The Republican journal., 1915-08-05
SEARSPORT.

Otis Colson left Friday morning for Nashua
NJ H., on business trip.
Tinker .mackerel were selling in the streets
last week at eight for twenty five cents.
Charles G. Sheldon of Boston was in town
Wednesday and Thursday calling on friends.
Eugene P. Carver, ESQ., of Boston was in
town Saturday and Sunday calling on friends
DR.. and Mrs Samuel Calderwood OF Rox-
bury. Mass, were in town last week calling on
friends.
lawrence Hamilton and family of Boston
arrived Monday to spend their vacation at
their old home.
Barge Cumru from Philadelphia finished dis
charging 5000 tons of coal at the F. =. q w.
plant Saturday.
Mrs. Mary A. Black of Providence, R. l.. is
spending the summer with Mr.. and Mrs. Ferd
Swift on Elm street.
RAYMOND E. Lord, clerk in Soule's drug |
store, Gardiner, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Sweetser for a week.
Miss Laura Trundy of Bangor spent Sunday
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Trundy.
on East Main street. |
Sia reel pictures, the "Story of Damon and
Pythias," will be shown at Union hall Satur-
day evening, August 7th.
Miss Margaret Miller of Brooklyn, N. Y, ar
rived Monday and is the guest OF MISS Llilas
P. Nichols on Water street.
C. C. Hamilton of Boston, who is spending
the summer in his cottage at Standpoint call
ed on friends in town FRIDAY.
DR.. and Mrs. S. L. Fairchild and son Jay,who
have been spel ding a month in Philadelphia,
returned home Sunday in their auto.
John H. Montgomery of Bucksport was in
town Saturday and Sunday with his family,
who are summering at Pleasant Point.
Nehemiah Roulstone and Harold Marshall,
who have been spending two weeks vaca-
ton in town, returned to Boston Sunday.
Eugene P. Carver, Jr.. who is making
cruise in his steam yacht Gypsy along the
coast of Maine, arrived in port Saturday.
Mrs. Julia Marshall, who has been the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Swift on Elm street for
several weeks, returned to Boston Friday.
George M Curtis arrived Wednesday from
New York and is visiting his parents, Capt.
and Mrs. Henry Y. Curtis, on Water. street.
Miss M. Ida West of Brooklyn, N. Y. ar
rived FRIDAY and is the guest of her parents,
Capt, and Mrs. w. H. West, on Main street.
Harry Mason, third officer of the steamer
M,llinocket was in town last Thursday and
Friday while the steamer was loading at cape
Jelison.
A 25O-pound porI Disc caught in one OF the
herring Wers in the harbor was on exhibition
in front of the Searsport Fruit Co. store on
Main street last week.
New peas are in the market at rs cents per
peck; new potatoes at 80 cents per peck; rasp-
berries in abundance at Is cents per box, and
blueberries at 10 cents per quart.
Harold ]. Biather, assistant paymaster OF
the Great Northern Paper Co. of Millinockett.
was in town Friday,the guest of Mr.. and MIS-.
Charles Rogers on the Black road.
Chester Lombard, foreman at the B. q A.
roundhouse at Mack's Point. and Mrs Lom-
bard and son James, who have been visiting IN
Boston, returned home Saturday.
Samuel Butman, who has been spending
several weeks at his old home here returned
Sunday to his home in Texas where ne Is
the owner of $1,000 acre ranch.
large amount of hay is now in the fields
and has been cut for the past week, but on &C
count of the continual wet weather the Farmers
have been unable to make the hay.
DR.. Edward S. Calderwood of Roxbury,
Mass, arrived Wednesday for few days stay
with bis family, who are summerlng at the
Mcclure homestead on East Main street.
Capt. and Mrs. j. D. Sweetser, Miss Rila J.
Carbon and party of New York ladies, left
Tuesday in Capt. Sweetsers auto on trip to
Moosehead Lake and will return the last of the
week,
John Sullivan had severe hemorrhage at
the home of his son-in-la law, Prof. b. c. Rich
ardson, on West Main street, Sunday after
noon. but at this writing is very much i'm
proved.
Because of the uncertainty of the presence
of Rev. T. P. Williams of Houlton at the
Centennial Celebration Professor Calvin Clark
of the Bangor Theological Seminary will speak
at the Harbor Church in the afternoon and at
the first church in the evening.
The hay cut of 1914 at Moose Point Farm,
consisting of about sc tons, pressed, was sold
last week tc Pttsfeld hay buyer for the
Boston market The price was $40 per ton at
the barn. The hay is being shipped by the b.
& A. railroad to its destination.
Frank H. Ceaves is remodelling the Manley
foote house, on Leach street, which he re-
Gently bought. The interior is being fitted for
the accommodation of his boarders. garage
is to be built on the premises for the storage
of the automobiles of his customers.
The steamer Frieda, Sabine, Texas, for
Searsport with sulphur. went ashore on Segu-
in island Monday in dense fog. but was float
ed that afternoon without assistance. Her
destination was changed to Portland, where
she arrived at 6 80 p. M, Tuesday, and will
discharge at the Maine Central pockets.
The barkentine Mabel l. Meyers, Capt. c.
N. Meyers, which was into and sunk Fri
day evening by the battleship Nebraska IS
miles southeast of Highland Light Cape Cod,
while on the passage from Bridgewater, Bar
bados, to Portland with cargo of molasses
the last square rigger built in Searsport,
having been launched here Sept. 10. 1891. The
Meyers family owned the controlling interest
in the vessel and had no insurance. A full
count of the collision appeared in the daily
papers.
Twice in the history of the First Congrega-
tionalist Church in Searsport,a small sheet has
been published under the heading of 1.-THE
Gabble'' The observance of the Centennial
seems a fitting time to print a third issue.
Copies will be on sale Thursday at five cents.
Extracts from the previous issues and items of
historic interest will be mingled with the
church news of today. The 1915 edition of