The Republican journal., 1912-03-14
SEARSPORT.


ningham in another column.
Mrs F. H. Cleaves has been confined to the
house the past week with bad cold.
Miss EVE Kalock left Thursday for Rock
land, called there by the death of friend.
Elder Herbert Tozier and Raymond Hall
went to Newport Saturday to visit relatives.
Mrs H. NJ Bailey and children, who have
been visiting in Belfast, returned home Mon
day.
The Friday club met with Miss Ida Curtis
March Sth, and a very pleasant afternoon was
spent.
Pike Bros loaded the schooner Chase, Capt
Buckingham, with spool wood edgings Friday
for Vinalhaven.
C. H. Monroe and C. L. Bailey returned Sat-
urday from Boston, where they attended the
automobile show.
Barge Boylston arrived Saturday from
Weymouth with 1900 tons of fertilizer to the
A. A C. Co. at Mack's Point
Robert Dyer of Portland was in town last
week, the guest of his mother, Mrs. Emma
Dyer, on Steamboat avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs Cecil Paine and daughter Vir-
ginia, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs L..
M. Sargent, returned to their home in Bath
last week.
Do not forget the pie supper by the Ladies
Aid Of the nj. E. church this, Thursday, even
ing in the vestry of the church. Admission,
% cents.
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Kendall arrived Saturday
from Worcester, Mass, called here by the
serious illness of Mr.. Kendall's mother, Mrs
Mary R. Perkins, on Main street.
H. Sullivan has golden neck bantam hen
which he bought of Joseph Porter when
chicken, in 1894 and which is IL years Old.
The hen laid her usual quota of eggs during the
season of 1911.
The "Sons of Rest" have all wintered finely,
having passed through this cold winter with
out frost bite, and are now engaged i'll pack
ing their seed-spuds in oat chaH in warm
chambers for sprouting.
NJ A. Cooks Saturday sales are very sue
cessful Last Saturday he sold 100 of the coat
hangers advertised in The Journal before q
o'clock This week he will sell linen envelopes
at half price. and fill mail orders.
A Republican caucus will be held at Union
Hall, Friday, March 18th. at p. M, to choose
delegates to the Republican State convention
at Bangor April 10th, and to the third district
congressional convention to be held at Bangor
April 10th.
Knights of the buck saw are getting to be
thing of the past. There are now four ma
chimes saving cordwood in TIE village. A few
of the old veterans still hold on to the buck
saw, as they think life is too short with saw
ing-machine.
Searsport deep-water shpmasters who have
closely followed the stories of the loss of the
ship Erne do not take any stock in the story
that Capt Pickett abandoned the ship in
boat, but think they were swept overheard by
the heavy waves which swept over the ship
George Blodgett, who died in Bucksport re-
Gently, was well known in Searsport forty
years ago, when he used to visit here quite
often with his uncle, the late Rev. Stephen
Thurston, and he also had business relations
with the late Daniel Sullivan, to whom he sold
leather for many years.
Schooner Lizzie Lane, Capt. A, G. Closson,
which has been hauled up at Long Cove during
the winter was towed to Cape Jellison Friday.
Some time curing the winter while frozen in
the ice she parted both chains, leaving about
thirty fathoms on each anchor, which will be
secured later in the season.
There will be Democratic caucus at Union
Hall, Saturday afternoon March 18th, at 2
o'clock, to choose three delegates to attend the
State convention at Augusta, March 18th, and
to choose town committee and transact
any other business that may properly come be-
fore said caucus.
Capt. W. R. Gilkey & Son are to open a
laundry in the C. o. Sawyer & Co. building on
Mount Ephraim road. This building is located
on the site of the Josiah Porter blacksmith
shop which was built about 1925, and where
MIR. Porter continued business until 1856, when
he moved to Grinnell. Iowa, selling out his
business to the late Joseph w. Wiswell, who
continued in the business until he retired.
Three of Sheriff jenkins deputies were in
town Saturday night and searched several
Italian camps Tor ardent SplrltS, Wnlcn nave
been reported to have been on sale at the
Point for some time. Booze is getting to be a
scarce article in Searsport when officers are in
search of the liquid. Occasionally parties go
out of town and buy the article out of bond,
and sometimes, not knowing its strength and
muscular attainments, do not handle it with
dis erection and come out second best in the
wrestling contest.
The L. B. B. met Thursday, March 7th, with
Mrs. Alice Shute and the usual pleasant after
noon was spent. Mrs. B. F. Colcord had the
highest score and was presented with dust
pan. The guests were Mrs. E. D. P. Nckels,
Miss Ida Curtis, Miss Alice Curtis, Mrs. H. G.
Curtis, Mrs. E. W. Gilkey, Mrs. o. C. Atwood,
Mrs F. K Sawyer, Mrs F. A. Nye, Mrs. Fred
Smith, Miss L. A. Sargent Mrs. J W. Black,
Mrs. L. M. Sargent, Mrs. W. M. Parse, Mrs. w.
H. Goode, Mrs. S. M. Weber, Miss A. N. Car
yer, Mrs John Davis, Miss Mabel Griffin, Mrs.
B. F. Colcord, Miss Aida Sargent. The next
meeting with be with Mrs. H. G. Curtis.
OBITUARY. William Cunningham, one of
our best known and most respected citizens,
passed away at his home on Main street,
Wednesday evening, March 9Th, from heart
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