The Republican journal., 1921-11-24
SEARSPORT

Miss Harriet N. Roulstone returned
Wednesday from Boston where she has
spent the past three weeks.
Dr.. Irving Pendleton of Lewiston was in
town Wednesday to attend the funeral OF
his cousin, Miss Harriette Erskine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dana Dutch of Waban.
M ass, and DR.. James T. Erskine OF New
York city left town Thursday morning.
Miss Emerson Knowlton who was oper-
ated upon for appendicitis last Friday at
she Tapley hospital il Belfast is making
satisfactory recovery
Miss Mabel Griffin left Saturday for
Canton, Mass, where she will be for sew
eral weeks the guest of her brother, Ed
win Griffin and family.
Mrs Flora Flanders has moved her stock
Of millinery from the l.. M. Sargent shop
20 the rooms over the Henobscot Bay
Electrical Company. Tbe entrance is next
20 the post office.
Nh and Mrs George Cilley of Portland
and Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Sargent of Philadel-
phia are in town to spend Thanksgiving
as guests of their parents, MIR and Mrs.
william P. Sargent,
Percy Blake, who has been in Massa
.husetts for several years, arrived home
recently, and will be here for time the
guest of his parents, Mir. and MIS-. Ihur-
ston Blake, in Park,
The sale of the Christmas Red Cross
seals in Searsport will be under the d.
xection of Mrs James H. Duncan. The
sale will begin in the local stores the day
after Thanksgiving, and later house to
house canvass will be made.
At Union Hall, Searsport, on Friday
evening, Nov. 25th, p. m. Converse y.
Nickerson, wbirlWind evangelist of Bible
iSpiritualism, will lecture on The Truth
About Spiritualism. Lecture will be fol-
lowed by piano program. MIR. Nicker-
son is a master of the piano Keyboard,
and is at present travelling through Name
speaking to large audiences on the above
subject
The funeral services of Harriette M.
Erskine were conducted at her home on
Wednesday afternoon by Rev. Harold Le-
May, pastor of the Congregational church,
Officers and members o Anchor chapter,
0. E. s., were in attendance acting as
honorary escort to the Harbor cemetery
where interment was made. The bearers
were Herbert Dyer, Lincoln Coicord,
,George Curtis and Frank Whitcomb,
Miss Alice n Trundy, youngest daugh-
-EeT of Mr., and Mrs. A. E. Trundy, cele-
brated her 10th birthday anniversary FIJI
dav afternoon, entertaining the Blue Birds
OF the Naneota Campfire Group, OF which
she is Z member Ihe young guests had a
merry time with games and peanut hunt
and refreshments of sand Wiches, hot
chocolate, cookies and a decorated birth
day cake were served. Those present
were Mary Ravener, IneZ Colcord, Ellen
Frame, Jane Fletcher, Virgin Trundy,
Alice Gray and Mrs. James H. Duncan,
guardian.
Funeral services for Miss Angie Gil
more, who died at her home IN East Main
street Monday after a brief illness OF
pneumonia, were held from the home
Thursday at p. m, Rev. Harold LeMay
Of the Congregational church officiating.
Ynterment was in the family lot in the
Gordon cemetery. Miss Gilmore was
born in Searsport in l843, the daughter OF
John and Susan Clifford Gilmore. She
was one of a large family of children, but
ons of whom now survives, Mrs. James
Merryman Of this town. Miss Gilmore
spent her entire life in Searsport. She
was one of the most successful and popu-
lar school teachers of her time. She was
woman of quiet tastes, and the latter
:gart of her life was spent in the devoted
care of her elderly relatives. She was
faithful member and constant attendant
of the First Congregational church. Last
April the old home in the western village,
which she and her sister occupied, was
destroyed by fire, and they had but re-
Gently purchased and moved into the E.
Al. Glidden house in East Main street, a
- fine old Colonial mansion, formerly the
home of Mrs Mary Ann Nickels Miss
Gilmore leaves her sister and several
r. pieces and nephews.