The Republican journal., 1914-04-16
SEARSPORT.

John Kelley went to Thomaston Monday te
visit his father.
RaIph Felker has moved into the C. S. Shute
house on Pike avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene T. Savage of Bangor
spent Sunday in town.
Miss Frances E. Smith went to Bucksport
Tuesday to visit relatives.
L.R, Colcord, who has been visiting in New
York, has returned home.
George Lovett has moved into the M. j.
yerniI house on Main street.
Charles S. Shute is confined to his home on
Water street with severe cold.
The frost is coming out of the ground and
the roads are in very bad condition.
Can't. John W. Sweetser is in Bucksport,
where he had job at house painting.
Fred Kelsey of Portland was in town Friday
superintending the discharging of the steamer
Freida.
Five thousand barrels are being hauled from
the A. A. c. plant to the Coe-Mortimer plant
il. Belfast.
Charles Irving and wife are receiving con-
uratulations on the birth, April 9TH, OF
daughter.
Mvron f. Parker returned Wednesday from
Monroe. where he had been to attend the fu-
neral of his mother.
Mrs. Edmun Emo left Monday for Dorches-
ter. Mass. to attend the funeral of her sister.
Mrs. Arthur H. Grant
Joseph P. Curtis and wife of Everett, Mass,
we're guests of Capt. and Mrs. H. L. Perry on
Main street over Easter.
Mrs. Hattie A. Nichols, who has been board
ing with Capt. and Mrs. w. d. west Tor the
winter, returned home Monday.
Thomas R. Howe is boarding with Mr. and
Mrs. Dean Clement until the wound in his
hand shows signs of Improvement.
The steamers of the Eastern S. S. Co. began
their four trips per week Tuesday with the
steamers Camden and Belfast on the route.
The assessors are in session at their office on
Main street, taking an inventory of the town
and getting ready to make up the tax list.
Steamer Penobscot, Capt. Harding, arrived
April sth from Newport News with 200 tons
of coal to the Penobscot Coal & Wharf Co. at
Mack's Point.
Steamer Kanawha, Capt. Parmenter, arrived
April 18th from Newport News with 3, 700 tons
of coal to the Penobscot Coal & Wharf Co. at
Macks Point.
Mrs. N. F. Gilkey left last week to join her
husband, Capt. N. F. Gilkey of the ship Tim
randa, which arrived at Vineyard Haven re-
Gently from Montevideo for orders.
Steamer Frieda arrived April 9th from Sa-
bine Pass with 1000 tons of sulphur for the
Great Northern Paper Co. at Millinocket. She
finished discharging Friday and sailed for
Portland.
The fire department was called out at 6.45
a. m, Tuesday for fire at the residence of
Capt A. 7. Whittier on Park street. Clothing
had caught fire from an over-heated pipe and
the damage was about $50. No stream was turn
ed on as the fire was extinguished with buckets
Leroy D. Littlefeld has taken the agency for
the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. and small store
house is to be built at the 3. & A. R. R. station
for the storage of all grades of anthracite coal.
Capt H. G. Curtis, the former agent. was
obliged to give up the agency on account OF
his increasing business.
Miss Isabelle Closson, who is slowly conva-
lescing from serious illness, desires to send
sincere thanks to the teachers and pupils OF
intermediate grades at the village; also to the
nupils of the chols school, and her Sunday
school teacher, for the shower of post cards,
and mementoes received at Easter.
George C. Morrow, a native of Searsport.
died at his home in Brockton, Mass, April Sth,
aged 81 years. He was born in Searsport, the
son of the late George and Margaret (Craw-
ford) Morrow and passed his boyhood days in
Searsport. He was the junior member of the
plumbing firm Of Brown & Morrow in Brock
ton for the past 80 years. He was graduate
of the Castine Normal School, was principal
of the Searsport High school for several terms
and also superintendent of schools of Sears
port for time. He member of Massa-
soft Lodge, /. O. o. F., and Lincoln Command
ery, u. O. G. S. He is survived by his widow,
by four daughters, two sisters, Misses Annie
and Emma Morrow of Boston, and by two
brothers, Samuel and William Morrow of Col
orado.
CONGREGATIONAL Gu URCH NOTES. Through
out the morning service Easter Sunday there
was a joyous note of life and promise. A
simple effective decoration of pussyWiilows,
lilies and iris, was massed against the dark