The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-04-28
SEARSPORT.

day from Detroit, Mich.
Capt Wilson N. West lost a COW worth 500
Friday night with pneumonia.
Deputy Sheriff F. l. Mortland is attending
the Supreme Court in Belfast.
Mrs. F. c. Dutch returned to Cambridge,
Mass, Saturday morning by train.
Supt. John Frame of the Penobscot Coal Co.
went to Boston Monday on business.
The National Bank building on Main street
is having new outside finish and cutters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Hamilton are receiv-
ing congratulations on the birth Of son.
Mrs. E. L. Emerson on the turnpike lost
valuable COW Friday night with pneumonia.
c. H. Monroe sold Ford auto last week to
Superintendent A. j. knowlton of Belfast
Mr.. and Mrs. George Marks left Monday fol.
Bluehill, where they will reside in the future.
J. H. Sullivan has telephone peas up in his
garden and sweet peas ready to climb the
wire
William Hamilton caught Goldfish last week
while on a fishing trip down the bay that
weighed 50 lbs.
Miss Ethelind B. Havener is spending sever
al months with her cousin, Mrs. Frank biache,
in Syracuse, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs Horatio H. Mcdonald of Bel
fast are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. c. II. Stew
ems on Main street.
Eoen E. Sawyer who has been visiting his
parents, MIR. and Mrs. W. B. Sawyer, returned
to New York Thursday.
Steamer Belfast made her first trip from
Boston for the season Friday, looking neat and
trim in her new coat of paint.
E.A. Sargent and L. D. Littlefied are serv--
ing on the jury during the present session OF
the supreme court at Belfast.
DR.. and Mrs. Irving E. Pendleton of Lewis
ton were in town last week, the guests of Capt.
and Mrs F. l. Pendleton at Park.
George B. Delano who has been confined to
the house for several days with malaria, is
able to be up and about the house,
Rockport G. Rockland Lime Co. barge No.
arrived Saturday with 1000 tons OF ferti!izer
to the A. A. Co. at Mack's Point
w A Colson, census enumerator. is making
rapid progress in taking the census and is dong
the work in very careful manner
Sch. Samuel j. Goucher, Capt. Hart, which
sailed from Searsport April 10Th, made the run
to Newport News, Va, in three days.
Mrs. Fred W. Hersey and son Gerald, who
have been visiting relatives in town, have re-
Ia ~
Sch. Henry W. Cramp, Capt. Nash, finished
discharging Thursday at the Penobscot Coal
dock and sailed Friday for Newport News.
Carl Anderson of New Sweden, who has been
visiting Capt and Mrs. W. H. West on Main
street the past week, returned nome Monday.
Mrs A. S. Pendleton who has been visiting
her sons, Ferdinand and Andrew Pendleton, in
Boston for three weeks arrived home Satur-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H Montgomery and daugh
ter Edna of Bucksport arrived Saturday and
are the guests of Judge J, W. Black on Main
street.
The entertainment to be given in Union hall
May End by the ladies' of the Methodist church
has been postponed, the date to be announced
later.
Charles C. Havener, who is attending the
Shaw Business College at Bangor, spent Sun
day with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. F.
Havener,
Miss Nell TrusseI has charge of the Ed
wards dry and fancy goods store during the
absence in Boston of the proprietor Miss Lu-
cla Edwards.
A number of kickapoo Indians gave several
entertainments at Union hall last week, part of
which was free and part for cash and advertis-
ing the sale of Sagwa.
Miss Katherine kneeland, teacher in the
public schools in Chelsea, Mass, was in town
a few days last week, the guest of her parents,
MIR. and Mrs. J. H. kneeland.
NJ A. Cook returned Saturday from weeks
visit IN Pennington. He was accompanied by
his mother, Mrs. A. c. Cook of Stratton, who
will visit him for several weeks.
Walter C. Atwood of Boston, who bought
the Edward Blake farm on Swanville avenue
last fall, is in town and preparing to go into
the poultry business an extensive scale.
Captain Nathan F. Gilkey of the barkentine
Mabel |. Meyers arrived Friday from New Bed
ford, Mass, and returned Monday The bark
after discharging will sail for Jacksonville to
load lumber for Portland.
The following schooners now on the way
from Newport News with cargoes of coal to
the Penobscot Coal Co. at Mack's Point: Eliza
beth Palmer, Singleton Palmer Baker Palmer,
Addie NJ. Lawrence and Charles A. Campbell.
Rev. Harry HILL pastor of the M. E. church
for the past three years, has been assigned to
the Bucksport church and Rev. J.Albert Corey,
former pastor of the NJ. E. church at Dexter,
has been assigned to the pastorate of the M.
E. church here.
We are indebted to Joseph E. Harding of
Rochester, N. H. for several copies of the
Manchester Union which contain lengthy arti-
Giles on the license law of New Hampshire by
Hon. Frederick E. Small. former license com
missioner of New Hampshire and native of
Stockton Springs.
Seven characters will take part in the enter
tainment to be given in the M. E. church on
May End. The Growing of the May Queen is
the title of the entertainment and it is sure to
please. A good deal of hard work is being put
in on it and it will be one of the prettiest affairs
given for long time.
Small pigs sold in Pickering square in Ban
gor last week for S2.70 each, while the Sears
port brand sold for 81 apiece and quick sales at
that. c. F. Hill and Herbert Black were the
largest sellers, having disposed of about 100 of
the little rooters. More pigs have been bought
this season than for years.
The first land-locked salmon were put into
Swan Lake June 16, 1885, and were brought
from Burnham by ]. H. Sullivan, where he re-
ceived them from commissioner E. M. Stillwell
and brought them to Belfast whence the twenty
cans of salmon were taken in teams by F. E.
Whitcomb and ]. A. Clement to Swan Lake.
At a recent meeting of the Verdi Gratia So
ciety plans for either organizing or financially
q ~