The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-01-29
SEARSPORT.


prenarations are being made at Mack's
Point for the storage OF about eU'ooV tons o.
bituminous coal.
Sch Northland, Capt. Saunders. finished dis
charging Jan. 2Sth at the Penobscot coal docH
and was towed to Rockland.
Mira Iavona Williams and daughter. Mrs. =
w Gi,kev. who have been visiting relatives IN
BOSTON and Derry, N. H., have returned nome
R.R.&L Co. barge No. 8 arrived Jan. END
from, E,izabethport with 1000 tons of coal to
the Penobscos Coal & Wharf Go. at MACK
Point.
scbooner Pendleton Sisters, Capt Small, ar
rived Jan. 22nd from Baltimore with l,6OV tons
If fertilizer to the Hubbard Fertilizer Co. al
Mack's Point.
Steamer Penobscot, Capt. Harding, arrivee
ian. 22nd from Newport News with S,7OO toni
of coal to the Penobscot Coal & Wharf Co. al
Mack's Point
Steamer F. ], Lisman, Capt. Smith, arrived
Sunday from Newport News with 3,Seo tons OF
coal to the Penobscot Coal 4 Wharf 20. at
Mack's Point.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene P. Carver of Bro 'k-
line Mass. announce the engagement OF their
daughter, Frances A., to Mr.. Frank Brooks OF
Seattle, Wash.
A. F. Mathews, one of Searsports aged ana
most respected citizens, has been conhneo 10
his home for the past week by Illness MT.
Mathews isnow 80 years of age and mas oeeh
in failing health for some time.
DoncE,s CORNER. Ira Veazie and Geo. +.
Chapin filled their ice houses last week..
Mr., and Mrs. Charles Gray of Prospect Visiteo
Mr.. and Mrs. W. J. Matthews the last Oh 'he
week. Ira Veazie and ]. W. Smart snippeo
potatoes to Boston Monday.
Manley Foote returned Friday from Brooks
where he had been visiting his aged sister,
Mrs. Sarah Huff Mrs. Huff is % years OF age
and in failing health, and she and Mr.. Foo'e are
the only surviving members of the family OF
the late Stephen Foote of Searsport
The MANY friends in Searsport of Capt. Geo.
Carlisle of the Inflated schooner Prescott
Palmer were much pleased to hear that ne nao
been rescued by steamer and landed at Der
muda after the abandonment OF the schooner
at sea. Capt Carlisle had visited Searsport
manv times in the Prescott Palmer and DIS
charged his cargoes of coal at Macks Point
The officers elect of Searsport Royal Arcn
Chapter we're installed Wednesday night JAN
2lst. Past High Priest, Clifton Whittum IN
stalIipg High Priest Wentworth, after which
the latter performed the ceremonies. Inc
officers are: P ]. E. Wentworth; king, James
Duncan; scribe, William M. Parse; Capt. OF
host, Clifton Whittum; principal soJourner'
Wilson Colson: Sec James P. Nichols; Treas,
A. H. Nichols. master of the first veil, H. y.
Holmes; second, L. M. Sargent; thlrd' b. r
Colcord; sentinel, George Carter. banquet
followed.
OBITUARY. The many friends in town OF
Hiram Nj. Bailey were panied to hear Monday
of his death which occurred at his home in
Roxbury. Mass, Jan. 18th, at the age OF 90
wears. MIR. Bailey hard working INDUS
trious Young man and was employed for sever
al wears in Pike Bros. spool MILL and by the
Penobscot Coal & Wharf Co. at Mack's 70 mt.
Going to Boston he entered the employ OF the
Boston Street Railway Co., where he was en-
Moved until his death. He was the son of the
late Francis and Marcia A. Bailey of Monroe.
He is survived by three Notwithstanding
Bailey of Waldoboro Chester M Bailey OF
Searsport and Louis Bailey of kingman.
George A. Sweeney, chairman of the Board
of Selectmen of Attlehoro, Mass, and Tor 10
wears a member of that board, will not be
candidate for re- election at the March town
meeting. He recently went to st. petersburg,
Fla, for his health and writes from there that
his physician and family unite in opposing MS
further continuance in politics. Mr.. Sweeney
was born in Searsport and went to Attleboro
about 40 years ago. Despite the fact that he
is Democrat and the town is strongly he
publican he has always proved winner at
election time Besides being Selectman for
wears Mr.. Sweeney at one time assistant
chief engineer of the Fire Department. From
1893 to 1897, during President Clevelands Ad-
ninistration. he served the town as post
. master He is a member of several secret
societies.
Searsport people the country over are en-
loving he moving pictures made last summer
in this vicinity by the Edison Co. One young
man in Milwaukee had the pleasure of seeing
his father and dog walking across brook at
Swan Lake: another in Brooklyn saw picture
of Searsport's main street, and his own partic-
ular chum passing along To make it still
more realistic the aforesaid chum looked over
his shoulder as he went off the screen and
grinned, as it seemed to the Searsporter in
Brooklyn, directly at him. A Searsport couple
visiting in Boston went to a picture show and
had no sooner gotten into their seats when on
the screen was thrown picture of Mack's
Point station, the train from Bangor just pull
ING in. with conductors and others whom they
knew well.
Mrs. Adelaide S. Parse as past worthy mat
ron and Mrs. Eva Nye as marshal installed the
officers of Anchor Chapter, o. E. S.. last Mon
day evening, as follows: worthy matron, Mrs
Ida A. Adams; worthy patron, Capt. B. F. Col
cord associate matron, Mrs. Eva Nye; secre-
tary, Mrs. Louise Fletcher; treasurer, Mrs
Jennie Gilkey; conductress. Mrs. Henrietta
Young; associate conductress, Mrs. Elijah eth
Weber, Ada. Miss Florence Colcord; Ruth
Miss Mabel Griffin; Esther. Mrs. Emily Col
cord; Martha, Mrs. Anne Frame; Electa. Mrs
Mamie Littefeld; chaplain, Mrs. Caro-
Whittier; marshal, Mrs. Inez D. Atwood; or
qanist. Miss Lena Nye; warden, Mrs. Adelaide