The Republican journal., 1896-10-08

Is not rebuilt Mr. Haugn InlnkS OF convert
ing the building into a hotel.
Letter Carriers Eaton and Thompson are
using an electric light for their evening
work. small! battery is carried IN the
pocket and wired to small incandescent
lamp pinned on the breast. The lamps will
run three hours with one charging of the
battery.
MRS. WELLS OPENING. Mrs. B. F. Wells
announces her millinery opening for the fall
of '96 and winter of '97, for Tuesday and
Wednesday, Oct. 18th and 14th. She has
just returned from New York and Boston.
where the latest styles and most desirable
goods were obtained. Miss Florence Wells.
who is direct from one of the most stylish
workrooms in Boston, will have charge of
the trimming department., and is prepared
to give customers all the new ideas in that
line.
Another of the familiar landmarks on Bel
fast Bay has disappeared. Last Tuesday
Capt. John 9. Condor tore down the fish
house which has stood on the bank near his
wharf since 1851 1t was built by his father.
Capt. Benjamin Condor, and Capt Wash
ington Hall, and was one of the busiest
places in town in the days when the fishing
industry t1ourished here. Again in the sos
it had a boom when the menhaden struck in
for few years and large quantities were
tried out there for oil and the fslivers" sold
for bait
THE OLD SCHooL-HoUsE. The little build
ing in the rear of the Frye block, so long
used as a school-house by Miss E. G. FRYE
and where so many Belfast people learned
their first lessons, has been despoiletl as
school-room. The benches, worn thin bv
The little folks now grown to manhood and
womanoood and scattered everywhere, have
been removed, the hIilding raised a little
and reslled Miss Frye says she will fit it
up for a room suitable to accommodate small
society meetings, but will never desecrate
it by any menal use.
Miss SoUTHwoRTH's OPENING Miss
ouuthworth, with Miss Soule as nlillIner
announces her opening Of fall and winter
millinery for Wednesday and Thursday,
Oct, 14th and 10Th, when she will give her
customers the benefit Of the latest styles
AMI bargains in the New York and Boston
markets. This seasons goods are unusuallv
pretty and many novelties are promised
which will add interest to this event of so
much Importance to the feminine mind. Miss
r. A. French will also be pleased to vel
come her customers. She has large stock
of the novelties of the season.
A COURSE OF LECTURES. The committees
who managed the "People's Lecture Course
last winter so successfully have arranged
for another the coming season. The course
will consist of two musical entertainments
and four lectures by some of the best talent
obtainabe. The dates are as follows The
Apollo Quartette, Nov. 9th Jahu De Witt
Miller, Dec. 18th; DIR. Willtts, Jan. 18th;
Col. G. II. Balm of Kentucky, Jan 10Th DR..
p. S. Henson of Chicago, Feb 18th; and the
Lyceum Stars, one of the best concert
troupes in America, Feb. 23d. The dates
are all Tuesday evenings, and the entertain
ments will be in Belfast Opera House. The
prices will be the same as last season.
New ADVERTISEMENTS. You cannot very
well overlook the gun advt. of j. III. x j
w. Jones, go Main street. They have hit
the mark on price and their cunning for Gus
toners is always successful, as they furnish
a good article for little money. See notice
of dissolution of the firm of Storer & Brown.
Morrill,, M. l.. Mitchell, lis High
street, has the Glenwood furnaces. which
are heaters, fuel savers and price shavers.
Call and See advt of rim fo,, a
in Winterport. .Starrett's fall opening of
jackets and capes will take place Friday, Oct.
18th. when they will make the largest dis
play of garments of the season. Call now
and see the fine line in new STYLES of dress
goods for fall and winter wear. :. Hon. Fred
Atwood, Winterport, handles real estate
and negoti ates loans buys and sells invest
ment securities, and is agent for reliable fire,
marine and tornado insurance companies
....Lewis G. Fernald offers for rent new
house with seven rooms, and stable, at No
66i CedarStreet. Terms reasonable. ENQUIRE
at the premises. See advt. of millinery
openings by Miss Southworth and Mrs. B. F.
Wells. Joseph Roberts, Brooks, publishes
a freedom notice Carle & Jones' 21 Main
street, offer bargains in glassware this week
Look out for their lamp advertisement mex
week. ...G. j. Shaw & Son, Sears Island
Searsport, Me-, have seven thoroughbred
Shropshire buck lambs for sale House for
sale, corner of NorthpOrt avenue and Dur
ham street. Inquire Of r. F. Dunton, Bel
fast. Misses Beverage and Upton W no re-
Gently opened dress making rooms in John
sons Block, High street, are having good
run of business. They use Livingstone's
famous French system and make children's
work speciality.
EVIL DoERs. The police and sheriff have
more than the usual amount of business on
hand at present. Sunday man came here
from Rocklanu with team belonging to w
n. UImer's livery stable, leaving it at the
PEqnix House stable, and going out him
self on the 20 train Monday morning. 1t
was soon learned that the team was hired to
90 to Hope and officers We're instructed to
secure the team and arrest the man Sher-
iff S. G. Norton and Coroner B. @. Norton
went to WatervIlle by the l % train and
made search for the man, bIt he was not
found Monday special constable r.
Hamm, Jr., of Bangor was in town looking
for half-bree Indian known here by the
name of Thompson, who is wanted as a wit
ness in a case in relation to the burning of
the Katahdin ice houses in Bangor. The man
was found living with some Indians on the
East Side and went along with the officer,
made deposition of his testimony in the
case on Tuesday afternoon and returned to