The Republican journal., 1901-04-25
sEARspoRr LOCALS.

w. T.. Grlnnou returned from business
trip to Boston, by train Monday evening.
Mrs. Matilda P. Nichols left by steamer
Wednesday morning to visit friends in Bos-
ton.
Extensive repairs are being made on the
Congregational parsonage and conference
room.
DIR. F. S. Eveleth has moved his Office to
the Hamilton building and is boarding at
the hotel.
Name Decrow, who has been employed
at Foxboro, Mass, the past winter arrived
Tuesday.
Our home-comers say the grass is as green
on our lawns in the village as it is in or
around Boston.
Mrs. H. w. Norton has been visiting at
Clinton among her people for few days
previous to the Conference.
There will be no services at the NJ. E.
Church next Sunday. Sunday school and
Epworth League at the usual hour
Rev. H. W. Norton left Tuesday morning
for Clinton to attend the East Maine NJ. E.
Conference, that opened Wednesday.
Capt n. c. Meyers arrived home Monday
evening and will remain until his vessel,
bark Mabel I. Meyers, is ready for sea.
Sch. Lizzie Lane, Capt. A. g. Closson, is
nearly month on the passage from Hobo
ken with cargo of coal for the Searsport
Coal Co.
L nJ,fa rbn rof1 ,rr,n6 70 1oc%
week, will be employed for time at the
Castle Square Hotel, until the season opens
at Nantucket.
Remember that the Concert of Nations"
will be given in Union Hall Thursday
evening, May 2nd. 4 rich treat is in store
for all who attend.
The singing class will close Monday even
ing, April 29th, at which time very inter-
esting and profitable sing will be given. A
cordial invitation is extended to all who en-
JOY singing.
Capt. A. B. Colson, accompanied by his
wife and two children, left by train last
week for New York. Mrs. Colson will
make a short voyage in schooner Gladys
with her husband.
Mrs. Prudie n. Putnam, who has been
studying elocuton in Boston, returned
home by steamer City of Bangor Tuesday.
1t is hoped Mrs. Putnam, will favor us with
a recitation at the concert May I'd.
Ice is out of Swan Lake. Captain F. A.
Curtis and Amos Nichols, who went up last
week, though unsuccessful in catching any
trout themselves were on hand to congratu
late Arthur F. Brown of Belfast, who took
in two beauties.
Rev Edwin Smith of Andover, Mass,
will preach at the Congregational church
next Sunday morning and evening. Both
services will be held in the church. Con-
tributon in the morning for current eX-
penses.
1t has been a very unfortunate spring
for steamboating since the City OF Bangor
came on the route. She has lost more trips
the past three weeks than in any previous
year. Twenty passengers who intended
to go on her, on her last trip up river, were
obliged to 60 by train.
Nickerson X Bailey have bought thus far
about 200 cords of mill wood and 100 cords
of spool wood. The condition of the roads
hindered the delivery of a large lot of spool
wood they had engaged but they hope to Sc
cure part of it to be hauled in on wheels.
They are buying all that comes of good
quality.
L. H. Rogers x Son are negotiating for
the purchase of the Navy Yard property.
They intend taking down the old house and
it is hoped, if they can secure a tract of land
in addition large enough near it, that we
may at no lateday have half-mile trotting
park. A small wharf built a short distance
seaward would accommodate excursion
steamers,as the water is very bold there. A
resort of this kind could be made one of the
most popular in Eastern Maine
Guy Townsend, Sergeant of Co. F. of
the 26th U. S. Infantry, which has Just ar
rived in San Francisco from the Philip
pines is employed at the Searsport House
Mr.. Townsend was sent home for discharge
in December by reason of severe attack
of typhoid fever. His native place is Dan
forth, Me. He evidently has had experience
fighting the F ilipinos and is familiar
Will IuduS VI tle pidceS around ll0ll0
where many of our sea captains are well
acquainted.
There is many slip twixt the cup and
the lip, as our young people found who,
notwithstanding the threatening weather
tried hard to attend the University of Maine
concert at Belfast Monday evening. In fact
they got nearly half way there, a blackboard
load and a coach load of them, when alas
the hack plunged into an unseen mire hole,
and became imbedded, necessitating getting
a tackle on the horses and hauling them out.
After this was accomplished, and the party
had stood around in the mud and rain for an
hour or two, few of them were in present
able condition to appear at the concert and
dance and the trip was given up. The hack
was abandoned, and all took passage on the
blackboard, ARRIVING home wiser and wetter
company.
The ladies of the First Congregational
church have issued the following Greeting"
which explains itself:
Kind friend, please listen to our simple
rhyme
In which we scheme explain;
And pray give few moments of your time