The Republican journal., 1910-11-24
SEARSPORT.

Mr.. E. o. Stoddard of Foxcroft was in town
Wednesday on business.
c. A. Powers, the potato buyer, returned to
his home in Fort Fairfield Friday.
MIR. and Mrs. j. A. Clement left Monday for
their winter home in Daytona, Fla.
The many customers of Capt. Joseph Porter
missed bis usual weekly call last Saturday.
Lawrence Hamilton has his new house on
Jackson avenue completed and has moved in.
Capt. Joseph Porter left last week for two
weeks visit with his aged mother in Portland.
Maurice Nickerson returned Tuesday from
ten days visit with relatives in Boston and vi
cinity.
Mrs Walter Small of 1slesboro is the guest
of her husband, Capt. Small, of the schooner
Pendleton Sisters.
Sch Ella F. Crowell, Capt. Thomas, sailed
Friday for Boston with 5000 bushels of pota-
toes for E. H. Gibbons.
William B. Worcester, brakeman on the B. &
A. railroad, is confined to his house on Navy
street with rheumatic fever.
Mrs Ella Mowry and daughter Miss Lillian,
who have been visiting in Boston and vicinity,
returned home last week.
Mrs. Jane c. Peaslee, widow of Washington
Peaslee, died at her home in Park Monday of
heart failure, aged Sc years.
Frank C. Whitcomb returned Monday from
weeks hunting trip in northern Maine. He
succeeded in killing two deer.
Five hundred barrels of herring arrived by
boat Tuesday from Boston for the sardine
factory in Stockton Springs.
Capt. and Mrs. Arthur Hopkins of Brewer
were in town last week, guests Sf MIR. and
Mrs. j. A. Clement on Main street.
n P Renouf of BiddeforG, special agent of
the Standard Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford,
CT, was in town Monday on business.
Miss Laura McAbee. who has been visiting
relatives at Mack's Point for several days, re-
turned to her home in Bangor Tuesday.
Sch. John j. Hanson arrived Monday from
Baltimore with 1900 tons of fertilizer to the
Hubbard Fertilizer Co. at Mack's Point.
W. F. Runnels of Newburyport, who has
been visiting his parents, Hon. and Mrs w.
7. c. Runnells, returned home last week.
Prof. L, H. Stevens will have juvenile
class in dancing every Wednesday afternoon
after four o'clock, beginning Nov. Both. at the
G. a. R. hall.
Miss Florence Coleord, central telephone
operator, who has been visiting in Boston and
vicinity the past two weeks, returned home
Saturday.
Capt. j. F. Peterson left Monday for Bristol,
H. l., where he will spend the winter with his
son, F. A. Peterson, accountant for the Rhode
Island Coal Co.
Sch. Pendleton Sisters, Captain Small, arriv-
ed Mo- day from Baltimore with 1000 tons of
fertilizer for the Hubbard Fertilizer Company
at Macks Point.
Mrs P B. Blanchard and daughter Marie
who have been visiting Capt. and Mrs. W. R.
Gilkey on Union street, have returned to their
nome in San Pedro, Cal.
Mr. and Mrs. Wright of Los Angeles, Calf,
who have been visiting Hon. and Mrs. W. T. C,
Runnells on Mt. Ephraim avenue, left last
week for NeWburyport, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert W. Grinnell arrived
Friday from Spokane, Wash, and are visiting
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Grinnell at the Searsport
House
Mrs C, N. Meyers, who was taken seriously
i'll with nervous prostration the passage
from Bridgewater, N S., to Paysandu. s. A
on board the bark Mabel l. Meyers, has taken
passage home on the steamer from Montevideo.
Steamer Kanawha arrived November 10Th
from Newport News with 2,4OO tons of coal to
the Penobscot Coal Co. at Mack's Point. She
finished discharging Friday and sailed the
same day on her return.
Owing to the increase of business at the
Searsport department store, its proprietor, Mr.
M. A. Cook, has been obliged to entirely re-
model the interior making great improvements.
He is prepared to handle the trade better than
ever before
Fred B. Kelsey of Portland was in town Fri
day and Saturday as supercargo for the Union
Sulphur Co. that had cargo of 1000 tons of
sulphur on the steamer Mills, which arrived
Saturday from Sabine Pass, Texas at the Pc
nobscot coal dock and finished discharging
Sunday morning, sailing the same day for
Norfolk
News was received Monday of the death in
Boston of Mrs Clara C. Leonard, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. j. L. Hamilton. The remains
will be brought here for burial. She is sur
vived by her parents, two sisters, Mrs William
Rich and Miss Marian, and four brothers, Will,
Frank, Charles and Lawrence, all of Sears
port.
The fire alarm at $50 p. m. Thursday was
caused by fire in the barn chamber of the
Merithew house on Church street owned by
Frank E. Whitcomb and occupied by James
Hawley. The fire department responded
promptly and soon extinguished the fire.
Considerable damage was done to the interior
of the barn, which was fully covered by insur-
ance.
News was received Saturday of the death in
Manila, P. l., October 10th, of Capt. Cyrus M.
Noyes, former well known shipmaster of
Searsport. He was the son of the late Judge
Benjamin ard Catherine Noyes and was born
in Searsport in 1912. In early life he began to
follow the sea with his brother, the late Capt
Allen Noyes of Searsport, and commanded the