The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-05-18
SEARSPORT.

Mrs. O. C. Atwood was in Bangor Monday
on business.
DR., and Mrs. Clarence Hines left last Thurs
day for Boston.
See auction advertisement by w. E. Grinnell
in another column.
Pyam L. Gilkey, after spending two weeks
with his family. has returned to Rochester, N
Il.
M F. Parker, the Main street tonsorial artist,
returned Saturday from a business trip to Bos-
ton.
Omar Cunningham has gone to Bangor to
work for the summer at his trade as q carpen-
ter.
Ralph Felker left Saturday for Allston,
Mass, where he has employment for the sum-
mer.
M. A. Cook had twenty-five passenger or
the excursion to Bangor on steamer Castine
Friday.
John Brock has been engaged as Chauffeur by
Fred Perkins of Standpoint, the Schools spool
bar magnate.
Arthur B. Smith of Brewer was in town last
week preparing his cottage at Pleasant Point
for the summer.
We are indebted to Capt. Edward Simonton
of the Post Office Department at Washington,
D. c., for favors.
Barge Allentown arrived May 18th from
Elizabethport with anthracite coal to the Pc
nobscot Coal Co..
Barge Greenwood arrived May 18th from
Elizabethport with 1880 tons of anthracite coal
to the Pencoscot Coal Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. P. Chase of Belfast were in
town Sunday, the guests of Capt. and Mrs. H.
G. Curtis on Water street.
Steamer Kanawha, Capt. Parmenter, arrived
May 18th from Newport News with 3,4sO tons
of coal to the Penobscot Coal Co.
Miss Harriet N. Porter, who spent the win
ter in Franklin, Mass, with her brother, Chas.
W. Porter, arrived home last week.
The fishing last week at Lake Waubessa, was
very good. Several fine catches of salmon and
trout were made by local fishermen.
Clifford P Nichols of Dixfeld was in town to
dIl6HU tO6 VI uASAcs Tram W.
Nichols, who died in Eixfeld May 18th.
Miss Georgia Field, who has been spending
several weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. E. W. Gilkey
on Water street, left Saturday for her home in
Islesboro
Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Merrill and son.
Lismore Kidder, arrived Saturday from Dix
field, accompanying the remains of Frank G.
Nichols.
Miss Harriet N. Porter has sold her resi-
dence on Steamboat avenue to Capt. James B.
Parse of the steamer Texan of the American
Hawaiian Line.
Thomas Brown of the Boston fire depart
ment arrived Tuesday from Boston and is
spending two weeks with F. c. Kane and E. c.
Bond at their cottage a. Swan Lake.
Clement G. Adams will sell their entire
stock of mems furnishings goods at cost, and
other goods at greatly reduced prices, for thir-
ty days. Sale to begin Monday, May 22d.
Penobscot Lodge, K. of P, is papering,
painting and giving the J. W. Black house on
Main street, which they recently bought,
general overhauling. The house has been
rented to DR.. Sumner C. Pattee.
Capt. Nathan F. Gilkey will leave this week
for New York to take command of the sch.
Jacob M Haskell loading for Montevideo.
Capt. W. D. Hartman, her former commander,
will remain at his home at Prospect Ferry for
the voyage.
Maurice S. Deliver, who has been employed
VIE c, forl
the past five years as window trimmer, has
been promoted to have charge of the firms
large dry goods house in Syracuse, N. Y, as
head decorator.
Fred c. Kane and Edward Bond of Boston
arrived last Saturday and will spend two
weeks at their cottage at Lake Waubessa and
try their luck with the salmon and trout. Mr..
Kane is moterman on the Boston electric rail-
road system and Mr.. Bond is the Photographic
artist of the Boston Daily Globe.
The remains Of Frank G. Nichols, who died
in Dixfeld May 18th, arrived here Saturday
and funeral services were held at the summer ,,
residence of his brother-in-law George L. |
Merrill, Main street, Monday afternoon, Rev.
c. H. Mckinney officiating. Interment was in
the family lot in the village cemetery. An
obituary will appear in The Journal next week.
The ladies of the Knyvetta Rebekah Lodge |
and Anchor Chapter, o. E. S., who are earning
a new carpet for the lodge room, wish to ex-
press their appreciation of the material assist
ance received from former residents. Dona |
lions came from Colorado, Illinois, Virginia, |
Massachusetts, and from other towns in our
own State. 1t is always very gratifying to
know that our friends retain an interest in the |
institutions of their home town.
News was received last week of the death,
May 9Th. in Rockland Mass, of Nettie A., wife |
of Assessor Hermon L. Studley at her home on
Blanchard street, following surgical opera
ton to which she submitted Sunday. She was
native of Searsport, the daughter of the late
George L. Norris and was al years of age. She !
is survived by her husband and one son, Leslie
Norris Studley, both Of Rockland, Mass. The |
funeral was at Rockland May 18th.
Following are a few items from the account |
book of Capt. Green Pendleton, commander of /