The Republican journal., 1909-09-09

| last week. They are touring the coast OF
Maine in their auto from kittery Point to
Quoddy Head.
Ernest Grinnell has resigned his position at
the Central Telephone Office and will leave
next week to attend school at Kent's Hill.
Clarence Gilkey has been appointed night op-
orator in his place.
Miss Gertrude l. Bowen, who spent her vaca-
ton with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George A.
Bowen, on Main street, left Saturday for New
Haven, Ct, where she is teacher in one of
the public schools.
| The Leadbetter fire in Belfast Saturday
night was plainly visible to q number OF our
citizens. The blaze from the burning buildings
made a brilliant illumination as seen from
Searsport village.
Sch. Davis Palmer Capt. McGown. arrived
Saturday from Newport News with 4,947 tons
of coal to the Penobscot Coal Co, at Mack's
Point and was placed under the stages for
discharging at noon.
Sch. Charles A. Campbell, Capt. Pierce, ar
rived Monday from Philadelphia with $500
tons of coal for the Canadian Pacific Railroad
Co., to be discharged at the Penobscot coal
dock at Macks Point
/ For the convenience of those who were I'M
able to be present at the services last Sunday
morning at the Congl church envelopes will be
in their pews next Sunday morning, Septem-
Der 18th, for the regular monthly collection.
Mrs. C. A. Weber has closed her house on
Park street for the winter, and left Saturday,
accompanied by her daughter, Miss Antoinette
Weber, for Providence, R. l., where she will
spend the winter with her son, Hollis E. Web
Der.
Harry Moors, who has been clerking in the
]. F. Wheaton meat market for the summer
was taken to Bangor last week, where he was
operated on for appendicitis. Advices from
the hospital last Saturday report him as get
ting along finely.
Miles Towers has contracted to dig the cellar
for the new house to be built the coming sea-
son by Bertram C. Richardson of Boston on
the lot he recently bought of Mrs. L. L. Mich
ter will do the stone work.
Do not forget the supper and concert this,
Thursday, evening under the auspices of the
Methodist church in Union hall. Supper at 6
o'clock. Concert at o'clock. All are cordially
invited Tickets to supper, Is cents; concert
tickets, rs cents, or to both supper and concert
IS cents.
The Searsport Tigers went to Frankfort
Labor day and played game of base ball
with the local team and were defeated by a
score of to /. Josh Robinson and George
Montgomery of Bucksport were the battery
for the Frankfort team. 1t goes without saying
that the Searsport team had to 60 some.
The remains of Mrs. Marietta McGilvery,
wife of Capt. Oscar G. Eaton, formerly of
Searsport, who died at her home in East Bos-
ton, Friday evening, September Sd, arrived on
the steamer Belfast Tuesday morning. The
interment was in the McGilvery family lot in
Elmwood cemetery,
Sch. Ruth E. Merrill Capt. Wallace, arrived
Saturday with 5,146 tons of coal from Newport
| News to the Penobscot Coal Co. at Mack's
Point The Merrill is six-masted schooner
and belongs to the j. S. Winslow fleet of Port
land She is of 1859 tons net 301 feet long,
4S feet breadth and % feet deep, and was built
| in Bath in 1904 This is the second six masted
! schooner to arrive here with coal since the
steel schooner William L. Douglass was here
in 1906, and it is the MerrilPs first appearance
in Penobscot bay.
Master carpenter James Freeman of Winter
port, with a crew of men, began work last
week on the new building on the Eastern
Steamship company's wharf. The building is
to be rs feet long by IS feet wide and will con-
tain an Office with steel ceiling, toilet room,
baggage room and freight department. A
cupola will be built over the slip similar to the
one on the wharf at Wnterport. The old
building, built in 1890, will be taken down, and
the new freight house, built last year, with
the one now under construction, will give
ample storage room for the large amount of
| freight which is landed at this pier.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. church
will give supper in Union Hall, tonight,
Thursday, September 9th, at P. M, to be fol-
lowed by concert at which the following pro-
gram will be rendered:
Violin solo, Berceuse from "Jocelyn," Goddard
MISS Lillian MOWry.
| Contralto solo, When the Heart is Young, Buck
Miss Katherine Brier of Belfast.
Reading, selection from 1.-THE Real Diary
Of Real Boy" Shute
Miss Anne Kittredge of Belfast.
Soprano solo, Violin oblgato, "Mid the
Hush of the Corn" Temple
Mrs. Henry W. Kneeland
Baritone solo, Selected
Mr. Parker of Belfast
Reading, Selected
| Miss Kittredge.
| Whistlng solo, Selection from I'll Trovatore. -
Mrs. William H. Goodell.
Tickets to supper, Is cents, concert Is cents,
supper including concert, IS cents.
OBITUARY. Miss Adelaide ]. Crockett died
at the home of her nephew, Harry L. Mason,
on Elm street, Wednesday, September LIST,
after long and painful illness with cancer of
the face She was the daughter of the late
William and Almira j. (Towle) Crockett and
was born in North Searsport March 80, 1851.
Coming to Searsport village she entered the
employ of Clement & Adams as tailoress and
worked there many years. Since the decline
in the custom tailoring business she has been
housekeeper for her nephew, who deserves
great credit for his untiring attention to her
wants in her last sickness. Funeral services
were held at her late home, Rev. C. H. NOEL
of fho f;rcf 81,