The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-10-31

MORRILL,. Miss Nellie Thompson, evan
gelist, made short visit home last week.
THE village schools are having a two
| weeks vacation. Prayer meetings will be
held at the church each evening this week.
Next week Rev. Fl. I. Holt will begin a
series of revival services. Mr.. S. W.
Kendall is very low. Owners of apple
orchards in this town are reaping a rich
harvest, and the demand for apple barrels
is so great that some of our manufacturers
run their shops all night At J. F. Wick
ery's and A. M. Daggett's mills full crews
are at work. Robe MearS has been at
work the past fortnight erecting workshop
and stOrehouSe near his fine stand of build
ings. =. Charles Merriam has all he can do
in monumental cemetery work and has been
doing some very fine work.
PALERMO. The Grange members at
Branch Mills are repairing their grange hall.
They are raising the roof. making it two
stories high, and adding thirty feet to its
length. George CrOmmett finished the south
end of his house last week.. Clarence
Worthing shingled his shed last week.
Oscar Turner was injured on the railroad
last week and George Crommett carried
him home. -. Elon Kitchen sold horse to
Watts Nelson last Thursday. Apple buy
varieties. Many decline to sell at present
at that price. Thomas Rowe, Henry
COuillard, John Perkins and George Soule
and wife arrived in town last week. :. "A
disease is raging among the coon cats.
Many have died and others are sick. Mrs
Abbie Arnold will close her term of school
at Albion this week. She has taught several
terms in that place in the past three years.
Troy. The concert given last Friday
evening by Mr.. Commits singing school
was very successful. About $40 were re-
ceived, which will go to aid the singing
school. Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Harding of
Waldo are to spend the winter in Troy, and
who is teaching in Massachusetts, Mrs. B.
F. Harding will join her husband in
North Billerica in the near future.
Mr. B. F. Harding has resigned as post
master in favor of Miss Carrie S. Wey-
mouth, his resignation to take effect
November list. Miss Weymouth is very
popular young lady, and her appointment
will meet with unanimous approval The
Office will be conducted in an apartment
in the home of DR.. NJ. 7. Dodge. -. Mr..
Benniah Harding, who has been visiting in
AmeSbury, Mass, is in town. He will
spend the winter in Detroit Mrs. Martha
Parkman is boarding in the family of Mrs
Emma Pierce. Mrs. George L. Bagley has
gone to Auburn to work. She has taken
her daughter Winnie with her, leaving her
little son Clyde with his father. Rodney
live but short time. Dr. Clair Whit
ney of Unity is his attending physician
PROSPECT 1t is not generally known
that walnut trees will grow in Maine, but
Foster CHM has three trees that are known
to be 125 years old and the nuts were fully
ripe this year, as we can testify by samples.
1t is gone from the memory, in the many
changes of the past, who set the trees or
planted the seed The first purchaser of
the land where the trees are was man
named Woodbury., who bought of the pro-
| prietOrS. Another man named Smart lived
| in a twO-StOry house within four rods of
where the trees grew. There are people
living now who can remember the Smart
house Its location was where the Foster
CHM barn is now, but there is no knowl-
edge of Mr.. Smart. Finally two one hun
dred acre lots came into the possession of
a man named Ellis and these walnut trees
were on one of the lots when, some 60 years
ago, Capt. Alfred CHM bought the land,
built house and lived and died there His
son Foster can tell, perhaps, more about
It to-day than l can. These lots when sur
veyed were m lie long, running back from
the river, and the settlers portion is on the
slope near the river. In the early days
salmon and alewive fishing was part of
the employment of the settlers Among the
near by settlers in old times were Captains
Giles, Chase and Devereaux, who left no
descendants in that section. There is one
farm there that has always been in the
hands of colored people-the famous musi-
clan Jack Douglass, and Michael DeSilver
from the Cape DeVerde island and now
his son, George DeSilvers. Along the land
sloping down to the river is the banner sec
ton in town for raising apples on neglected
trees. The trees are mixed in with the
second growth ever ywhere and come up and
bear wonderfully and the little cared for
trees lead the whole town for bearers.
The land is very rocky in places and the
original growth was mostly rock maple,
beech and oak, and there is now in places
second growth oak that indicates strong
land in the estimation of farmers. The ap-
pies are sold now to Bert Hopkins of
Stockton Springs, who is packing and ship
ping. While am about it will write
little more of interest that was picked up on
my trips in selling garden truck something
that probably few in Waldo have ever seen;
that is piece Of sea otter skin tanned by
the natives of the Arctic region and bought
by Capt. Charles P. Hawse of Prospect,
who ran a steamer up the long rivers in
China. This skin, with others, was from
Northern China, and was Christmas
present to John F. Libby % years ago. It
was presented by the wife Of Capt Hawse,
who when he died in China accompanied
his remains home to Prospect for burial.
Mrs. Hawse was an English woman and his
second wife. Miss Mudgett of Prospect