The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-04-17

easterly sides remains where it was
originally placed. Many years after
wards the bank on the High street side
was taken away and the cellar converted
into grocery store. In no long process
of time it became the favorite resort of a
portion of the population whose stomachs
struck the hours of II A. M. and P. M.
as regularly as the clocks did; if there
ever was any perceptible difference of
time it was generally ascertained that
the clock had lost few minutes.
There are many queer incidents con-
nected with this ancient locality. remem-
bered, doubtless, by many still living. 1t
was here that the logical butcher
"agreed" to the argument of his ad-
versary, and in proof of it knocked him
down; it was here that the bluff old sea-
captain declared that, "by Kyst-there
never was a time when he had more
liquor aboard than he could carry" to
which startling assertion brother of
the craft replied that it might be so, but
that he had seen him many time when
he would have made better Roadway if
he had gone twice for it; it was here
that for many year the hat was
.thumped, the book ''cut," and the
copper Clipped" it was here that the
Yorick of those days, "a fellow of in
finite jest, of most excellent fancy"
was wont to ''set the table on a roar"
it was here that the courteous request
was so often made, "Wait moment, if
you please; the Captains coming; and
it was here that once upon time a
worthy citizen, yielding to the influences
of good fellowship, imblbed a sufficient
quantity of motive power to carry him
home, and through his wife's loom,
carrying away the web with him, and
in reply to the reproachful intimation of
the good woman that be was drunk,
apologized for himself and attempted to
pacify her by saying, don't say word,
wife; it didn't cost me a cent" But
time would fail to recount, or even al
lude to 1.-THE of the "reminiscences that
cluster around the locality; once the
scene of so much wit and merriment-
nova meat shop! "To what base uses
we may return, HoratioW
Next westwardly from the Telegraph
building, on the same side of Main street,
stood one story dwelling house built by
DR.. John S. Osborn, father of the late
Alonzo Osborn, in 1885; it was the first
framed house erected on Main street; it
stood there until 1924 when it was re-
moved after passing through many vicis-
STUDIES, and the Eagle Hotel, now the
American House, was erected on its site.
1t is now standing, a portion of it at
least, occupied as wheelwright shop on
the street running from Hayford block
to High street.
The next building on Main street west
erly from the Osborn house, on the same
side of the street, was the house former
ly owned and occupied by Judge Crosby;
now occupied by his son, VIM. G. Crosby.
1t was erected in 1903 by John Milliken,
who sold it before it was finished and re-
moved to Davistown; it was first occu-
pied as dwelling in the spring of 1905.
The next to that on the same side of
the road, was log house on the farm
now owned by Mr.. Josiah Mitchell, for
merly known as the Hartshorn place; it
was the last survivor of the log houses
that stood in the vicinity of the village.
On the western side of Main street there
was no building between the Hopkins
house, now the Howes store, and a log
house on the farm now owned by Mr..
Franklin Banks; formerly the Campbell
place; distance about one mile.
Returning to Nesmith's Corner, next
below it on the same side of Main street
stood two stores, one owned by Thaddeus
Hubbard, and occupied by Mr. Derby as
store and dwelling, the other by James
Cassln; Cassin remained here but short
time; Hubbard, better known in later
days as Doctor Hubbard, remained here
long time; finally went to Norridge-
wock, in 1916 and died there not far
from 1858. The warfare of life finished,
it is to be hoped that he has found good
neighborhood; for it was his frequent
complaint in life that he had always had
the misfortune to live in bad one. The
stores occupied by Samuel S. Hersey
and E. & L. L. Robbins stand where
these stores stood; they were both de-
stroyed by fire in the winter of 1929. At
the time of the fire they were occupied
by Frederic A. Lewis and James B.
N orris; in the chambers were the law
offices of Judge Crosby and his son,
whose libraries We're entirely consumed.
Next below the Cassin store stood
large two story building, used for the
twofold purpose of store and dwelling,
erected by Capt. Samuel Pierce of the
Belfast militia, of whose military career
mention may be made hereafter. Some
years later it was occupied by Ladd &
Morrill,, firm which existed for many
years and was dissolved in 1922; during
their occupancy, in January 1921, it was
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