The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-04-02
SEARSPORT LOCALS.

Mrs. Hannah Paine went to Rockland
last week.
See NJ. A. Cooks advt. for an Scent sale
this week.
Monthly contribution at the Congl. church
next Sunday.
day on business.
Capt A. NJ Ross left Monday on a bust
ness tn to Boston.
See advt of MissA. E. Clark for suits and
coats in another column.
Mrs E, s. Beals left Thursday for Boston
fol a full line of spring millinery.
Charles Hamilton has sold his bungalow
on Steamboat street to Fred n. Field.
Clarence Gilkey has been engaged as clerk
in the grocery store of Gilkey Il Havener.
NJ. A. Cook has fine display of Easter
cards and novelties at his store on Main
street.
Mrs. j D. Sweetser left Monday for
New York to join Capt. Sweetser of the
Steamer Hawaiian.
Captain Edward Duffy returned Sunday
from Rock land and resumed his duties as
head janitor at the Searsport House.
Miss Lucy Sargent and Mrs. Eunice Lar
rabee are in Boston and New York for a
week buying spring millinery goods.
Miss Ada T. Enderle of East Milton,
Mass, who has been visiting Captain and
Mrs. j. Z. Erskine, has gone to Standpoint
to visit relatives.
Capt. Geo. A. Mitchell, Quartermaster of
Subsistence at the Soldiers Home at Togus,
MAS in town last week visiting his mother,
Mrs. Mary A. Mitchell.
Rupert Colcord, Harold Smart, Ernest
Staples, Raleigh Whittier and Miss Olivia
MeGilvery, VINO have been spending their
vacations in town, have returned to school
at kents Hill.
A. j. Bather received news last week of
the death of his brother, Alfred S. Bather,
the well known architect, in Los Angeles,
Calf, where he had been a resident for
twenty years. He leaves widow.
Coleman Brothers are furnishing the
frame for story and half house to be
the residence of Mrs. James G. Pendleton,
by Captain Daniel S. Goodel Lancaster
Brothers are to be the builders.
Capt. Albert 7. Whittier has gone to New
York to take command of the ship Aryan,
which is chartered to load coal at Baltimore
for Los Angeles. The AryaH is the last
wooden ship built in the United States. She
81 t., II.
and is 1889 tons net.
The schools in town will begin Monday,
April 9th, with the following teachers:
High, W. IL. Tibbetts Grammar, Miss A.
NJ. Croker; Primary, Miss Theodate Merl-
thew; Intermediate, Miss Wnifred Ma
thews; No /, Mrs. Carrie Hartman; No 2,
Miss Abbie O. Chase No7, Foster G. Small;
No 8, Miss Emma Nickels; No 9, Miss Ava
kingsbury.
A man named Pease, who escaped from
the town farm in Appleton few days ago
was taken into custody Tuesday morning
by Constable Elmer Webster and Deputy
Sheriff Frank l. M0rtland on the County
road near the residence of Jeremiah Sweet.
ser. Pease is about 55 years of age and is
insane. He slept in the woods Monday
night near J. W. Brooks residence. The
Appleton officers have been notified and
will come here to take the man home.
HOTEL ARRIVALS. The following out
of town guests were registered at the Sears
port House during the past week: Levi D.
Scales. Boston; III. L. BasSett, Bangor; L.
n. Gikey, lslesboro; w. S. Remission,
Rockland; F. H. Costello, Bangor; G. E.
Grover, phladelpha; E. s; Chisholm. E;
Mrs. K. d. ierrick, Belfast; e. b. Dexter,
d. L. Constantine, S. j. Robinson, n b.
Devereaux, F. c. Vickery, Bangor NJ. E.
Brown, Belfast.
OBITUARY. Ephraim L. Emerson, vet
eran of the Civil War, died at his home
in Park, March Goth. He was born in
Brooks, Jan. 81, 1882. the son of Ezekiel
and Bathiah Emerson of that town His
parents moved to Searsport when he was
a child. In early life he followed the sea,
serving five years in the sailing frigate Con-
stituton in the fftes. In the Civil War he
served in the End Maine Cavalry and Goth
Regiment of Infantry, and also in the gun
l,..nt han nt thfa hiatt In of In D,,,,
where he assisted in carrying Admiral
Franklin buchanan of the Confederate Ram
Tennessee below after he was wounded.
Mr. Emerson returned to his home in Sears
port after the war and had worked ON his
farm until his death. He leaves il widow,
one daughter and two sisters. The funeral
services were held at his late home Sunday,
conducted by Rev. Michael Andrews. In
torment Was in the family lot in ElmwOOd
cemetery. Mrs. Marion, widow of Capt.
Walter Mathews, died at her home in North
Searsport, March 18th, aged 81 years,
months and 10 days. One year ago March
9Th she fell and dislocated her left hip, and
it was thought at the time she could not
recover. She bore her suffering with
Christian fortitude and would often say
Warren, NJ H., Oct. 81. 1926, the daughter
of Joshua and Mary (Pillsbury) Copp.
Her parents died when she was quite
young. She came to SearspOrt when she
was Is years old. August 49, 1S49, she was
married to Capt. Walter Mathews, and be-
came the mother of IA children, Of when
survive her. They are Cyrus W. of Chel-
sea, Mass, Miss Addie S of Everett, Mass,
Mrs. Myra D. Lane Of Chelsea, Fred A. and
William c. of Searsport, Mrs. Mary 7. Car
ter of Chelsea, Mass, John C. of Dorches-
ter and Walter L. of Somerville. She also
Holmes of Los Angeles, Cal. The funeral
services were held at her late residence |
March 21st and were conducted by Rev. Z. |
Ii. Mckinney of the First Congregational |
church. The floral offerings from relatives |
and friends We're many and beautiful. In |
terment was in the family lot in the Meri- |
thew cemetery. Much sympathy is ax-
repssed for the family in their afliction.