The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-01-05
SEARSPORT LOCALS.

Robert p Nichols left by train Monday
morning for Boston.
In the year 1904 there were 81 deaths and
% births in SearspOrt.
Miss Jeanette Rice returned to Chelsea,
Mass, last Saturday.
Miss Joanna ColcOrd returned Monday to
the University of Maine.
Miss Katherine Kneeland left by train
Monday for Chelsea, Mass.
Lincoln R. Colcord spent a part of the
holidays with Chas. Hamlin in Orono, Me.
Miss Martha Ross left Monday to resume
her kindergarten work in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miss Maude Colcord left by train Wednes-
day for Orono to resume her work at the
L. OF M.
Miss Blanche Ross has returned to the
Boston Normal School of gymnastics after
a short vacation
Miss Lillian G.. Runnells was the guest of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs,W. I. c. Runnells,
for a few days last week.
Mrs. VIM. P. Putnam of Dorchester,
Mass, is in town to attend the funeral of
her mother, Mrs. Milicent Dow.
Mrs. Cecil NJ. Paine and daughter Vir-
gina Ol Ddlll are luc SueStS VI MIS-. diHC
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. NJ. Sargent
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Thomas, who have
been the guests OF Rev. and Mrs. I. p.
Williams, returned Saturday to their home
in Hebron, Me.
The directors of the Searsport National
Bank met at their banking rooms Friday,
Dec. 3Oth and voted to declare seminar
nual dividend Of 4 per cent
The Ladies' Guild of the Cong'l society
will meet in their social rooms Thursday
afternoon 1t is hoped as many of the la
dies as possible will assist in this work.
The drama to be given by the senior class
of the High school is progressing finely UNI
der the dictatorship of Mrs. Prudence Put
nam and they hope to present the play Jan.
10th
Mrs l. H. W. Wharf, will remain in town
during January and has made arrange
ments to meet her class in embroidery on
Wednesday and Saturday afternoons of
each week.
The services of the week of prayer began
Sunday at the Methodist church. The at
tendance has been good SO far and it is
hoped the meetings will be more profitable
than for years past.
Sears Lodge, l. O. 0. F., has elected the
following officers for 1905: N. G., George S.
Sargent V. g., John Davis; Sec'y, {. A.
Rogers; Treasurer, John Putnam; Trus-
tees, F. M. Perkins, A. L. Mosman, G. A.
Bowen.
Mrs. Jas. P. Butman and her mother,
Mrs Susan W. COlSon, gave a New Years
dinner last Saturday. Seventeen guests
were entertained and eleven of them were
grandchildren of Mrs. Colson.
The annual parish meeting of the Con-
gregational society took place Dec. 3lst.
After the bills were all paid $50. Is remain
ed in the treasury as a nest egg for 1905.
The following committee were chosen to
consider the organ question: Rev. L. Z.
Williams, Il. o: Sargent, Z. +. Adams. A.
j NickerSon, {. f. Adams and B. o. Sar-
gent We're chosen parish committee for the
ensuing year.
Rev. l. H. W Wharf, D. D., has been in
yited to supply Il church in northern New
York for the remainder of the conference
year. Sickness in the pastors family caus-
ed the vacancy that DR., Wharf, is asked to
fill. He leaves next Monday for his new
field of labor, and will be away until about
the time of the meeting OF the East Maine
Conference, April 10, 1905. The invitation
came to Dr. Wharf from a college class
mate, who is presiding elder OF the church,
At the annual meeting of searsport Royal
Arch Chapter the following officers We're
elected for the ensuing year: H. p, l.. W.
Went worth; K, f. / Pendleton; S., f. J.
Wentworth; c. OF H., Clifton Whittum; Z.
5, W, a. C0lson Treas. b. o. Sargent;
Sec'y, ". NJ. Parse; r. A. C., II. II. Sellers :;
NJ 81 V, Mai Sargent; NJ. I'd v, f. J.
bailey; NJ. 1st v, \. Ii. Nichols; Chap,
j, A. Colson, Sent, John Murphy 1t was
voted to have the installation public to mem
belS and their families, the time to be ar
ranged later.
SIXTY-THRNE YEARS MARRIED. The
HoSLon sunday Globe OF Jan. 1ot has por
traits OF Mr.. aid Mrs. James II. Pendleton
with the following mention of these well
known citizens:
>earsport can propably lay claim to hay
ing the oldest married couple in Waldo
county, MIR. and Mrs. James II. Pendleton
having lately observed their SD wedding
anniversary.
They We're born and brought up in Sears
port, and they were married Dec. II, lS41
This long welded career has been happily
spent in the house they now occupy, and
they number among their friends every
person in SearSport old enough to compre-
bend the meaning of the word friendship.
Mr.. PendletOn is S5, and comes of fam
lily whose other sons have all followed the
sea. He did not share this early yearning
for life on the deep and has devoted near
three-quarterS of century to tiling peace
full farm land that suns itself on the borders
of PenobScot bay.
During the Aroostook war, of ludicrous
memory, he was an army mail carrier, and
made stated journeys between HoultOn and
point Is miles nearer the scene of war
HIS accoutrements were in keeping with
the other burleSque features of the war,
among them being two horse pistols of 10
gage bore and brass barrels, and sword so
ponderOuS as to forbid all thought of active
use in an encounter.
The gorgeous uniform is likewise hung
away in the Pendleton attic, and sometimes