The Republican journal., 1911-03-09
SEARSPORT.

Frank 1. Gross of Bangor was in town Friday
on business.
J.H. Carr has been laid up with the grip
the past week.
M. W. Smith of Portland arrived Tuesday to
visit his mother, Mrs. Emma Dyer.
The fine cool weather for the past week has
kept the shedding. in splendid condition.
Charles F. Hill bought fine pair of dark
gray. Young team horses in Bangor last week.
Chester Bailey and Ebert C. Monroe left
Monday to attend the automobile show in Bos-
ton.
The fire which burned Merriam mill in Nor
rill last Thursday night was plainly visible
here.
Pike Bros. loaded sch. Mary Brewer last
week with potatoes and spool edgings for VI
nalhaven.
Frank Dexter, who has been visiting IN town.
has gone to Boston, where he has work Tor the
summer.
Pike Bros spool mill was shut down Monday
for few DAYS on account of an accident to the
machinery.
Mrs Charles Wilson of Bangor was in town
Saturday, the guest of Mrs. H. M. Bailey on
Water street.
Capt R. W. Fowler and family, formerly OF
Searsnort. have moved from Brooklyn, N. Y.
to Milwaukee, Wis.
Steamer Kanawha, Capt Parmenter, finished
discharging last Thursday and sailed the same
day for Norfolk.
Capt. N. F. Gllkey of the schooner Gardiner
G. Deering arrived Saturday from Boston Tor
visit with his family.
Charles E. Cunningham of Orono and Mrs.
Sarah C. Towle of Searsport were united IN
marriage Thursday evening, March End.
Harry L. Mason, engineer at the Penobscot
Coal-& Wharf Co. at Macks Point, eft Thurs
day for ten days vacation in New York.
Can't. John Averill has gone to Boothbay to
Inv boat for fishing among the outer islands
in Penobscot bay during the coming season.
Melvin M. Whittum found revolver and
case on the Mt. Ephraim road in the snow
which the owner can have by calling on MIR.
Whittum.
Henry S. Hartman has closed his black
smith business in the village and returned to
North Searsport, where he will engage In the
same business.
The many friends of DR.. P. P. Nichols are
sorry to learn of his serious illness at Ber-
muda. where ne has been spending the winter
for his health.
Miss Marie Cyphers, who is attending the
Emerson Business College in Portland, is visit
ing her parents, Nj. and Mrs. E. S. Cyphers'
on Main street.
Mrs A J. Nickerson and daughter, Miss Jes-
sic C. Nckerson, and Miss Deborah u VIII
liams of Houlton, left Thursday for Ashviile'
N. c., and other points in the SOUTH
Barge Nesqu ehoning, Capt. Barlow, arrived
March LIST from Elizabethport with l,loo tons
of anthracite coal to the Penobscot Coal Co..
and sailed the 9th for El;zabethport.
We are indebted to First Lieut.. Frederick r.
Black. of the 18th U. S. Infantry, stationed at
Fort D. A. Russell, Cheyenne, Wyoming for
COPY of the Fort D. A. Russell News.
News was received Tuesday of the arrival OF
the ship Aryan Monday at San Diego, 205 days
from Philadelphia. She had been reported
overdue and it was feared she was lost.
About ten thousand bushels of potatoes are
stored in town They selling now at 30
cents bushe very dull market, and II Is
expected by some that they will drop to ~
cents a bushel.
S. R. Bonsey, railway mail clerk on the run
between Searsport and Bangor, left Tuesday
to attend the sportsmans show in New York;
c. L. Farwell of Cumberland Center will sub
stitute for him during his absence.
Mr. and Mrs H. A. Weber of Beverly,
Mass were called here last we, k by the illness
of Mrs. Kate Walnut, Mrs. Webber's sister,
who has been seriously i'll with pneumonia.
Tuesday, Mrs. Walnut very much inn
proved
The second of a series of entertainments
given for the benefit of the carpet fund of Me-
mortal Hall will be given in Union Hall March
18th 1t will consist of public supper, enter
tainment and dance. Full particulars will be
announced by bills later.
Lesley M. Simpson of Monroe has the SYM
pathy of his many TRENDS IN SearsPort IN the
loss of his buildings by fire Friday morning.
Mr.. Simpson at one time worked here for Mr.
Charles F Gordon cashier of the Searsport Ma
tional Bank, on his farm.
The fire department was called out Tuesday
night for fire in the woodshed and ice house
of Capt D. S. Goodell. The building was
burred fiat, but the house and were not dam
aged. the fire was supposed to have caught
from hot ashes in a barrel.
News was received here Tuesday morning
of the death of DR.. Phineas P. Nichols of Nor
Hampton, Mass. at Bermuda, where he had
gone for his health. He is survived by his
widow, who was with him when he died; by
two children, Jack and Lillias of Northampton,
and by his mother Mrs. Lilias N. Nichols of
Searsport His age was So years.
The alarm of fire Sunday afternoon was
caused by blaze in the Smith house on Mt.
Ephraim avenue occupied by James Mclnnis.
The fire was well underway when discovered
but the fire department responded promptly
and soon had stream of water on the build
ing and got the fire under control. The house
was badly damaged, mostly by water. 1t is