The Republican journal., 1905-09-28

! treatment the past three months, returned
| home last week very much improved.
Capt. Albert n. Blanchard will take COM
mand of the ship BangalOre, now at Phila-
| delphia, and his brother, Capt. Phineas b.
| Blanchard, will remain at home voyage.
Sch. George II. Ames, Capt. Birmingham,
| sailed from Brunswick, Ga, Sept. Goth, with
| sprague Coal Co. at Mack's Point Sears
| port.
Frank C. Dutch, former tonSOrial artist
of this place, but now in the cOOperage
business in Charlestown, Mass, arrived
Sunday to visit his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. c. Dutch.
Police Officer James S. Orr of the Boston
police force, formerly of Searsport, was one
of the six officers selected as pail bearers of
the remains of Mayor Collins on their ar
rival in Boston from Hot Springs, Va.
Dr. f. Hopkins and daughter Ella are at
tending meeting and banquet at Poland
Springs, of the society of Mayfower Des-
pendants in the State of Maine, given by
Hiram Kicker Il Sons, fellow-members of
the society.
y new and enlarged edition of the Sears
port Cook Book, compiled by Mrs. Laura
NJ. Perry and Miss Laura r. Curtis, has
just been issued. 1t is for sale at Mrs. Jen-
church. Price 10 cents.
Sch. Phineas II. Gay has arrived from
Boston with boilers, engines, Smok estack
and heaters for the Sprague Coal Plant at
Mack's Point in Searsport The boilers are
125 and $50 horse power. The Smokestack
Is 90 feet in length and ~ it. in diameter.
DR.. +. Hopkins of SearSport has very fine
Specimen OF garden hy'langea. 1t has 800
flower clusters, or panicles, upon it, some
of which are six and seven inches in length,
and four and six inches in diameter. He
thinks it has been an unusually favorable
season for their growth.
The work at Mack's Point is .'ss3ng rapid
ly forward. The grade is completed to
within about $50 feet of the coal wharf and
concrete abutmentS have been placed in
position for 600 feet. The round house is
about completed and the foundations in
position tor the engine, boilers and
dynamo The concrete work on the
foundation for the turntable is nearing
completion and the hard pine stills have
been placed in position in the section house
for the rails
The following were registered at the
Searsport House the past week: D. S.
cuse, n, Y; d. S. Goodell, Gao. Haney, d.
{: Rice, Boston; E: p. Smith, Pittstield,
Me-; J. L. Belyea. Portland; 6. F. Berry,
Boston; w. W. Duppett, Jr., Portland; W.
A. Gordon, c. S. Head, Bangor; L. L.
Leonard, T. S. Dennison, Chas. johnson,
Boston; |. II. Emery, Ellsworth; c. L.
Russell, Rockland ; John Banks, +. j. Hyde
and wife, Portland.
OBITUARY. Oscar E. Eaton, the only
son OF Capt. Oscar G. and Adelaide (Nich-
ols) Eaton of East Boston, formerly of
Searsport, died in Boston Sept. goth, after
an operation for appendicitis He rallied
somewhat after the operation and there
were hopes of his recovery, but Wednesday
ne began to sink rapidly and died at night
Mr.. Eaton was born in Searsport in 1874
His mother died in Singapore, Oct 81, 1881,
which he lived with his grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. Eliphalet Eaton and attended the
public schools in Searsport. In 1898 he
went to the University Of Maine at Orono,
later going to Boston, where he became
skilled electrician. He was young man
of excellent character and had many friends
in Searsport, who will regret his untimely
end. The interment was at Little Deer
Isle. He leaves wife, daughter and
father to mourn their loss.