The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-12-19
SEARSPORT.

W.T.. Wheaton went to Bangor Saturday on
business.
E. c. Pike was on a business trip in Wash
ington county last week.
Carl T. Green of Portland is the guest of w
T. Wheaton on Main street.
e Charles Downs left Monday for visit with
relatives in Boston and vicinity.
Sch Gold Hunter arrived Monday with
slaves and headings for Pike Bros.
Fred n Field and Carl Howard are on q
hunting trip in the vicinity Of Rowland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Ward returned Friday
from weeks visit with friends in Belfast.
William Reed of Stockton Springs has NOV
ed into the F. "A. Nye house .n east Main
street.
w. F. Runnells, former Searsport boy, is
slated as president of the common council OF
Newburyport Mass.
Sunday, the finest day of the winter, was
bright. sunny, clear and calm. The thermome-
ter registered so at noon.
Miss Maud E. Savory went to the Waldo
SuuutS hospital III DelldSI NoHudy " oiioSA
go an operation for appendicitis
Rev j. A. Weed will preach Christmas
sermon next Sunday from the text, "The
N.orld's Christ" There will be special Christ
mas music.
Steamer Georgian of the American Hawaiian
line, Capt. Charles M. Nichols, sailed from,
New York Friday for Norfolk to load coal for
San Francisco.
The new steamer Dakotan, of the American
Hawaiian line, Capt. ]. D. Sweetser, arrived at
Puerto Mexico, Dec. 7th, from New York on
her maiden trip.
The many friends of Fred M. Perkins, who
has been confined to his home on the Mount
Ephraim road, were pleased to see him down
street Saturday, very much improved.
Miss Maud l. Smith, who has been spending
two weeks vacation with her parents Mr..
and Mrs F. B. Smith, on Church street, re-
turned TO Charleston, Saturday, where she is
teaching.
Steamer kennebec, Capt. Parmenter, arriv-
ed Saturday with $500 tons of coal to the Pc
nobscot Coal Co. at Mack's Point. She hnlsh-
ed discharging Tuesday and sailed for New
port News.
The United States collier Brutus, Capt. Isaac
Carver, has been ordered to take coal from
Norfolk to Smyrna for the United States
cruisers Tennessee and Maryland stationed in
eastern waters.
Capt, James B. Parse of the steamer Mime
sotan of the American Hawaiian line, who has
been spending a week with his family on
Steamboat avenue, returned TO New York
Wednesday.
The Misses Hanson of Bangor are guests OF
DR.. and Mrs S. c. Pattee on N-ain street. On
Sunday they sang in the Congregational
church, adding much to the inpressiveness of
the service.
Mrs. Charles R. Bergneann of Boston is the
guest of Mrs. C. N. Meyers for few days.
Mrs. Bergneann is taking short vacation on
shore while Capt. Bergneann is making the
trip to Catania, Sicily, in his steamer, the L. G.
Stoddard.
Mrs. Henrietta Young entertained the Fri
DAY club last week with the following present:
Mrs. Amos Nichols, Mrs. W. V. Nichols, Mrs.
D. w Nichols Mrs. B. F. Colcord, Mrs. W. h.
Goodell, Mrs. N. F. Gilkey, Mrs. James P. But
man, Miss Ida Curtis, Mrs. John Frame. Mrs
w. V. Nickels will be the hostess this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Kelloch have issued In
vitations to the wedding of their daughter
Miss EVE Maxcy, and George Renfrew, son of
Mr., and Mrs. Charles Wilson of Bangor. The
ceremony will take place at the Keloch resi-
dence on Christmas day at noon. Miss Kelloch
is the junior operator in the Waldo Telephone
company exchange in Searsport and a most
popular young woman. Mr.. Wilson makes his
home in this town and is highly respected and
has many friends.
The ship Abner Coburn, built in Bath in 1882
which has been laid up at Oakland, Calf, for
the past two years, has been bought by o. P
Brown of Seattle and will be put into commits
sion The Coburn when new was commanded
by the late Capt George A. Nichols of Sears
port, who killed by sea boarding the
ship While running in gale of wind off the
Cape of Good Hope, June 20, 1897, while on
the passage from New York to Hong Kong
and buried at sea. The ship was brought
nome ny CdpL uelflH IdTh, lu6 uESC
also a native of Searsport, and who now re-
sides in Park
Peter Ward, who is now in his S5th year, is
the only surviving member of the crew of ship
carpenters which worked on the ship John
Bunyan, built in Master John Carver's ship
yard in 1850 for the late Capt. Amos Nichols
The ship fell over on the stocks while under
construction and was righted by Master Lowe.
a Boston rigger, who died few years ago.
The Bunyan ended her days on the Harding
Lodges, near Boston light,as a coal barge. Mr.
Ward is now hale and hearty, having retired
from shipyard life when the steamer Amadis
was constructed in 1894, and which ended this
industry in Searsport that had continued very
successfully for over eighty years.
The Christmas sale and entertainment at
the Methodist vestry last Thursday afternoon
and evening was unusually successful, $1O8
being taken. The vestry was very prettily
decorated with Christmas reds and greens
The following ladies' presided over the tables:
The tree of mystery, Mrs. G. N. Meyers, Miss
Blanche Sweetser; fancy work, MIS-. E. W.
Gilkey, Mrs. R. N. Porter; dolls. Miss Mabel
Gordon; post cards and pitchers, Mrs. E. C.
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