The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-10-04
News of Belfast and Vicinity.

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| October came in cold and frosty.
D. w. Dyer is repairing his wharf.
two cent stamp will now carry your letters to
any part of the United States.
So many Belfast people went to the fair at Ban
| gor last week, that our streets presented a very
lonesome appearance.
! Mrs. Harriet Wentworth. who keeps boarding
! house in McClntock Block, has purchased the Amos
storer house on Spring street.
George L. White. at the Head of the Tide has
raised his shop and put underneath good cellar.
His sons will go into business there.
Miss Pond is in Belfast training large num-
Der of school children, and in week or two will
| present the cantata OF Little Red Riding Hood.
Mr. +. A. owen, of Bangor. will bring to Belfast
Frank Mayo and company. who viii play David
Crockett" at the Belfast Opera House, Oct. 18th.
Mcdonald 4 Brown, Of this city, have finished
picking their cranherries and have seventy five
bushels, which is very good yield for the first sea
sons bearing,
Mrs Mccarthy has leased the store in Hay ford
Block formerly occupied by Fred W. Potc, -nd has
moved her stock Of goods from Sleepers store ON
| High street.
Mr.. Mcdonald will keep the run of the steam,
boats by telephone, and post their departure from
| Rockland and Bangor bulletin board outside
| his store, at Masonic corner
Last week 1000 pairs OF uppers were sent from
the cutting room 70 the stitching room OF the Belfast
shoe factory. This is sail to be the best week 5
| work ever turned out from the cutting room.
man called at one Of our business places last
week and purchased a postal c,rl. After writing
his message he called for a three cent stamp which
he put on the card amid the smiles OF the boys.
Fernald Bros, granite workers. have lust COM
pleted handsome granite monument 10 lie placed
over the remains Of the late +. X. Boyle at Grove
Cemetery, Belfast. 1t is Of LtncoInyine granite
About oncthird Of the letters dropped at tie Bel
fast post-ofice up to Monday noon Oct Ist, were
stamped with a three cent stamp. \ large number
Of the callers al the window for stamps want three
cent ones, apparently having never heard Of the
ducton.
The recent death of General Tom Thumb leaves
| General Abe Sawyer, OF Key West, the smallest
dwarf IN the world. being thirtytwo inches high.
! weighing thirty pounds and nineteen years
of age. Exchange.
John Orman Robbins, of Belfast, Is ~ years old,
weighs % pounds, and is ~, inches high
The telephone wire has been completed to Ban
gor and communication was had with that city on
| Thursday noon u last week. There has been
trouble with the line between Belfast and Rock
land caused by a broken wire at LincolnviIle The
wire no" Is IN good condition and the telephone
proves to be great convenience.
A Massachusett. subscriber writes The cor
respondence from the lifcren, towns makes the
journal very interesting to an old inhabitant of
| Waldo county 1t is something like a letter from
an old neighbor. People who leave Maine do not
soon forget their attachments" As to the political
contest now pending, our correspondent saws: "On
the eve of election day YOU will receive the news
that Massachusett. has laid Uncle Ben OIL the shelf
to rest"
| BASE BALL NOTES. The Belfast base bail cIub
has lost but two games this season.. MIR Albert
knowlton, Of the Belfast club, went to Portland on
| Saturday to catch for the Colhv's in their game
against the Dirigos Mr.. knovlton has the we'll
deserved reputation of being the best amateur
| catcher In Maine During the game il this civ
last week Corridor OF the Portland ,.Iub Loaf Ills
overcoat while at the Park The finder is requested
to leave the same with NJ T. Marshall Belfast
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ms wharf IS competed = shed 80 feet long VIII be
eEec'eu on L. VIII DC what IS known a railway
elo"' " Ni'h ptlhS lalu oNcrhetu To move large
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railway is also built on the wharf to transport stone
from the wharf to the ward 4 shed S feet lone
will be erected In the rear of the foundry beside
the railroad track Those sbas viii M oIli,ioro j.
| to the two now in use 4 Hack smith sbon win
four fires has been buit below I'M, railroad tract
| which makes six fires now running When the full
force is at work together with the crew on cemetery
| work this will be the busiest place in town
|
| bhAlh or ph''f Aoi 'lhfSi oill%hN' james
oi"'s' pe1i"s' oiUtst citl%th 'He" at rs nome III
l's Guy oh wednesday evening ol last Week. III
t"e a'Nahceu age Oh 10 years MI. ,ralS was porn
III stone haven scotland III lis" lie came to Nova
ocota "heh nc was ~ years u age where ne learn
eo 'he carpenters anu slater S trade Whl'h he fol
IoWed al ms NE MI Craig came TO Belfast IN 1881
ana ever afterwards made II his home. re was ol
| Cr.j, -, rr;o1 Eli,.Iatl, Nnrro,- ro+ivo SCOT
Iona or v;,aso y Sho a;o1 about a, ,
aro OF ten children born to tbo, nnI,, FAM s,tr
| yive-two in California one in Ws.hinoton ami
| one in this city, Mr. Craig was n member of the
| Congregationast church. an upright honest mar
| and good citizen. He was buried Saturday after
| noon Rev Wooster Parker preaching the funera
| sermon
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vi 'he 7ailiol" "'''rl' were St'l'e" curry Ihurs
uas horhlhS oS nearing 'He cries OF u man IRON
pehe''th 'he "h7li' MI oilNtr hailpiher' mate q
schr. D. l ohuef' "mth lay at ahchor went 10 tht
steamboat Whit between thlte ana iour CLOCK IL
'he lnorhihS 10 20 on po'" tn1 vessel ana le4I he
tween inc wharf ad tile new Iotftlt schooner lhtI
the water, IL beng aUont haif ude Inc current
carried MIN beneath the wharf where ne caught
| mold OF spite and shouted for help. Mr. Nater
man. tAe "atchmah on BOARD the schooner en-
"eaNoicu u ie''i MN l" poa'' ou' ta4e" OWING
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