The Republican journal., 1896-01-23

On and after Jan 9th the afternoon
freight trains will leave Belfast at 8 % in
stead of 355 as at present.
mittee will be held at the Superintendent
office Monday evening, Jan 9th.
A meeting of the teachers in the primary
grade of the Belfast schools was held at the
Superintendent's Office Tuesday afternoon
and the nature studies discussed
1t is said that the Crosby Inn, recently
destroyed by fire at Belfast, will be rebuilt
the coming spring. Waterville Sentinel.
We are afraid this is too good news to be
true.
The trustees of the mortgage bonds of the
Belfast & Moosehead Lake R. r. Co have
drawn for payment three $1,000 bonds and
one $500 bond total of $500. They are
payable May 10TH This reduces the bonded
debt of the company to Sl37 900.
The report of an accident at one of the
mills in this city last week proved to be
fake. Those who asked about it were told
that man attempted to pick his ear with
his finger, but, being Popust and having
"wheels in his head the end of his finger
was crushed in the cogs.
Mr.. Henry w. Mariner, the janitor of the
Unitarian Church, has been presented by the
Parish, with very handsome mantle clock,
ID recognition of his service in saving the
church from fire on the night of the burning
OF the Crosby Inn. The gift was accompanied
by letter which Henry prizes as highly as
he does the clock.
Following is list of unclaimed letters re-
naming in the Belfast Post Office for the
week ending Jan. IS, SO: Ladies-Mrs.
Lydia Hutchington; Mae Sears. Gentlemen
S. A. Jordan; Capt. Sch. f. A. Whitmore;
Mr., Clarence b. Watson; Box ia, Belfast,
Me. BOX not in use.) Fourth class matter
Miss Sophia Staples.
Mr.. Y. H. Murch, City Clerk, has started
a majority of the present City Government
on the road to matrimony. He has held the
office eleven years, in two terms, and has
published the intention of marriage of Mayor
Hanson, Aldermen Welch Conant. Hatch
and Stinson, Councilmen Farrar, Redman,
Mayo and Gates, and Clerk of the Council
Ftrnald
1t IS an old saying that "the proof of the
pudding is IN the eating" That does not
apply to soap, that is, literally, and while
We claim no chemical know ledge and can
say nothing as to ingredients, etc. we can
testify that for toilet use Nutriola soap is
hard to beat. AS that is the chief use of
toilet soap we should say 1t fills the bill
completely.
James Durham, who was arrested in Bel
fast Wednesday for the larceny of a .iia-
nond ring at the St. Nicholas, had his hear
ing Thursday. He plead guilty and was
bound over in $500 bonds for appearance be-
tore the grand jury. H.. was unable to pro-
cure bail and was committed. Durham con-
fessed the theft to City Marshal Crockett
saying that he took the ring FROM the bureau
and had no accomplices. There is no evil
dence to connect him with any other theft.
| Rockland Star.
Hay is coming into this market in large
quantities and from appearances Waldo
county farmers must be emptying their
barns. 1t is some compensation for the
absence of snow that the roads are hard and
smooth, making the best of wheeling. In
other directions the lack of snow is a seri-
Gus draw back, and if it comes now many
will be unable to bring up the arrears of
their winters work
Mr.. A. B. Stantial of Brooks is now en-
gagged in eanvassing Waldo county in the
interest OF the Great Eastern Fertilizer Co.,
Of Rutland, VT, and was IN Belfast and
Northport last Monday. Notwithstanding
the general complaint of hard tunes Mr..
Stantial's sales thus far exceed those for the
time last year, and he finds
the farmers hopeful to the future. The
Great Eastern Fertilizer Co, by the way,
have issued handsome calendar for 1886
CHAT. II. J. Morrison has built a new
flight of stairs on the outside of Hayford
Block annex, as an entrance to his tarpelt-
ter shop. ,Alonzo Holmes of Citypoint is
hauling his hay to market, and the shippers
say it is as good as any ever shipped from
this port. Last week James H. Went
worth of Waldo killed bull, . years old
last April, that dressed / ,257 pounds.
Elijah Phillips brought to market last week
a lot of fine poultry, among which was "a
chicken six months old, an Indian Game
and Plymouth Rock cross, that dressed IL
pounds. The dance announced for last
Friday evening at Belfast Opera House was
not success, and was abandoned after three
dances. ID. R. Reilly and Robert Brownrigg
drew the music box lately ON exhibition at
Hiram Chase & Sons jewelry store. 1t has
since been bought by Capt. e. F. Bramhall.
STEAMER NOTES. Steamer Hector, Capt.
BENZ. Arey of Brewer, will engage in bust
ness on Union river next spring. She will
connect with the boats of the Bluehill
Steamboat Company at Surry, carry freight,
tow vessels in and out of the river, and take
out excursion parties. She is now at Bucks
port and will be sponsored out and have
other Improvements made to fit her for her
new service. The Hector has been running
as a passenger boat between Bangor and
Hampden, and is comparatively new. Cal
vim Austin, general superintendent the
Boston & Bangor S. S. Co., was in Belfast
Monday and ordered from the Nutriola Co..
a supply of their G. P soap for the company's
steamers for the season of 1896. On Mon
day the 'sidewheel steamboat Henry Morrl-
son of the Bangor & Bar Harbor Co.'S fleet
was sold to Capt. William III. Swift and F.
d. Gallupe of Boston, who will use her as
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