The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-03-11
SEARSPORT.

Alexander P. Sweetser left Thursday to visit
friends in Lynn, Mass
Sidney M Weber returned Saturday from
business trip to Vermont.
business trip to Boston.
l.. C. Keene is confined to his home on Main
street with an attack of pneumonia.
Some good catches of salmon were made
Sunday at Swan Lake by local fishermen.
Mrs. Gould Flinton of Augusta is visiting her
parents, Mr., and Mrs. Geo. P. Carter.
Rarpe Ehrata arrived last week with 1,50o
tons of coal to the P c. & W. plant at Macks
Point.
Barge Easton arrived March Sth from Phila-
delphia with $500 tons of coal to the P. G. q
W. Co.
Raymond Carter returned Saturday from
visit with his brother-in law, Gould Fiinton, IN
Augusta.
The Bay View Club have engaged UnionHall
for series of basket ball games with out of
town teams
Percy Brock has been engaged as collector
of washngs for the Andrews Laundry on
Goodell street.
Barge Boylston arrived March 9Th from Wey-
mouth with 1000 tons of fertilizer to the A. A
C. Co. at Macks Point.
Barge Natich.ke arrived March 4th from
Carteret with 1000 tons of fertilizer to the A.
G. plant at Macks Point
Frank E. Kneeland arrived Saturday from
New York and is visiting his father, Mr.. James
H. Kneeand, who is in very poor health.
The partnership of Brooks & Andrews in the
laundry business has been dissolved and the
business will be continued by Mr.. Andrews.
R. & R. Lime Co. barge No. 7, arrived
March 9th from Carteret with 1900 tons of
fertilizer to the A. A. c. Co., at Macks' Point.
Steamer F. J. Lisman, Capt. Smith, arrived
March 9Th from Philadelphia with 1000 tons
of coal to the P. c. & W. Co. at Macks Point.
George L. Merrill James E. Wentworth and
Clifton Whittum attended the meeting of the
Waldo County Veteran Association in Belfast
last week.
Carl Anderson of Woodland, who has been
spending the winter with his brother-in-law.
Capt. W. H. West, on Main street, returned
home last Thursday.
The Penobscot Coal Wharf Co., are now
handling large amount of coal at their plant
at Macks' Point which goes up over the B. &
A. railroad to points in northern Maine.
Mrs. Emma Mason, who has been spending
the pas, year with MIR. and Mrs. Alfred P.
Stevens in New York City, has returned home
and is with her daughter, Mrs. E. L. Savery,
on Mt Ephraim road.
The one and half story cottage on Mt Ellis,
owned by the town, has been rented to a Bel
fast party for the spring, who will later build
a cottage on the Bassick property. near the
B. & A, railroad station. which he has bought.
Burton M. Packard. proprietor of the Sebec
Lake House, who has been attending the
Sportsmans Show in New York, returned last
week and visited his mother, Mrs. Marlboro
Packard, on Main street before returning
home.
quantities along the water front. The weather
for the past ten days has been we'll adapted
for founder fishing. no mittens being required
to keep the hands warm while fishing on the
sunny side of the wharf.
More than 100 men are now employed at the
A. A. c., plant at Macks' Point. About 80 men
are employed in the cooperage plant and are
turning out about 1000 barrels daily and
large shipments are now made over the Bangor
g. Aroostook railroad into northern Maine.
Miss Eudavia Cleaves left by train We'd
nesday morning for Boston and New York to
buy her spring stock of millinery. While away
Miss Cleaves will attend the millinery lectures
and take special lessons on the seasons styles
both in Boston and New York.
Capt Nathan F. Gilkey wins the race tt
Rio Janeiro in the ship Timranda of Boston
from the four. masted schooner Frontenac, ais,
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