The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1922-03-30
SEARSPORT

Mrs. Leroy Palmer and son John of Bel
fast are guests of Capt and Mrs. D. c.
Nichols.
Mrs. William M. Parse has returned
from q visit with her sister, Mrs. Villa
Shorey, in Bath.
Miss Mary Havener is spending her va
cation with her grandmother, Mrs. Mary
Croker in Bucksport.
Herman S. Conary and Lester Conary
have gone to Deer Isle to repair their
weirs for the coming season.
Friends of Mrs. L. w. Rich are glad to
know that she is rapidly gaining strength
after her recent critical illness.
Burton Wentworth of Passadumkeag
was in town to attend the funeral services
for his brother, L. w. Wentworth.
Miss Alice Davis, teacher of the Mich
OILS school, left Saturday to spend the
school recess of one week at her home in
Orland.
Miss Valma Weber, who is a student
at Mortified Academy, has arrived to
spend the Easter vacation at her home in
town.
Miss Christine Eames, student at Cor
ham Normal School, is spending the
spring vacation with relatives in Boston
and vicinity.
Miss Isabelle Closson has arrived from
Pennington Normal School, where she is
a student, to spend the spring vacation at
her home in Searsport.
The seniors of the Searsport high school
held successful sale of cooked food at
the Partridge store Thursday afternoon,
the proceeds to go toward the expenses
of graduation.
Miss Kathryn Dow, teacher of domestic
science at Ho ward Seminary, West Bridge
water, Mass, arrived on March goth TO
spend the Easter recess with her mother,
Mrs. Cora Dow.
An electric motor is to be installed in
the Congregational church to furnish
a@sf tn, pipe organ in place of the
which has been in use for the
gass e1 rs. The new motor will pro-
tanv % Use by Easter Sunday.
Mrs. Amanda Webster is critically ill
at the home of her son, Norris Webster.
A successful puol card party was held
in the dining room of Masonic hall Tues
day evening. the committee in charge be-
ing Miss Florence Colcsrd, assisted by
Mrs. Edison Fletcher.
Miss Isabelle Frame was among the
girls at the Maine Central Institute bas-
ket ball team who played at Castine
Saturday night Miss Frame will arrive
home this week for the Easter recess,
which she will spend with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Frame in Navy street.
A cooked food sale in charge of Mrs.
c. E. Adams and for the benefit of the
Ladies' Guild of the Congregational church
will be held in the Adams storethis, Thurs
day, afternoon from three to five. Tea
will be served during the afternoon, and
cakes of all kinds, doughnuts, pies, cook
les, cad, ETC., will be on sale. Remem-
Der the date, Thursday, March 3Oth
Hannah Lancaster, wife of Capt. Sewell
Lancaster of Park. died at her home Sun
day morning, Mar. f9, after long illness.
Mrs. Lancaster was born in SearSport
tHarboD in 1910, the daughter of Wood
burn and Mary (Pendleton) Carver She
was married to John Blanchard and two
children were born, John Blanchard and
Mary, now Mrs. Horace Peaslee. She
was twice married, her second husband
Captain Lancaster who survives her, with
daughter, MIS-. elizabeth Lancaster
Staples. MRS. Lancaster leaves her hus-
band, three children John Blanchard and
Mrs. Horace Peaslee of Park and Mrs.
Edwin Staples of Winthrop, Mass, and
several grandchildren. The funeral ser
vices were held from her late home in
Park, March %, at 2 p. M, Rev. Harold
E LeMay of the Congregational church
officiating.
Funeral services for Lyman Wellington
Wentworth, who died at his home in Mt.
Ephraim road March II, were held from
the home March 10 at p. m, Rev. N. F.
Atwood of the Methodist church officia-
ting. The bearers were brother Masons,
and intermeLt was in the village ceme-
terry Mr.. Wentworth was II years of
age. For many years he conducted a
barber shop in town. He sold the bust
ness to the late f. c. Dutch, and more
recently had given much time to bee
raising, and for some time had the care
of the village cemetery. He served on
khe board Of selectmen for several terms,
and during his more active years was
Worshipful Master of Mariners Lodge