The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-04-12
St..AKSPORT.

Ralph Gilkey went to Bangor Monday on
business.
Capt, and Mrs. G W. Conary are visiting in
Deer Isle.
Albert Nickels of Nashua. N. H.. visited in
town last week.
Barges Exeter and Conemago sailed April
7th for Philadelphia
Miss Blanche Sweetser visited relatives in
Bucksport last week.
Cecil Gard left Thursday for Topsham. where
he has employment in mill.
Miss Bessie Weymouth visited Mrs. A
Shute on Water street last week.
Percy Scarborough left Monday fer West
brook. where he is attending school.
Miss Georgia L. Ford returned home last
week from visit in Daytona. Fla.
Walter Sargent left April 9Th for Eastport.
to visit his sister, returning Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Young of Augusta ere
spending few weeks at the Searsport House.
William and Flint Grinnell. SOL of Mr.. and
army.
Mrs. o. c. Atwood will arrive from Boston
April Oath and open her millinery store for the
summer.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Anderson of Woodland
were In town Friday, guests of Capt. and Mrs.
W, H. West.
A northeast snowstorm set in Monday morn
ing and continued all day. About one foot fell
in this vicinity.
Miss Arletta Young arrived Sunday from
Castine and is the guest of Miss M. E. Shute
in Reservoir street.
Mrs. A. T. Shute and son, Austin G. Shute,
arrived last week from Medford, Mass, where
they spent the winter.
Steamer Ruth, Capt. Briggs. arrived from
Newport News, April Sd. with 4,7O0 tons of
coal to the P. Y. & W. Co.
Sch. George E. Knck arrived April 9Th
from Baltimore with 900 tons of fertilizer to
the Hubbard Co. at Mack's Point.
Augustus L. Sweetser arrived home Satur-
day from Pawtucket, where he had been at
work in spool mill for the past two years.
j. T. Walker and daughter, Miss Elizabeth
Walker. of Bangor, were at the Searsport
House last Thursday. They intend to open
their bungalow about the first of May.
The household goods of the Misses Young
arrived from Castine the first of the week
and they have rented the Capt. A. L. Whittier
house on Main street for term of years.
Harry L. Mason, second officer of the steam
er Illinois, recently torpedoed off the English
coast, arrived in New York Monday On the St.
Louis from Liverpool and is expected home in
few days.
j. Fl. Gerrish, terminal agent for the & A.
R. R., has moved into fine new office at Cape
Jellison. The office is in the building adjoining
the freight office the docks. has hot water
heat, and is very comfortable.
A gift that was especially appreciated by
the people of the First Congregational Church
was three beautiful Easter lilies, Easter
Sunday. These were the gift of Mrs. Charles
A. Colcord p memory of her husband, the
late Capt Charles A. Colcord.
Mr. and Mrs. George Whitfield Craig have
announced the marriage of their daughter.
Stella Maude, to William Albert Blanchard, on
Wednesday, April 4th. at Brooklyn N. Y Mr..
and Mrs. Blanchard will be at home after Juue
i, at 1044 Eighty Fourth street
The many friends of Edward D. Black for
merly of Searsport were sorry to learn of the
death of his wife, Mrs. Ena G. Black at their
M % oEtn oh.
illness with pneumonia, in her 18th year Mr..
and Mrs. Black had been planning to spend the
summer at their former home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Pettee of Sharon. Mass,
expected very soon. They are to renovate
their house on the shore road to Belfast and
have it ready for the lea Room, which will be-
opened early in June by Miss Frances Pettee
and two or three of her classmates at Wellesley
College. The house will be attractively ar
ranged and is an ideal spot. They will cater
specially to automobile parties
l.DoDGE's CORNER. Chester Trundy has
moved his family into the Cunningham house
in Swanville and will have employment in the
Nickerson & Damn mill. v. hen his buildings
in North Searsport were burned they lost
everything in the chambers, all their dishes
and provisions, the kitchen stove. ard the
greater part of their clothing " Mrs C.
E. Hills went to Portland April 9th to visit her
sister. Mrs. Ernest R. Nickerson, for few
days before returning to her home in South
Natick, Mass.
The engagement announced of Miss Sigrid