The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-23
SEARSPORT.

Fred Swift has moved into the Aoailis
house on Elm street.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Duncan are visiting
friends in Boston and vicinity.
The snow storm of April 10th covered the
prouno to a depth of inches.
Mrs. A, G. Clos son returned last week from
a visit in Boston and vicinity.
George Hurd and family have moved to Bel
fast, where they will reside for time.
Miss Frances E. Smith returned Saturday
from visit with friends in Bucksport.
F. /. Mortiand and James F. Nichols left
Monday on business trip to Boston.
Patriots Day was observed here by the clos
;np of the schools bank and business houses.
George Lovett has entered the employ OF r.
r Wbitcomb & Son. procers, on Main street.
Percy A. Dodge and family are to move to
Bangor, where they will reside in the 1uture'
Mrs. W. A. Smith of Lynn, Mass, is visiting
her sister, Mrs. A. F. Mathews, on Elm street,
Royal Monroe has returned from the waldo
County Hospital, where he was operated on
for appendicitis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy L. Towle arrived Tues
day from Salem, Mass. to attend the 1uhela'
of J. Fred Towle.
Maurice Nickerson and Capt. Sewall Lancas-
ter are attending the supreme court AZ BEL
fast as traverse jurors.
w. A. Griffin, Jr., and family returned Satur-
day from Alabama, where they have oeea
living for several years.
Can't. John W. Sweetser returned Friday
from Bucksport, where he had been AZ "olA
painting for the past month.
Mrs. Elizabeth Allen returned Saturday
from Orange, N. J.. where she spent the WIN
ter with her son. A. W. Allen.
Miss Eva Holmes of Eastport, who visited
Mr.. and Mrs H. e. Holmes on Howard street
last week, has returned home.
Steamer Penobscot, Capt. Harding, arrived
Monday from Newport News with S''oo 'ons
of coal to the Penobscot Coal Go.
Edward A. Sargent, who has been WISHING
his son, DR.. Sidney B. Sargent, in West New
ton. Mass. returned home last week.
MI. and Mrs. H. B. Black arrived Saturday
from Everett, Mass, and are guests OF Mr.
and Mrs. j. W. Black on Main street.
Richard Swift. Nelson Swift. Joseph Kali
loch and Renfrew Wilson left Monday for
Houlton to work in cooperage plant.
Mrs. J. B. Parse is visiting in Boston, where
her husband, Capt. J. B. Parse OF the steamer
Washingtonian, is spending brief vacation.
Steamer Kanawha, Capt. Parmenter, finish
ed discharging Friday at the Penobscot
Coal & Wharf Dock and sailed for Norfolk.
Steamer Seaconnet, Capt. Smith. arrived
Tuesday from Newport News, with S,70O tons
of coal to the Penobsco. Coal Co. at Macks
Point.
]. H. Sullivan lost golden necked black
bantam hen last Friday, which he bought when
a chicken of Joseph Porter in 1894 She was
20 years of age.
The Western Union Telegraph office will re-
open about May ist, upon the return OF MISS
Georgia L. Ford from Florida, where she pass
ed the winter.
Mrs Fred w. Deitze and son Kenneth OF
Dedham, Mass, who have been visiting Mrs
c. F. Whitcomb on Main street for several
weeks, returned home Saturday.
A.E. Trundy & Son have crew of seven
men at work, at their mill on Opeechee stream
saving the large amount of logs which have
been hauled in during the winter into various
grades.
Charles Green, B. & A. station agent at
Macks Point, who returned last week from a
business trip to Florida, brought four young
alligators about two feet in length. Rare pets
for Maine in the spring.
Large f1ocks of blackbirds have put in an
appearance the past week. These bros are
very fond of green peas when in the pod and
were very troublesome last season to people
having small gardens in the village.
We are indebted to Alexander T. Dutch of
Hudson, Mass, for a copy of the Hudson En-
terprise, the special industrial edition, with
fine cuts of the public buildings, business
houses and manufacturing plants Of the
hustling town. Mr.. Dutch is q native of Sears
port but has been resident of Hudson for the
past 80 years.
OBITUARY. J. Fred Towle died at his home
on Navy street Monday morning, April goth,
after an illness of three days of pneumonia.
He was the son of the late John and Sarah
Ann (Savory) Towle and was born in Sears
port, Jan. 19, 1851. He was educated in the
public schools of Searsport and graduate of
Castine Normal school. He taught school
for twenty-five years, when he was stricken
with paralysis, which had confined him to his
home ever since. He is survived by his
widow; by two daughters, Mrs. Este Howard
of Lewiston and Mrs. Frank Bell Of Brewer;
one son, Leroy L. Towle of Salem, Mass; one
sister, Mrs. Tate C. Towle; and one brother,
Benz C. Towle, both of Searsport. The fu-
neral services were held at his late home
Wednesday afternoon. Rev. G. H. Mckinney
of the First Congl church officiating. Inter-
ment was in Elmwood cemetery.
GOLD SEEKERS OF 81. Following is list of
the party, which left Searsport, April 2. 1867,
for the gold mines of Montana to seek their
fortune: Capt, Edwin Mathews. Capt. Jasper
N. Nichols, Capt. Leroy Lamphor. Capt. Enoch
Perkins, Capt. Albert C. Fowler, James B.
Johnson, Charles B. Norris, Chesley Mathews,
Charles Green, George L. Merrill-all of Sears
ror+ ,nd William Mathaws of Ralfaat making