The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-08-25
N0RTHPORT NEWS.

WESLEYAN GROVE AND VICINITY.
Mrs. Kendall of Camden spent camp.
meeting week here.
Miss Josephine Holmes of Boston is at
the Snug Harbor cottage.
Mrs. Charles B. Morse and son of Bangor
are guests of Rev. and Mrs. I. H. w. Wharf.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peaks and daughter Of
Milo are in the Wilson cottage on Broad
way.
Mrs. S. S. Lewis and Emmie F. Lewis OF
Brewer registered at the White Rock last
week.
John Norton of Minneapolis left for home
Tuesday after a short stay at Rev. /. II. w.
Wharff's.
Rev. S. L. Hanscom, D. D., of Bar Har-
Dor preached in the auditorium last Sun
day forenoon and evening.
Thomas W. Lothrop of Cincinnati return
ed home last week from short visit at the
Campground and in Belfast.
Charlie Decrow kept up his reputation
for courage by bringing a passenger from
Folwell's Island in sailboat during the
gale Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Eliza Hunnewell of Belfast is on
the grounds this season, as usual. She has
not missed going to campmeeting a single
season since she began in 1882.
Henry Parker of Bangor, Fred S. Walls
of Vinalhaven and f. NJ. Wharf, of North
port attended the Grand Army National
Encampment in Boston last week.
The last of series of dances at the pa
vilion on the South Shore will be held next
Saturday evening. The steamer Golden
Rod will make an excursion, leaving Lewis
wharf, Belfast at SIS.
The Campground post office was moved
back to Haney's store Saturday night 1t
had been kept two weeks outside the
grounds on account of the admission fee
charged during the assembly and camp
meeting.
The following guests were registered at
the White Rock the past week: Mrs. c.
Murphy and Mrs. 7. w. Bartlett, Old Town :;
Mrs. F. W. Jacques, Ferdinand S. Jacques,
Edna Jacques, Bangor.
The largest excursion of the season came
on the steamer Rockland Monday forenoon.
Eureka Lodge and Eureka Rebekah Lodge,
l. O. 0. F., of Orrington made an excursion
to Northport and Camden, accompanied by
the newly organized Orrington Band.
A party of young people consisting of
Stanley Hincks, Josephine Holmes, Geneva
Hincks, Ralph Wharf, Marion Atwen and
Alice Gilbert went up-river Friday, intend
ing to return the next day. The storm
Saturday ruled otherwise and they got
back to the Campground Monday forenoon.
meeting was held Wednesday forenoon,
Aug. 24th, to choose a committee to consid-
or the matter of forming village corpora
ton for the Northport Wesleyan Grove
Campmeeting Association. Messrs. L. A.
Barker, W. B. Ferguson and W. NJ Bean
were appointed, and instructed to report at
a meeting one year hence.
The storm of Saturday dsarranged the
trips of the steamers and the passengers on
the Fuller from up-river came from Bel
fast by teams as the boat was not able to
make a landing here. The Golden Rod
could not come down Saturday night, but
came Sunday forenoon. Capt. Decrow and
his friends had lively time taking care of
the small boats
The second entertainment of the season
to raise funds for sea wall was given in
the auditorium Tuesday evening, Aug. 23d.
The program of music, readings. etc, was
well rendered. The banjo solos by Mr..
Libby of Bangor were repeatedly encored.
The plan is to build sea wall along the
water front between the steamboat wharf
and the Walls cottage.
The following are among the guests regis
tered at the Waquot the past week :: F. r. |
Smith, j. II. Smith, Mrs. Frank Jones, L. |
b. Goode, Boston, D. Talbot, Cora Talbot, !,
W. d. Talbot, Omaha, Neb.; Miss c. |
Weedima, Marcellus, n. Y; j. A. Wyer,
c. R. Phinney, Portland j. H.
cole and wife, Rochester, n. Y; S. C. Web |
Der, Schuyler, Neb.; j. Staples, East Bas-
on; r. 7. Shackford, Waterville.
The attendance at the campmeeting. this
year was better than last year, but not so
large as in the years prior to that. The
gate receipts for the two weeks-the inssi-
5ute and campmeeting- aggregated a tri He
over $500. The program of the oampmeet-
ng was carried out as previously annouuss-
I'd except that Rev. S. o. Young of South |
orrington preached Saturday forenoon, and
20 meetings were held Saturday afternoon
Or evening.
I he following are among the guestsregk-
sered at the Ocean House the past week
Chas H. Very and W fe and w. Gardner