The Republican journal., 1901-05-30
SEARSPORT LOCALS.

Miss Ida Curtis and friends are spending
a vacation in town.
Capt. G. A. Carver arrived from New
York Monday evening.
w. C. futile & Sons will open the studio
Monday, June 3rd, for few days.
G. A. Bowen will start his ice cart June
LIST, let the weather be what it will
Mrs E. D. P Nickels, who spent the win
ter in Boston, returned home last Saturday.
Parties from New York, we understand,
are DESTROYS of hiring furnished house
here.
Captains F. A. Curtis and Amos Nichols
are absent on fishing trip in Washington
county.
Andrew Colcord, engineer of schooner d.
II. Rivers, is at home while the schooner is
loading at Bangor.
Notice has been received from the Post
office Department that rural free delivery
route No. will be started July 1st.
A pair of rubbers and little pail in
paper bag left at the postoffice will be de-
llvered to the owner if she will call.
Sch. Pearl, Capt. Clark, arrived this week
with spool wood for Nickerson & Bailey,
and took load of edgings to Rockland.
We are pleased to meet Rev. j. E. c. Saw
yer of Williamstown, Mass, who came here
to attend the funeral of his mother and is
spending few days in town.
Capt. Nichols Parse left Thursday by
steamer City of Bangor to join his son, Capt.
James B., at New York, for the trip to Porto
Rico in steamer Evelyn.
Sch. Caroline Kreischer, Capt Charles
Closson, arrived Saturday with cargo Of
lumber for A. E. Trundy, discharged and
sailed for Rockport Monday.
L. N. Carroll, superintendent of the shoe
factory at Ellsworth, accompanied by his
wife, spent the night here Tuesday. They
were on their way home from a visit in
Lewiston.
W. F. Runnells has bought the steamer
Electa, and Capt. A. c. Simpson and E. T.
Brown of Newburyport, Mass, are making
extensive repairs to the steamer and her
machinery preparatory to taking her to
Newburyport.
Sears Lodge, l. O. O. F., has received a
request from the Odd Fellows lodge in West
bOro, Mass, to decorate the grave of Fred
Whittum, member of their lodge buried
here. This is very beautiful custom
adopted. we are told, by all Odd Fellow
lodges in Massachusetts.
The services of the Belfast Band have
been secured for Memorial day, if the
weather is fine in the forenoon. Arrange
ments have been made for an excursion in
steamer Castine and it is expected that
Thomas H. Marshall Post and the Bel
fast [, r. X. P. will be present and partici-
pate in the memorial exercises.
very pleasant reception was given Rev.
l. =. Williams and family at the Congrega-
uonal vestry last Tuesday evening The
committee of ladies who conducted the
affair are to be congratulated for the happy
manner in which everything passed off.
Miss Maud Colcord and Miss Henrietta
boss were delegated to introduce the friends
present to Mr.. Williams and family, which
they did most gra ;efully. An impromptu
program was given, there was an address of
welcome and response by Rev. Mr. Williams,
and ice cream was served
MEMORIAL SUNDAY. The Memorial ser
vice at the NJ. E. church last Sunday morn
ing was very impressive. The sermon was
by Rev. L. Z. Williams, the new pastor of
the Congl. church here, from the text JOSH
AZ Il SAnd thlra
much land to be possessed" the prayer Of
fered by Rev j. E. c. Sawyer and remarks
by Rev. II. W. Norton were among the best
ever delivered here on like occasion. The
singing was very good, and the decora
tons, though not so elaborate as formerly,
We're very pretty. 1t is to be regretted that
the committee did not avail themselves of
the offer of some of our patriotic ladies who.
we are informed, rendered the use of ferns.
palms, and other potted plants, which, with
the apple blossoms so plentiful now, would
have made display in keeping with the
service. Let US hope this will be done Me.
mortal day.
OBITUARY. Margaret Augusta, widow of
the late Emery Sawyer, died in Searsport
Wednesday. morning, May 22nd, of pneu-
monia, with which she was seized on
the previous Sunday afternoon. She was in
the seth year of her age, having been born in
Monmouth Maine, December is, 1915 She
was the last survivor of the fourteen chill
dren of James Cochran, NJ. D., and his wife
Jane Moore, both of whom were descended
from founders of Londonderry and Wind
ham. NH. DR.. Cochran was widely knownas
appointment physician. The last quarter of
century of his long and useful life he resided
in Rockland, where several of his sons and
daughters became prominent citizens. His
son John c. Cochran was the first municipal
judge of that city. Mrs. Sawyer was married
in 1S41. Her husband was for several wears
prominent ship-builder at Pembroke
and Calais, Maine, and Quincy Point,
Mass. He afterwards studied law and
was admitted to the bar, and at the
time of his death had for many wears been
trial justice. They came to Searsport in
1858, and Judge Sawyer died in June, 1882.
Mrs. Sawyer had aremarkably well furnish
ed and brilliant intellect, and her mental
faculties were vigorous to the last She
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