The Republican journal., 1906-01-25
SEARSPORT LOCALS.


last Friday.
Jerry Sargent of Alton is visiting at Mrs.
b. o. SargentS.
J. W. and H. II. Trites of Stockton were
in town Sunday.
Rev. T. P. Williams is in Freedom visit
ing DR.. and Mrs. Allen W. Small
Carl Stuart of Bangor is visiting his
uncle, Robert Stuart, for few days.
The schools in the Park district have
been closed on account OF measles.
On account of the storm Tuesday only
one session was held in the Union school.
Miss Mary Hinckley, who has been the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Perry, has return
ed
Daniel Pattee of Presque Isle was in town
SATURDAY. the guest of his nephew, DIR. 5. I.
Pattee.
A. F. Brown is in charge of the Blanch-
ard billiard room during Mr.. Blanchard alb
sence IN Boston.
\. C. Shute, who has been confined to the
ing to business.
Steamer Oregonian, Capt. Joseph +.
Nichols, sailed from New York Jan. 10Th
IOf san fldncISCo.
NJ. Whittier left by train Thursday noon
for Fort Fairfield, to move bis family and
household goods here.
Mrs Phillips of Swanvile, who has been
nursing the late Mrs. Hannah McGilvery,
has returned to her home.
DE- IL II. Sellers and family will leave in
about a week for the city OF Eau Clare,
Wis, where they will locate.
Miss Blanche Whttum left Wednesday
to accept position as shorthand teacher
il the Naltham business college.
Miss Nellie Donnelly of Watham, Mass,
was called here last week by the illness OF
ner mother, Mrs. Hannah DCnnelly.
Miss Ethel Elder, who is attending Kicker
Classical Institute, spent Sunday with her
parents MIR. and Mrs. James Elder.
The main cable sheave in the power house
at Mack's Point gave way Monday and VIII
cause a delay of ten days in handling coal.
Misses Ida Whittier and Jennie Crockett
will entertain the Christian Endeavor
sociable Friday evening in the conference
room
News was received Sunday of the death
of Miss Berpice, the daughter of Frank and
Alice (Nichols) Upper, in North Berwick,
aged 10 years
C. II. Woolley, superintendent of docks
of the b. d A. r. K. in SearSport and Stock
ton, is boarding with Arthur Coleman at
Kidder's Point.
Sunday was a genuine summer day. At
noon the thermometer ranged at about bO
and old Pen0bscot Bay never looked mllder
in a hazy day in August.
Capt A B. Colson of the steamer Bannes,
engaged in the fruit trade between Ralti-
more and ports in Jamaica, arrived FIJI
day on short visit to his family.
Parties from Quincy, Mass, were in
town last week on their way to North Stock
ton to look over the granite on Hedgehog
ILL on the farm of Lyman II. Partridge.
F.. II. Going of North Reading, Mass, en-
gineer and }. j. Moore of Boston, contract
or of the Searsport Water Works, arrived
Monday and are at the Searsport House.
John NJ. Norris, who has been visiting in
town, returned to his home in Milford,
Mass, Friday, stopping over at Togus one
day to visit friends at the Soldiers Home.
The structural work on the Sprague Coal
Plant at Mack'S Point is about completed.
A number of the WOrkmen who have been
employed finished Saturday night and have
left for their homes.
There will be no service at the Congrega-
tiona church next Sunday morning. The
Sunday school session will also be omitted.
The Christian Endeavor service will be
held in the evening at the usual hour.
Jan 1, 1876 was very warm day and the
SearSp0rt Comet Band gave an out-of-door
concert in the afternoon from their band
stand, situated on the lot now occupied by
Mrs. ". {. TuttIe's photograph studio.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Hamilton entertained
about IA score of their friends at their
residence, Opeechee cottage, on Steamboat
avenue, saturday evening, Jan, 20th. Cake
and ice cream were served and a very en-
ioyabe evening was spent.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. r. Billings announce the
marriage of their daughter Lillias Loupne
Nichols to MIR. Roger Benjamin Williams
on " ednesday, Jan. II, 1906, in Lynn, Mass
A report OF the wedding from a Lynn paper
will be published next week.
The sch Mount Hope sailed from New
port News Friday, Jan. 18th, for Searsport,
with coal for the c. II. Sprague Coal Co
This is the first vessel chartered by the
company and was built by II. NJ. Bean in
Camden in 1881. Master J. G. Dutch of
SearSport vas the master workman. Her
dimensions are as follows l,105 tons,
length, 204 feet; breadth, II feet depth, 10
feet.
The following out of town guests were
registered last week at the Searsport
House; f. w. Leavenworth, Portland !;
Dana FoulkpS, Greenville; L. f. Fendleton,
stockton Maurice d. Towle, Belfast L.
V Owens, Oakland: John NJ. Norris, Mil
ford, Mass. W +. Clifford, W. II. Carter,
&. II. Davis, Belfast; A. I. Snow, Frank
fort; c, r. phinney, Portland; J. f. Harris,
Belfast; c. y. Staples, Stockton, f. f.
Burns, Portland; j. L. Tyler, W. G. Thurs
ton, Bangor; Daniel Pattee, PreSque Isle
NJ. T.. Nuse, Boston; &. r. Brown, Bangor
G. p. Lombard, Belfast; }. Jones, Boston.
Another clipping from the same old scrap
book ''The Bark Wekin loaded with
lumber at Bangor in the summer of 1866
and sailed from Searsport for Bristol, Eng.
Her officers and crew were as follows
Capt, Shepard Blanchard; First Officer,
John G. Merryman Second Officer, James
G. Merryman of Searsport; Steward, Geo.
Knipp, Hamburg, Germany; Seamen,
Rubian Woodbury., John Blake, Henry
Dutch, John F. Whitcomb, Osman S.
Nichols, Frank Blanchard, John M. Doris
OF Searsport and Geo. Henderson of Bucks
port. Mrs. Nicholas Parse and three
children, William NJ, Richard and Clare
F., were passengers on the bark, going to
Cardiff to visit relatives.
The installation of the officers of Sears
port Royal Arch Chapter last week was too
impressive ceremony not to receive men,
ton in the columns of The Journal, which
is read by more Searsporters than any other
paper printed, and for the reason also that
seldom does an audience listen to charges