The Republican journal., 1896-09-10

shipment to Boston.
Mrs. Ralph H. Howes gave five o'clock
tea last Friday afternoon in honor of her
guests, Mr., R. 81. Barrett and family of V!r-
ginia. The rooms were very handsomely
decorated and it was very enjoyable oc-
casion. About seventy-tve invitations were
| given and accepted
Among the condolences of the past week
may be mentioned the fact that of the six
lurymen drawn by the Municipal officers
Monday evening four are from Ward 5, two
are members of the City Council, and Alder
| man Shute, who did the drawing, is one of
| the number.
l.. P. SWEET of Norway, the champion BIZ
| cycle rider, visited friends in Belfast the
past week. In company with E. NJ Hall he
| rode to Rockland Monday to attend the
Wheelman's meet. They found the roads
heavy and in bad condition from washouts
| on account of Sundays rain
List of unclaimed letters remaining in the
Belfast post Office for the week ending Sept
8, 1896: Ladies-Miss Ella Brown, Mrs Josie
Peabody, Miss Maud Simmons. Gentlemen
Mr.. S. D. Chase, Mr.. Henry Gaskell, care
Capt. Heal, Mr.. W. E. Perkins, Sch Sarah
Mr.. Herbert Wagg, care Capt. Chas Ranger.
EXCURSION TO CAMDEN. The steamer
Sedgwick will leave Searsport at a. m.
to-day and Belfast at s 80 for Camden, arriv-
ing there at 10. Cars will be in readiness
for Rockport, Rockland and Thomaston,
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prison. The steamer will leave Camden on
the return trip at p III. This will give
( members of the Goth Maine RegimentaI
Association and their ladies an opportunity
to attend the 18th annual reunion of the
Regiment at Rockport. Fare to Camden and
return 90 cents.
THE BELFAST ALLIANCE. There will be a
special business meeting of the Non-Parti-
san W. c. I. Alliance at their rooms to-
morrow, Friday at 3 o'clock p. IN. A large
attendance IS desired. The Alliance has
chosen the following delegates to attend the
Non-Partisan W, c. T. L. State convention
at Caribou, Sept. 2s29-30 Mrs. E. A.
| d. burlington, Mrs. Annie NJ Griffin. Mrs.
H. P. Thompson, Miss George S. Pratt Mrs
Calvin Hubbard, Mrs. Julia McKeen, Mrs.
A. l. Brown, Mrs. b. W. Conant Alter
mates; Mrs. Charles Baker, Mrs Elisha
Conant, Mrs. j. NJ. Fletcher, Mrs. Cutter
Sibley, Mrs. James Gammans, Mrs Charles
A. Pilsbury, Mrs John Damon, Mrs. Martha
Heating.
FISH FACTS, Messrs. II. E. Mcdonald. f.
E. Cottrell and Master Carl Mcdonald of
Belfast and Capt. Geo E. Chaplin of North
Searsport are down the bay ON fishing trip
in Hoag's schooner Clara. They sailed Mon
day. %. Messrs. c. 0. Poor, W. F. Bean and
Master Fred Poor went to Quantahacook
last week for a few DAYS fishing. Mr.. A
Z. Wells Of this city while trolling recently
i'll the middle of Quantabacook Pond caught
a two pound trout. 80. W. A Macomber. who
sets net to get bait for eel traps, caught
three mackerel one night last week. He has
also taken squid and dogtish. e. The fourth
and last vessel of Nicholson's Grand Banks
fleet, the three-lnaster, n. f. Symonds,
arrived at Bucksport in a rain squall Sun
day afternoon. Like all the other of the
| fleet she wet all her salt and brings in all
she can well carry, some 2,70O quintals or
| more of nice cod and Is barrels of oil,
very large quantity for one fare. The
Symonds was 10 days on the run home from
the Banks.
CHAT. Welch & Patterson, the new pro-
prietors of the lunch car took possession last
Saturday morning. In the evening they had
free opening and served ice cream and cake
to 1872 persons. The tides are running very
low...No more Saturday half HOLIDAYS at
the shoe factory They have heard from
Vermont. Plums of native growth, for
many years scarce and high priced, are now
plentiful j. H. 4 ]. W. Jones, Main St.,
make fine window display of guns and
rifles, Geo. A. Bailey has recovered his
watch, advertised for the past two or three
weeks. 1t was in the possession of North
port man who picked itup in field where Mr.,
Bailey lost it,. Capt. Bramhall finds stone
Jars the best receptaces for most OF his
goods and has put i'll an additional number at
his market. The city lawns are as green
as in spring time Pierce & Smalley have
overhauied and repaired the heating appar-
atus of the Belfast Free Library The X.
OF P.'s are drilling preparatory to attending
the field day at Augusta Sept. 10th. :. Labor
day was not observed in Belfast except bv
the closing of the banks and public library.
80. The Kelley ak factory, East Belfast, has
started up, with prospects of good rum.
Ezra A. Carpenter of jackson has sold the
"Great Farm" so-called, to Eugene H
Fletcher, for $4,000.
STEAMER NOTES. The steamer fremont
of the Bangor & Bar Harbor line was hauled
off on Saturday. Beginning Monday the
steamer Cimbria will run three trips week.
leaving Bangor on Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays. -. The winter time for the Frank
Jones, the Maine Central's steamer on the
Rockland, Bar Harbor and Machias line
| went into effect Monday. This will give two
| trips week, as usual after the close of sum-
mer traffic. The Castine is doing better
| business this fall than was expected and it
| is probable her time will not be changed
until October 1st. -. Walter A. White of
| Boston, a member of the knights of Colum-
| bus excursion party coming from Bos-
| ton to Bangor in steamer Penobscot, fell
overheard soon after the steamer left Rock
| land Sunday morning and was with difficult
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