The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-01-30
SEARSPORT.

Mrs. Louise Bailey anu son Oioi Civ ~
Bangor Monday.
Mrs. Nettie Dyer returned friday 1roti
visit i'll Rockland.
Miss Mildred E. Bowen went to Boston Mon
day for short stay
Mr.. and Mrs J. H. Duncan returned frioas
from business trip to Boston,
Miss l.. W. Edwards is confined 10 hef no'"o
on Water street with severe Cold
Can't. and Mrs H. G. Curtis we're in Bangor
over Sunday, returning home Monday
Nv. Brock is candidate for district IN
s,.ctor of hip hwavs IN Waldo county.
A,oustns Walker is in the employ of J. Muir
nhv & Son, during the illness of MIR. Murphy
family.
uanrv " Colson, who has been confined to
tho honsa Nv illness the past week, is able to
be out again.
II Hamilton. who has been confined to the
house by illness for the past ten days. is apie
to be out again.
George Ausplund head hostler at Capt. w.
X. Gilkey's stable, has left the employ ana
gone to Boston.
Frank w. Smart, who came here with the
remains of his father. D. R. Smart returned u
Dorchester Thursday.
William A. Bowler, the village truckman'
who has been confined to his nome Win pheu-
monia, is now improving.
VITO. Runnels, Esq, who has been con-
fned 10 his home with the grip for the past
week, is now improving.
Mr.J. b. Ames, who has been confined to MS
home on Main street for the past week WITH d
severe cold, is improving.
True G. Trundy, who died in Belfast friday
was formerly proprietor Of the oearspor'
House and was we'll known here.
The Searsport basket ball team went TO oas-
tine Saturday evening and were defeated 10y
the local team by a score OF " to H.
John H. Montgomery and daughter Edna OF
Bucksport were in town Saturday, the guests
of Postmaster and Mrs. j. W. Black on Main
street.
Cant. Joseph N. Putnam celebrated his e9th
birthday Jan. oath. The captain IS hale and
hearty and is to be seen on the streets OF 'he
village daily.
Can't. Wilson N. West, who has been serious
ly i'll with pneumonia, is improving slowly al
this writing and his many friends hope Tor
his speedy recovery.
The coal and fertilizer plants at Mack's Point
are at standstill on account Of the strike on
the B. & A. K. R. 1t is hoped the strike Will
be settled the coming week.
Robert Spauding, clerk at the Searsport
House. has gone to North Searsport to visit
MS mother, after which he Nill go to Boston,
where he has employment for the next sea-
son.
The remains of Dominicus R, Smart, for
n1er resident who died in Dorchester, Mass
Jan. 18TH were brought here and inferred IN
the family lot in the village cemetery Jan.
22nd His age was II years and months.
The weather here for the past week has
been of the April kind, the thermometer not
getting below 20 for the week and was up to
so above in the middle OF the day on several
occasions, and the snow is completely gone.
me lISIuitLlStei leg 4SeGi GU ~ avs -'iN'-
day morning at o'clock and 10 above Tuesday
morning at O'Clock. a variety of weather
this winter which has been agreeable to all
classes at times. Snow is greatly needed to
start business in the wood and lumber traffic
At the n1ual meeting of Mariners Lodge,
F. & A. NJ, Jan. zlst, the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year: John Muir
DIV. W. NJ; Elmer Webster, s. w: e. R. Will
son, j. W, A S. Trundy, S. D.; Ernest Muir
ply, J. D Harry E. Bangs, Sec'y.; W. A, COL
Son, Treasurer; George 2. Carter, Tyler; Harry
L. Peavey. S. S George NJ. Towle, j. S.
The officers of Sears Lodge, No, 81, I. 0 O.
F.. were installed last Friday evening by D. D.
G M NcMahan and D. D. q. NJ. Littlefeld Of
Belfast assisted by he following Past Noble
Grands of Sears Lodge: Augustus L. Mosman,
James E. Wentworth Webster X. Staples.
The officers installed were: Walter Towers, N.
G.; Albert Kane, v. G.; Augustus Mosman.
Warden; Webster Staples, Conductor; Henry
Colson, R. s. N. G; Ralph Mortand, L. s. N.
G.; George Sargent, Rec. Secy; Charles Per-
kins, Fin. Sec'y.; Fred Perkins, Treasurer;
Ernest Gray, Il. S. V. S.; Maurice Nicker-
son, L S. v G.; j. E. Wentworth, Chap
lain; John Davis, l. e.; Ansel Auspland, o. g.;
John Frame, R. S. s.; Ernest Robertson, l.. S.
S. Remarks were made by Brothers McMa-
han Littlefeld, Mckinney, Gregory, Frame,
Treat Wentworth and others, after which
bountiful supper was served in the dining
room.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH NOTES. The an
them rendered at the morning worship Jan.
26th was Light and Life Immortal" by Fred
eric Field Billiard. As Scripture lesson Mr..
Mckinney read part of the 10Th chapter of
Genesis 1t is the story of Lot entertaining
the two angels, their warning to him to flee
from the doomed city with his family, and the
subsequent destruction of the unrighteous Lot
and his two daughters escape, but his wife
looking back becomes 'pillar of salt" The
text, Luke 1892 Remember Lots wife," was
Christ's warning to the disciples lest they too,
lose the promised city. He did not wish re-
membered the mere fact that because of dis
obedience to the command, Turn not back"
the woman was stricken, and gradually be-
coming coated with saline par ticles remained
a monument of indeciSion. The cause of this