The Republican journal., 1910-01-20
SEARSPORT.

Mrs. Edward CrOcker OF buckSpOrC Is VlSlC-
ing Mrs. l. H. Havener
Mrs. E. D. P Nickels and Miss LYDIA J. Cur
It's left last week for Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Glidden have gone::to
California to remain until May.
l. H. Havener reopened his store on Main
street Monday morning for business.
E. A. Buker was confined to the house last
Saturday with an attack of rheumatism.
Henry Colson, who has been confined to the
house with bad cold, is able to be out again.
The Ladies' Guild of the First Congl church
met Tuesday with Miss Fannie E. Smith on
Bay View Place.
James Hawley and Mrs. John Frame went to
Providence, R. l., last week to attend the fu-
neral of their mother.
Bark Mabel l. Meyers, Capt N. F. Gilkey,
sailed from Turks Island January 18th for
Providence, salt laden.
Sch. HARDWOOD Palmer, Capt Creighton, fin
ished discharging "wednesday at the Penobscot
Coal dock and sailed Thursday for Newport
News.
Scott Closson while chopping wood for L. D.
Lit4lefeld last Saturday felled large tree
which took the wrong swing and knocked him
down, bluising his head and one arm quite
badly
Pike Bros. are turning out 800 barrels day
at their coope1age plant and large amount of
spool wood and stave wood is being hauled to
their mil-yard in Mechanics Hollow.
Mrs. E. L. Savory returned Friday from Bss-
ton, called home by the serious illness If her
daughter, Miss Maud Savory, who has been i'll
with pneumonia the past week but is now
much improved.
DoDGE's CORNER. Mr.. and Mrs. H. Peabody
Farnham of Salem. Mass, arrived January
10th and are at 1.-THE Chapins' for few weeks.
James E. Marden has been confined to the
house with very bad cold.
The social committee of the Christian En-
deavor society will give baked bean supper
in the upper conference room of the Congre-
gational vestry Friday evening, January 21st,
at o'clock. Admission Is cents; children, Is
cents.
J. M. MacDougall of Auburn, New York, has
our thanks for a copy of the New Years issue
of the Denver Republican, in which is glow
Colorado in agriculture, fruit growing and
mining
Mr.. and Mrs. John Decker and children Miss
Doris and Donald Decker, start in two weeks
for Searsport, where they will make their
future home. Mr.. and Mrs. Decker's many
friends here wish them the best of luck in their
new home. MIR. Decker is employed as an en-
gineer on the Bangor & Aroostook railway
Houlton item.
News was received last week of the death of
Cornelius Lane, which occurred at the home of
his son. John Lane in Island Falls, Aroostook
county, January 9th, at the age of SO years.
He was brother of the late John H. Lane,
prominent business man of this town He
went from Searsport to Island Falls in 1860
and was one of the pioneer farmers in that
section.
NORTH SEARsPoRT. ]. f. Marden is on the
sick list. o. j. Cass and wife have been sick
but better at this writing -. Winter is
half gone and where has it gone? The old vet
-
tons of baled hay for sale; also some oat straw
and seed oats. . Fine shedding and lumber of
all kinds is on the move.
Judge Cornish before the adjournment of
court Friday at Belfast congrat ulated County
Attorney H. c. Buzzell on the excellent con-
dition of the criminal docket and the manner in
which he had SO quickly disposed of his cases
and the effort made on the part of the attorney
to close up all standing matters. The criminal
docket was never SO free from standing entries
at the close of a term as it is today
AT the annual meeting, January 18th, of
Searsport Royal Arch Chapter the following
officers We're elected for the ensuing year.
James (. Wentworth, W. P; F. l. Pendleton
King; John Frame, Scribe; James P. Nichols
Secy; A. W. Nichols, Treas; Clifton Whttum
{. of H.; F. A. Nye, K. A. c.; John Murphy, P
S; w. Colson, Sd Vale; Leander Sargent, End
Mrs. Amanda Morton died January 18TH at
the residence of her brother law, Charles
B. Deshon, on Elm street, from complication
of diseases after illness of two months aged
"a years and months. The funeral services
were held Saturday, Rev. c. H. Mckinney of
the First Cong'l church officiating and the in
terment was in the village cemetery The
deceased was the daughter of the late Alex
ander and Sarah (Mason) Dow and was born
in Searsport. She is survived by three sisters:
Mrs. c. B. Deshon of Searsport, Mrs. George
Black of Franklin Grove H., and Mrs Cyrus
Moves of Hono KoDo i~bip,
We extend our sympathy to the people of
the Bay State for their sutferings in the vio-
lent northeast gales and heavy snow storms
they have experienced in the past three weeks,
and especially to the citizens of Boston, who
met with such severe setback on the 18th
day of January, as down here in Maine we
have the robin with US and the cawing of the
crows can be heard every morning as they go
to the sea shore for the succulent clam and
the sea flea for their breakfast. We have had
but one snow storm and about three inches of
of snow and the finest sleighing since Edward
Kent was governor of Maine and everybody
knows how Maine went for Edward Kent
J. H. Sullivan has petrified potato, which
was given him by foreman Clancy, and which
was dug up in front of his store on Main
street while eXcavating for the mains of the
Searsport Water Co. The eyes on the potato
been cultivated by Joseph York on the banks