The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-12-20
SEARSPORT LOCALS.

Capt. W. r. Gilkey and son William ar
rived Monday evening from New YORK.
The household goods of Alexander p.
Sweetser arrived Thursday from Lynn.
Robert P. Nichols, purser on the steamer
Gov Cobb, is spending few days In town.
CO. Sawyer & Co. have fine display OF
holiday goods at their store on Main street.
The barge Marion was discharged Satur-
day of 1905 tons of coal in 9 hours at Mack s
Point.
Miss Julia Guptill of Gouldsboro is the
guest of Miss Mabel l. Nichols on Water
street
The electric light poles have all been
placed in position and are ready LOT tne
wire.
R. E. Sargent, who has been visiting in
Troy and Watervile for several days, ar
rived home Thursday.
Capt. Phineas Pendleton and daughter
Lucy will leave Thursday for worcester,
Mass, to spend the winter.
Capt. n. F. Gilkey left Saturday to join
his schooner the James w. Paul, Jr., at
Boston from Newport News.
The Searsport Heating Co. are having a
sale ON parlor stoves at very low rates. See
advertisement in another column.
F. E. Whitcomb had car load of potatoes
arrive Saturday, on the B. & A. railroad,
from Patten in PenobscOt County.
DR.. Edwin Porter arrived Friday from
Milford, Mass, and is the guest OF his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. +. w. Porter
Peter Ward, Nicholas Parse and Chesley
Mathews are making a miZzen boom for the
fve-masted schooner NJ. D. Cressey.
The barge Robensonia arrived at Mack's
Point Saturday from Philadelphia with 1907
tons of coal for {. III. Sprague u Son.
Misses Mabel Griffin and Harriet Frs
Kline, who have been visiting friends in BOs-
ton and vicinity, returned home Saturday
The work on the plant of the American
Agricultural and Chemical Company at
Mack'S Point has been suspended for the
winter.
Rupert P. Colcord and Charles F. Have
ner, who are attending school at Kent's
Hill, arrived home Friday to spend the holt
days.
MI. and Mrs. Fred NJ Harris arrived Sat-
urday from Boston and are the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. c. i. Adams at the SearspOrt
House.
Mrs. Frank w. Flanders, who has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred W.
Porter, returned to her home in Rockland
Monday.
Mr. Armand Hiwale of Bombay, India,
who is a student of the Bangor Theological
Seminary, preached at the COngI church
last Sunday.
Dr. Burton E. Larrabee has given up the
practice of medicine in Jackman and viii
locate here. His goods left Jackman Fri
day for Searsport.
Miss lneZ S Doliver arrived Thursday
from Boston and will spend two weeks
vacation with her mother, Mrs. Ella 5. Dol
liver, on Main street
sch. NJ. II. CIessey, Capt. tombstone. ar
rived at Mack Point Sunday from New
port News with :, $40 tons of coal consigned
20 {. H. Spragns 4 Son.
Mr.. ami Mrs Edwin Cote of Waterville
are at Mrs. y C. Sbute's on Howard street.
Mr. Cote is the electrician for the Searsport
Electric Light Company
capt. Robert John>tone of sch. NJ. ID.
Cressey left Monday for his home in Nova
Scotia, to remain while his vessel is dis
charging al Mack Point.
H. r. Dyer has thoroughly repaired and
renovated the i. {. Smith store. 1t has
been repaiuted. papered and new windows
and doors have been put III, i
Mr. and Mrs, Edwin P Griffin OF Maiden,
Mass, have gone to Cuba for the winter.
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produce house III New 0rk.
Leroy Littleheld began cutting ice on
Opeechee stream Friday and will store
about 1000 tons in his ice house on Pixies
avenue. He will cut about 500 tons for
other parties.
A great many complaints have been made
about kerosene Oil the past month on az
count of smoke, the dullneSS of the light
ami the short time it takes to exhaust the
oil from the lamp.
There will be special Christmas services
at the Congregational church next Sunday
morning and evening. In the evening the
cantata 1.-The Prince of Peace will be
given by the chorus choir. All are invited.
d. r. Stuart, timekeeper for the Amerl-
Can Agricultural IL Chemical Company at
Mack 8 Point will leave Thursday for his
home in Montclar, Y. j. He will return in
the spring when work is resumed on the
plant.
James f, Gilmore arrived Thursday from
Smiths Island, Alaska, where he is fore
man of the British Columbia salmon can
merry. Mr.. Gilmore is a former Searsporr
boy but has been employed in the canneries
of Alaska for several years.
Capt James 4. Parse, formerly command
er Of the steamers Evelyn and Pathfinder of
the Porto Rico ). ). Co., has severed his
connection with that company and has ac-
cepted position as commander of the
steamer Hawaiian of 5000 tons, of the lia-
waiian-AmeIlcan $ ). Co, which will run
between Philadelphia and Coatzacoalcos,
Mexico, which is the eastern terminal OF
the IehUantepec railroad on the sthmus of
Tehuantepec. A feet of steamers of the
same line will run from san Diego, San
Francisco and Honolulu to Port Salinas on
the Pacific side of the lsthmus.
Friday evening, Dec. 18th, the un lucky
number OF thirteen Old married people,
made up of crippleS, coffee fiends, others
all cted with asthma and many other
chronic diseases, shook themselves from
the cares of the world, put on their sport
ing rigs and on one big team left Searsport
for Stockton Springs. The weather was
hne and the trdveing perfect and Hotel
Stockton was reached before there were
many complaints of rheumaticS, frozen feet
and other ailments SO common among the
old and deeTe'ad- Landlords Berry and
Doyle greeted '4crowd with hearty well
come al ~ 1snly did themselves much
credit ,'acfoaCv of refreshments and en-
teri Il, N"f. Nievel, found the hotel very neat
loo pnon New everything in the best
'@! at lstres DRY enjoyable evening
A Glreagun to re- ere ep h'as ~ yi ip "
lstrial expaplI ctions from some
Ita.. -~ could be remember the nane)
were render =. I'll llie midnight air.-Com.
HOTEL ARRIVALS, The following out-of-
town guests registered last week at the Sears
port House: F. II. Hooper, New York; 5. f.
(pUTnhS itnSton. II StatSpu Hnulton