The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-11-13
SEARSPORT.

SEAKSPOKI.
B. H. Mudgett of Belfast was in town Mon.
day on business.
Rev. C. H. Mckinney returned Saturday
from three weeks vacation.
Miss Joanna C. Colcord of New York is visit
ing her mother. Mrs. L. A. Colcord.
Charles F. Treat arrived Friday from New
burgh. N. Y, and returned Monday.
Mr. and Mrs Lincoln R. Colcord and daugh-
ter Inez arrived Friday from Portland.
John Larsen of New Sweden is visiting bis
son. Augustus Larsen. on Mount Ephraim road.
Mrs. Frank c. Hamilton and children. who
have been visiting in Bangor, returned Satur-
day.
Steamer L. v. Stoddard. Capt. Bughman.
finished dlscharging Friday and sailed for Nor
folk.
W. E. Closson and family have moved into
the Grace Wentworth house at Park for the
winter.
George A. Mitchell of Togus was in town
Tuesday visiting his mother, Mrs. Mary E..
Mitchell.
J. F. Spellman's pile driver arrived Sunday
to make some repairs the wharf of the
Eastern Steamship corporation.
Steamer Penobscot Capt. Nickerson, arriv-
ed Saturday from Newport News with $3.50
tons of coal to the Penobscot Coal Co.
Capt. and Mrs. F. W. Treat left Monday for
Newburg, N. Y. where they will spend the
winter with their son. Charles F. Treat.
Samuel Putnam of Preseue Isle was in town
Thursday and Friday the guest of his uncle,
Capt Joseph N. Putnam. Main street.
C, A, Powers of Fort Fairfield was in town
last week and is buying potatoes of local
farmers which he is shipping to Boston by
rail-
Sch. Fendleton Sisters, Capt. Small, arrived
Friday from Baltimore with 1900 tons of fer
tilizer to the Hubbard Fertilizer Co., at Mack's
Point.
Capt. Frank l. Pendeton. who underwent an
operation at the Carney Hospital "a Boston, is
reported, at last accounts, as getting along
finely.
W. F. Runnells of Newburyport, Mass, was
in town last week visiting his parents, Hon.
and Mrs W. T. c. Runnells, on Mount Eph-
RAM road.
Steamer Seaconnet, Capt. Carter, arrived
Friday from Newport News with 8, 700 tons OF
coal to the Penobscot Coal Co. at Mack's Point,
finished dscharging Saturday and sailed for
Norfolk.
Mrs. ]. T. Erskine and daughter, Miss Har-
riet NJ. Erskine, left Monday for Waban,
Mass, where they will visit Mr.. and Mrs.
Dana M. Dutch for week. They will then go
to New York to spend the winter with Dr..
James P Erskine.
Barge Kennebcc finished discharging Thurs
day at the Penobscot coal dock. The Kenne-
pee was formerly the ship Kennebec, built in
Bath, Maine, in 1888 by the late William Rog-
ers for Capt. Aanson Ford of Searsport and is
2,1z6 tons She was sailed by Capt. Ford until
she was sunk in the harbor of San Pedro, Cal,
when she was sold to San Francisco parties.
Association week held last week with the
Methodist church brought together large
number of clergymen of the Maine confer
ence, some forty or more having been present
for the whole part of the time. Interesting
programs were given daily. Tuesday night
Nov 4th, Miss Cora Stanwood Cobb, daughter
of the late DR.. Darius Cobb of Newton, Mass,
gave an illustrated lecture on Rome-The
Eternal City, illustrating it with slides made
iron. her own pictures, collected while in Italy.
The lecture was most interesting and was at
tended by large number from the other
church and people of the town in general.
Wednesday, Nov. 9TH, the program was as
follows: Paper The Man Behind the Gun, Rev.
Thomas Whiteside of Orono; paper, The Eng
fish Style in the Pulpit, Rev. A. J. Lockhart of
Winterport; The Book of Job, Rev. C. Z. Brom-
ley of North Brewer; book analysis, The In
side of the Cup, Rev. George F. Durgin, d. D.,
formerly of Boston, now of the Bucksport
Seminary; book analysis, The Theology of the
Preacher, Rev. C. A. Purdy, Orrington.
/ CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH NOTES. After
the annual vacat ION of the pastor, church ser
vices were resumed Sunday, November 9th.
In his words of greeting, Mr.. Mckinney spoke
of the need al this the beginning of the
church year of remuneration. He also spoke
of the stress put, in all the religious gather
ings that he had attended, pom the necessity
of greater effort of the churches in appeal
ing to the young. The subject of the sermon
was, The Nation and the Church. their rela-
ton to each ether" The scripture read was
from the eight chapter of Zachariah. Two