The Republican journal., 1910-06-09
SEARSPORT.

The schools in town will close next Friday.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Lester Robertson has moved into the Smith
homestead on Mt. Ephraim street.
Friday was a very cool day for June, the
thermo meter registering 81 at a. m.
Henry Pierce has the frame of his new house
on Otis street up and ready for boarding.
Mrs c. NJ Nichols visited Miss Mary c.
Plummer in North Searsport in few days last
week.
Capt and Mrs. Amos Nichols left Saturday
morning for a two weeks fishing trip at Sebec
Lake.
Judge J. ". Black spent Sunday in Bucks
port the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Mont
gomery.
The barkentine Mabel l. Meyers, Capt. N. F.
Gilkey, arrived at Portland Monday from Jack
sonville.
Lesley N Studley arrived Friday from Rock
land, Mass, and is the guest of Ernest Murphy
on Norris street.
Mrs Harvey N. Edwards of Jackson is the
guest of Miss L. w. Edwards on Water street
for few days.
Mrs. Matte Eaton arrived Sunday from Bos-
ton and will spend the summer with Mrs. j. M.
Gilkey on Main street.
The Baltimore orioles have again built their
nests in the elm trees on Water street, after
an absence of five years.
Miss Maude E. Barker of Belfast was in
town Sunday and Monday, the guest of Miss
L. W. Edwards on Water street.
Sch Singleton Palmer, Capt Porter, has ar
rived from Newport News With 4,467 tons of
coal for the Penobscot Coal & Wharf Co.
Sch. Charles Lulling has been chartered by
the Searsport Coal Co to load 1926 tons of an
thracite coal at SCUM Amboy for local use.
Sch Harwood Palmer, Capt Creighton, finish
ed discharging coal and sailed Sunday for Rock
land to haul up on account of lack of business.
Sch Margaret Haskell Capt. McKown, ar
rived Saturday from Newport News with $500
tons of coal for the Penobscot Coal & Wharf
Co.
Steamer Castine took twenty eight from
here on the excursion to Crescent Beach last
Sunday to enjoy one of Smiths famous lobster
dinners.
The base ball diamond at Mosman Park has
been plowed and rolled down, making it one
of the finest diamonds in any town along the
Penobscot bay.
A call has been issued for a Republican eau
u,ll OF
Up. m. to chose delegates to the State, district
and county conventions.
Mrs Herman L. Studley arrived Tuesday
from Rockland, Mass, and is with her son,
Lesley Norris Studley, at their cottage on
Norris street for the summer 8
The six masted schooner George Wells, Capt
York, is discharging 400 tons of coal at the
coal pocket at Macks Point. This is the first
trip of the Wells here this season.
Frank L. Crockett, who is employed by the
B. & A. R. R. Co. at Northern Maine junction,
spent Sunday in town, the guest of his mother
Mrs Mevna Crockett, on Elm street.
Miss Ethelind B. Havener, who has been
visiting Mrs. Frank Blach in Syracuse, N. y
ton, where she will spend several weeks.
Sch Elizabeth Palmer, Capt Wade, finished
discharging at the Penobscot coal dock May
31st and was towed to Rockland, where she
will haul up on account of lack of business.
Miss Lila R. Cyphers, who has been en-
ployed in millinery store in Millinocket, is
at home for short vacation, the guest of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Z. S. Cyphers, on Main
street.
A contribution was taken up Friday and Sat
urday among our citizens to build band stand
opposite the Searsport National Bank on the
Mosman lot and 500 was raised to build the
structure.
Sch. George W. Wells, Capt. York, finished
at Mack's Point, and the schooner Margaret
Haskell Capt. Mckown, was placed under the
stages Tuesday for discharging.
Superintendent L. W. Wentworth has the
village cemetery in fine order. All the lots
have been moved and the general appearance
of the cen etery is the finest since the associa-
ton was organized six years ago.
The Village Cemetery Association received
Friday very generous gift from George A.
Sweeney of Attleboro Mass, in the form of a
check for $40. Mr.. Sweeney former
Searsport boy and is now prominent business
man in Attleboro.
The Ladies' Guild of the Congregationalist
church wish to extend their thanks to the
young people of Belfast for the fine concert
given by them in Union hall, June 3d. The
parts were all we'll rendered and enjoyed by
an appreciative audience.
Mrs. Pyam L. Gilkey, whom a serious
surgical operation was performed by DR.. S. w.
johnson, May 18th, at the Waldo County Hos
pital, Belfast, returned home June LIST. Mrs.
Glkey speaks in highest praise of the hospital
and all its assistants and of the benefit received
while there.
Penobscot Park will be opened June 10th and
excursions are booked for the 18th, 18th, 18th,
18th, 23rd and 25th The park will have new
manager this season, who comes from Sails
bury beach park. A new dance hall is being
built and everything put in first class shape
for the seasons business.
The Darkey Jubilee given Friday night in
Union Hall by the young people of the Univer-
n md