The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-07-25
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.

rived home from trip to Newport News in
barge. Mrs. Harry Morse and children
from Massachusetts are at Mr.. ]. A. Young's
for their annual vacation. George CHM is
at home from Boston. Mrs. Sarah Clifford
is attending the teachers school in Water
Vile. Mrs. Wealthy Watts is in Northport
for several weeks with her granddaughter,
Mrs. Annie CObe. Mrs. Albert Call of
Gardiner is visiting relatives here. :. Mrs.
Jennie Dunbar and son Karl of Penobscot
are visiting friends here. Miss Abbie Per-
kins and Master Walter Houston from
Stoneham, Mass, are here for the summer.
THE cottages are all occupied and there
are large number of boarders at the Point
....Wells and cisterns are getting low and
rain is very much needed The farmers
are busy haying.. The name of Laura
Blanchard was omitted by mistake from
those not absent during the term of school
just closed.
NORTH STOCKTON SPRINGS. Mrs. Willis
Hamilton of Belfast conducted very in
teresting and instructive meeting at the
Roberts school house last Sunday Elder
Anderson and Elder Stairs were present.
THE infant child of Mr.. and Mrs Fred
Ellis died last Saturday after short ill
ness. Miss Flora Haley of Prospect vii
lage visited Miss Addie Crockett last week.
Mr.. Will Jacobs returned Saturday to
Clifton, Mass, after spending his vacation
at his home here. Miss Jessie Marden
has gone to Seal Harbor, where she has en-
ployment for the summer. Arthur Moore
and Wilbur Staples left Sunday for Monroe,
where they will cut the hay on Mr. Moore's
farm. Mr.. Andrew Littlefeld of Ellis,
Mass, visited at Mr.. C. O. Hatch's last
week. Mr.. Everett Whittier and wife of
Portland visited at Mr.. James Jacobs re-
GENTLY. Miss Stella Nickels of Roxbury,
Mass, is visiting at Mrs. Hattie Calder
woods. Mr.. Stephen Larrabee of Pros
pect and his two sons are cutting the hay on
Mr. William Smiths farm. -. Myron Clark
OF Prospect called on friends here, recent
ly... Mr.. John Gray of Prospect was in
town on business one day last week.
MORRILL,. Vilinda Hatch and Arthur
Hatch were called to Waltham, Mass, last |
Thursday by a telegram stating that Mabel |
Hatch was very sick in hospital there.
Mrs. John Wentworth of Worcester and
Mrs. Emma Hallett and son Freeman of |
Lowell. Mass, visited Mrs. Cynthia Blood
last week. Miss Eta Roberts of Halo
well was seriously ill at Mrs. Debora Thomp-
sons last week. Mrs. Fidelia Creasey of |
Belfast visited in town and attended church
here Sunday. Joseph o. Whitcomb, ESQ.,,
of Springfield, Mass, was in town Sunday
on short visit to his parents, and attended |
church here. -. The Morrill, Sunday school
is fourishng this season under Supt. DR..
L. n. Pearson. The last two Sundays
the school numbered over ninety. The
Christian Endeavor Society recently elected
Charles Merriam president. Misses Mag
gle and Althea Woods were in town Sunday
from Northport. Miss Maggie received
quite an injury while driving out Her
horse stumbled and fell, throwing her
over the dasher, striking on her shoulder
and stomach. Last Monday and Tuesday,
July 18th and 10th, the heat, day and even
ng, beat the record here for the past 80
years. 1t was 81 in the shade at P. NJ.
Rev. w. e. StetsOn occupied the pulpit last
Sunday. Presiding Elder Jones held a
Quarterly Conference here last Wednesday
evening and preached to a small audience.
Mr.. and Mrs. Silas StOrer visited in
Freedom last week. -. Mr.. and Mrs. J. r.
Mears are at Northport
JACKSON. Rev. F. W. Barker resumed his
place in the pulpit of the Congregational
church last Sunday at the morning service
1o reports very pleasant and profitable
The hot wave of the early part
If last week was a very uncomfortable sea-
son for the farmers, who felt obliged to at
end to the making of hay while the sun
'hone, although several were forced to sus-
pend their labors on account of the intense
heat of Tuesday Willie Ham, who was
Kicked by a horse while raking hay and
lad one of the bones in his right forearm
broken, is now getting on quite comforta-
Oily and the fracture is fast uniting. IS S.
Roberts was knocked down by a pair of
horses while driving them into the barn
with load of hay last Friday and some
what injured. He was able to be out of
loors on Sunday....D. B. Flint and wife
md Isaac Flint of Bangor were the guests
If Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. S. Stiles July 18th. -.
Eva Hasty has closed her school at the
snow schoolhouse and went to Rockland
asst Saturday, where she has secured en-
oloyment. Henry Fletcher has bought
he "Parsonage" farm, so-called, near
Jackson Centre, but Miss Louise Rowe will
continue to reside there during the summer.
.Haying is pretty well along, although
retarded on account of the scar
'ity of help. The yield is at least one-third
arger than last year. Mrs. Joseph CHM
If Brooks has crew of men cutting the
lay on her farm in this town. She is on
lie ground to superintend the work, and is
not afraid to take the "drag rake herself
either, when occasion requires....R. E.
Page bought the grass on the John Page
farm and has cut it.
LIBERTY. This place has been the head
quarters for a large number of sheriffs the
past few days, the occasion being search
or Rudolph Cox and George R. Staples,
who made their escape from the county Jail
1t Belfast Wednesday night, July 18th. 1t
s very evident from slight depredations