The Republican journal., 1917-11-22
SEARSPORT.

Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Mitchell VIII oc-
cupy the Pattee house for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph A. Clement left
Monday for their winter home in Day.
tona, Florida.
Mr.. Lyons of the Bangor Theological
Seminary occupied the M. E. pulpit last
Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Emo have closed
Brookside and secured rooms with Mrs.
Annie Wentworth.
The Ladies' Aid of the Methodist church
will hold the annual sale of useful and
fancy articles Dec. 18th.
MIR. Melville Whittum who has been
seriously i'll at his home on the Mt. Eph-
rain road, is steadily imnroving,
Mrs. Nathan Gilkey and daughter, Miss
Henrietta, are leaving to-day for Boston
where they will spend the winter.
The Utu Camp Fire Girls were pleas
antly entertained at the home of Gertrude
Wentworth, Friday evening, Nov. 18th.
Maurice Dolliver spent the past week in
Bangor, arranging an attractive display
of fall goods in one of the Main street
stores.
Miss Rebecca Ross left Wednesday for
Tampa, Florida, where she will spend the
winter with her parents, Capt. and Mrs
A M. Ross.
George Lovett for the past two years
clerk IN the F. E. Whitcomb grocery
store, left Monday for Philadelphia where
he has secured a government position
Mrs. Lovett and children will Join him
later.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Beverly Du-
Bose of Marion, S. c., will be interested
to learn that Mr.. DuBose's business hav-
ing called him North, the family will re-
side in the future in Picksville, Long
Island Mrs. DuBose and two children
were passengers on Wednesdays boat.
The women of the community will
please bear in mind that Friday, Dec.
18th, is the date set for the demonstra-
ton of "War Bread" to be given by
Miss Ruby Barker of the University of
Maine Extension Service. Watch the
papers for further particulars.
Capt James Parse, who had been in
Tacoma, Washington, for the past three
months experimenting the completion of
the five-masted schooner, Betsy Ross,
reached home Monday, illness having
prevented his taking command. Mrs.
Parse spent last week in Boston, return
ing home with her husband
Searsport is doing her share toward
Good Roads for Maine" Under the di-
rection of Leroy D. Littlefield twelve
men and nine double horse teams are en-
ployed ditching and travelling the four
mile section of the shore road between
Station Ave. and the Belfast line. The
gravel is of excellent quality and put on
before frost will insure fine road bed.
CONSERVATION About two hundred
Hoover pledge cards were signed in this
community, leaving balance of at least
fifty housewives not enlisted in the food
saving campaign. If you were not at
home when the distributing agents called
or did not understand their mission ask
your neighbor who has card, to tell you
how to 'serve by saving" Save wise
ly, remembering that just so far as you
care for the health of your family you
strengthen the resistance of the country.
The government is not asking you to
take any vital essential from your diet,
but to learn the food values and careful
ly substitute that of which there is
plentiful supply for those staples which
under present conditions should be used
sparingly. Wasting and boarding are
criminal and if unchecked will lead to
the adoption of rigid system of appor-
toned rations. The women of America
are called upon to fight for the common
cause and though the restrictions impos-
ed from time to time may seem burden
tllCy dlC lOl CuC 5 welfare
and must not be disregarded
THE RED TRIANGLE. Searsport people
were given rare privilege on Sunday
evening and the only regret is that, COM
ing as a complete surprise, only half the
town knew of the mass meeting sched-
uled for that night. Pulpit announce
ments were given Sunday morning to the
effect that Rev. H. E. Dunnack, State
Librarian would speak in the CongI
church in the interest of the Y. M. C. A.
drive, also that there would be musical
program. An audience of some two hun
dred responded but were quite unprepared
for the brilliant program. Following two
stirring selections by Mckeen's Orchestra
and patriotic solo by Mr.. Charles Har-
mon of Belfast, Mr.. Orlando E. Frost of
that city extended friendly greetings Rev.
T. H. Martin offered prayer and told his
personal relations with the Young Mems
Christian Association, both during his
college days and while engaged in foreign
mission work. Following a brief intro
duction by Capt B. F. Colcord, Mr.. Dun