The Republican journal., 1901-03-28
COUNTY coRREsPo NDENcE.

attended. Any one in want of good seed
barley would do well to call on N. B. Allen.
wood, who has some very choice seed OF
the beardless variety. The travelling is
very bad about town.. The recent rains
have stopped all operations in the woods.
PROSPECT FERRY. Mrs. Anna C. Harri
man entertained the Ladies' Circle last Sat-
urday evening. -. Miss Evelyn Avery visit
ed friends in Brewer last week g. Miss
Miriam Grindle was on the sick list last
week. She was attended by DR.. Snow of
Bucksport and at this writing she is getting
along nicely. Several people around here
have the grip. Hardly one in the place has
escaped this winter.
SM1rHToN (Freedom). Mark Busher
went to Nashua Saturday, where he will
assist his brother in his business. Martin
Overlook, who has employment in Milford,
n. H., visited his parents for a few days
last week, returning Saturday. Hale
Sylvester lost valuable horse recently.
The s'beautiful snow is still with us, and
in some places the roads are almost impass-
able in the middle OF the day when the sun
softens the drifts.
W1NTERpoRT. Capt. Minot Lowe left on
Mondays boat for Boston, here he will enter
a hospital for treatment. Mrs. Lowe accom-
panied him.. Miss Florence Bowden of South
| Penobscot visited her brother, Ellery Bow
| den, ESQ, last week. g. The third lecture of
| the popular course was given at the Metho-
dist church Tuesday evening by Rev. A. S.
Ladd of Brunswick, and the last by Prof.
Rogers Friday evening at Union Hall.
| This course of lectures has been a popular
one indeed. All have been well attended
and highly appreciated. Miss Jennie
Grant has returned from visit of several
weeks in Bristol, n. Fl.
PALERMO Herbert Bachelor is build
ing a truck wagon for Walter Toby. The
Branch mills Grange has bought the late W.
81. Worthing store of Isadore Worthing for
the sum of $2125O and will repair it for a
grange hall. They recently bought an
| organ for the hall. The First Baptist
church is making plans for celebrating its
| centennial May 25th and Doth. 1t was organic
| ed May %, 1901 Fired Norton bought a
yoke of steers last week of John Turner of
Washington for $50. 80. Frank Leavitt and
| family of Liberty visited at Fred Spratt's one
day last week. Alton Greeley, who per-
| ished in the rain and ice storm of March
18th, has brother in Liberty and sister in
| Freedom. The latter has been totally blind
for years. Further particulars are given on
the 9th page.
THoRND1KE The rain storm of last
week made the roads in this vicinity nearly
or quite impossible for teams. The mail
carrier had to make some trips ON foot. :.
Mrs Edward Hunt, who has been in Ban
gor for several weeks, returned to her home
: Saturday. She left her son very comforta-
BILE, and thinks he will be able to come home
| this week. Owing to the bad travelling
+; Rev. David Bracket did not preach at the
| Center church last Sunday. 20. J. Farwell
passed Wednesday in Belfast. -. Mrs. G. B.
Cox, who has been very i'll for a few days,
is improving. -. Leslie Bradford and wife
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Wilson of Waldo March 17th.. Mrs. K. j.
Knowlton and daughter Gladys of Water
vile are visiting at J. H. Stevens -. Misses
Lillian Head and Sadie Call of Troy were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Il. Higgins March
17th.. Frank Hogan made a business trip
to Bangor last week. Mrs. Annie Cole
visited Mrs. R. S. Files March GOTH. :. Miss
Carrie Ward of Pittsfeld passed few days
last week with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. R.
S. Ward. "A. H. Higgins and wife passed
March 10th in Belfast. I'D. Dermont Hig-
gins and V. N. Higgins passed Wednesday
in Belfast. Miss Amy Clark, who has en-
ployment as a teacher in Massachusetts, has
been passing week with her uncle, Roscoe
! Perley.... Ross C. Higgins has been quite
ill and DR.. Hurd was called He is now i'm
proving. "A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs
William Larrabee Saturday morning 80. Geo.
E. Files and j. II. Stevens are very busy
in their sap orchards. Arthur Leonard of
Hampden visited his sister, Mrs. Fred Cole,
last week.
PROSPECT Last Saturday evening Chas
James and George Stanmore, two Holy
Ghost and Uspreachers from Shiloh, stopped
at our place all night and held meeting
Sunday at the Roberts schoolhouse in con-
nection with the regular appointment. The
Sanford paper reports that 70 are sent out
in Maine, climbing over snow drifts and
pushing through every county preaching
the word as it reads. There is nothing fanat-
ical or unreasonable in their talk and they
seem very much in earnest. The two men
above mentioned are Englishmen and have
not been long in this country. One of them,
Mr.. Stanmore, has been on the circuit in
| Northern Canada as far north as any work
is called for From enquiries l should
judge that more than fifty per cent. of the
people turned them away as pedlars or
tramps on their travels. Still, their work is
free and in rural town where there is no
preaching, if it was better understood, they
would be very acceptable. 1t seems by the
Sanford paper that hundred-fold men are
vented. Thirty and sixty-fold men must
60 elsewhere. The two men here are finely
made up physically, and gifted above the
average as exhOrters. In this very hard
travelling they walked in a day from Henry
Dawson's in Monroe to our place; besides
they got on the wrong road and had to
tramp through one mile of snow without
any road. The story about Beulah Home