The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-11-21
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. .

CENTRE MoNTvILLE. Mr.. Thomas Frs
kline and family have returned to Centre
Montville and are keeping house at Mr.. S.
S. Erskine's.. Mr.. Mark J. Bartlett, U. of
M, 1901, principal of the Bingham High
school, is spending few weeks vacation
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. iona. Bart
lett. Miss Mabel Pentecost has gone to
New Jersey to spend the winter with
friends. The hay pressers are at T. l..
Fosters pressing hay.
PALERMO. Work on the grange hall has
progressed finely and it is now ready to be
plastered. Wesley Nelson is collecting
lumber to build an addition to his barn
next spring. The Ladies Union Circle
met last Friday afternoon and evening with
Meta Nelson and $325 were taken. C. E.
Carr went to Waterville last Saturday,.
Wallace Dyer went to Belfast last week. -.
Cora A. Goodwin went to Montville last
Saturday for few days stay. 1.-THE Cen
tire school will have box sociable this week
to raise money to rebind the dictionary and
buy reference books.
WASHINGTON. Bertha, wife of the late
Geo. Lenfest, hung herself in her room last
Thursday night She lived with her son,
and as usual after building the fire Friday
morning he went to her room to call her,
but finding it fastened forced the door open
and found his mother hanging to door,
dead, evidently having expired some hours
before. Since the death OF her husband
about one year ago Mrs. Lenfest had been
mentally deranged. Her age was 66 years.
The funeral was from her late residence Sun
day.
MORRILL,. Messrs. D. O. Bowen and T.
r. Dickey attended the session of the Ma
tional Grange in Lewiston last week.
Miss Nellie D. Thompson was at home last
week for few days. News has been re-
ceived of the death in California of Enoch
Rowe, formerly of Morrill,. He went to
California forty years ago, and amassed
some property, which it is said will fall to
his brother and sisters children who reside
in Morrill,. Mr. Horace Knowlton is under
the care of DR.. T. N. Pearson. :. Revival
meetings are in progress each night this
week. Quarterly meeting at the church
next Sunday morning, held by Presiding Ell
der Jones.
MONROE. Mrs. Edwin jenkins has gone
to Gushing to spend two weeks with rela-
tives and to see her mother, who is blind
and feeble and not able to come here.
Mrs. A. E. Holt from Lamoine is at A. H.
Mayo's visiting her son and his wife, DR.. and
Mrs. Holt... Mrs. Milton Carter of Belfast,
who had millinery shop here few years
ago, was the guest of Mrs. F. L. Palmer
the past week. The W. c. T. U. met Nov
18th with Mrs. Lydia Woodman. Miss
Maud Kicker, who has been at home from
ed to her work. Mrs. Hattie Neatly Ma
son and husband of Bangor have been the
guests of her aunt, Mrs. Nye.. Mrs.
Franklin Chase, who has been confined to
her bed most of the time for the past two
weeks with neuralgia is gaining now....
Mrs. Nellie Ryder BuZZell, who has been
sick at her fathers, Mr.. VI inn Ryder's, the
past week, is now at her home here and it
is hoped she will continue to gain. Mrs
Bertha Nealley and Nancy Parker attended
the National Grange at Lewiston last week
TROY. Road-breaking has begun quite
early this season, as we were favored last
week, the 10Th and 18th inst, with an old
fashioned snow storm. 1t is estimated that
from Is to "a inches fell and everything has
a genuine Wintry look..... Clyde Hard
ing, who has been spending two weeks va
cation with his mother, Mrs. B. F. Harding
hos rnfv TO- hic, ,,l,
here he and Miss Genie Ward spent several
days in Knox. Mrs. Mabel Stone Ward
has been at home from Portland for short
VISIT. Miss Carrie S. Weymouth has re-
ceived her commission as poStmistress She
has nice headquarters in the house of DR.
M. L Dodge, where she not only waits upon
the patrons of the Office but does quite ar
extensive business:in dressmaking. "Oul
Doctor" has increased the membership OF
his barn family by the purchase of cow
49,. Mr.. Lewis Harding raised over 5Ot
bushels of onions this season, which he
sold for 81 per bushel. Mr.. H. is one OF
our wideawake farmers. He is now market
ing his apples. Mrs Inez NJ. Harding is
spending the week in Knox.
LIBERTY. OF course we expected winter
but did not expect it SO soon. The snow is
more than foot deep in the woods in this
NlclHlIy, dIiu Hldlly VI IHe ROADS loaQlng t(
this village were so blocked with snow thai
they had to be broken out. Mails from
Waldoboro and the Branch Mills were q
hours late. But it is an i'll wind that blows
no one any good. By reason of the snow
hunters were able to track the deer l.. c.
Morse shot one that weighed 264 pounds
and Steve Bagley shot one on the same day
that was about 100 pounds less in weight
Two were shot by the people at McFarland's
Corner, and many of us are getting outside
of venison "who had never been there be
fore" Now that it is close time the county
is all dotted over with deer tracks. IT. P
Mathews is confined to the house with 6
bad cold. Arthur Ritchie and r. G. Morse
were the only persons to attend the Nationa
Grange from here. Twelve candidates
will make application for membership i1
Georges River Grange at the next meeting
80. 1t took team of eight horses from here
to draw the rotary saw mill belonging tt
". H. Moody from Thorndike Station tt
North Palermo last Saturday....R W. Coz
is in very poor health. .....E. Fl. Bradstree
Post, G. A. R., will have banquet at theil
rooms Tuesday afternoon. Since the las
meeting Comrade Robert E. Howes ha!
been mustered into the army of the grea1
beyOnd, and has pitched his tent on th,