The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-06-03
SEARSPORT.

Miss Esther Beach arrived Friday from Med
field, Mass.
Miss Prudence Griffin arrived Sunday from
Haverhill Mass.
George M. Field of Bangor called on friends
in town Saturday.
Mrs. Grace Nickerson of Bangor was in town
Saturday calling on relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. C. Atwood went to Winter
port Sunday on short visit.
Mrs. Hattie A. Nichols left Thursday to visit
relatives in Boston and vicinity.
Pyam Gilkey of Rochester, N. H.. was in
town over Sunday with his family.
Miss Caroline jackson of London, Eng. is
visiting her sister, Mrs. R. G. Harbutt
Wellington Ingraham has moved into Mrs. A.
S. Towles house on Steamboat avenue
M. A. Cook has souvenir stamp book of
local views on sale at his store on Main street.
Miss Mary E. Park, who has been in Med
way, Mass, for the winter returned home Sun
day.
Miss Rowena A. Cocord returned home last
week after spending the winter in Midway,
Mass.
Mrs. Evelyn Page of Bucksport was in town
Sunday, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. l. H.
Havener.
Schools were closed Tuesday, the teachers
attending the County Teachers Convention at
Islesboro.
Ship Aryan, Capt. Albert T. Whittier, has
been chartered to load coal at Philadelphia for
San Francisco.
Principal John A. Scott of the Searsport High
school spent Sunday and Monday with his fam
lily in Ellsworth.
Albert Ripley, who has been i'll with typhoid
fever, was taken to the Waldo County Hospital
in Belfast Thursday
Henry W. Burrill visited relatives in Belfast
Monday, and left on the afternoon boat for
his home in Hartford, Conn.,
Sch. Julia Frances, Capt Dodge arrived
Thursday from South Amboy with 2S5 tons of
coal to the Searsport Coal Co.
Mrs. Clara L. Eyre and family arrived Tues
day from Flushing, N Y, and are at their cot
tage on Union street for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wngate Cram and children of
Bangor arrived Saturday and have taken Mrs.
Albert V. Nickels' house for the summer
Scott Blanchard, first officer of the steamer
Arizonian, who has been spending few days
at home, returned to New York last week.
Henry Mclean, the Boston architect, was in
town Friday and Saturday on business connect
cd he I;
Sch. HARDWOOD Palmer, Capt. Creighton, fin
ished discharging Thursday at the Penobscot
coal dock and sailed Friday for Newport News,
Va
Mrs George A. Carver and daughter, Eliza
beth E. Carver, arrived Saturday from Brook
Ign, n. Y, and are stopping at the Searsport
House.
Amos D. Carver OF New York was in town
Friday on business connected with the George
A. Carver library building to be erected this
summer
Mrs. Prudie Putnam, who spent the winter
in Detroit, Mich, returned home last week and
is the guest of Miss Georgia L. Ford Bay
View Place.
Sch Baker Palmer, Capt. Smeed, arrived
Monday from Newport News with 4,23l tons of
coal to the Penobscot Coal Co. and was locked
Tuesday morning.
Miss Harriet NJ. Porter, who has been Wis,
iting her brother, Henry NJ. Porter, in Van
couver, Wash for the past year, returned
home last week
Mrs. W. NJ. Parse, Mrs. B. F. Colcord, Mrs.
John Frame and DR.. Frederick K Sawyer were
delegates to the Grand Chapter of the O.
f. S. at Lewiston May 25th and Goth.
Fred C. Kane and friend, E. E. Bond who
have been spending a week at E. c. Marden's
at Swan Lake, fishing, returned to Boston Fri
day having taken Is nice trout and salmon dur
ing their stay.
Mrs. George D. Pettee and daughter Frances,
Mr.. Lombard and Mrs Chaffin and child of
Great harrington, Mass, arrived last week and
are at their cottages the Belfast road and
the Waterhouse grove for the summer
The Peabody house on Mt Ephraim avenue,
now being taken down by H. C. Buzzell, Esq.
was one of the Oldest houses in town. 1t was
built nearly 100 years ago by the late Theophil-
US C0lson the Mortland road near the site
of the buildings where Henry McCaslin now
resides.
Some person or persons unknown, partially
destroyed the steps on r. G. Harbutt's shore
front Wednesday or Thursday of last week.
Mr.. Harbutt has also been annoyed very much
by having the window in his bath house broken
and the building in other ways disfgured on
several occasions
One of the oldest Greek letter societies nj
the United States is the Calliopean of the
Maine Wesleyan seminary, from which many
prominent people have gone out into the world
The members Familiarity known as
Gals" The society, which was organized
March a. 1929, has for its object, "The En-
enlargement of Science and Morality in this
Institution" 1t numbers among its members
many of note. Harold R. Smart of Sears
port is the president of the society. He is II
years old, senior at the seminary and will grad
uate with honors at the coming commencement
Heis held in high esteem by his fellow students
The present active membership includes Rupert
Colcord, Raleigh Whittier and Story Trundy of
Searsport. Harold R. Smart is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. William D. Smart of this town and one
of the most finished scholars that ever e du-
ated from the Searsport High school, He is
great grandson of Rev. K. Smart, a we'll known
Methodist clergyman, who was accidental
ly killed in his carding mill on Halfway Creek
in Prospect now Searsport in 1881. His great