The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-12-03
SEARsPORT.

Can't Chas. n, Nichols left Monday on
business trip to New York.
Capt. H. G. Curtis and E. c. Pike left Mon
day for Boston on business.
A. L. Sweetser Of Milo was at home over
Thanksgiving with his family.
Alfonzo Cunningham moved Saturday from
the Thayer house on Leach street to MS nome
on the Mortland Road.
Mrs. Frank Dexter of Dorchester, Mass.' ar
rived Tuesday to visit her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George P. Carter.
Barge Cumru arrived Sunday from Phila-
delphia with 5000 tons of coal to the +. Z. q
w. Co. at Mack's Point.
Miss Annie G. Gilkey spent Thanksgiving
with her parents, Capt. and Mrs. W. X. Gilkey'
returning to Bangor Monday.
Mrs. Prudie M. Putnam left Monday for New
York, where she has an engagement IN one Oh
the Broadway theaters for the winter.
Charles o. Sawyer, sealer of weights and
measures, inspected the scales and measures
of all business houses in town Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Parker and son OF Bel
mont Mass, spent Thanksgiving with Mr.. and
Mrs. E. L. Savory on Mount Ephraim road
Capt. A, G. Closson arrived Tuesday from
Rr;dpenort Ct. where he has hauled his
schooner, the Lizzie Lane, up for the winter
Raymond Lord, who is clerk in Beans drug
store in Gardiner, Me-, spent Thanksgiving
with Mr.. and Mrs ]. B. Sweetser on Nichols
street.
Miss IPronel Gilkey, who is teaching In pup
lie schools in Bucksport. spent Thanksgiving
with her mother, Mrs. W. V. Nichols, on East
Main street.
Miss Marguerite Butman, who is attending
the N. E. Conservatory of Music In bos'oh'
spent Thanksgiving with her parents capt.
and Mrs. j. P. Butman.
Sunday was one of the most beautl1ul oays
in November, the thermometer registering w
above during the middle of the day. The sno"
has nearly all disappeared.
Miss Laura Trundy returned to Bangor Mon
day after spending her Thanksgiving vacatioii
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ai1efo T.
Trundy in East Main street.
George L, Merrill and Chester l.. Bailey have
bought the stock of the A. E. Nlckerson 70
and will continue in the grain and grocery
business at the same stand.
William Murphy of Boston, who has been
operating the boarding house of the A. A. 20.
at Mack's Point, left Thursday for Boston and
has been succeeded by W. E. Closson of this
place.
A surprise party was given to M. F. Parker,
the tonsorial artist, Monday evening by
thirty of his friends, it being his 4lst birthday.
Supper was served and very pleasant even
ing was spent.
Steamer Carolyn, Capt. Calhoun, which has
been bringing coal to the P. c. W. 20. Tor
the past year. has been chartered to load cot
ton for Europe and is now at Savannah Ga,
taking in cargo.
Thomas R. Howe and Mrs. Aires, who have
been spending several weeks at the Howe
homestead on Prospect street, left Friday tor
Hayerhill, Mass, where Mr.. Howe has en-
ployment for the winter as an inside painter
and decorator.
The annual Christmas Sale conducted by the
Ladies' Aid of the Methodist Episcopal Church
will be held in the church vestry on Friday,
Dec. 18th. This sale of aprons, fancy WORK.
baskets. and 10 cent articles, cooked food
and CANDY, will open at p. m. and there will
be an entertainment at 8. o'clock under the
able management of Miss Gladys Nash
DopGE's CORNER. Mr.. and Mrs. W. j. Mat
tbews spent Thanksgiving with their daughter
Mrs. Ernest Nickerson, and IF mily, in Port
land. and are now visiting their daughter
Mrs DR.. Hills, and family, in South Natlck
Mass. The funeral of Horace Maddox took
place at the church last Saturday morning,
Rev, Oscar Barnard officiating. Mrs. Maddox
and family have the sympathy of their neigh"
bors and friends in the loss of kind husband
and father.
In the sketch of the bark Alena last week
we should have given her commander, Capt.
Everett Staples, as of Stockton, instead OF
Searsport. although Capt. Staples was we'll
and favorably known here. having had three
vessels built here by the late William McGitt
yery. as follows: bark ]. B. Johnson in 1850.
bark Alena IN lcO4, duu tuC SiiP ooahuOA -
Hersey in 1865 Ee also commanded for sew
eral wears the ship Charter Oak, which was
huilt in the John Carver shipyard in 1854 for
yapt. Phineas Pendleton and foundered when
a coal barge off Montauk when she was 40
years. old.
We clip the following from the Brighton
Allston Item" of Nov 2lst:
The second meeting of the Frederick A.
Whitney Club took place on Wednesday after
noon. Over one hundred mothers were pres
ent and the meeting was most interesting
one. Miss Martin. the senior member 81. OF the
teaching staff, conducted the meeting The pro.
gram opened with singing by the children OF
the third grade Miss Brooks class: and these l;.s
little folks delighted mothers and friends with
their songs Danny Goodell, the class soloist,
with wonderful voice for child of her years.
sang 30 Where and o Where Does Ny High
land Laddie Dwell' and every note OF the song
was true and clear.
%1OO Reward $500