The Republican journal., 1904-04-07
SEARSPORT LOCALS.

The roads between here and Belfast are
drying rapidly.
Robert Grinnell came home from Kent's
Hill for Easter
Fred Park visited his mother, Mrs. J. II.
Park, Thursday.
Jessie Morrison is at home from visit to
friends at standpoint.
Unice Whittum and Lucy Sargent are in
Boston for new spring goods.
Mrs. A. 7. Whittier, who spent the win
ter abroad, arrived home last week.
Schooner Maria Webster loaded hay here
Tuesday for the Belfast Fuel & Hay Co.
W. f. Grinnell and wife left Monday for
shorl visit to friends in Massachusetts.
Mrs. /. II. W. Wharf has very success
ful class in art embroidery at Winterport.
Miss Georgia Ford will resume charge of
the Western Union Telegraph office soon.
Mrs l. :. Beals has fine display of hats
at her store, cornel of Main and Leach
streets.
Nina Lord, who has been visiting Mr..
and Mrs J b. Sweetser, left for Bucksport
Friday.
Mrs. Hunter has returned from New
York with all the latest styles and fashions
i'll millinery.
Miss Jessie NJ. Black celebrated her birth
ton and vicinity.
Miss Iona Nichols. who is engaged in
kindergarten work in Bangor, made
short visit home recently.
Capt and Mrs W. H. Blanchard are again
at home after several weeks spent in New
York, Boston and vicinity.
The supper of the NJ. Z. Society Thurs
day night sustained the reputation of the
sisters as cooks and caterers
Maud Colcord was at home from the
University of Maine for the Easter vacation
and returned to 0rono Tuesday.
The Easter concerts of both societies Sun
day night were well patrOniZed and fully
repaid those who attended them.
Rev. G. II. Hamilton and wife and Rev. I.
H. W. Wharf are at Pittsfield this week to
attend the East Maine NJ. f. conference
Mrs. II. 7. Pendleton on her way home
from California is max ing short stay with
her brother, Stephen Thurston, in Lombard,
Illinois.
Rev. r. q. Harbutt and family, with the
remainder of their household goods, will go
to Castne today, Thursday, by special trip
of steamer Silver Star.
Capt A. b. COlSOn, recently home from a
visit to Dixfeld, reports our friend George
L. Merrill planning for his annual visit to
old Searsport this summer
Mrs. Hadlock and son Harvey, Mrs. DR..
+. A. Davis and son Arnold and Capt. d. S.
Goodell, Jr., were here the past week to
attend the funeral OF Capt. d. S. Goodell.
Dyer & COlcord now have a really metro
poitan store. They have taken the agency
for the Edison talking machines and have
in stock some of the finest monographs
made, with all the latest records.
Freeman McGilvery Post has the arrange
ments for observance of Memorial Day we'll
in hand A band and speaker have been
engaged and various committees appointed
to look after details connected with the ex-
ercSeS.
The alarm of fire Sunday morning was |
for small blaze at Capt. Joseph Putnam's |
residence The fire caught in some clothes |
IN closet near a chimney and was extin- |
gushed by the fire brigade without using
the engines.
Miss Alice Kane has been notified by the |
postmaster of Philadelphia that the U. S.
Moral Society, an organization claiming to |
work for the adjustment of the cigarette, |
be located and chain letters sent |
them are sent to the Dead Letter Office.
Mrs. Howard and daughter Dorothy,
whose home is in Liverpool, England, have |
spent several months with Capt. and Mrs.
j. w. Walnut. They left Tuesday to visit |
relatives in HOulton, will return here for a |
short stay and then leave for home, making !
a few stops with friends in Massachusetts. |
Searsport is again an open port. The ice
embargo was raised Sunday by revenue
cutter Levi Woodbury. after a five hours
struggle. If the officers and crew of the |
cutter had come ashore here after clearing |
the harbOr they would surely have been |
presented with the keys of the city; for to 1
say our people were rej0iced but family ex- |
presses it. Any member of the officers or Il
crew can have picture of the cutter as |
she appeared driving into that ice field, by /
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