The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-06-27
County Correspondence.
sIMTHTON (Freedom)

SIMTHTON (Freedom)
Mr.. C. L. Wright of Belfast gave very
interesting talk at the sch00lhouse last Sum-
day afternoon. He will be there again in
two weeks. -. Mrs. Nettie Webb is visiting
her friend Mrs. Emma Busher. Cards
have been received announcing the marriage
of George Bragdon to Miss Matte Helen
Shurtleff at Raynham, Mass, June 19th....
Mr.. and Mrs. Bragdon will make their
home in Smithton for a while. Neighbors
and friends all join in hearty congratula-
tons. M. E. Busher attended the G. A. R.
Encampment in Bangor last week.
NORTH sEARsPORT.
T. E. Dorr, who was quite ill for few
days last week, is able to be up and about
....E. W. Thompson and Mrs. John Little
field are on the sick list this week. -. Frank
Z. Dow, who is mate of a large steamboat,
visited his mother, Mrs. Callie Dow, few
days last week.. Fred Small had large
field of peas in full bloom June 18th. I'D.
Sumner Nickerson has bought nice four
Will George has bought a span of work
horses to do his farm work ...John Little
field and George Seekins are making repairs
on their barns. james E. Marden is max
ing extensive repairs on his buildings.....
Fred Small, who has been in the employ of
R. G. Chase of Geneva, New York, dealers
in nursery stock, for the past ten years, is
again making his tour through Waldo
County....Mr and Mrs. Timothy Ford of
Ornville was in town recently visiting the
families of E. G. Smart and E. E. Clements.
....H. P. White of Swanville was in town
last week visiting at E. E. Clements.
SWANvILLE CENTER.
E. A. Robertson has had peas in blossom
for week.. William Roberts and wife
visited at II. P. Whites last Thursday.
Hermon Batchelder cut his arm quite badly
on a saw in Charles Nickerson's mill....
Mrs. Eden Smart of Searsport visited Mr..
and Mrs. H. P. White last week. -. The
road commissioner is working in district
No. 1 and 2....M Mrs, Herbert Maddocks is
very ill....Mrs. Larry and son of Boston
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Marr....
Ernest Patterson and wife from Massachu-
ham's... The Waldo and Brooks Farmers
Telephone Co. are setting poles all through
Monroe and Frankfort. Some who have
the N. E. telephone are to give it up for the
farmers line, as the charges are less.......
Mrs. Martin Robertson of Monroe visited
Mrs. Fl. P. White last Sunday. Two
friends from Lewiston visited Mrs. Joshua
Lttlefeld last week.. Within two weeks
your correspondent has heard two distinct
rumbles that could not be accounted for.
One seemed to go under one end of the
house, and the other seemed farther away
l feel confident that one was an earthquake,
if not both....T. W. Ford and wife from
Elm Farm, Ornevile, visited Mr.. and Mrs.
H. P. White last week and also visited Mr..
and Mrs. Christopher Hamm in Monroe. -.
Mrs. Phillips and two daughters, who have
been visiting her sister, Mrs. E. A. Robert
son, went to Augusta last Friday. They
are to travel in the States several months
before returning to their home in Canada
80, The schools will close next week.
PROSPECT FERRY.
Newton, Mass, arrived at their summer
home here last week. Mrs. Carley and
children will remain all summer Mr. Carley
returned to Massachusetts June 1Sth.....
Harry Berry arrived home from Chicago
June 23rd and will spend short vacation
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. D. Berry.
Mr.. B is in business for himself in Chicago.
10 far \,
many friends will be glad to see him. :. Mr. i.
and Mrs. G. n. Silver went to Bangor last
Saturday on business. Mrs. n. j. Heagan
took a trip to Bangor on the new steamer
Camden last Saturday,. Mrs. P. NJ. CHM
and daughter Ellen of Worcester, Mass, are
visiting relatives here.... Mr.. and Mrs. AL
fred Frye and baby Ruth of Leicester, Mass.
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Brown....
". D. Hartman is painting Capt. G. w.
BOWS house. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Grant
and Mr.. and Mrs. Elias Moore of Frank
fort visited Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Heagan
last Sunday. Several from this place at
tended the graduating exercises at Bucks
port, June 10TH. Mrs. Harry CHM closed
term of weeks school here last Friday.
Sergt. O'ROurke took the school and num-
Der of friends through the fort Friday af-
ternoon.. Miss Eva Hartman closed a
term of weeks school at Mt. Heagan last
Friday..... Mildred Grindle arrived
home last week from Brewer. where she
has been teaching school,. Mrs. J. T.
Shute and Mrs. Lord of Brewer visited MIR.
and Mrs. Granville Shute and the Misses
Heagan's last Saturday and Sunday. ICY
rus Shute of Brewer is visiting relatives
here... Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Pierce visited
in Stockton last Monday.
TROY.
Mr.. Charles Hersey, after years of suffer-
ing from poor health, passed away June 18th
at the age of II years and 81 months. He
was veteran of the civil war, an unselfsh,
kind hearted man, who will be greatly
missed, not only in his own family but in
the community, where he was much es-
teemed. Services were held at the home
Thursday, attended by Rev. J. c. Lamb.
The interment was in Fairview cemetery.
Mrs. Hester A. Smart, who passed the WIN
ter with her daughter, Mrs. Adell Seavey,
in Auburn, has returned to her home in
Troy for the summer. Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Piper of Rockland have been visit
ing at David Piper's. .......JOhn Caverly of
Paris is the guest of his sister, Mrs. Clara