The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-06-22
SEARSPORT.

M. l.. terFlll mas entered IHG euplOy VI f.
E. Whitcomb & Son on Main street.
Pyam Gilkey of Rochester, N. H., arrived
last Saturday on short visit to his family.
M. L. Verrill and family have returned from
Bangor and are at their home on Main street.
Charles Hamilton, who has been on a voyage
to Jamaica on fruit steamer, arrived home
Monday.
Clarence Gilkey, who has been attending
Corners college in Boston, returned home
Tuesday.
James Stevens, Scott Closson and Alphonso
Wagner are at work on the new sardne factory
in Belfast.
Mrs. Lora Clark and children of Frankfort
are guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Cyphers on
Main street.
Miss Bertha Adams of Somervlle, Mass, is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Carleton on the
Belfast road
Mrs. Susan Towle who has been the guest
of Mrs. A. T. Shute on Water street, returned
to Belfast Sunday.
Frank French of Boston was in town last
week, the guest of MIR. and Mrs. LOOMS Eames
on Reservoir street.
Mrs. Harry E. Dow arrived Saturday from
Deshon on Park street.
Sch. Eliza Levenseer arrived Monday from
Perth Amboy with 200 tons of anthracite coal
to the Searsport Coal Co.
NJ IT, D.,
gor and is the guest of his mother, Mrs. A. T.
Shute, on Water street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wingate Cram and children Of
Bangor arrived last week and are at the Mrs.
A V. Nickels house for the summer.
Miss Helen Morrill,, who is nurse in the
Waldo County Hoslit at Belfast, is the guest
of DR.. and Mrs. C. R. Hines on Mt. Ephraim
road.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Russell, who have been
visiting Hon. and Mrs. W. T. C. Runnells, re-
turned to their home in Newburyport. Mass,
Friday.
Rev. c. H. Mckinney leaves today, Thurs
day, to attend the funeral of his friend Cory
don Powers, a prominent business man of
Caribou.
Miss Mabel l. Nichols arrived last week from
Milo junction. where she has been teaching
school, and is with her mother, Mrs. C. M.
Nichols, on Water street.
Miss Lila R. Cyphers, who spent the winter
in Midway, Mass. ard Portland, Me-, arrived
home last week and is visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Cyphers on Main street.
Capt. Frank A. Curtis has sold his grocery
business to Pyam Gilkey and son Clarence,
who took charge Tuesday, Capt. Curtis retir-
ing from business on account of i'll health
Miss Sara L. Grinne visited her grand
father, Mr.. Williston Grinnell, in Camden last
Saturday and Sunday and left Monday for
Harwichport, Mass where she will spend the
summer.
Lincoln Berry and Howes Savory made
trip to Newport News and return on the stmr.
kanawha, which arrived Thursday with 3,4O9
tons of coal to the Penobscot Coal Co. at
Mack's Point
Capt Frank E. Curtis of the steamer Ore
gonian of the American H awaiian line, who
has been spending few days with his pa
rents, Capt. and Mrs. Frank A. Curtis, return
ed to New York last Saturday.
The following pupils of the Nichols school
We're neither absent nor tardy during the
spring term: Beatrice Irving, Izora Irving,
Marion Irving, Charlie Nickerson, Lizzie
Roach, Annie Rogers and Frances Rogers
There will be meeting at the Porter school
house at 10 a. m. Sunday, June 25th, and a
baptism at the Porter mill stream at twelve M
All are welcome. Services are to be under the
direction of H. j. Tozier, ?. 0. Andrews, and
c. 7. Lake
The new boxes and Office furniture for the
post office have arrived and are being put in
position. Single plate glass windows are be-
ing put in the front of the office and new
door with large single light of glass; A pri-
vate office is also being fitted up for the post
master. All the wood work is of CHARTERED
oak. MIR. Bond of the POST Office department
in Washington is experimenting the work
OBITUARY. Miss Martha F., daughter of the
late Joseph and Martha (True) Wiswell, died
at her home on the Swanville road, Thursday,
June 18th, after an illness of four days with
bronchial pneumonia. She was one of the best
known of the old-time school teachers of Sears
port. She was born in Monson, March ~,
1882, and came to Searsport with her parents
when a child and where she was engaged in
school teaching for many years. Later she
was employed in the tailor shops of Searsport
and Belfast. She was a granddaughter of
Henry True of Belfast, ensign in the Rev.
dictionary War who was drowned in the Pas
sagassawaukeag river at Belfast, June 8, 1903.
Funeral services were held at her late home
Saturday, conducted by Rev. c. H. Mckinney,
and interment was in the family lot in the
village cemetery. She is survived by one
brother, Major j. nj. Wiswell of South Framing
ham, Mass, and four sisters-Mrs Evelyn
Biather of Los Angeles, CAL, Misses Ellen and
Medora Wiswell Of Searsport, and Mrs Electa
Wswell Of South Boston, Mass.
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION EXERCISES. The
graduation of the Glass of 1911, Searsport High
school, was held Thursday night, June 18th, in
the Methodist church, which was handsomely
decorated in the class colors, green and white.
Ferns and daisies were used most effectively,
the entire front of the auditorium being banked
with them. The music was furnished by the
Ranoor Hiph School Orchestra and tn the