The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-12-03
SEARSPORT.


Thanksgiving in town.
Charles Russell has moved into the Perry
house on Main street.
Burton Weber has bought the Charles Fow-
Ter farm on the Belfast road.
w. A. Griffin Jr., returned Monday from
deer hunt in northern Maine.
Monthly collection at the Congregational
church next Sunday morning.
George Young and Wellington Ingraham re-
turned Saturday from Bar Harbor.
Miss Mabel Griffin left Saturday for Canton
Mass, where she will spend the winter.
Don't forget the Christmas sale by the ladies
of the NJ E. church, December 10th.
III Havener has gone to housekeeping in
his house in the east part of the town.
Chester Bailey returned last week from a
hunting trip in Greenvie with one deer.
Miss Lucy Spofford is spending a two weeks
vacation with her parents in Haverhill Mass.
Ralph Meyers arrived Saturday from Rock
land where he left the bark Mabel l. Meyers
Albert R. George has gone to live for the
winter with Fred Small in the north part of the
town.
Miss Julia Leary of Belfast spent Thanks
giving with Mr.. and Mrs Peter Ward on Leach
street.
Charles C. Havener who has been clerking
for F. E. Whitcomb the past year, has left his
employ.
Postmaster ]. w. Black spent Thanksgiving
with his daughter Mrs. ]. H. Montgomery, IN
Bucksport.
Mrs. A. M. Ross, who has been visiting her
daughter Mrs A. w. Allen, in Orange, N. d.
has returned home.
One of the largest tiocks of wild geese ever
seen in this locality passed over Friday steer
ing south southwest.
Dogs drove large buck deer into the water
at Moose Point last week and he struck oat 1or
the Long Island shore.
town last week, the guest of his son, Reed
Lowell, on Park street.
Sch Ella Clifton sailed Saturday for Wey-
mouth, Mass, with 1900 cement barrels from
Pike Bros. cooperage plant.
Sch. Prescott Palmer Capt. Carlisle, arrived
Monday from Newport News with 1904 tons OF
coal to the Penobscot coal Co.
large crowd attended the Thanksgiving
ball given in Union Hall by Knyvetta ReDekan
Lodge, No. 125, November 18th.
Peter Ward and Chesley Matthews are splice
ing electric light poles at Macks Point tor the
Penobscot Bay Electric Light & Power 20.
Miss Joanna c. Coicord returned Monday to
Orono after spending Thanksgiving at home
with her mother, Mrs Lincoln A. Colcord, on
Main street.
Leonard Wheaton of Bangor and Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. B. Wheaton of Patten were IN town
last week, the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. >. f.
Wheaton on Main street.
Albert M. Kane found ladies' gold pin the
night Of the Thanksgiving ball, and the owner
can have the same by calling on him at his
residence on Leach strert.
NV Verrill, who has driven meat cart IN
our village for the past two years, has closed
b;s house on Swanvile avenue and went to
Norridgecock Monday, where he will reside for
time.
Miss Sarah l. Grinnell, who spent Thanks
giving with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs w. Il.
Grinnell. at the Searsport House, returned
Monday to Gorham to resume her studies IN the
Normal school.
News was received Tuesday of the death by
drowning of Capt. Cyrus G. Nichols In Alaska
He had recently been pilot on coast"lse
steamer. He was the son of Capt. T. b.
Nichols and was 81 years of age. No partlcu-
lars were given.
The business Of the Village Cemetery Asso-
citation has been closed Tor the season. The
leaves in the entire yard have been raked up
and burned and all the lots are In trst class
condition. About $500 has been expended the
mast season in caring for the lots and avenues.
Mr. and Mrs Edward A. Blake observed the
thirtieth anniversary of their marriage FRIDAY
evening, November 9th, at their home on
Swanville avenue. Fifty of their friends were
present and they received many vaiuaoie anu
useful gifts The evening was spent with Sc
lections of vocal and instrumental music. "A
fine collation. was served at IL o'clock.
Water street mas d CouEie VI oAAidNS
far as sense of taste goes. Mrs. Henry ".
Curtis has beautiful dark gray coon ca1
Romeo" who is very partial to hot doughnuts
Everv morning he drinks his saucer OF hot
coffee and cream and will eat all the Roquefort
cheese his mistress will give him, while Alice
Longworth, commonly apostrophized as Zip
for short, your correspondents terrier Will
shell and eat every kind of nut (cocoanuts ex-
cepted) she can get, and filled cookies are
prime favorites of hers.
An article in the Boston Herald OF Novem-
her 26th was very amusing reading for the peo-
ple of searsport, especially on the geographical
lines. The reporter who wrote the article got
greatly mixed up in his boundary lines and
could not have followed Mercator's method OF
chart making, if he had the article would have
been somewhere near accurate in it's details
&c the taxes on the Kidders Point dock and
,,,.nt Penobscot Coal G. Wharf Co. and the
American Agricultural Chemical Company's at
M.cL,s Point and the Pike Bros. cooperage
nlant in the center of the water front are all
maid in the beautiful town of Searsport, which
world not be the case if they were located
elsewhere.
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