The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-10-24
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.

SEARsMoNT. The officers of Quantaba
cook Lodge, T. & A. NJ, were publicly in
| stalled Thursday afternoon, October 18th
Past Master L. T. Ness as installing officer
and A. B. Ripley as Marshal. Supper was
I served at 6 P. NJ, after which the evening
was passed socially. Following is list Of
officers: W. NJ, U. N. Dyer; S. w., L. II
Thomas; J. W., Jas. Fuller; Sec., A. 1
Maddocks; Treas, ]. L. Bean; S. D., C. H.
Burgess; J. D., II. E. Holmes; S. S., Myron
Lassell; J. S., Ernest Wing; Chap, John
Lane; NJ, v. A. Simmons; Tyler, Llewellyn
Lincoln.
| PROSPECT FERRY. Mrs. w. c. Harding
arrived home last week from Providence,
r. L., where she has been visiting her hus-
band, w. G. Harding. She was accompan-
| led by her son Percival. ... Willard F.
Batchelder arrived home from Norridge-
! wock last Friday. The Misses Emily and
Ruby Wilson visited friends in Prospect
last week. -. Mrs. Josephine Banks found
| sprig from raspberry bush Oct. Goth,
with thirty-one ripe ones, eighty-two green
ones, and twenty-four perfect blossoms.
Mrs. Eugene Barnes visited friends and
| relatives in Searsport last week.
THORNDIKE. Mr.. NJ. H. Moses of North
Gorham is visiting friends in town.. Mr.
Gustave Funggebauer of North Andover,
Mass, was the guest of Ross C. Higgins
last Wednesday night. Mrs Joseph Stew
ems is passing the week in Waterville with
ho,.
and Mrs. George Sherman of Burnham pass
ed Saturday night and Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. J. G. Cilley... NJ. ii. Moses, A. S.
Higgins and wife and Mrs F. L. Philbrick
passed Oct. Goth with Mr.. and Mrs V. n.
Higgins. Bert Stevens returned from
Bangor Friday. .Gustave Bellows and fam
lily with Mrs Clara Boulter of Freedom
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hig-
gins Oct. 20th.....M M. II. Moses and V. n.
Higgins called on Joseph Higgins Monday
and found him in the field driving team
for blowing. Mr.. Higgins is in his s3rd
year and enjoys good health. Every week
dap finds him about his farm work. Always
a man of temperate habits he is now reap
ing the reward that is due a good and benev-
| client life. Henry Reynolds and wife of
Brooks passed Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Patterson... E. L. Bartlett and
| Fred Hasty are doing quite business buy
ing apples. A. Littlefeld is visiting
friends in Frankfort. n. Higgins pass
ed last Tuesday in Belfast.
PROSPECT VILLAGE. The teacher and
pupils of the Marsh school gave an enter
tainment in the Grange hall last Friday
evening to large and appreciative audi
ence. The program consisted of songs,
readings, tableaux and dialogue. The ex-
cellent manner in which the whole program
was rendered would have done credit to
much older heads, and showed the practice
and drill which the pupils must have had in
preparing it. The readings were all espec-
tally fine, as was also the song by Misses
Katie and Georgia Haley, and the song and
clog dance by Master Edwin Killman called
the teacher, Miss Emma C. Tucker, who has
labored so faithfully for the advancement
of the school, as through her efforts a
School League has been organized and a
fine set of encyclopedias purchased with
funds received from that source. Following
is the program: Recitation, A little girls
wants, Georgia B. Haley; song and dance,
Edwin killman; recitation, Searching for
the slain, Emma c. Tucker recitation, Alice
Dockham recitation, The smart boy, Verna
Dockham; recitation, Little Jim, Hattie
Partridge; song, Kate and Georgia Haley :;
reading, Lima COlSon; recitation, Eva Har-
riman recitation, Edna Ward; song, Mar
cia Gray; reading, Inez Ward; recitation,
The watermelon, Walter Ames; recitation,
Jack Frost, Warren Hartman Song, Katie
Haley; dialogue, The Crooked Tree, Inez
Ward and Lima Colson tableaux, The Snow
Scene, Rock of Ages, Goddess of Liberty
and the Holy Angel, and Listeners hear no
good of themselves. There were Is conun-
drums pinned around the hall and the con-
testants were provided with paper and pen
Gil. Mrs. George Bowden received prize
for having the greatest number of correct
answers. After the program games were
played by those who wished. Coffee and
doughnuts were served in the diningroom.
Six dollars and eighty cents was cleared by
the League" The school has formed
School League and they hope to have some
interesting socials during the winter....
The Misses Emily and Ruby Wilson, who
have been visiting Miss Lima Colson and
Miss Inez Ward, returned home Sunday.
Mr.. F. L. Ward and wife visited his sister,
Mrs. George Clarke in Belfast, this week..
Miss Agnes Ward visited her brother, J. G.
Ward, this week. MFR. and Mrs. Hubert
Grant of Kingman are visiting their parents
in town. -. Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Thompson
visited at Mrs. Richard Killman's Sunday.
1.-THE S. B. I. S. met last with Mr. and
Mrs. Will Killman. 1t meets next with Mr..
and Mrs. CHM. The sOciable at the
Grange hall proved perfect success.
Miss Ella Partridge of Belfast is visiting
Mrs. Lizzie Lane, for few days.