The Republican journal., 1911-05-04
SEARSPORT.

DR.. B. E. Larrabee of Islesboro was in town
Monday.
Mrs. H.G. Curtis visited friends in Belfast
last week.
The fire in Bangor Sunday night was plainly
visible here.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Malloy left Thursday
for Chicago.
R. S. Swift and family left Monday for
South Thomaston.
Capt Theodore P. Colcord arrived Tuesday
from San Francisco.
Misses Marguerite and Gladys Butman left
Thursday for Boston.
Mrs T. R. Howe is visiting her sister. Mrs.
Homer Burgess, in Warren.
Miss Elizabeth Nickes left Monday for a
visit with relatives in Portland.
Capt. and Mrs. D. S. Goodell and daughter
Danny arrived Saturday from Boston.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Clement, who spent the
winter in Daytona, Fla, arrived home Monday.
last week with her new five-seated touring
car.
Sch. Lizzie Lane Capt. A. G. Closson, arriv
ed at Bangor Saturday to load lumber for New
York.
John Moore of bingham, Mass, and Hon. W.
T. Hanes of Waterville were in town Tuesday
on business.
Miss Lillian G. Runnells arrived Saturday
from Melrose, Mass, where she is teacher in
the High school.
Main street, from the Searsport House to
Mechanics Hollow. is receiving heavy coat
ing of shore gravel.
The Searsport House is being renovated and
repaired by Thomas F. Berry, proprietor, who
took charge May LIST.
DR.. Frederick K. Sawyer vent to Portland
Monday to attend the anrual meeting of the
Grand Lodge of Masons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lincoln Colcord have moved
into the Pettee cottage on the shore of Penob-
scot bay for the summer.
Miss Harriet M. Erskine has been engaged
as bookkeeper in c. o. Sawyer & Co.'S hard
ware store on Main street.
George P. Carter arrived Friday from
Mckinley, Isle of Pines, where he had been en-
ployed the past few months.
Walter Atwood of Winterport was in town
Friday and Saturday, the guest of his brother,
&C. Atwood, on Steamboat avenue.
Several of our local fishermen went to Swan
Lake last Saturday to try their luck with the
salmon and trout and made several good
catches of both.
The alarm Of fire Thursday at p. M was
caused by fire in Capt. ]. P Butman's pas
ture on the shore front The fire was extin-
guished before much damage was done.
The steamers of the Eastern S. S. Co. began
their summer schedule of six trips week May
LIST, arriving at Searsport at a. M, from Bos-
ton, and leaving for Boston at 430 p. M, daily.
Midshipman WILDER j. Carver, who has been
spending a two weeks vacation at home the
guest of his mother, Mrs. Clara E. Carver, on
Main street, left Wednesday to join the battle
ship North Dakota at New York.
The Searsport knights of Pythias Lodge,
1876, held their fourth annual ball Monday
late hour. Music was furnished by the Leahy
Sisters Of Waterville, and those present were
treated TO as good music as has been in Sears
port for many day.
Supt. W. V. Nichols has becr''n work in Elm
WOOD cel.-~t.,s I'm a ere, of men and is put
ting the cemetery in first class cond ton The
lots are being graded, the headstones and
ont riu bto1a md
useless limbs. The association intend to have
the cemetery in fine condition for Memorial
day.
Anchor Chapter, 0. E. S. and Knyvetta Re-
bekah lodge, 125, will give an entertainment
and sociable in their hall Thursday evening,
May 4th. Admission, 10 cents. Cake and cof-
fee. The ladies' will tell how they earned
their dollar, and those who did not earn their
dollar will be charged ten cents, as will the
men members.
Following is the list of the officers and
crew Of the brig Altavela, built by the late
Master John Carver in 1858: Capt. Charles G.
Carver; first officer, James D. Mathews; second
officer Ben amin Y. Havener; steward, James
Sweeney; seanen, Joshua B. Nichols, Isaac
Carver, Jr., William H Small of Searsport, and
John Weber of Monroe. The brig sailed for
Bueksville, S. c., to load hard pine lumber for
Searsport, and had the following passengers
from Searsport who went to Bucksvile to
build church and an office for the late Henry
Buck: John B. Black, Josiah Bickmore Stephen
H. Pike, Abram and Stephen Wentworth
Among the thirty or more ship carpenters and
house joiners who worked in Bucksville that
winter were Master Henry Mathews, who
built a brig there for Boston parties; John F.
Nickels, who was experimenting the getting
out vessel frame for Searsport parties;
Manuel TIE Vosh of Searsport and Leonard
Treat of Stockton, who did the joiner work on
the brig built by Master Henry Mathews;
Otis Eaton Jacob Gerry, Otis Black and Lind
sey and Emery Marden. All of these men
worked in Bucksville the entire winter of SO
and "a, when Bucksville and Conwayboro
were live business places
SEARSPORTS "CONEY ISLAND"