The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-05-11
SEARSPORT.

business.
Frank 1. Gross of Bangor was in town Fri
day on business.
B. H. Mudgett of Belfast was in town Mon
day on business.
Mrs. George A. Bowen will leave today,
Thursday, for Boston.
W. E. Grinnell and family have moved to
the "Elms'' on Steamboat avenue.
Thomas R. Howe has entered the employ of
F. E. Whitcomb & Son on Main street.
William R. Gilkey, Jr., left Monday fol-
Merna, Wyo. where he has cattle ranch.
William Wheaton, the Main street market
man, was in Bangor last week on business.
M. F. Parker, the Main street tonsoria
artist, went to Boston Monday on business.
There have been several cases of measles.
of mild form, in town the past two weeks
Several of our citizens went to Bangor last
week and viewed the ruins of the great fire.
Miss Georgia L. Ford, who has been visiting
in Manchester, Ct, returned home last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Deshon, who have been
visiting in Chelsea, Mass, returned home last
week.
Lancaster Bros. are building a garage for
Mrs. A. j. Nickerson on Union street, near her
residence.
Leroy D. Littlefeld is putting in Is acres of
potatoes on the Morrow farm on the back road
to Belfast.
Mrs j. c. Nichols, who spent the winter in
Brooklyn N. Y and Philadelphia returned
home Saturday.
caught five salmon at Swan Lake Thursday
that weighed Is pounds.
Clarence Gilkey, who has been taking a
course in Corners Business college, Boston, is
at home for few days
Mrs. T. r. Howe returned last week from
Warren. where she had been visiting her sis
ter. Mrs Homer Burgess.
Dr. and Mrs. William Walters and son ar
rived Saturday for brief stop, returning on
the afternoon boat to Boston.
Harry L. Merithew is doing the painting and
vanishing on Prof. Bertram C. Richardson's
new house on West Main street.
All roads now lead to Swan Lake, where
several fine catches of salmon and trout were
made last week by local fishermen.
M A. Cook, the Main street news dealer,
has on sale large assortment of souvenir pos
tai cards of the great fire in Bangor.
The Rockport- Rockland Lime Co. barge No.
3 finished oischargng at the Penobscot coal
dock Friday and sailed for Rockland.
Knights of Pythias Lodge, No. l35, has
bought the j. W. Black house and lot on the
corner of Main and Bay View streets.
George Towle has gone to New York to go
as second officer of the schooner Jacob M.
Haskell, loading for Montevideo, S. A,
Next Sunday morning Rev. J. A. Corey will |
speak on the International Peace Movement !
and forward look from Memorial Day. |
Eugene N. Shute spent Saturday and Sum-
day with his mother Mrs. A. F. Shute on !
Water street, returning to Bangor Monday.
Mrs. A. b. Pendleton and daughter Margaret
returned last week from Everett, Mass,
where they had been visiting for two weeks.
Miss Lillian G. Runnells who has been visit
ing her parents, Hon. and Mrs. w. T. c. Rum
neis, on Mt. Ephram avenue, returned Satur-
day 10 Melrose, Mass.
Work in the village cemetery began last
week and the lots and avenues are being put
in hne condition Tor the summer by L. W.
Wentworth, sup -rlntendent.
Fields 2 Dodge, who has been clerk at the
Searsport house for the past two years, left
SATURDAY for Camden, where he has secured a
position with Milliston Grinnel
Steamer hanawha, Capt. Parmenter, arrived
Frloay IRON Newport News with 3,4eU tons of
coal tor the Penobscot Coal Co. She finished
discharging Monday and sailed for Newport
News
MIR. and Mrs. J. F. Wheaton of Bangor
were IN town Monday packing up their house.
hold goods, which went by train Tuesday to
Bangor, where Mr.. Wheaton is engaged in the
wholesale and retail meat business.
The C. C. M, C.'s will hold social in the
Methodist vestry Tuesday evening, May 18TH
A pleasing entertainment will be given, in
Guiding lantern views Of Bangor before and
after the fire. Admission to social five cents.
Ice cream and saltines, 10 cents,
There will be excursion from Searsport
and stockton Springs Friday, May 18th, on the
steamer Castne to Bangor. The steamer will
leave searsport at a. M, arriving at Bangor
at H. Returning, will leave Bangor at 3 D. m.
+ are, IS cents. The excursion will be under
the management of M. A. Cook,
DoDGE's CORNER H. Peabody Farnham Of
Salem, Mass, arrived last Saturday and is at
The Chapin's'' for two weeks. Mr. and
Mrs c. c. Moody of Winterport spent few
days at their cottage, '..Uneie TENS Cabin
the first of the week Thirty hive Boats were
counted on Lake Waubessa last Sunday.
How They EARNED THEIR DOLLARS. For
several weeks the ladies of Knyyetta Rebekah
lodge and Anchor chapter, o. E. S., have been
busily engaged in earning, in one way and
another, dollar each for the carpet fund of
Memorial hall, where each order holds its
At the social held few DAYS ago