The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-06-08
StARSPORT.

Miss Lewene A. Nichols left Friday TO visit
friends in New York.
The continued daily showers are greatly i'm
proving the grass crop.
Mrs. Adelbert Nickerson left Monday to
visit friends in New York.
J.P, Walker and daughter, Miss Alice Walk
er, spent Sunday in Bangor.
DIR. q. T. Clough of Bangor was in town
Thursday on professional business.
Herbert R. Dyer, who spent the winter in
Saratoga, Fla, arrived home Friday.
Mrs. C. M, Closson moved Saturday to the
jim. Carver house on the Mortland road.
Capt. James r. Parse has been confined to
his home with the grip the past week.
Fred c. Kane returned to Boston thursday
after spending two weeks at Swan Lake.
H.W. Burrill Memorial Day orator, return
ed to his home in Hartford. CT, Wednesday.
Robert S. Dyer of Portland is visiting his
mother, Mrs. F. S. Dyer. on Steamboat avenue
Herbert Partridge, who had been attending
college in the west, returned home last week.
Mrs. Carrie Clark of Ellsworth is visiting
her sister Mrs Hattie Nichols, on Main street.
ROYAL Monroe and Clarence Gilkey of the S.
l. Crosby Co. of Bangor spent sunday IN
town.
Distant thunder was plainly heard here Sat.
urday about $50 p. m. IN the dlrection OF
Waterville.
L. C. Tyler of Bangor has bought the cot
tage of Prof. George b. Pettee on the western
shore front.
Steamer Floridan. Capt. Joseph F. Nichols.
sailed from Shanghai China, May ZHh 1or
San Francisco.
Mr.. and Mrs E. T. Savage and children of
Bangor spent Sunday at their cottage on the
western shore.
MIR. and Mrs L. D. Crook of Brewer arrived
Saturday for weeks stay at their cottage at
Pleasant Point.
M Glidden returned Friday from the Pa
cifc coast where he had been during the WIN
ter on business.
DR.. and Mrs. Clarence r. Hines of Ames-
bury, Mass, arrived Monday and are visiting
friends in town.
1 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Written of Salem,
Mass, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John Lit
tlefeld last week.
Prof. George D. Pettee of Great Darlington,
Mass arrived Thursday and is at his cottage
the Belfast road.
Capt. B. F. Colcord left Saturday for Chica
go. where he is an alternate to the Republican
National Convention.
Weir fishermen on Sears Island have taken
several mackerel lately, one of the fish measur-
ing 20 inches in length.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Benson of Bangor have
leased DIR. A. A. Jackson's bungalow on Pleas |
ant Point for the summer.
Torpedo boat destroyers Cassin, Ericsson and
Winslow were in the harbor May 3lst and pro-
ceeded down the eastern bay.
Good catches of herring are being made in
the weirs and few salmon are also taken, the
latter retailing at Acc per pound.
Miss Emma D. Field arrived Tuesday from
Brookline, Mass, and is the guest OF her sister,
Mrs. A. H. Lorimer, on Main street.
George P Campbell, who had been employ
ed here for the past two years in the cooper
age business, moved last Saturday TO Rock |
land,
The journal correspondent received last !
week post card of the Grand Canyon. Ari-
zona from J. c. Showers, who was enroute to
California.
Master John ]. Wardwel of Rockland was in |
town Friday and went to Sears Island, where |
he inspected several lots OF spruce for ship
building purposes,
Barge Greenwood arrived Friday from
Elzabethport with coal to the P. C. & W. Co.
at Macks Point. discharged and sailed June
4th on the return.
Mrs Lena Field of Brookline, Mass, and
Miss Mary Field of Washing ton, D. c. arrived
last week and are at the Leib house on Church |
street for the summer.
The district meeting of the Odd Fellows
will be held in Searsport June 23d. Unity
Lodge will work the second degree and it is |
eynactaa that Ralfast fO6ua will 4 no
third degree.
Capt and Mrs. A. NJ. Ross and daughter.
Miss Emily Ross, VINO spent the winter in their
bungalow at Tampa, Fla. arrived home Tues
day and at the True homestead on Main |
street for the summer.
Rev. Thomas H. Martin, pastor of the First
and Second Cong'l Churches, took up the work
to which he was recently called on Sunday
June 4th. A most cordial welcome is extended |
to him by church and parish.
Mrs James Ainslee, Rev Thomas H Martin
and Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Duncan attended |
the Commencement exercises of the Bangor
Theological Seminary. Rev. James Anslee, |
pastor of the NJ E. Church,is a member of the
Senior class.
Herbert P Warren of Waterville State
agent for the Peerless Casualty Co. of Keene, /
N. H., is in town this week assisting M. A. |
Cook. local agent. The Peerless has been in
Maine ten years and today stands second out
of 35 foreign stock companies writing health |
and accident insurance. Mr. Cook is agent
for Searsport Belfast and Stockton.
IEMiss Louise Dckerson Leib was the guest
one day last week of Miss Miriam Curtis Whit /
tier at Hampton Inst, Hampton, Virginia Miss
Leib has completed her years work at the Ma
tiona Park Seminary Forest Glen, Md as in
structor of physical culture. and is on her way
North. Miss Whittier will spend July and |
August in town. the guest of her mother Mrs.
II. B. Whittier
Mrs, Anna. wife of John Carlson, died June
LIST at her home East Main street, after an
illness of three days of cerebral abscess ohe |
had been resident of Searsport for ten
years, coming here from Old Town with her
husband who was an engineer on the Bangor |
& Aroostook r. r. Mrs. Carlson was a woman |
of many fine qualities. a good neighbor, de- |
voted to her family. and leaves many friends |
who regret her untimely demise The sym
patty of the community is extended to her |
husband and sons in their sad affiiction She |
is survived by her husband and two sons, |
Harry and Carl Carlson. The funeral services !
were held at her late home Sunday afternoon |
at 8 O'Clock, Rev Thomas II. Martin of the |
First Cong' church officiating. Burial was in
the family lot in Old Town, where the remains
were taken Monday af ernoon.