The Republican journal., 1917-05-03
SEARSPORT..

SE,ARSPORT.
Dandelions and mayfowers are now in the
market.
A. E. Trundy was business visitor in Ban
gor friday.
Frank l. Gross of Bangor was III town Mon
day on business.
There was a heavy white frost Tuesday
morning. May LIST.
Shepard Shute visited his uncle Charles S.
Shute in Bangor Saturday.
Mrs. E. D. P. Nickels returned Sunday from
visit in Boston and vicinity.
Mrs. Wellington Roberts has moved to WAL
do to reside with her daughter.
Miss Muude E Slavery visited relatives in
Stockton Springs last Sunday.
Several farmers in town have put in pota-
toes and early peas on dry ground.
Geo. w. Davis of Deer Isle is visiting his
eon Ross Davis en- the Mortland road
L.C, Wilder of Wyandotte, Mich was regis
tered at the Searsport House Monday.
George l.. Hawkes. OF Moncton, N. B., was
guest at the Searsport House last Saturday.
A northeast snow storm set in last Tuesday
night and about four inches of snow fell dur
ing the night.
Miss Nellie ]. Tiussell, who spent the winter
in Belfast with her brother, George c. Trus-
sellreturned home Tuesday.
Steamer Ruth, Capt. Briggs, finished dis
charging Thursday at the P. c. and W. Co.
and sailed for Newport News.
Edward Emo, who has been spending the
winter at the Searsport House, has returned to
the Brookside for the summer.
Barge Boylston arrived Saturday from Wey-
mouth Mass with 800 tons of fertilizer to
the A. A. c. Co. at Mack's Point.
DR.. Arthur Jackson of Everett Mass, who
has been spending a few days at Swan Lake
fishing, returned home Monday.
The Friday Club will hold card party in
Masonic Hail. Friday evening, for the benefil
of the Surgical Dressings Committee.
McLaughlin's Express leaves Searsport daily
at $50 a. m. and 100 p. M. returning at 1lSOa
m. anu 4OU y. ILL., lTOM DSlAdSt wv tiAPS'
George P. Carter has rented the E. A. Sar-
gent store and will open meat market in
few days, after placing the building in condi-
ton,
Miss Ethel Nj. Nichols, teacher in the Ban
COR High school. spent Sunday with her par
ents, Capt. and Mrs. C. M. Nichols on Water
street.
j. B. Walker and daughter, Miss Elizabeth
Walker, will open their cottage Thursday, May
Sd, at Pleasant Cove and will take their meals
at the Brookside.
Mrs Lillias l.. Nichols, who has been spend
ing the winter il Boston, returned home last
week and has opened her house on Water
street for the summer.
Capt and Mrs. C. N. Meyers and Master
Burton Bailey, who have been on a voyage to
South America in the Sch Eleanor F. Bartram,
are expected home Friday from Boston.
The ice left Swan Lake Friday and local fish
erman have had good luck in landing many
fine salmon and trout, the latter taking the
hook more freely this spring.
Royal Monroe who h is been spending few
days with his mother, Mrs. c. H. Monroe, left
Sunday for Bangor and left Monday W tn the
Bangor Machine Gun company for Portland.
The sardine fishermen have their weirs all
completed and are now ready for the fish, 1900
bushels were taken in seines off Turtle Head
day last week and taken to the Stockton
factory.
Capt, Frank P, Whittier, who has been visit
ing his brother, Capt. A. T. Whittier Union
street, has returned to Thomaston where he is
experimenting the construction of new
schooner of about 1000 tons for the coastwise
trade
DoDGE's CORNER. Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Nickerson and children of Portland arrived
Saturday to spend week with their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. J. Matthews. Mr.. and Mrs
Eli Colson were thrown from their carriage
last Sunday and Mrs. Colson was severely in
jured. Mr.. and Mrs. George Webster and
friends, Mr.. and Mrs Perry of Boston, arrived
last Monday and opened their cottage Sunny
Side, for few days.
The Searsport school paper, the Opeechee
Council, is ready for publication and will prob
ably be on sale in about three weeks. The
following are members of the staff: James
Lombard, editor-i chief; Henrietta Gregory
literary editor; Robert Coleman, local editor;
Mary lnman, aumnae editor; Eleanor Closson,
exchange editor; Irving Rich, business man.