The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-07-20
SFARSPORT LOCALS.

BOSTON,
Robert Hichborn is at home for a briel
vacation.
Capt. Albert Blanchard is at home for q
short time.
Dr.. Irving Pendeton of Lewiston spen
Sunday in town.
Mrs. Abbe Carver of Boston is the CUES
of Mrs. Lillias Nichols.
Miss Ida MacMoran of Philadelphia is
the guest of Miss Georgia Ford.
Miss Clara Burleigh of South Berwick is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Ellen Lieb.
Clifford Carver, Gordon Williams and
Jack Eyre spent a few days last week al
Swan Lake.
Among the arrivals by boat Tuesday
were Mrs. Harry Perry and Mr.. Frank
Curtis.
Cliff Woods and Geo. Coleman Of Dorches-
ter, Mass, are spending two weeks vaca-
ton at Mrs. Josie Webber's.
Mrs. George Carver of Brooklyn, N. y,
arrived last week and will spend the season
at her summer home on Moose Point.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. f. Grinnell and children
left W ednesday on the boat for HarWlch-
port, Cape Cod, where they will spend the
summer.
Mrs. Chas. Colcord and her friends the
Misses Curtis, all of Danbury, Ct, are oc-
eupying the cid Colcord homestead for a
short time.
Mrs. Ludwig Hayner and children of
Worcester, Mass, are spending a lew
weeks with her father, Capt. Phineas
Pendleton.
Miss Blanche Nickels and Mrs. Kittie
Mc(Iilyerv and little Miss McGilvery are
snendinp a week at Mrs. II. K. NckelS'
cottage, swan Lake.
Mrs. Charles n Carney and son of Bos-
ton, Mass, are spending the summer with
her mother, Mrs C. 0. Fernald, at Lake
side farm, Swan Lake.
Rev. F. l. Hanscom Of Freedom ex-
changed pulpits with Rev. I. T. Williams
last Sunday morning and there was special
music during the service
The Pike Brothers are putting a new
stave machine into the mill in the hollow.
Their orders are so numerous that thelr
former machinery was inadequate to meet
the demand.
The ladies of the Cong'l church will hold
their annual summer sale IN Union Han
Tuesday afternoon and evening, Aug. LIST.
There will be an entertainment and the pro-
gram will be given next week.
The supper given in the Congregational
cessful, and the six hostesses OF the occa-
sion were able to turn about twenty dollars
owe" to the church committee.
The services at the NJ E. church last
Sunday were of special interest. In the
morning persons were received into the
church with very impressive ceremony.
The subject of Rev. c. W. Wallace's ser
mon was "The Normal Development OF
Chr stan Faith.
Next Sunday evening in the Methodist
church Miss Flora Sherman of Belfast will
report the recent International Sunday
School Convention held in Toronto, Canada.
All interested in Sunday school work are
specially invited to be present.
The schooner Regina arrived from
Elizabethport, n. j., last week and has
discharged cargo of pipes to be laid for
the waterworks, work on which is progress
ing very satisfactorily. The reservoir is
completed and the pipes are being laid to
the spring, about quarter OF a mile dis
tant.
Miss Jessie Black and party of friends
spent sunday at Union Lodge, Swan Lake.
Mrs Jennie Hunter chaperoned the party
which consisted Of Miss jamie Curtis, Miss
Helen Pike, Miss Louise Pike, Miss
Florence Colcord, II. \. Colcord, William
Treat, j. ". Trite. J. W. Elms and O. w
Tra>k.
Unclaimed letters in the searsport post
office: MI Cole, Mr.. \. Finch, Mr. A. II
Hammond, James H. Little, Justin r
Merrill, Mrs. Annie Peavey, DR.. f. w
Putnam, Mrs. F. E: Philbrick, Geo. W
Stevenson, Walter Twombley. Mrs. +. H
N Iye.eu Young.
The >earsport House has been leased fol
three ears to NJ. Il. knoWlton of Belfast
and True Trandy OF Stockton Springs anG
Nj knoWlton took formal possession OF
the hotel Tuesday. The housekeeper and
several maids come down from Bangor Sat
urday night. The new landlords have the
best wishes of the community for Il success
full summer.
All who are interested in the fair fG1
which the Ladies' Aid are making prepare.
ton will be interested to know that plans
are developing in very satisfactory man.
ner There will be booths for fancy work
aprons, candy, ice cream and food of all
sort. The young people are working on d
very interesting entertainment for the
evening. Remember the place and date
in Union Hall, Thursday, July 81.
The offering next Sunday in the Congre-
gational church will be the annual cOntri.
button to the foreign missionary society
This year it has been decided that the offer.
ing shall go to the new Union church now
building in Yokohama, Japan. This is at
the solicitation of Mrs. Harry Blake, for.
merly Miss Nellie Nichols of Searsport, now
living IN Yokohama and member of said
Union church. 1t is hoped that the Offering
will be worthy both of the enterprise and OF
the congregation of the Searsport church
The following out of town guests
registered at the Searsport House the past
week I. S. Dennscn, Boston; F. E.
burns, Portland F. Il. Huse, Bangor; A
G. Moore, Boston; E. f. Whitney and wife
Dover; Edith Blithen; H. A Robinson
San Francisco; NJ. Gliddings, Bangor
Miss Gliddings, Bangor Madeline Burrage
Iogus; r. W. Philbrook and wife, New
York A. c. Page, Portland; L. II. Dunton
Bangor; w. A Gordon, Bangor; A. L
Getchen, Providence; j. J. Moore, Boston
July 18th, in Union Hall, Messrs. Brad
bury, Saunders and Smith will give fare
well entertainment for the benefit of the
Cemetery Improvement Association The
program will be triple comedy bill, con.
sisting Of the amusing farce, "My Turn
Next the dramatic dvl ga Romance OF
the Red Cross" arranged and adopted by
the late Mrs K. p. Smith; a new rustic
sketch written expressly for Bradbury and
Smith by +. &. Nichols and entitled
''Susetta, and a particularly ridiculous
monologue by Jas. L. Bradbury.
To judge by the signs of the times Sears
port is to have more summer visitors this
year than ever before. The hotel is well
filled and most of the available houses have
been rented for August Mr. w. Fl. Ellis,
who is in charge of the hnildinp of tho ma W