The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-08-31
NoRTHPoRT NEWS.

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NoRTHPoRT NEWS.
A number of the Temple Heights cot
tagers will remain during the month OF
September.
Mr. and Mis-. NJ. II. Cobe of Boston are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Ira NJ. Cobe at the
Bohemia on South shore.
Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Averill of Roxbury,
Mass, have returned to their home this
week after visit at the Barlow cottage on
South shore.
The Ladies' Aid Society has bought a
piece of land, 4OxS0 feet, uponwhich to build
stable another season; much felt want
at the Heights.
Abby Pillsbury of East Northport has
sold her pretty place to Mr.. Andrew b.
Written OF Pittstield, who will take possess
sion this week.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Saturday Cove
will hold their annual meeting for the cleo
ton of officers with Mrs. Eta p. Dickey
Wednesday, Sept 9Th, at o'clock p. m.
VIM. A. Whitney has sold, so it is report
ed, TWO valuable lots fronting the bay.
Other lots of land are being negotiated for
and quite land boom has struck North
port
William Dahl and party of Dorchester,
Mass, who have been spending some weeks
at the Dahl cottage on South shore, have
closed the cottage and returned to Massa-
chuSetts.
Clearview cottage on South shore is open,
with MIR. and Mrs. William II. Bray of Bel
fast as guests, accompanied by Mrs. William
Holt and two children, Annette and Ralph,
of Belfast.
Charles O. Dickey has bought of lnez
Move her cottage on Main street near the
Dickey gate, through the agency Of F. S.
Holmes of Belfast, who is an honorable
man to deal with.
The friend of Mr.. Sewall Chapman of
OronG, who with his wife and daughter,
Mrs Dixie, has spent the summer at Temple
Heights for several years, learned with re-
greet of his death at his home August oath.
The Boulter cottage on the South shore
has been entertaining the following party
during the week past: Mrs. George Boulter,
Richard Woodbury., Mrs E. p. Alexander,
Mrs. Abbie Moody, Miss Moody and Miss
Mamie Woodbury. of Belfast,
Mr.. and Mrs F. H. Bartlett and daughter
of Chicago left Aug. 23d for home after
spending several weeks with the CODES on
the South shore and in automobile trips
about the State. They shipped their auto
mobile to Boston by boat. They were de-
lighted with their visit to Maine and will
come again next season.
ID. q. Wing of Boston and Norman ii.
White of Cambridge, Mass, recently
bought two acres of land ON top of F. A.
Birds hill. 1t is not known what they in
tend to build, but from its top one can
''look seward and naught shall meet thine
eye but fairy isles, like paintings on the
sky,"-three hundred of them.
Ho. for Dickey's bluff, renamed Mt Per
cival by Hiram PIERCE but the old name is
dear to the writer, his grandfather having
there all his life and raised family of ten
children, six boys and four girls. The
writer is the last one left and he was 7e
years young the Goth of August.
party of young folks from East Bel
fast are spending their vacation at the
Davis and Guptill cottage on Nicwa Point
They are having very pleasant time and
making it pleasant for the people they come
in contact with. Their names are Lena
Davis, Gladys Garter, Lena Ellis, Florida
Carrow, Alice Guptill, Nellie Guptill,
Clifton Gross, Herbert Davis. The people
at the Heights are always pleased when the
Davis and Guptill cottage is occupied.
The observatory Oh Mt Percival is well
worth going miles to see. The lower story
is IS feet square and feet high, built Of
stone laid in Portland cement The second
story is 9 feet high and is to be living
room for the owner the third story is feet
to the plates and the posts are 10 feet. The
upper story is opened all around the build
ing 5 feet from the plates. On the upper
floor is the telescope, which is said to be a
fine ore. A piazza twelve feet wide will
encircle the building when finished. An
entrance of ten cents will be charged.
CAMPMEETING. Last Thursday the
gathering at Wesleyan Grove seemed like
old times. The steamer Verona came
down from Bangor with big party and
the steamer Castine made four round trips
between Belfast and Northport and one to
Searsport. The reports of the gate keepers
and officials showed more people on the
grounds this year than last and that the in
terest was much better. The gate receipts
siderable in advance of those two days,
Wednesday and Thursday, of last year
The meetings of the week and especially
Thursday were we'll patronized and the
lectures were interesting and instructive
Rev. F. L: Hayward Of Orono, presiding
elder of the BuckSpOrt district, lectured
Wednesday afternoon and in the evening
there were addresses by Rev. T.. W. Hunter
of BuckspOrt and Rev. c. Ii. Freddy of
Portland. Thursday at 1890 a. M, very
able lecture dealing with the church and
the State was given by Prof. A. E. Rogers Of
the University of Maine and he had the
close attention of large audience. He
said, in part: "There are two things
which we are taught are separate. We often
hear the cry that the church should keep
out of politics, but there is certain kind
Of politics which deserves the attention of
the church and is benefited by such asso-
citation" ........ "There are questions on
which the nulnit must sneak in M moor.
tain tones. It is simply question of con-
sideratiOn and the result lays much with
the strong, but the words from the pulpit
are sure to prove effective. We are always
able to find the anarchist who would des-
troy all government, but he is sure to be an
atheist" At p. m. reception was rendered
to Prof. Frederick Bragd0n, the new princi-.