The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-02-27
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
FRANKFORT.

| FKANkFoRI.
The Venus Dramatic Club are preparing
a entertainment to be given after Easter
for the benefit of Venus Grange, Much
sickness is reported in this village. The
/ grip being very prevalent. Our popular
young dressmaker, Miss Gertie Rowe, who
| is suffering from a severe case of typhoid
fever, we are glad to report is improving
slowly.
EAST SEARSMONT.
Mr. and Mrs. Moses A. Fowles were at
| Mrs. r. A Mahoney's Feb. 10TH. Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank P. Brewster of Belfast called
on relatives in town Feb. 10Th. ...M Miss
Lillian Lamb of Bangor is the guest of Mrs
G. E. Donnell, E. r. Packard spent Feb.
10th with his son, j. G. Packard. Miss
Laura Batchslder has returned from Deer
| Isle. She was accompanied by her aunt,
Mrs. Adde Staples. Jarvis B. Arnold is
having his hay pressed.
| sEARSMONT.
| Miss Blanche Tayler has gone to Amherst,
Mass, where she has work. ... Mrs. William
! Wood has gone to Hudson, n. H., to visit
her sister, who is critically ill. -. Mrs. W.
L. Wilder spent last week with friends in
Vassalboro. Mr.. John Lane is on the
sick list. Mrs. Emma Tayler has gone to
Boston for a short visit. The buildings
of William Ladd were totally destroyed by
fire early Sunday morning. The family
barely escaped with their lives. Rev. E.
J. Hatch of Liberty gave an interesting
lecture at the NJ. F. Church Sunday even
/
| Hebrew Nation. 80. Mr.. A. f. Larry visit
ed his brother in Nassalboro last week.
CENTRE MONTVILLE.
Mr.. Arthur Bannon and wife from Oak
land have been visiting friends in town..
Mr.. and Mrs. Elijah Gay have returned
| from Augusta, where they attended the G.
A. K. encampment 800. Mr.. Milton Went
worth spent last Sunday in Pittsfield..
| Mrs. Ramsey is soliciting orders for wall
paper. Mr.. Albert Gay has gone to Pitts
| field. The town meeting will be held at
| Centre Montville, March Sd. Miss Clara
| Terry, who has been confined to her bed for
long time. is now very feeble. Mr.
| Wilson and son of Searsmont and several
friends visited Union Harvest Grange last
Saturday evening and the Messrs Wilson
entertained the grange with their graphic
/ phone. 1.-The young people of this place
will have a dance at the Grange Hall Mon
! day evening, March Sd, for the benefit of W
! Y. Thompson, who lost his foot few weeks
ago.
MORRILL,.
Mrs. 5. S. Adams returned home 70 New
! Haven, Conn, last Thursday =. Mrs
/ Deborah Thompson is staying with Mrs
Emily E. Mears... Mr.. and Mrs Lewis
| Winchenbach returned last Friday from a
| week. visit iii Waldoboro. Quite blaze
got started from a hot box under Merram's
mill one evening last week. 1t was accident
ally seen by Mr.. Meader, who gave the alarm,
and it was soon eXtinguiShed. y. LAUNDERING
operations have been brisk for the past
! three weeks, and our mills will be well
stocked, as usual. Rev. II. l. Holt gave a
| powerful discourse last Sunday from Luke
| 1873, using the one word "Repent.'' Bro
Holt is dligent student, does not become
imbued with the "New Theology" Evolu-
| tion, "Darwinism," etc.. but, like St Paul,
is determined to know nothing among US
| but Jesus Christ and him crucited
LINCOLNvILLE.
| Rev. Fl. f. McFarlane spent few days of
| last week in WlScasSet.. Rev. L E. Jones'
p. E., will hold a quarterly conference at
Lincolnville Centre Saturday evening and
preach at the Beach Sunday morning
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Cooley have returned
! home after an extended visit to friends .
| Mrs. c. B. Sawtelle has returned after visit
! ing her brother in Brewer. Mrs ID. NJ.
Dean spent Friday in Belfast -. Mrs. Lii
liam Wooster, Mrs. Adelaide Monroe and
Miss Name Foster spent Sunday with Mrs,
Wooster's brother, Mr.. VIII Pendleton,
| in Lincolnville Centre. Alice Trussel, Alta
Heal, Herbert Bullock and Gustin Warren
attended the drama and dance in West
Rockport last Wednesday evening. =. There
was dance at Freeman's Hall last Satur-
day evening. Mrs. Olive Duncan is visit
ing her sister in Belfast. Miss Carrie
Carver is at Mrs Name COMBS.
ISLESBORO.
The post office at Dark Harbor, which
has in PAST years been open only three
months in the summer, began as yearly
office Feb. 24th Eugene Barker, a young
man from Union, Me-, who has been at
work on the r. 7. Bond cottage in the en-
ploy of W. II. Glover & Co., fell So feet,
owing to the staging giving way, breaking
his right leg midway between the knee and
the hip Fortunately he struck on smooth
place, though a few feet in all directions
were beds of jagged rocks. He received
some bruises, but is doing well. . On
Seven Hundred Acre Island there have
been three cases of scarlet fever in mild
form. The children are recovering. The
school was closed. Saturday evening, Feb.
22nd, the Sunday School children of the
Free Baptist church gave a concert in COM
memoration of Washington's birthday.
Miss Lena M. Rose is a very efficient work
er in the school. Mrs. T. C. Pendleton
and her daughter Brina recently returned
from Brooklyn, N. Y, where they had spent
several months in visiting relatives.
Capt. F. c. Pendleton left.Feb. Path for New
York ON business THE public schools
closed Feb 2lSt for few weeks vacation