The Republican journal., 1904-04-21
sEARSPORr LOCALS.
W. A. Billiard is critically i'll.

Mrs. Lillias L. Nichols arrived home
Tuesday.
w. E. Grinnell has returned from bust
ness trip to Boston.
Elmer Webster recently put his yacht
Mary into commission.
Capt. A. B. Colson is absent on business
trip to Willimantie, Me.
Mr. N. c. Shute wishes to employ man
in his stables. See advt.
Hon. A. E. Nickerson is loading SCH
Harriet Rogers with hay for Boston.
Mariners Lodge, F. & A. NJ, will confer
the 3rd degree Tuesday evening, April 10Th.
The W. C. T. U. will meet in the Metho-
dist vestry at 2.30 p. m. Thursday, April
Dist.
Mrs. d. S. Beals announces her spring
opening for Thursday and Friday of this
week.
Miss George Ford and her aunt, Mrs.
Melvenia Nichols, arrived by boat last
week.
James Coffin has bought the Kane house
and moved it to a lot on Mt. Ephraim
avenue.
The high price of potatoes in Boston is
causing heavy shipments by the Eastern
s. 5. line
1t is rumored there will shortly be sur
vey OF the proposed route of the b. Il A.
shore line.
Capt. Nathan Gilkey, whose vessel is in
Bangor dlScharglng coal, is visiting friends
IN SearSpCrt.
Miss Lucy Sargent has returned from
Boston and her attractive store is well
worth visiting.
Mrs. Howard, who has been visiting her
mother, Mrs Eta Chaplin, left for her
hcme Wednesday.
Mrs. Esther NJ. Griffin and daughter
Mabel have returned from Boston, where
they spent the winter.
DR.. E. Hopkins and daughter Ella, who
have been in Bangor the past few months,
arrived home last week.
Miss SWEET, who has substituted at the
W. l. Telegraph office here the past Win
ter, left by boat Friday
Mrs. Charlotte Bickmore, who has spent
a year with friends in Massachusetts, ar
rived by steamer Saturday.
a. Eugene Nickerson of Portland has
spent several days in town, the guest of his
father, Hon. A. E. Nickerson.
Miss Eunice Whittum will display he1
spring millinery Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, April 21st, 22nd and 23d.
Miss Ellen A. Mosman recently received
from a friend in Greenwood, S. c., 4
beautiful bunch of peach blossoms.
AS per vote of the town at March meeting
work will soon begin on Union Hall ant
the building will be put in first class shape
Mrs Charles Barney and Mr. and Mrs
James Couch have arrived with their house
hold goods and will spend the season here
Sch. Kitty Lawry has been thorough,
repaired and is ready for bay coasfing
which she followed so successfully las
year.
The remains of Edward Ford arrived
here Wednesday, and after a short Servic,
the interment took place in the Nichols
cemetery.
The body of Mrs II. II. McGilvery will
arrive Friday morning on the Boston steam
er and funeral services will be conducted a
her late residence at . p. m.
Friends here of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hool
were shocked to hear of the death of the
son Harry, who lived in Brewer. Flu
neral services were held there and the re
mains We're takento Harrington for inter
ment.
Charles CIcSSOn has sawed and split S
cords OF wood in the past two months
nine aId thIte-fUurthS hours he sawed tw
and one half cords 8 cuts, one cord eli
and 10 feet > cuts His claim to the chan
plonahIp IS undoubted.
The seectmen are finding trouble i
getting around among the farmers to Secur
their Va uation, on account of mud This
al obsolete custom and should be abolishe
and the valuation sent in by cards prepare
and distributed for that purpose
As the time approaches for renewal c
mali contracts our people begin to realiz
that on the stage line from Belfast t
Stockton springs the past three year
Lancaster has given US the finest service j
eastern Maine, and also to realize that
patrons would have this kind of seryic
continued something depends on them
see to it that influence is brought to bea
that will place the contract in the hands {
responsible parties in the future.
Among the stage notices of the Buffal
Enquirer of a recent date we find the TO
lowing mention of one of Searsport's bows
This week Fitzpatrick and BurnstOn al
presenting at the Star Theatre Richar
Nesmith in ''Joshua Whitcomb'', by kin
permission of Denman Thompson TIL
play is full of pathos as well as coined,
and the critics are unanimous in sayn
that Mr.. Nesmith gives a wonderful pei
Torrance. The company has been person
ally selected by Denman Thompson, an
includes Miss Anna Thompson, Miss Mas
gle Breytr, Miss May Curtis, Miss Lillia
Sinnott, Miss Bessie Graham, Walter Gale
Tom Collins, Hector Dion. John Brown an
Harry Earl.