The Republican journal., 1909-10-21
SEARSPORT.


York.
Harold Smith left Monday on vacation trip
to Boston.
Mrs. N. C. Shute left Saturday for short
trip to Boston.
J.W. Black returned Saturday from visit
in Portland.
See advt. of J. H. Duncan civil engineer IN
another column.
Sch. NJ. L. Crockett arrived Saturday with
grain to Pike Bros.
Barge Moline finished discharging Saturday
at the Penobscot Coal dock.
DR.. and Mrs s. S. Porter left Thursday for
their home in Marietta, Ohio.
The mason work on the Carver Memorial
Library is nearly completed.
Mrs. Herbert Taylor of Dorchester, Mass, is
visiting relatives in town.
Capt. W. H. Goodell left Saturday on bust
ness trip to Boston and New York.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Gilkey has taken rooms at the
Searsport House for the winter.
Sch. Harwood Palmer, Capt Creighton, sailed
October 18th, for Newport News.
DR.. F. K. Sawyer returned Thursday from
two weeks business trip to Boston.
Fields P. Dodge of Islesboro is employed at
the Searsport House for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Wagner left Saturday
to visit relatives in Boston and vicinity.
Rev. c. H. Mckinney is taking three
weeks vacation in Boston and New York.
Sch. Rebecca Palmer, Capt Campbell, was
locked Monday at the Penobscot coal dock.
Miss Lydia Closson picked thirteen ripe
raspberries on the Mortland road October l4th.
Charles Guilford of Cape Jellison has moved
into the L. M. Sargent house on Maine street.
H.. A. George of the engineering department
of the A. A. c. Co., was in town Tuesday on
business.
Mrs. Hill Rogers of Frankfort and Mrs
George H. Jennison of Lowell, Mass were IN
town Monday.
William McInnis and family of Cape Jellison
have moved into one of the Ordway cottages
at Mack's Point.
Fred Croker of Bucksport was in town last
week. the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. /. H. Havener
on Havener Place.
F. E. Whitcomb is building carriage and
ice house combined on the Merithew lot which
he recently bought.
Capt. H. G. Curtis and H. R. Dyer, who are
mariners in the potato business, have harvest
ed about 1900 bushels.
Perley o. Andrews and family returned Fri
dav from visits in Lowell, Duxbury, and other
places in Massachusetts,.
Miss Phoebe A. Clifford left last week for
Newburg, where she will make her home with
MIR. and Mrs. Porter Lufkn.
R.&R. L. Co.. barge No. arrived Monday
from Carteret with 1000 tons of fertilizer to
the A. A. C. Co. at Mack's Point.
Mrs Sara ]. Clark who has been visiting rel
atives and friends in Massachusetts for the past
month, returned home last week.
Miss Florence Colcord is substituting In the
central telephone office in Belfast for Mrs. lisa
Wilband, who is taking her vacation.
Penobscot Park pavilion at Bar Point was
entered recently by petty thieves and about
$50 worth of bedding and dishes stolen.
Sch. Fuller Palmer, Capt. o. W. Clark, arriv-
ed October l4th from Norfolk with 1858 tons Of
coal to the Penobscot Coal Co. at Mack's Point
Outside work on the building on the Eastern
Steamship Co.'S pier was completed last week,
and the work on the interior is being pushed
forward.
Markers for the soldiers graves which were
secured by Dr. Elisha Hopkins have arrived
and will be placed in position this fall in the
different cemeteries in town.
L. W. Wentworth picked from his garden
October 18th a bunch of strawberries. Two
large ripe berries, ten green ones and two
blossoms were on the bunch.
Sidney NJ. Bonsey, the popular railway mail
clerk on the run between Searsport and Ban
gor, left Monday to spend fifteen days vaca-
ton at his home in Ellsworth.
The house of the late Judge Emery Sawyer
for many years trial justice of the local court,
was burned October 14th. 1t is supposed to
have caught from brush fire near by.
Sch Elizabeth Palmer, Capt. Wade, finished
dscharging Thursday at the Penobscot coal
dock and sailed Friday in tow for Bath, where
she will have two new masts put in.
Stephen Larrabee of Prospect, who raised
1000 bushels of potatoes of the State of Maine
variety, had four potatoes in the lot that weigh
ed l3s pounds and 1865 bushels of merchant
able spuds.
Charles F. Hill, who has been driving milk
route in town for the past seventeen years,
will close out his milk business on November
LIST. He will continue to work on his farm and
will do general trucking business.
Charles F. Treat, who has been spending a
two weeks vacation with his parents, Capt.
and Mrs. F. W. Treat, on Water street, left
Saturday for Newburg, N. Y, where he is en-
ployed in large wholesale grocery and pro-
duce store.
William E. Grinnell, proprietor of the Sears
port House, broke small bone in his left an
kle October 18th by stepping on rolling stick
of wood while at work in the basement of his
house He was attended by Drs. Pattee and
Larrabee, who set the limb.
The Cross and Crown system has been adopt
ed in the Sunday school of the Methodist
ob,,rob ,r,opr he iunior classes So far