The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-04-10
SEARSPORT.

Frank E. Whitcomb & Son.
Mrs. H. G. Curtis went to Bangor Tuesday
for short visit with friends.
Mrs. ]. F. Butman is visiting relatives in
Boston and Manchester, N. H.
Joseph P. Curtis arrived Saturday from
Everett, Mass for short stay.
Mrs. ]. S Dyer of Brockton. Mass, is the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. c. H Stevens.
Eugene Porter returned Saturday from a
short business trip to Worcester. Mass.
The snow storm, April 4th. gave US about
four inches of damp snow, which is now all
gone.
Miss Eudavilla Cleaves will have millinery
opening on Tuesday, Wednesday and THURSDAY
of next week.
winter in Florida are expected to arrive home
in few days.
Miss Annie Gilkey returned Saturday f.om
visit with her sister, Mrs. P. B. Blanchard, in
Brooklyn, N. Y
Ames q Littlefield sawed with their machine
81 cords of wood for j. B. Ames on Main street
last Thursday in As minutes.
Frank l. Mortland returned Friday from
Portland, where he served as a member of the
federal grand jury last week.
Steamer Edison Light, Capt Mech, finished
discharging April 1st at the Penobscot Coal
dock and sailed for Newport News.
Boney R. Elkins and Miss Nellie E. Dorr,
both of Searsport were married March 18th at
the Cong'l parsonage by Rev. c. H. Mckinney.
Mr.. w. Shipley of tn Hubbard Fertilizer
Co has been nursing feon on his thumb for
the past five weeks and it has been very pain
full.
George L. Merrill and family are expected
to arrive from Dixfeld in about two weeks and
will reside here in the future at their home on
East Main street.
Stephen Gard has bought the John Jeski
house on Mt. Ephraim road, formerly the
Huldah Bowen house. Mr.. Jesk and family
will move to Boston.
W. r. Glkey & Son have bought new auto
mobile, a Detroter, and will run the same for
PteSSiSei SCI VIE, OaliSJ UeLWSeH koedTSpCTl
and Belfast the coming summer.
A. E. Trundy & Sons sawmi is a very busy
place at the present time. A large crew is
employed and the logs are fast being made in
to lumber, which is piled up in the mill yard.
Several of our local fishermen went to Swan
Lake Saturday to try their luck with salmon
and trout as the ice was nearly all out of the
lake. Several fine catches of salmon were
made Sunday.
Steamer Sc; comet, Capt Smith, arrived
April 30 from Newport News with $500 tons
of coal to the Penobscot Coal Co. at Mack's /
Point. She finished dscharging Saturday and
sailed for Norfolk.
L. F. French of Winterport, former pro-
prietor of the hotel at Northport, has leased
the Searsport House aod arrived Monday to
put the house in order. He will open for bust
ness in Jew days
The engagement is announced of GUY E.
leighton, former tonsorial artist of this
town. now of Providence. K. l., to Miss Ger
trude ". Cooke of Providence. The marriage
is to take place April 2lst in Providence.
George A. Bowen and daughters, Miss Mil
dred l. Bowen and Miss Gertrude E. Bowen.
leave today, Thursday, for the west. Miss
Gertrude will stop in New Haven, Ct, to re-
sumo her position as teacher in the public
schools
Alfred Stinson, James B. Sweetser and Cliff
ton Nhittum, members of the 18th Maine
Regiment, the only survivors of the regiment
In town, will attend the 5Qth anniversary of
the Battle of Gettysburg, to be held July 1st,
End, Bird and Attn, 1918
DopGE's CORNER. H. Pea oody Farnham re-
turned to Salem April 2nd after short visit in
town Harrle-te NJ. Nickerson. who has been
quite i'll, is slowly gaining Daisy Stevens of
Frankfort has been helping her mother, Mrs.
I. D. Nickerso4, during her illness. Eugene
Nlckerson, has returned rom Sandypont.
where ne had been employed with his teams
....LIndley Nickerson arrived from Boston last
week and Is visiting his mother, Mrs Anna
Nickerson. lis health is very poor. Swan
Lake is open once more and several fine fish
have been taken.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH NOTES The scrip
tute reading Sunday, April 9Th, was from the
oth chapter Romans, and the text Mark I:l6-
20. The scene described in the text is told
with but little change by all the Gospel writ
ers. Walking by the Galliean shore in the
early morning Christ Simon and Andrew
his brother and James and John busy with
with their nets, for they were fishermen. All
night in their little boats they had toiled near
the shore unsuccessfully. Now with the hope
of better luck the following night they
were patiently washing and mending their
nets. Seeing how useless mad been their
labor. Christ joined them. Launch out into
the deep and let down your nets 1t was
against the judgment of the tired men to !
again push off their boats and let down their
freshly washed and mended cts into a sea
that had yielded nothing But in the command
they dimly recognized authority and obeyed
And when they had done this the nets were so
heavy with fish that scarcely could they be
dragged to shore. Success beyond their fond
est dreams had to these men at the
moment of deepest failure. And while the
four partners marveled at their good fortune,
Jesus asks them to leave all and follow Him.
Just as they had trustngly turned their boats
into deep water, they obeyed Him now and