The Republican journal., 1903-10-22

PROSPECT
The new threshing machine with the gas
olne engine has got around and does the
work finely. The tramp, tramp of the
horses on the lags climbing up hill will
soon be thing of the past. The noise is
reduced almost wholly to a sound like spit.
spit, with a short pause, and there is no
break if the band slips off. A little thing
turned on the engine stops it before you
know it. There are no horses to get tired
on a hot day. 1t was supposed there was
danger OF fire, but there does not seem to be
any fire or smoke. Fred and Clifford Ellis
have charge of the threshing around here.
...N Various prices are paid for apples here,
from % to 80 cents on the trees. Most of
the No. , greetings and cider apples are
left on the ground. Wages are high for
farm help and as there is hardly. one work
er to a farm now it does not pay to gather
the small apples. Winter apples will bring
a fair price. The crop is not up. to last
year. The Lane bridge is up for repairs.
IL. F. Gould's trotter gets over the ground
little faster every year,. Emery Calder
Clark is said to have a fast trOtter Then
there is said to be fellow up in the Clark
settlement who has a colt that can out trot
the best of them.. Otis Gem came home
from Bangor last. week not feeling very we'll.
Later the doctor pronounced his case small
pox. Charles Randall has bought the ap-
Piles in the Leonard BURDEN orchard. Fred
nj nd uit fu.
and two teams, have just gone by to gather
the CROP. George Lothrop has sold his
patch of cabbages to parties, to be shipped
to Boston,. Alfred Berry is shinging his
house, which is nearly 100 years old. .Silas
Trundy has just mixed and made Is gallons
of his sprain and rheumatic cure, and along
the bay and river the sales are increasing.
For several years it has been OH the mar
ket with DR.. Danielsiand Trundy linments.
NORTH STOCKTON SPRINGS.
Edward Colson of Guilford visited at Ly-
man Partridge's: last week -. Miss G. Ada
Partridge left Monday for Guilford.. Mrs.
Hosea Littlefield has returned to her home
in Massachusetts after visiting her sister,
Mrs. C. O. Hatch, and other relatives....
Elder Welch held meeting at the Roberts
school house last Sunday....A number
from this vicinity attended the silver we'd
ding of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert. Larrabee in
Prospect last Thursday evening and report
a very enjoyable OCCASION. Mrs. Sarah
Clifford, superintendent OF schools, is teach
ing the Center school, as the teacher, Miss
Nichols, gave up the school owing to the
illness of her mother. -. Mrs. Maud Dor
cam has been quite ill. Miss Bertha
Partridge visited friends and relatives
in Searsport last week, and also visited
the village schools. The teacher of the
Primary school is Miss Addie Crockett,
graduate of the Eastern State Normal
school and a popular teacher. She is we'll
known in this vicinity as she formerly lived
here and taught in the town schools The
teacher of the intermediate school is Miss
Annie Rhoades of Northport, also a gradu-
ate of the Eastern State Normal school, and
very successful and up-to-date teacher.
Her class in music and the reciting of men,
ory gems ty her pupils were features
specially noticed. The Searsp0rt grammar
school is suctessfully taught by Miss Dodge
of Searsport. The High school is taught by
Mr.. Irving I;urtOn of Sebec and the school
is under ex eellent control and the pupils
are doing god work. The Searsport schools
are very ably superintended by Mrs. Emma