The Republican journal., 1901-05-16
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
Deferred from last week. ]


HALLDALE. Mrs. w. E. Poland is quite
sick with the grip. Leon Perry has finish
ed work for B. F. Foster. ..E 1. Hall has
returned to his home in Lowell, Mass.
FRANKFORT. Miss Josie Clark is in Ban
gor for week. 90. Mr. Leslie Lowe has
moved his family from Mt Waldo to Win
terport, to the house lately occupied by
VIM. Nelson... Frank Sanborn is slowly
improving from typhoid fever. james
Battles had his hand badly jammed while
handling stone in the big shed. Mrs.
Frank Hardy and son of Winterport were
the guests OF Mrs Geo. Peavey at Mt. Wal
do over Sunday. N. S. Blethen was in
Boston last week on business. .. n. d.
Simpson and Frank Hardy of Winterport
and Geo. Peavey and Phil. Pierce of Mt.
Waldo spent Sunday at Swan Lake.
PROSPECT FERRY. Mrs. Alma Harri-
man and her little daughter Edna went to
Boston last Friday to visit her husband and
and father, Lester Hartman, who is first
mate of sch. Wesley NJ. Oler. Capt. W.
H. Hartman arrived home from Boston last
Sunday and will spend several day with
his family, while his schooner, the Wesley
NJ. Oler, is discharging. =. Miss Addie Part
ridge OF Stockton is dress-makng for Mrs.
George Wescott. Mrs Emma Luke visit
ed her mother last Sunday, and returned to
Standpoint Monday morning =. Miss Freda
Hartman arrived home last week from
Medfeld, Mass, where she spent the winter
.....Mrs. Amanda Cunningham, who has
hppO takinp of bar Mrc
Batchelder, the past two weeks, returned to
her home in Belfast last Friday. Mrs
Batchelder is still in very poor health.
STANDPOINT. Mrs NJ Black has re-
turned from several weeks visit in Boston,
Mrs. j. P. Showers, who has been in
Havana several months, has arrived home
.Mrs. Abbie Nickerson, who spent the
winter in Boston, arrived last week and has
opened her cottage, Coax View," for the
season.. H. F. Partridge was in Bangor
several days last week. Mr. and Mrs.
Aston Ellis have moved into their new
house at the Beach. Mr. F. F. Perkins
came from Birchville last week with a pair
of horses for general use on his farm here,
and left the next day for Birchvile =. Mr.
{. l.. Staples, an attendant in the Insane
Asylum at Augusta, has been here several
days visiting relatives..... Mrs. Frances
French arrived last week frem Massachu-
setts and has opened her house at the Point
....R Rev. B. B. Merrill and family from
Brewer made two days stay at their cot
tage here recently... Sch. Pearl arrived
Thursday with grain for F. S. Hartmann w
The church was opened last Sunday and
service held by Mr.. Peterson of the Bangor
Theological Seminary, who will preach here
during the summer. Mrs. Milford Turner
and Ivan Grant left last week for Ccanecti-
cut to join Capt. Turner in barge Kentucky.
-. Edwin Grant arrived home Sunday
from New Haven. Wild strawberry bios
SONS were seen May Sd. -. Misses Annie
Moulton and Clara Mixer have returned to
their homes in Stockton Springs. ... A little
daughter arrived at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Small May I'd.
SwANvILLE. Mr.. Z. H. Nickerson of
Portland, proprietor of Maple Terrace
Farm, has been in town the past week per-
fecting his plans in building, laying out his
grounds, etc. Mr.. f. B. Greeley has gone
to Bangor to bring down wind mill for
Mr. N, which will furnish water supply
for the farm and buildings. Work on the
| reservoir is to begin at once. =. Fred Miller
of Chelsea, Mass, is in town looking after
his farm here. ...Zenas Maddocks lost
mare and colt last week. Nv. S. Nickerson
and family are preparing to move onto the
old Staples place now owned by Mrs. Susan
| Miller of Chelsea. Mrs Miller will board
with them for the summer....A well known
lady in this vicinity lost silver thimble in
the garden dirt II years ago this spring.
! Twice during the II years the garden has
! been seeded down and sodded over, but for
i the past years it has been under cutiva-
ton. Last Saturday while working about
the garden she found her thmble in the
dirt nearly six rods from the spot where it
was originally lost. 1t was neither bent nor
scared and as easily cleaned as though it
laid in a workbox all that time. The vet
Grams has very pleasant meeting at the
Grange Hall last Thursday Hon. Albert
+ Peirce and two other gentlemen of Frank
fort were in town fishing the first of the
week. May their patience be rewarded....
| Comet Grange has received an invitation
to meet with Granite Grange, North Sears
port, Tuesday evening Mr.. and Mrs
Emery Cunningham have been visiting
their sons up-river. Earl and Ralph Cum
ningham have returned home to attend
| school.
NORTH STOCKTON SPRINGS. Miss Inez
Staples is very ill.,. Harry F. Hichborn,
second officer on a steamship on the route
| from New York to San Domingo, visited
| Mr.. Frank Crockett and other friends in
this vicinity recently. Mr.. Hichborns
friends gave him a cordial welcome to his
| old home and congratulations on his good
success. Miss Addie Crockett was at home
Sunday from North Searsport, where she is
teaching ~ Mr.. +. Percy Partridge, who is
in Bethel for medical treatment, writes that
he is gaining in health. He says that in the
recent freshet the Androscoggin river,
which is usually only about twenty rods
wide at Bethel, rose until it reached the
depot and was over a mile wide. Bethel is
twelve miles from the New Hampshire line
and Mr.. Partridge can see the snow capped
peak Mt. Jefferson of the White Mountain
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