The Republican journal., 1901-02-28
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.

WHdb DeCGef az CnlS WTltiAS '''A1' : ASoWeI
and John Colby attended the G. A. R. meet
ing in Auburn last week.....W. A. Hall,
who is at work in Belfast, returned home
last Saturday for a few days. F.
Erskine is away on business trip IA. F.
Raynes shipped several loads of apples last
week. '. Mr.. Ann S. White is stepping at
c. s. McCorrisOns.
SANDYpoINT The masquerade ball was
held at the hall Wednesday evening, Feb.
Goth, with good attendance. The greater
part were masked. The makeup of all
was good, and the fat Dutchman and the
darkey made fun for all. Ice cream was
served at intermissiOn. Music by Allie
Batchelder and N. C. Partridge. ..... Miss
Inez Perkins, who has been teaching school
in the Centre district, left Saturday for her
home in PenObscot. Mrs. Elvira Erskine
of Bucksport is here visiting her son..
Wells and cisterns are getting low. ... The
sick are all improving. Mr.. F. S. Harri-
man went to Camden the first of the week
ON business. .Schs. Chanticleer and Colum-
bian are laid up at the steamboat wharf
until business revives.
CENTRE MoNTvILLE. Misses Della and
Josie Kane are attending the spring term OF
Freedom academy. E. L. Bennett is work
ing in the blacksmith shop at " Thompson's
carriage mandatory ....W. S. Davis has
returned to Camden after short visit to
relatives here. j. Clement has return
ed from his Massachusetts trip. Mrs.
Helen Arey of Vinalhaven is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. W. Talbot. Mrs.
Eliza Bean, with two Of her daughters-in-
law, Mrs. W. J. Bean and Mrs. E. B.
Bean, and their children, took dinner re-
Gently with G.. E. Terry. Mr.. Terry is a
bachelor who runs his household affairs
without any feminine help, but he has an
enviable reputation for good cookery and
the neatnesS of his residence. Nv. n.
Wentworth, who is blacksmithing at Lynch's
Camp, near ST. Zacharie, P. O., made brief
visit last week to his sister, Mrs. Huldah
Ramsay 80. Mrs. L. A. Cushman and son
James and her daughter and her husband,
Mr.. and Mrs. Zedoc Brown of Rockport
| left Boston Feb. 18th for Idaho, where Mr.
| Brown will have employment. Thomas
Ernest Cushman leaves this week for the
same place....J. A. Bartlett has IA lambs.
Legis Notes
NORTH STOCKTON SPRINGS. Miss Addie
| Crockett is at home from Searsport Harbor
| Miss Crockett was seventh in the Globe
contest, and if her friends had begun work
in her behalf a little sooner she would
have been among the six teachers from
Maine to witness the Inauguration of Nc
| klnley.. Mrs. Alice Hatch is recovering
from the grip and Mrs. Helen Smith is still
very i'll. Mr. Emery Calderwoods family
have also had the grip. Mr.. Wilbur Ridley
and wife and daughter Clara and Mr.. S.
b. Littlefeld, Jr., are convalescent. -. Miss
Bertha Partridge closed successful term
at the George school, Prospect, last week..
The superintendent of schools thought it
would be best to close the Centre school on
account of the severe storm, and Miss Inez
Perkins, the teacher, came to the school
house on snow shoes to get her books Miss
Alice Larrabee of Prospect has also closed
her school in the Lanpher neighborhood
and Miss Violet Berry the Roberts school
.... There will be a Church of God quarterly
meeting at the Roberts school house, be-
ginning Feb. 2Sth. A good attendance is
expected. Two ministers from Sanford's
''Holy Ghost and U.s. Bible school call
ed at Mr.. Wilbur Ridley's one day last
week. They wanted to have revival
meetings at the Centre school house, but the
roads were so badly blocked up that they
concluded to go somewhere else. =. Mr.
John Gray is visiting at Mr.. Tyler Pages.
: Mr.. Ferdinand Hartman has been quite i'll
with the grip......Mr. Chester Clark OF
Clark's Corner visited friends here last
week. Miss Jessie Marden is at home
from Bangor, where she has been taking
lessons in oil painting. Miss Edith Bur.
deem of Prospect is spending the winter at
Mr.. Ivory Georges. MIR. Eugene Part
ridge, who left San Francisco on the cruiser
Philadelphia, has not been heard from fol
several months and his friends are much
worried about him Mr.. F. Percy Part
ridge has been in poor health for some time
80. Everett Gray and Arthur Haley of Pros
pect called on friends here Sunday.
| STOCKTON SPRINGS. Capt. Fl. A. HIGH.
born, who has been in poor health for the
past year, left last week for Cambridge
Mass, where he will remain with his son
DR.. Herman Hichborn, while receiving
treatment from Boston specialist. =. Mr.
Dyer of Burnham visited his nephew, DR.
G. A. Stevens, for few days last week, re
turning home Saturday. -. Mr.. Darius Bow
den has closed his house, formerly the VIM
Mcdonald place, and now makes his home
with his brother, Mr.. Ray Bowden, in this
village. Mrs. Geo. Fletcher, daughter-in
law of his wife, has remained with hin
since the latter's decease until SATURDAY
last, when she returned with her three chill
dren to her home in Bucksport Mrs
Fletcher is extremely anxious regarding
her husband, Capt. Geo. Fletcher, WHIT
sailed from Fernandina, Fla, Jan. 10, an(
who has not been heard from, although
other vessels sailing Is days later have ar
rived. .... Our people are very glad to heal
Of the safe arrival in Bermuda of the An
ME Lewis, Capt. Fred Park of Searspor
Harbor, which had been some time overdu,
at Boston, having been blown off in the re
cent gale. :. Mrs Susie Rendell was callet
to Prospect last Friday by the illness o
her sister, Mrs. Clifton Eames, who wa
suffering from the grip. Mrs. R. returned
Monday, her sister, Miss Elva Randell, hav