The Republican journal., 1901-01-24
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.

| CENTRE MoNTvILLE. NJ. w. SWEET of
Knox recently bought over a carload of ap-
Piles IN this neighborhood. 100 Alfred Crock
EFT is to be the next mail carrier between
this Office and Freedom. ID. w. Went
worth and family have moved here from
Pittsfeld. Mr.. Wentworth has bought the
w. II. Churchill place of j. j. CLEMENT.
Allen Dyer is again able to be out. .....Nrs.
Lucy Wentworth is at home from Portland.
......L. d. Wright visited his brother,
Constantine Wright, in Belfast the past
week.. Miss Nettie Ramsay, aged efev-
en- years, spelled down the school at
recent spelling match. The schools in
town are now closed.
SEARsMoNT. Ebenezer Cobb passed
three days in Rockland last week. The
primary school is closed on account of sick
ness of the teacher, Miss Alice Poor. Mr.
L. c. Poor is sick with la grippe. Miss
Millie w. Severance, who has been visiting
in the East the past six months, left for her
home in Bigtimber, Montana, last Saturday
morning She will be joined by Mrs. Ellen
Quincy in Boston, who has also been visit
ing in the East, and will return with her to
Montana. Mrs. Sarah A. Farrar, who Gel
ebrated her 10th birthday January 18th,
was remembered by her grandchildren,
Miss Florence and William F. Dunton of
Belfast, with beautiful bouquet of carna-
lions, roses and chrysanthemums
PALERMO. Last Saturday and Sunday
were the coolest days of the winter thus far
Monday night, Jan. 14th, the mail bags
got mixed on the two routes so that the peo-
pie had to do without their mail until the
next night. Miss Alice Spratt has gone to
Augusta to work at dressmaking Mrs.
Bradford Kenny of Friendship is visiting
her sister, Mrs. David Spratt =. Mrs Emma
Carr has returned from a visit to Massachu-
sets. Her brother, Alfred Marshall, is now
visiting his old home in Palermo The
Smith Cemetery Improvement Society will
meet hereafter at the Henry Carr house,
which is being repaired for that purpose
CLARKs CORNER, prospect Mrs.
Margaret Harding passed away Jan. Goth,
at the home of G. II. Grass. If Mrs. Hard
ing had lived until the Doth of June she
would have been 96 years old She died in
her chair. .Selden P. Clark arrived home
from Redstone, n. H., Jan. 10Th. go. Miss
Sadie Killman came home last week from
Castine for two days visit to her mother,
Mrs. William Killman. :. Miss Hattie Lar
rabee has nice organ and is taking music
lessons of Mrs. Annie Hartman of Sears
port. Fred Clark passed away the night
of Jan. goth, agel about 80 years. He was
great sufferer, and bore his affections with
great patience. He is survived by widow
and one daughter.
| MORRILL,. One of our aged citizens, Mrs
Achorn, passed away quite suddenly last
! week. She was "a years of age and has
] been living with her son, Mr.. E. A Achorn,
for many years. The funeral was held at
the church last Thursday, Rev. II. I. Holt
I; of Lincolnville officiating. Mrs. Sarah
Blake, another of our aged citizens (91) is
very sick with pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs.
! Silas Storer returned last week from Massa-
chustts, where they spent the holidays visit
! ing their children. Quite a number in
town are sick with colds and sore thrOats
| AS the cases are similar it would seem to be
a dlStemper. Thermometer 20 below zero
last Sunday morning. Rev. H. W. Abbott
! conducted services at the church last Sun
day and gave us an excellent sermon from
Kings 204O. He will preach here again
I in two weeks. In the evening Rev. T. F.
Jones of the Rockland District held quar-
terly meeting services at the church,
preaching from the text, "We are laborers
/ together with Him. '.... Mr.. Walter Welch
of Oakland, Me-, visited his uncle, Mr. l.
! D. White, several days last week $50. Miss
Nellie Greer has been very sick for two
! weeks past, but is said to be much improved
now
| APPLETON. The following officers of APP
pleton Lodge, 1. 0. o. F., were installed
Friday evening, Jan. 4th: N. G., H. C.
Pease; V. G., Alvin Perry; Sec, Frank
Carkin; F. Sec., Harry Pease; Treas, Ralph
Conant; R. S. N. G., David Hall; L. S. N.
/ G., U. S. Gushee; R. S. V. G., Joseph Ames :;
L. S. V. G., V. O. Keller; Warden, Everett
Ripley; Con-, j. E. Wellman; Chap, S. j.
Gushee; S. S..Obed Fuller and John Esancy
o. Guard, L. NJ. Gushee; l. g., H. N.
Titus. The installing officers were from
Germania Lodge, Waldoboro, D. D. G. NJ,
C. W. Gallaghn, with G.. NJ, J. E. White.
G. W., J. W. Palmer, G. s., E. A. Glidden,
6. T., J. A. Overlook aud G. F. Sec, E. F.
Simmons, as aids. The installation was
public A fine supper was served in the
dining room before the guests left for their
homes. -. DR.. Albert Stuart has settled in
Portland....G q. Page and wife arrived
home from Bath Jan. 49,. Miss Lottie
Young is very sick with erysipelas Benson
Meservey is also seriously ILL.,. -. Mrs. House
Of DamariscOtta is spending few weeks
with her daughter, Mrs. U. S. Gushee. G.
G. Dunton has leased his blacksmith shop
to r. E. Moore of Rockland. Mr.. Moore is
now prepared to do horse shoeing and all
the various branches of work required of a
country smith.