The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-11-10
SEARSPORT.


Fred B. Smith left Saturday to visit t is son
Harold in Lynn, Mass.
]. L. Hamilton has taken rooms in the
s.Brookside" for the winter.
Edward Glidden returned last week from
business trip to San Francisco
Clifton Whittum was in lslesboro last week,
visiting DR.. and Mrs. B. E. Larrabee.
Ernest Murphy returned last week from a
two weeks visit in Boston and vicinity.
Mrs, Ellsworth Howard and Fred Curtis left
Monday to visit relatives in Jersey City.
Mrs ]. C. Nickels left last week for Brook
Ign, N. Y, where she will spend the winter.
Sch. Vanguard arrived Monday from Port
and with 5000 bushels of corn to Pike Bros.
James H. Duncan, civil engineer, has been
confined to the house the past week with bron-
chitis.
Lester Robertson and family have moved to
Wvtoptlock, where they will reside in the
future.
E. H. Gibbons of Boston is loading the
schooner Inez with 5000 bushels Of potatoes
for Boston.
Steamer Kanawha finished discharging Tues
day at the Penobscot Coal dock and sailed for
Newport News.
w. R. Gilkey, Jr., arrived Friday from
Merna, Wyoming, and is visiting his parents
on Union street.
Sch. Lizzie Lane, Capt. A. G. Closson, has
been chartered to load lumber at Cape Jellison
for Quincy, Mass
Steamer Kanawha arrived Friday from Nor
folk with 3,4S0 tons of coal to the Penobscot
Coal Co. at Mack's Point.
Fred Ellis of North Stockton Springs while
driving to Searsport Monday saw herd OF five
deer grazing in the field of Fred Nickerson.
Herring in large quantities were caught
Monday off Sears Island and shipped by way
of Bucksport to the sardine factories in East
port.
D. R. Smart of Dorchester, Mass, who has
been visiting relatives in town, has gone to
Bangor and will visit relatives there for few
days.
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charging $500 tons of coal Saturday at the
Penobscot Coal dock and was towed to Rock
land.
Schooner Margaret Haskell, Capt. McKown,
finished discharging Thursday at the Penobscot
Coal dock and sailed the same day for Newport
News.
]. D. Coyne, railway mail clerk, who has
been substituting for Sidney R. Bonsey on the
Searsport and Bangor run, returned to his
home in Portland Friday.
Sidney R. Bonsey and Chester Bailey re-
turned last week from hunting trip in the
Moosehead lake regions. Mr.. Bonsey secured
one deer and Mr.. Bailey two.
David W. Kane, second officer of the steam
has been visiting his mother. Mrs. Mary Kane,
returned Saturday to New York.
Thomas Mason and daughter, Mrs. c. H.
Grant, who have been the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles E. Averill on Main street the past
two weeks, returned to their home in Lowell,
Mass, Monday.
Prof L. H. Stevens of Lynn, Mass, opened
school for plain and fancy dancing at g. A.
hall Monday evening. All the latest and best
ball room dances will be taught in this school.
Dancing will begin at o'clock each evening.
An organ recital will be given by E. Russell
Sanborn of Boston, assisted by Miss Gladys M.
Butman of Searsport, pianist, at the First
Cong'l church Thursday evening, Nov. 18th, at
5 o'clock The program will be announced
later.
Don't forget the regular meeting of Anchor
chapter, o. E. ST. Monday night, Nov. 14th.
The gentlemen, as well as the ladies, are re-
quested to bring their needle and thimble.
After the business meeting social time is ex-
pected.
L. S. Brockway has closed out his upholstery
business here and left Wednesday for Water
vile, where he will continue in the same line
of business. Mr.. Brockway is an expert work.
man and has many friends in town who regret
his departure.
c. A. Powers of Fort Fairfield, G. H. Ma
honey and E. H. Gibbons of Boston were in
town Friday and Saturday and bought several
thousand bushels of potatoes from parties in
Searsport, Swanvlle Prospect and Stockton.
They will be shipped by vessel from here.
A benefit social will be held at the Methodist
vestry next Tuesday evening The proceeds
OF the evening, and also barrel of clothing,
which will be packed, will go to Rev. Mr.. Cor
sen, the Maine coast missionary. Rev. J. A
Corey will show lantern slides as part of the
program Refreshments will be served.
Some of our citizens are leaving Searsport to
spend the winter in Boston, New York and
Philadelphia. Here. on Nov. 7th, we have
strawberry blossoms, sweet peas, nasturtiums
and pansies in full bloom, while last week in
Binghampton, N. Y, there were fifteen inches
of snow, and regular blizzard in Scranton,
Pa, with six inches of snow.
Mr. and Mrs. George Black of Franklin
Grove, ILL.,, who have been visiting Mr.. land
Mrs. C. B. Deshon on Elm street, left Saturday
for Boston, where they will visit relatives.
They will then visit their son-in-law, Capt.
Frank Dow, of the steamer Hawaiian of the
American Hawaiian line, before proceeding to
their home.
Truman M. Lothrop of Stockton Springs,
proprietor Of the Stockton, Searsport and Bel
fast express has bought a pair of chestnut