The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-09-30

La unclaimed letters remaining in the
.t-- most Office for the week ending Sept.
N..- H. A, Orcutt.
-.aus have been granted as follows
.e Carter, Troy; Joel S. Pray. Rock
... ginal, widows, etc, Lydia A.
.s, FAIRFIELD.
Clark Camp, S. of v, has voted
ve a Thanksgiving ball. The camp
appear in uniform, and the Department
. hrs will be invited.
upper will be served at the Universal
. -slry this, Thursday, evening at 6
s 10 be followed by musical pro-
,- Admission, % cents to all.
a-t Nickerson of East Belfast reports
,.4. has a Holstein heifer from which he
.4 lpo pounds of butter in 100 days be-
- sing all the milk from her that the
a 4 three wanted.
ranberry raisers report very small
year, with many imperfect berries.
.- RI the crop was very large and the
Ell low. The berries sold last week
- per quart, retail,
oody of Walter S. Cool1son. who was
Years quartermaster on the Bos-
Bangor steamers, and who recently
.. Boothbay, was brought to Islesboro
.- aes5 for burial.
American Express Co. began business
AT their new stand in the Harris store
which has baaro IL,
ISIS style. 1t is much larger than the
and fully as centrally located
of The Maine papers have been favor
..l- copy Of a souvenir program issued
management of the Maine Music
rls bat The Journal is not one of
We learn, however, from our ex-
hat among the portraits in the pro-
me of X. P. Chase of this city.
-e belonging to d. f. Sheldon had a
lift accident last Saturday. The hired
feeding the horses from the seat
se5e the stalls aud the horse lifted
-4l quickly Just as the man passed a
down. \ tine of the fork entered
r,rS head Just above the eye and it is
the ght of that eye is destroyed.
nliar looking snake about feet long
CHIT i'll Custom House square Sunday
Ii. The body was slim, the head
fine general color light gray with
-lWts on the back like spotted ad-
ID the belly was marked in brown and
lecks about Ii by 1-} of an inch, the
--r way extending across the body. The
was put in box and was on exhibit
F. A. Follett's until Tuesday noon,
died.
ENTIoN, VETERANsl The Waldo
.-.-1 Veterans Association will hold their
meeting with the Geo. G. Davis
Brooks, Oct. I, 1897 Business meeting
-- forenoon, including election of Of
IN the afternoon short program
furnished by the Post; after that
IS by the comrades. The address of
will be given by John H. Gordon
use by the President Baked beans,
WIG bread, tea and coffee will be furnish
hy the Post, Comrades will bring their
astry. The Post is doing all it can to en-
tain the comrades and good attendance
iesired. If stormy, the meeting will be
-- The next fair day. Lorenzo Jones,
EAST BELFAST. George Leavett left Fri
RS jon Two weeks vacation and will spend
-ast Of his time hunting in northern
t..s-,.. The Sunday school in the Mason
district met with the Christian Eu-
On what is known as the bar in
e.E-part Saturday for a picnic dinner and
AXE. Fifty-tive We're present and all
having a fine time. Mrs. Chalmers
S visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Wilder Parker
" nr1e for a few days, MI. and Mrs.
Blackburn Of Thomaston, who
Nteu visiting Mrs. B 4 sister, Mrs Mary
Derrick, returned home Tuesday. Mrs.
i-a-9 Nickersons brother of Greenbush is
FISH - her for a few days. Mrs. George
avert, who has been visiting in Conneeti-
Ior he past three weeks, returned home
Thursday.
MATRIMONIAL MATTERS IN IsLEsBoRo. An
Is bOr0 CORES pondent of the Bangor Com
.--ial says:
ii Whitcomb of Searsport is visiting i'll
aud by the way it is whispered that he
take one of our young ladies' away in
early days of October. Wedding bells
-e- 4 to be ringing often in Islesboro Just
". Well, We like to hear them, but we
p Ike to see many of them leaving
j-"n TO make their new homes in other
aces however, if they must CO. good luck
with them.
Forrest Duncan, the barber, was married
tsJ Sunday TO Miss Lura Trim daughter of
E0hert Trim of Islesboro. 1t was very
\ let affair, but there is always some little
rd flies about to spread such news quickly
5''' when the bridegroom opened his store
lo0r Monday morning he was met with
wers of rice and a volley of old shoes.
lere was also a wedding at the lower part
tlie town last week, the contracting
trrl4s being Mrs. Dora Randlett and George
trtIletOn
SHIPPING ITEMS. William Beazley ESQ.,,
hucksport came to Belfast last Thursday
Inspected the schooner Willie l.. New
She has been calked, fastened in keel
al llges, and given a thorough overhaul
by Carter & Co. Her new rate is one
t-1I better than her owners expected, Al
years. She sailed Saturday for North
81 Jhbay, where she takes an undertook
r5e of ice, thence for Portland for deck
NJ Of lumber, for Port Spain, Trinidad.
Penobscot arrived Sept. 22d with coal
-i swan & Sibley Co. from Philadelphia
Sch. Fannie & Edith arrived Sept. % /, light,
p Rockland, to repair, after which she will