The Republican journal., 1916-01-27
SEARSPORT.

Henry Pierce and family of Derby arrived
Saturday for short visit.
Sidney n. Weber left Tuesday on a bust
ness trip to Jackman and Kineo.
E. S. Cyphers has been confined to his home
on Main street with an attack of grip.
j. P. Walker and daughter. Miss Alice Walk
er, of Bangor, were in town Monday on bust
ness. |
Rev. Frederick Palladino of Bangor occu-
pied the pulpit of the M. E. church last Sun
day
F. l. Mortland has sold the John b. Black |
homestead on Otis. street to Michael Grady of
Belfast. Il
Smells have struck off shore and the clam
fats are covered with thin ice. making clam |
digging difficult.
Barge Boylston finished discharging Thurs !
day at the A. A. c. plant at Mack's Point and
sailed for Weymouth.
Barge Herndon arrived Friday from Phila-
delphia with 5000 tons of coal to the P. e. &
". Co. at Macks Point.
Amboy with 1900 tons of coal to the P. C. &
W. Co. at Mack's Point.
Miss Eliza Averill, who has been confined to
her home on Main street by illness, was able
to be out again Monday.
Chesley Matthews, the well known ship
carpenter, who has been ill at his home the
PAST month, is gradually failing.
Sunday beautiful day--bright and
sunny, with brisk northwest wind and tenn
perature of about 40 above.
Lismore Kidder, who is taking stenograph-
course at the Shaw Business College in Ban
gor, was in town over Sunday,
Steamer Meteor, Capt. Burranger. arrived
Tuesday from Newport News with 3 700 tons
of coal for the P. c. & W. Co.
Capt. and Mrs, Frank E. Curtis are receiy-
ing congratulations On the birth, Jan. l4th, of
daughter, Loessa Ford Curtis
MIR. and Mrs. George B. Delano went to Bel
last Sunday to attend the funeral of Mr.. Del.
amos brother, Nathaniel W. Delano
Rev. John j. Martin, Professor of Theology,
bangor theological Seminary, was the week
end guest Of DR.. and Mrs. Sumner C. Pattee.
Miss Lillian M. Smith, who had been visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon W Goblet in Springfield.
Mass, returned home Wednesday.
MIS-. Amos ID. Carver, who had been guest
of Mr.. ard Mrs, L. K. Cocord on Main street,
returned to her home in Brooklyn, N, Y.
Friday.
L. d. Littlefeld finished harvesting his ice
from Opeechee stream last Thursday and is
now supplying local dairymen rom the stream
with from 10 to 80 tons each
The warm weather and dense fog last Sat-
urday played havoc with the snow, leaving the
ground bare in many places and icy in others.
making travelling for pedestrians dangerous.
Mas. j. ID. Sweetser entertained the follow.
ing Old schoolmates at afternoon tea Jan. ooh:
Mrs. N. Meyers, Mrs Fred Smith Mrs.
William Parse, Mrs. James Parse Mrs. H. L.
Perry,
Miss Ethelind B. Havener left by train
Thursday, en- route for Joppa, Alabama, hav-
ing been engaged by the American Missionary
Association of New York as teacher in the
Joppa Normal and Industrial Institute
Mrs. w. }. Carver returned Friday from
Portsmouth, N. H, where she had spent sever,
al months with her husband, Lieut. Wiber J
Carver Of the armoreG cruiser Tennessee
which mas been repairing al the Kittery NAVY
Yard.
MrsRosa Whitney the widow of Upton Treat
OF Frankfort, who died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Fred b. Cutler, in BrookIine
Mass, last week, in her S0th year was we'll
known here as teacher in the public schools
nifty Years ago, when she lived here with her
brother. the late Charles Whitney.
The Searsport Basket Ball team went to
Islesboro last Thursday evening on the steam
er Golden Rod and were taken into camp nv
the local team by score of 40 to 81, Our
boys have nothing but good words for their
adversaries, and after the game were royaIlv
entertained. The team was ACCOMPANIED bv
A. E. Trundy, Mrs. Story Trundy, Mrs Rem
lew Wilson, Misses Evelyn Young Bernice
McCaslin. Elsie Gikey, Jack Wagner and
Maynard Carr.
Nathaniel W. Delano, who died in Belfast
thursday. passed his boyhood days in Sears
PORT, where his parents, Mr.. and Mrs Pau]
Lelano, resided. In his younger days he fol-
owed the sea and for some years was cook in
oastwlse vessels. In 1870 he opened a barber
hop in Searsport and had since continued in
that business, He had many friends here
who regretted to hear of his demise. He is
survived by his widow, by two brothers. Geo
u. Delano of Searsport and Charles W. Delano
of Lynn, Mass, and by two sisters, MRS: All.
phonso Hussey of Lowell, Mass, and Mrs
Dean Smith of Norfolk, Mass.
Capt. George W. Goodwin, who died at his
home in Brighton, Mass, Jan. 18th, had manv
friends among the deep water shipmasters Of
Searsport. He started as second officer in the |
ship Sterling of 1900 tons, built in Bath in
1873, and remained in her continuously as an
officer until he was promoted to Commander |
He sailed her master until 1894. when tho
new ship Dirigo of 2845 tons was buiJt for
him by the Arthur Sewall Co. of Bath and he
continued as her commander until he retired |
from the sea to his home in Brighton. Mass.
about three years ago. He was a native of
Calais, Maine, and member of the St Cro;x
Club of that city and made frequent visits to
his native city while the ship was in homo