The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-05-02
County Correspondence.

County Correspondence.
LIBERTY.
Sherman Cram brought in duck last
week that excited considerable curiosity. 1t
proved to be the Red Breasted Merganser,
one of the three fish ducks land a very hand
some specimen. .Evangelsts Hatch and
Gale will begin services here next Sunday.
....Some changes have been made in the
teaching force since the last writing and
they now stand as follows: Primary, Mrs.
c. NJ. Aver; Lower Village, Mrs. Geo. Nc
Lain; South Liberty, Mary A. Brown !;
owes-Davis, Mrs. Ethel Adams; Valley,
Rodema Harman; Sherman Corner, Grace
Boynton; Bradstreet, Inez Quigg.
sEARsMoNT.
The writer of the church notes in The
journal of last week was in error in stating
| that Rev. G. G. Winslow, who joined the
conference in 1916, was now the oldest liv-
ing member of the East Maine Conference
Rev. E. Nj. Fowler of Searsmont joined the
conference in 1913 and at the division of the
Maine Conference in 1S4S was one of the
band Of men who formed the East Maine
| Conference and is now the oldest living
member of that body. Horace T. Muzzy
| of Somerville, Mass, was in town last week
looking after his property. Charles Rip
ley of Boston is in town for brief visit
with his father, Gardiner Ripley. The
village school began last Monday under the
instruction of our popular teacher, Mr. NJ.
S. Tibbetts, assisted by Mrs NJ. Tibbetts
The friends of William Bryant are glad to
see him out again after his long illness.
MONROE.
Rev. Frank S. Dolliff of jackson will be-
gin his meetings in this village the first Sun
day in May at O'Clock p. m. A Sunday
school will also be organized. .... The bio
graphical sketch of Charles A. Pilsbury,
editor of The Journal, was very interesting
to many readers here, as they were not ia
miliar with his history. Your correspon-
| dent heard one person remark: 81 thought
| he was man about As years old, and he
has been an editor so years.. 80. The schools
in town began Monday, April Goth. The
ker. Geo. A. Palmer, our postmaster, has
been sick and is just able to be in the store
again. Miss Ethel Chase has gone to Dow
er for visit. She will be the guest of DR..
| and Mrs. II. A. Holt. She visited school
mates in Pittsfeld en- route. -. Mrs Louise
Holt will be in town few days with her
| father, A. H. Mayo, who is packing ready
to vacate his home. ..... The cheese factory
will open May LIST, with Marshall Rand in
charge. .....The frost is just coming out in
this vicinity and the mud is very deep and
the roads almost impossible in some places.
go. Patriots day was observed at the home
of Mrs. L. W. Woodman's by the w. c. T.
U....The w. c. T. U. will meet with Mrs.
Franklin Chase Friday afternoon, May 3rd.
.... Mr.. Granville is running the stage line
between Monroe and Brooks. .Jo ohm Twom-
bly, will drive an accommodation team be-
tween Monroe and Bangor twice a week
and errands will be promptly attended to-.
...... Mrs. Chas. McKenny and Mrs Rufus
Nealley were in town last week visiting
relatives
THORNDIKE.
The school at the station began Monday
with Miss May Ashford as teacher. -. Mrs.
James Gilliatt, who has been visiting in
Massachusetts for two weeks, returned
home last Tuesday. Ross C. Higgins and
wife passed April 23d in Waterville. =. Will.
liam Farwell was in Belfast last Friday
night. Oscar Calder of Lynn, Mass, is
the guest of his sister, Mrs. James Glenn
ents.. Miss Gertrude Hogan was quite i'll
last week. DR.. Kilgore of Brooks was
called Sunday in consultation with DR.. b.
P. Rurd, her attending physician. Mrs
Sarah r. Lewis, who has been the guest of
Mrs. F. L. Philbrick for few days, return
ed to her Nome in Belfast April 23rd....
Misses Maud Ware and Jennie Cox went to
HermOn on Saturday nights train, where
they will teach this summer. Miss Effie
Coffin passed Saturday in Waterville..
Miss Edith Harmon is in Waterville, where
she has employment in a dressmaking de-
partment.. Volney Thompson and daugh-
tiers Of MOntville were guests of his sister,
Mrs. B. A. GOwen, Saturday. Mrs. j. G.
Cilley is quite sick. Her daughter, Mrs.
Horace Roberts Of Brooks, is with her,.
Twenty members of Harvest Moon Grange
attended the Pomona meeting in Brooks
April 23d and report good time. :. Lee
Hamlin of jackson will work for Wallace
Palmer this season and Gustave Page of
Jackson for A. S. Higgins. Ralph Glenn
ents has begun work on his cellar and will
soon have his house up and ready for occu-
pancy.
MORRILL,.
When Mrs. Nellie D. Morgan arrived with
her mother, Mrs. Deborah Thompson. from
MelrOse, Mass, last Thursday she was
QE00fod at tho door n& los old hxsao l,.s