The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-04-01
SEARSPORT.

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Mrs. 0. c. Atwood arrived from Winterpor
Monday.
A flock of wild geese passed north Friday
afternoon.
John F. Park went to Boston Monday tt
visit relatives
The first robins of the season put in an ap.
pearance last week.
Mrs Melvena Hichborn is visiting friends in
Stockton for few days.
Mrs. w. E. Grinnell left Monday for Foxboro
Mass to visit relatives.
Monthly contributions at the Congregational
church next Sunday morning.
Mrs. Hattie Phillips of Swanville is at H.
M Baileys on Water street.
Mrs L. M. Sargent fell down stairs March
2lst, bruising her face severely.
Mrs w. P Putnam returned to Dorchester
Mass Tuesday morning by train.
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram M. Bailey are receiving
congratulations on the birth of son.
Miss Emily Ross left Monday for Orange, N.
j., to visit her sister, Mrs. Andrew W. Allen.
Mrs. D. S. Beals will return from Boston,
Saturday, April 3rd, with full line of Easter
hats.
Miss Henrietta Gilkey arrived Friday from
Hebron Academy to spend the Easter vaca-
ton.
Mrs. Louise P Fletcher has bought the
homestead of Mrs. c. P. Ferguson on Park
street.
James F. Spellman and crew are to begin
work on the extension OF the steamboat wharf
next week.
We are indebted to George A. Sweeney,
Esq., of Attleboro, Mass, for a town report of
Attleboro.
Sch. Elizabeth Palmer, Capt Wade, was
placed under the stages at Mack's Point Mon
day morning.
E. c. Pike had Percheron team horse,
weighing 1900 pounds arrive Sunday morning
from Boston.
Capt. and Mrs D. S. Goodell and daughter
Danny left Monday for visit with relatives in
Alston, Mass.
Postmaster j. W. Black spent Sunday in
Bucksport, the guest of Mr.. and Mrs J. H.
Montgomery.
A. Cook has just received large order
of the famous Iig-saw puzzles, made from
Searsport views.
Charles Hamilton has exchanged his bunga-
low on Steamboat avenue with Scott Closson
for his sloop yacht.
Miss Ethel M. Dodge, who has been visiting
relatives and friends in Boston and vicinity,
returned last week
Irving Bailey of Waldoboro was in town last
week on business, leaving Monday for towns
in Aroostook country.
Amos P Lord made four gafftopsails last
week for the schooner Northland and shipped
them to Cape Jellison Monday.
Mrs. George A. Bowen. who has been visit
ing relatives in Boston and vicinity the past
three weeks, returned home last week.
Joseph P Curtis arrived Sunday from Ever
EFT, Mass, and is the guest of his brother,
Capt. Frank A. Curtis, on Park street.
Miss L. W. Edwards, who has been spend
ing the winter at the Searsport House, opened
her house on Water street Saturday.
Miss Sarah E. Brown of Old Town. who was
assistant in the High school last term, has a
fine position at Goulds Academy, Bethel,
Maine.
Miss Lavina B. Whitcomb, who was in town
10 attend the funeral of her grandmother, Mrs.
j. N Putnam, returned Thursday to her home
in Boston.
Miss Mabel l. Nichols left Monday for Milo
junction after spending weeks vacation with
her parents, Capt. and Mrs. C. M. Nichols on
Water street.
Sch. Harwood Palmer, Capt. Creighton, ar
rived Sunday from Newport News with 4,458
tons of coal to the Penobscot Coal Co. at
Mack's Point.
The steam lighter Reliance arrived Monday
from Boston with hard pine timber to be used
in the extension of the Eastern S. S. Co.'s pier
at this place.
Misses Pronell Gilkey, Sara Grinnell and
Maud Smith arrived Friday from the Gorham
Normal school to spend the Easter vacation
with their parents.
The College Girls" under direction of the
White Entertainment Bureau Of Boston, will
be given under the auspices of o. E. S., at
Union Hall, Saturday evening, April 3d.
George Towle has shipped on the five-mas-
ted schooner Singleton Palmer, Captain Potter,
as second officer. The schooner finished dis
charging last Saturday and sailed Monday in a
bowling Northwestern for Newport News.
The advertising committee of the Searsport
Board of Trade, consisting of M. A. Cook, j.
L. Cunningham, R. G. Harbutt, J. H. Sullivan
and ]. W. Black, organized Monday with M. A.
Cook as chairman and J. H. Sullivan clerk.
Capt. Nicholas Parse and Peter Ward are
making fifty-foot flagstaff with topmast,
gaff and topmast stays, for Capt. D. S. Good
ell, and when completed, it will be placed in
position at his residence on West Main street.
Some so and 60 members of Penobscot lodge,
1876, K. of p, went to Belfast last Friday night
on the steamer Castine to attend the district
meeting held with Silver Cross lodge. The
Searsport order was accompanied by the X. of
P. Band, which played several pleasing selec-
tions on the way.
At the annual meeting of the Village Gene
forxy Aoco hall Mo-