The Republican journal., 1908-03-12
SEARSPORT LOCALS.

All schools in town will close Friday
March 18th.
C. f. Monroe is in Boston attending the
automobile show
Charles II. Monroe left Monday for Bos-
ton to attend the auto show.
Alexander Chisholm has moved into the
W. II. Mason house on Main street.
Fred B. Smith and Charles A. Woods
were in Bangor Thursday on business.
Miss Melvina E. Colson has gone to Swan
vile to live with Mrs. Augustus Walker.
F. H. Young of Reading, Mass, treasurer
of the Searsport Water Co., was in town
Monday,
Albert Nickels caught III founders Sat
urday afternoon at Long Cove, the first OF
the season.
Miss Guida c. Homer spent Sunday
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. I.
Homer, in Bucksport.
W. Ii. Mason has moved from his house
on Main street to the w. I. c. Runnells
house on Pike avenue.
Frank A. Nye has leased the Mosman
house on the corner of Main and Church
streets for a term of years.
The Searsport Band will give a concert
and dance in Swanvlle this, Thursday,
evening. Give the boys benefit.
Mrs y. r. Walker of Island Falls was at
the Searsport House the first of the week,
the guest of Miss Lucia NJ. Edwards.
The A. A. {. Co. at Mack's Point are
shipping about 1900 barrels of fertilizer
daily from their plant to Northern Maine.
William F. Runnells of Newburyport,
Mass, was in town the past week, visiting
his parents, Hon. and Mrs. W. L. c. Run
nelIs.
The r. & K. L. company's barge No. 3.
finished discharging fertilizer Saturday at
Mack'S Point and sailed Sunday for Rock
land.
The A. A. c. Co. at Mack Point are now
employing about sixty men daily at their
plant and are fast filling the rush orders
from Northern Maine.
+. f. Whitcomb harvested several tons of
ice at Half Way Creek the past week, to be
used the coming summer in his ice cream
parlorS and meat market.
Several of our local statesmen attended
the Republican rally in Belfast at the Opera
House on Friday evening and the Democrat
ic rally on Saturday evening.
The members of Anchor Chapter, 0. E..
S., are to give their second annual masquer-
IAN r,1,,
April 1,t Remember the date.
Mrs. Rose Wallace went to Boston last
week to the Massachusetts General hospital,
where she was operated on for appendicitis,
and at last reports was doing finely.
Charles McEvoy of Park has moved into
the l.. NJ. Sargent house on Main street in
the west part of the town, which was thor
oughly repaired and renovated the past
season
Mrs. E. F. Davis, who. has served the town
faithfully as Supt. of Schools for eight years.
has sent in her resignation to the school
Board. Her successor has not yet been ap-
pointed.
John Clemens has sold out his black
smith shop in Mechanics Hollow to Seth
Moore of Swanville. Mr. Clemens will
move to st. Johnsbury, VT, where he will
engage in business.
1t is stated that the Canadian Pacific
railroad officials have closed a deal with
the PenObscOt Coal Co. at Mack'S Point to
land their coal there the coming season for
shipment to Brownville and Henderson.
The chafing dish social will be given in
the upper conference room of the Congr ega-
tional church Tuesday, March 18th, under
the auspices of the Congregational Caien
dar Club. Admission, including entertain
ment, Is cents.
Miss Georgia L. Ford is in Philadelphia
the guest of her brother, James W. Ford
Mr.. Ford is second officer of the steamship
American of the American Hawaiian line,
which arrived at Delaware Breakwater
Mar. 9th from Porto Miserio.
The bark Mabel l. Meyers, Capt Meyers
of Searsport, and the bark Brookside, Capt.
Morrell of Yarmouth, N. S., both loaded
lumber at Yarmouth, N. s., and sailed Feb
Oath, the Meyers for Rosario and the Brook
side for Buenos Ayres. The distance is
about 1000 miles. 1t is expected there will
be strenuous work on the part of both cap
tains to reach Point lndio light first.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Fulton announce the
marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth Mary,
to Mr.. Jacob Leslie Coombs on Thursday,
Feb. q, 1908, at Bath, Maine. Capt COOmbs
is the wel-known and popular commander
of the fOur-masted schooner Fr0ntenac of
Boston and has many friends in Searsport,
having brought several cargoes of coal from
Newport News to the Penobscot Coal Co. at
Mack's Point the past two years.