The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-03-30
SEARSPORT.

Miss Florence Billings went to Bangor Mon
day for medical treatment.
nc. Buzzell, Esq, returned Friday from a
business trip to New York.
There will be stated meeting of the Sears
port R. A. c. Wednesday, April 9Th.
Mrs. F. C. Whitcomb is at the Waldo county
hospital at Belfast for medical treatment.
Mr.. LOOMS Eames has been confined to the
house the past two weeks with severe cold
Lester Whittier, son of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Whittier, is at home from Kents Hill for the
recess.
Misses Emily and Lucy Ross are visiting
their sister, Mrs. Robert P. Nichols, in Winter
Hil Mass.
Mrs. Evaline White on Mt. Ephraim avenue,
who has been i'll for some time, had slight
shock Friday
Fred ]. Biather arrived Tuesday from Bos-
ton called here by the death of his father. An
drew J. Biather.
: IT,. Miss Elizabeth Frame went to Standpoint
Monday to resume her teaching after several
weeks vacation.
Mrs. Amanda Curtis, an aged lady living
with her daughter, Mrs. NJ F. Wentworth, had
slight shock last week.
Story and Levi Trundy are at home from
kent's Hill for the holidays with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Trundy.
Hutson ]. Biather of Walpole, Mass, will be
in town today, Thursday, to attend the funeral
of his brother, Andrew ]. Biather.
Eugene N. Shute spent the weekend with
his mother Mrs. A. T. Shute, on Water street,
returning to Bangor Monday morning.
R.&R L. Co. barge No. 4. arrived Monday
from Carteret, N. ]. with 1880 tons of fertll-
izer to the A. A. C. Co. at Mack's Point.
Sch. Northland, Capt. Saunders, finished dis
charging March 22nd, and sailed the next day
for Norfolk in the roaring northwest gale.
Herbert Partridge is spending the Easter
recess with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Partridge He is a student at kent's Hill.
Capt. C. F. Carver, who has been seriously ill
with pneumonia at the home of his son, John
F..Carver in Roslindale, Mass is improving.
Walker Bros. with their saving machine
of wood for Leroy D. Littlefeld on the Belfast
road.
The ice in Swan Lake is twenty-five inches
thick at the present time. In 1910 the Ice
went out April 2nd bit this year 1t will be
later.
Miss Ethel NJ Nichols arrived Monday from
Easton for two weeks vacation and is the
guest of Capt. and Mrs. H. G. Curtis on Water
street
Dr. and Mrs Edward Calderwood of Rox-
bury Mass, are receiving congratulations on
the birth of 81 pound son-Thomas Whittier
Calderwood.
Pike Bros spool mill opened up business
again last week after short shutdown caused
by the breaking of the main clutch on the
main shaft.
Albert H. Barnes of Rockland and j. d.
Young of Stockton Springs have secured leases
and are to build herring weirs on Sears Island
the coming spring.
Capt. W. R. Gilkey had so cords of hard
wood manufactured this winter for the local
market and has at the present time but few
cords left for sale.
Miss Nettie Porter arrived Friday from Bos
ton and is at Nj. NJ. Whttum's on Mt. Ephraim
avenue who has been seriously i'll with pneu-
monia the past week
Miss Eudavilla Cleaves has returned from
Boston, where she has been for the past month
studying millinery, and has opened her store
on Main street, formerly occupied by Mrs. D.
S. Beals.
Steamer kanawha, Capt. Parmenter, arriv-
ed Monday from Norfolk with $3.50 tons of
coal to the Penobscot Coal Co. She finished
discharging Tuesday and sailed on her return
to Norfolk.
Capt D. S. Goodell will leave today, Thurs
sG4y, for the Paso Robes Springs, Calf, near
San Diego. Mrs. Goodell and daughter Danny
will go to Allston, Mass, to stay during Capt.
Goodell's absence.
The Elmwood cemetery association will hold
its first annual meeting at the Nichols school
house, Saturday April LIST, at p. m. A full
attendance is requested as business of i'm
portance is to come before the meeting
Miss Wnnifred Nichols arrived on the
steamer Belfast last Saturday morning and
will spend week with her grandmother Mrs.
r. NJ. Pendleton, at the Harbor. Miss Nichols
Isl student at Howard seminary, West Bridge
water, Mass.
Mrs. Oliver c. Atwood entertained the Thin
bic club last Friday night at her home in
Steamboat avenue. Only four of the regular
members were present, the others being out of
town. While the others sewed, Miss Rebecca
Ross read from Mark Twain's Huckleberry
Finn, to the delight of all. Miss Evelyn Bonsey
of Ellsworth, who is the guest of her brother
Sidney Bonsey, guest of honor. The
hostess served rarebt, crackers, sailed nuts,
olives and Russian tea The club members
present in addition to those mentioned were
Miss Colcord and Miss Frame
former Searsport boy prospecting in Attic
boro Mass, George A. Sweeney, a graduate of
the Searsport High school of 1867 and one of
its brightest scholars, when the average daily
attendance was 72 and the teacher, Mr. G. A.
Robertson of Bethel, Maine, received SIS per
month, is now having a successful business
and political career. Mr.. Sweeney has Just
been elected On the board of seectmen of