The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-10-05

Ralph Upper and Miss Emma Hichborn
| caught, while fishing off the Curtis shore
Thursday, &c good-sized hake.
The ship Bangalore, Capt Albert n
Blanchard, has been chartered to load coal
at Philadelphia for Honolulu.
Mrs. +. D. Colcord returned Monday
from Orono. where she was the guest of her
daughter at Mt. Vernon House.
Mrs. Addie Hichborn and Mrs. Laura
NJ. Perry left Friday for Brooklyn, \. Y,
where they will spend the winter.
! Mrs. c. {. Crazy and Mrs. Charles Bar.
rows, who have been spending several
| weeks in town, returned to Boston Friday.
| of the Searsport Water Works have been
, getting on rapidly in their work the past
| week.
George L. Morrill,, who has been making
| extensive repairs on his buildings here,
| viii return to his home in DiXfield this
| week.
john c. Blanchard has a crew of men at
| work raising and making extensive repairs
and changes on the house of Capt. Daniel
| {. Nichols.
| Philips Williams, timekeeper for Astel
| Il Page contractors, on the \. NJ S. r. r.,
| is at Winterport While they are building
the station house.
! Astel & Page, contractors, have finished
Their work on the freight and station
| houses at Mack'S Point, and left for Win
telpnft to build the station house there.
Mrs. Angelina Bray, former housekeeper
| for the late yrus True, left by train Mon
| day for Los Angeles, CAL, where she will
make her future home with her son, Henry
Bray.
The first iron sailing ship built in the
United States was the Title f. Starbuck,
built BIZ John Roach in Philadelphia and
commanded by Capt. VIM. A. Rogers of
Searsport.
John G. Blanchard has closed a contract
| to build boarding house at kidder's Point.
The building is to be 35 by So feet and is to
be two stories high. 1t is to be completed
in November.
SpelIman, the well known wharf builder of
Bangor, his handsome black tive-year-old
driving horse, which was shipped to Ban
gor by Sundays boat.
The ship VIM. j. Rotch, in command of
Capt Sewell Lancaster, arrived at Vladis-
voStock in 1898 with cargo of flour from
, San Francisco, and was the first American
ship to enter that port.
DR.. E. Hopkins and daughter, Miss Ella.
who attended the meeting of the Maine
Society OF Maytlower Descendants and
were the guests Of the Kicker Bros, pro-
prietors of the Poland Springs House at
Poland Springs, last Thursday, returned
home Friday. DR.. Hopkins was elected
surgeon for the ensuing year.
The remains Of Capt. James R. Park of
SearspOrt, who died in Faneuil, Mass, Sun
day, October LIST, arrived by boat Tuesday
morning and were inferred in Mt Bowditch
Cemetery. Capt Park was born in Sears
port 81 years ago and was one of the old
Boston packet shippers of so years ago. He
leaves daughter. Mrs. Grace Wentworth
of Staten Island, n. Y, and William II. of
Boston.
The following were registered at the
SWeaaii tp House the past week: j. F.
A. Nutty, Bangor; W. S. Remission, Rock
land; w. II. Gannett, Augusta il. S. Moody.
Nobleboro;- F. E. Burns, J. T. Sayward,
Portland James Crawford, c. B. Dexter,
Bangor; f. L; Wilson, Detroit, Mich. W.
Geo. Wheaton, Bangor; &C. H. Emery, Els,
worth; 0. E. Folsom, Portland; R. f.
Swain, Leeds; j. F. Spellman and j. F.
Spellman, Jr, Bangor.
OBITUARY. Capt. Stephen Woodbury., a
! former well known Searsport coastng cap
tain, died in Bucksvlle, S. c., about Sept.
Goth, aged 70 years Capt. Woodbury. in his
early days commanded the sloop Express
and engaged in bay coasting until the out
! break of the Civil War when he Joined the
18th Maine Regiment and served during the
war. On his return he again followed the
sea, the schooner Stephen Woodbury. being
built for him in Searsport in 1866. The
Linah c. Kiminski was also built for him
in Bath in 1882. For the last ten years he
has lived on farm near Bucksville. He
leaves widow and one daughter.
The steamer Barracuda, commanded bv
Capt Clifton Curtis of Searsport, laden
| with salt for the Russian government, was
captured off the northern end of Saghalien
Island in the Okhotsk Sea and taken to a
port in Japan. The Barracuda has been
running between San Francisco and ports
| in Costa RIGA, and the seizure of the steam
er in the far-off northern sea was a surprise
to the many friends of Capt Curtis in Sears
port: AS the steamer was seized after the
signing of the treaty of Portsmouth be-
tween Russia and Japan she will probably
| soon be released. The Barracuda is a
steamer of 2 1852 tons, was built in Glasgow.
Scotland, and is owned in New York,