The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-01-19
SEARSPORT.

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Mrs. J. B. Parse left last week for Brooklyn,
NY
Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Grinnell were in Cam
den Saturday.
Frank l. Gross of Bangor was in town Mon
day on business.
Miss Elizabeth Nickels returned Saturday
from visit in Portland.
Capt Wallace Pendleton of Rockland was in
town last week, calling on friends.
W. A. Bowler, who has been confined to the
house with grip, is able to be out.
Miss Jessie C. Nickerson left Thursday to
visit Miss Deborah Williams in Houlton.
Mrs. A. T. Shute and son Austin were in
Bangor Saturday visiting Eugene N. Shute.
Mrs. Marian Hughes has returned from Ban
gor and resumed her business as seamstress.
Monday was the coolest day of the season,
the thermometer ranging around zero all day.
W. S. Carleton, the local milk dealer, has
been on the sick list the past week with the
grip.
Miss Edna Carter left Thursday for two
weeks visit with friends in Boston and vi
entity.
Leon Merithew is spending the winter IN
Swanville chopping wood for MIR. Rufus
Brown.
Mr. George P. Carter left Thursday for
Mckinley, Isle of Pines, where he will spend
the winter.
Mrs. E. W. Gilkey went to DR.. Tapley's hos
pital in Belfast last week. where she was op-
Grated on for tumor.
Steamer Texan, Capt. James B. Parse ar
rived at New York Saturday from Buenos
Ayres after passage of 20 days.
Steamer Kanaw ha finished discharging coal
at the Penobscot coal docks Thursday and
sailed the same day for Newport News.
Baker, Carver & Morrlls calendar arrived
Monday, with photograph OF the Mayhower
entering Plymcuth harbor November 9, 1920.
Rockland & Rockport Lime Co. Barge No.
8 finished discharging coal at Mack's Point
Saturday and was towed to Rockland Sunday
Arthur Ridley of Searsport and Miss Flossie
Cook OF Knox, were married at the Cong
parsonage by Rev. c. H. Mckinney Sunday,
January 9Th.
Steamer Belfast continues to keep her rec
ord for fast time during the winter, arriving
here from Boston on almost summer time Sat-
urday morning she arrived about S.15.
Pike Bros mill in Mechanics Hollow is
very busy place nowadays. Large quantities
of spool and stave wood are being hauled to
the mill yard If the shedding continues good
the company expects to buy about 1000 cords
of stave and about 5000 cords of spool wood
At the annual meeting of Mariners Lodge,
F. & A. M, held Tuesday, January 10th. the
following officers were elected for the ensuing
year. W. NJ, H. R. Dyer; S. W., Elmer Web
ster j. w, F. X. Sawyer; secretary, Clifton
Whittum; treasurer, B. F. Celcord S. D., Ches-
ter Bailey; j. D., Howard Perry; s. s., R. E.
Lock; J. S., G. S. Sargent; tyler, W. M. Parse;
chaplain, j. F. Wheaton.
The many users of kerosene oil were a little
bit surprised in reading the article in the Ban
gor Daily News, of January 18th, of "kero-
sene oil lower than ever" In an interview
with Henry Mclaughlin. the Bangor agent of
the Standard Oil Co. he stated that the whole
sale price of kerosene oil all over the State is
now 6 l-2 cents per gallon, which went into
effect about two weeks ago, when the price
was seven cents. There is change in gaso-
lene. 1t is very evident that retailers Of kero-
sene OIL who have been selling it at IA and 16
cents per gallon, have not been doing so for
their health.
So many Searsport captains are commanding
steamers in the American Hawaiian Line that
it is often called the "Searsport Line At
the present time the following Searsport men
are in the service: Captain Frank E. Curtis,
S. S. Oregonian; Captain Lincoln A. Colcord,
S. S. Massachusetts,; Captain James Parse, S. S.
Texan, Captain Joseph F. Nichols, S. S. Ari-
zonian; Captain Joseph D. Sweetser, S. S.
Georgian; Captain Harry Dow, S. s. Hawaiian;
Captain Charles W. Nichols, S. S. Columbian.
Captain Theodore Colcord recently took COM
mand of the new passenger steamer Honolu-
Ian, taking her from the dry dock to sail
around through the Straits of Magellan to
Seattle.
We copy the following from the November
number of the American Tourist" of Chicago,
which also had fine photo of Mr.. Matthews:
"Although born in Maine. Mr.. c. A. Mat
thews, general agent of the passenger de-
partment of the Northern Pacific railroad,
is of the kind of who might have
hailed from Missouri. But. reversing that
States famous tenets, he himself is not adj
verse to giving practical demonstrations of
how the Showing should be done. He has
done that so consistently that he has progress
ed from humble clerksaip in the railroad bust
ness to his present position of power, filling, in
the course of his advancement, every position
which the passenger department offers. Mr..
Matthews was born in Searsport, Maine, Janu-
airy 8, 1869. He gained his first railroad ex-
perience in ST. Paul, Mimi, where he entered
the service of the Northern Pacific, May l.,
1887. He has remained loyal to his first EN-
ployers through span of twenty-three years
and received his first substantial recognition
of that quality from them in an appointment
as assistant chief clerk of the passenger de-
partment in St. Paul. Then he became travel
ing passenger agent in St. Paul, after which
his energy and thoroughness made him the Sc
lected one for promotion to a field of wider
scope and possibilities, being sent to Chi
cago as district passenger agent Next
he became general agent of the passen-
ger department in the same city, which
position he has ED for years. Mr.. Matthews
is a graduate of the University Of Minnesota,
belonging to the class of 1897, is member of
the Illinois Athletic club, the Homewood
Country club and other civic and social organ
izations He is a Mason of prominence. The