The Republican journal., 1912-04-18
SEARSPORT.

Mrs A. M. Ross left Thursday for Boston.
All roads led to Belfast last Tuesday morn
ing.
Capt and Mrs A. M. Ross arrived Tuesday
from Boston.
Rev. and Mrs. ]. A. Corey left Friday for In
tervale, N. H.
W. R. Hunnewell of Pittsfeld was in town
Friday on business.
Michael Ward has been laid up for the past
week with bad cold.
David W. Nickels returned last week from
business trip to Boston.
Mrs. H. G. Curtis was in Bangor Wednesday
and Thursday, calling on friends.
Pike Bros loaded sch. Pemaquid last Thurs
day with spool edgings for Vinalhaven.
Miss Elnora Warehouse, who spent the win
Ter in Boston, returned home last week.
Fred Whittier has gone to Woodland, Wash
ington county, to work in paper bag factory.
The Kmelba Club will give bonnet sociable
in upper conference room this, Thursday,
evening.
Many of the vacant houses in town have
been engaged by summer visitors for the COM
ing season.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Montgomery of Bucks
port were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Black
over Sunday.
Barge Boylston finished discharging Thurs
day at the A. A. c. Co. plant and sailed for
WEYMOUTH Mass
The roads are getting in good condition. On
the Belfast road the travel is excellent for so
early in the spring.
Gilkey & Sons laundry is busy place now.
Everybody is getting their linen washed for
the warm weather.
Mr.. Sumner Stevens and Roscoe N. Porter
accompanied the remains of Miss Flora Chase
to Bangor last week.
Thirty went on the excursion on the steamer
Castine, Wednesday, to Belfast, to the opening
of the Colonial Theatre.
Potatoes are now soaring. Dealers are pay
ing $3.50 per bushel and retailing them at 45c.
per peck, or $3.50 per bushel.
Miss Lucy A. Sargent returned Friday from
Philadelphia, where she had been visiting her
sister, Mrs. James B. Parse.
Mrs Lizzie Allen returned home last week
after spending the winter in Orange, N. j.,
with her son, Andrew w. Allen.
Mrs. L. L. Nichols. who spent the winter in
Roxbury, Mass, returned home last week and
has opened her house on Water street.
Mice Pohocoa M RoSs u,ho hos booo
her mother, Mrs. A. M. Ross, on Main street,
returned Thursday to Montclair. NJ
There will be services at the M. E. church
next Sunday morning and Rev. James A. Weed,
the new pastor, will occupy the pulpit.
Steamer Kennebec, Capt. Wainwright, ar
rived Tuesday from Newport News with 8, 465
tons of coal to the Penobscot Coal Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. James W. Ford of Ceilings
wood, N. j., are receiving congratulations on
the birth of son, Alanson Blanchard Ford,
born April 9Th.
Barge Buck Mountain arrived April 10th
from Carteret with LOO tons of fertilizer tc
the A. A. C. Co. at Macks Point and finished
diseharging Monday.
MIS-. AMANDA SaLln, VINO cleo IN fhlaOel
phia, March 9th had many friends in Sears
port. She was the widow of Robert Catlin
proprietor of the Searsport House in 1857.
The fifth annual ball of Penobscot Lodge, K
Of P, No. 1876, will be held at Union Hall
Searsport, Wednesday, May sth. Music b.
Peavys orchestra; M. F, Parker floor manager
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Field and Mr. and Mrs H
W. Field OF Bangor, on their way from Belfas
to Bangor Sunday in their auto. put up at tn.
Searsport House for the night, their auto be
coming disabled east of Searsport village.
The steamers of the Eastern Steamship &c
are now making four trips per week, leaving
Searsport for Boston Mondays, Wednesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays and arriving from
Boston Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sat
urdays.
M. A. Cook believes in giving his customer
chance to buy at discount when money i
tight, and his bargain sales prove the state
ment. Next Saturday you can throw ava,
your old broken tumblers and buy new one
for "a cents per dozen.
An alarm of fire, rung in Friday at II a. m.
brought out the fire department to a gras
fire in the rear of the residences of Mrs. A. H
Nichols Mrs. c. N. Meyers and Mrs. Cor,
Dow. 1t was extinguished in short time be
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