night caused damage to the
| amount of about $1,000. The fire started in
| the store room, where large amount of
wool is kept, presumably from spontaneous
| combustion. The flames were extnguished
| by the automatic sprinklers with which the
plant is equipped before the arrival of the
! department, but nearly the entire stock in
the room was destroyed. The building was
only slightly damaged. Work was resumed
| Wednesday.
WEST PROSPECT. The scholars of the
George school, with the assistance of friends,
gave very interesting exhibition last We'd
| nesday evening The school, taught by Miss
| Bertha Partridge, closed Feb. 10Th. The
program was as follows: Song, America, by
| the school; rec. by Lillian Grant; dialogue,
Knowing the Circumstances rec, Parody
on Barbara Fritchie, by Will Sparrow; dia-
logue, Hamilton Bank Robbery; song by
Walter Gray; rec, by Bertha Larrabee !;
dialogue, Rural Elocution, by Will Sparrow,
Daniel F. Dunever, Henry Clark, James
Grant, Worth Larrabee; rec, Don't, Lucy
! Dunaver; tableau, Ezekiel and Hulda; song
by Will Sparrow; rec, by Jennie Grant !;
dialogue, Why She Left; rec, Counting, Irv-
ing Harris ;charade dialogue, Picnic Party !;
| rec, by Hattie Larrabee; dialogue, Why
Aunt Sallie Never Married rec, by Charlie
Howard rec, Buttermilk, Walter Gray :;
dialogue, A Fashionable Tea Party; rec, by
Ruby Larrabee; tableau, Song of the Shirt
song, by Worth Larrabee; dialogue, An in
teresting Proposal; story, Tom, Will Spar
row; rec, by John Monroe; charade; dia-
logue, A Reconstructed Man, by Blanche Dun
aver, Lulu Cole, A illiSparrow tableau, The
Reaper and the Flowers motion song by five
little girls; rec, Winter, Mrs. Clara Clark !;
tableau, Silent Courtship; song by Flora
and Alberta Dunaver tableau, Old Folks at
Home; rec, Ships of Faith, Daniel F. Duna-
yer dialogue, An Astonished Negro; exer-
else, Good Bye, by seven children; song,
Good Night, by school. Music was furnish
ed by Mr.. Albert Larrabee, cornet, and Mr.
Chester Trundy, violin, and singing by
Chester Trundy, E. Robinson, Marshall
Nickerson and Sumner Nckerson. Among
others, who took part in the dialogue, were
Nell Dunaver, Henry George, Josiah LARA
bee and Irving George. Beulah Nickerson,
four years old, recited in very pleasing
manner
PROSPECT. The storm and cutting hail
home town meeting day.. Fred A. Lane
performed good feat the other day. With
pair of horses abreast he hauled ton of
phosphate from Belfast to Prospect with
out a slump out by the horses. There are
few men that would care to try that feat
here. Arthur Moore is about to move his
family to his wife's fathers, N. W. Staples,
near by here, and run his butcher cart from
here instead of Monroe, so as to take in his
whole route in day and get home at night
MEN are wanted in the quarries, and
everybody who wants work can get it now
on Mt. Waldo or Mosquito Mountain, The
bad going of late has wound up the clam
pedlar's business, and now clans are wanted.
....Murch Clark, with his newly welded
| wife, is stopping at his old home in the Clark
settlement. Chester Clark is about to
build new house and wants proposals for
digging and stOning the cellar. ..Selden
Clark has moved into the George Harding
house. The town Monday voted to rebuilt
the Hawse bridge: The stone abutments
| built by Samuel and Daniel Crockett 80
years ago have stood the test of time and
done good service. Among the stories told
by the old pioneers about Hawse bridge is
that Mrs Betsey Anthony, previous to build
ing the bridge so years ago, crossed on horse
back in the night on one of the stringers.
The planking was gone and the stringers
were under water, but she astonished her
! people by arriving home in the night from
the Orland quarterly meeting. Another story
| told OF the Hawse bridge is that a boy named
| Pendleton was drowned there Another
little incident that boy would remember is
that dog waded into the water on hot
day to cool off and was taken with fit and
was drowned. A boy who worked for US years
! ago saw ghosts and hobgoblins under that
bridge every time he went home from my
place and it became so serious a matter that
l let the boy off earlier in the day.