The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-11-04

in Naltham, Mass, after spending the summer
and fall in town with relatives.
Mrs. A. V. Nickes and granddaughter, Edna
Du Bose, left last Saturday, for Marian, 5. C.,
where they will spend the winter
Mr. and Mrs. c. E. Adams have closed their
home On Reservoir street for the winter and
taken rooms at the Searsport house.
Sch. Fuller Palmer, Capt. Clark, finished dis
charging at Macks Point October 9th, and
sailed Thursday for Newport News
Mrs. Lilas L. Nichols has closed her house
on Water street and left Monday for Brookine,
Mass, where she will spend the winter.
The schools in town closed last Thursday and
Friday the teachers attended the State Teach
ers Association convention in Lewiston.
Norman Nickerson has moved the baggage
house which he recently bought of the E. s. S.
Co. to the Pendleton lot on Steamboat avenue.
Rev C. H. Mckinney of the first Congre-
gational church returned home last Saturday
from his annual vacation and occupied the pal-
pit Sunday.
Sch. Harwood Palmer, Capt Creighton, ar
rived October 18th from Newport News with
4.442 tons of coal to the Penobscot Coal Co. at
Macks Point.
Waldo Atwood, formerly of Winterport has
bought the Edward Blake farm on Swan Lake
avenue and will engage in raising poultry and
general farming.
Sidney NJ. Bonsey, r. R. mail clerk on the
run between Searsport and Bangor, will return
from Is days visit at his home in Ellsworth
to-day, Thursday.
Master James Freeman and crew have fin
ished their work on the buildings of the East
ern Steamship Co. and Mr.. F. left Tuesday for
his home in " interport.
Charles F. Hill has on exhibition at NJ. A.
Cooks store rutabaga turnip of the purple
variety which measures 20 inches in clrcum-
ference and weighs 10 IL lbs.
John Frame, superintendent of the Penobscot
Coal Co. at Mack's Point, has bought the d. J.
Racklitfe homestead, corner of Main and Navy
streets, of Mrs. E. D. ?. Nickels
Sch. Harwood Palmer was placed under the
stages at the Penobscot coal dock Monday
morning. Capt Creighton is visiting his fam
lily in Thomaston while the schooner is dis
charging.
Harold F. Smith, who has been clerking in
Capt. F. a. Curtis grocery store the past sum-
mer, has secured position in the large whole
sale grocery firm OF j. B. Blood & Co., in
Lynn, Mass.
Sch. Charles "A. Campbell, Capt. Pierce, fin
ished discharging at Mack's Point coal dock
Saturday and was towed to Rockland Sunday,
where she will be taken out the marine rail-
way to be recaked.
Harold +. Smart has been engaged as assist
ant teacher of the High school in Patten. MIR.
smart is one of Searsports brightest scholars,
graduate of the Searsport High school and of
kent's Hill Seminary.
William Kane left Tuesday for Islesboro and
will move his family here and occupy the
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foreman OF the Capt. W. R. Gilkey livery
stables on Water street.
Rev A. j. Lockhart of Winterport will
occupy the pulpit OF the Methodist Episcopal
church next Sunday in exchange with the pas
tor, Rev. Harry Hill. Mr. Lockhart will also
preach at North Searsport at 2.30 y. m.
Miss Mabel, the seven months old daughter
Of william and Mabel Mclnnis, died October
nth. The funeral was held Friday afternoon
at : o'clock, Rev. Harry Hill of the M. E.
church officiating. The burial was Cape Jer-
lison.
The remains of Frank F. Rose, who died in
Auburn, October oath, were brought here Octo-
Der 18th. The funeral services were held at
his home in Auburn and brief services were
held at the home of his brother law, Henry
I. Partridge on Norris street. Interment was
IN the family lot in the village cemetery.
NdpLdII d. DldHcldTu le1l laSC week Tor
Brooklyn, N. Y, to visit his mother, Mrs
Cara Blanchard and his brother Capt. A. N
Blanchard. Mrs Blanchard and daughter
georgia Will leave Saturday for Brooklyn,
where they will join Capt. Blanchard and leave
tor their home in Los Angeles, Cal
The Boston Sunday Herald Of October 31st
mad very thrilling account of the passage of
the four masted steel ship Acme, owned by the
Standard Oil Co. and commanded by Captain
iafa aIlb porl of
of Searsport. The captains daughter, Miss
Augusta Veil Park, whose photo appeared in
the Herald, gave the reporter very interest
ing account Of the passage from San Francisco
around the Horn and through the heavy gales
OFT the Falkland Islands.
Following are the members of the new Juve-
nile Band recently organized here: William
Grinnell, cornet; Fred Swift, bass horn; Nelson
Swift, Alphonso Wagner and Archie Gilkey
slide trombones; Arthur Sullivan, baritone;
Harold Mckinney, alto; Leslie Berry, bass
nets; Irving Rich, alto; Fred Whittier, alto
Lester Young, drum major. Frank A. Nye,
leader of the Searsport Band, will be in
structor.
Mack's Point at the present time is very
busy place. ]. F. Spellman and crew are max
ing rapid progress in driving the piling for the
wharf for the Hubbard Fertilizer Co. of Balti-
more, and contractor Weymouth has large
crew of men putting in the concrete abutments
for the building the company is to erect. The
extension of the building on the A. A. c. Cos.
plant is about completed and the work the
large boarding house for that company will
soon begin. A large recreation will also
be added to the plant for the comfort of the
employees in their leisure hours.
OBITUARY Lydia p widow of Capt. John
a Carver died at the home of her DAUGHTER
Mrs. George P. Carter, Wednesday, October
9th, after long illness of complication of
diseases. She was the daughter Of Philip and
Artemisa (Pendeton) Gilkey and was born in
Belfast, now Searsport, January %, 1882. Her
parents moved to Great Falls, N. H., where
they resided for several years and where she
married, December Is, 1850, John A. Carver of
Searsport. They went from Great Falls to
Newtonville, Mass, where Mr.. Gilkey and Mr.. |
Carver engaged in the grocery business under
the firm name of Gilkey & Carver. Later, on re-
turning to Searsport, Mr.. Carver chose the sea
for his profession and after few years was
placed in command of the ship John Bunyan.
He followed the sea for many years in COM
mand of Searsport vessels, Mrs. Carver accom-
panying him several voyages to foreign
ports She attended the Baptist church in her
younger days and since the Baptist society
ceased to exist had attended the First Congre
gational church of this town. She was a very
lovable woman in her family and bore her suf
ferings with great fortitude, never complaining
of her ills. After the death of her husband
December 6, 1902, she made her home with her
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