The Republican journal., 1897-06-24

Belfast p. O. for the week ending June 10
1897 conference.-the. I. H. Mcguire care
| American House.
A special meeting of Sheridan F. Miller
Command, U. V. o., will be held Friday
evening, June 25th, at o'clock A full at
tendance is requested.
In a notice of the July 5th celebration at
Ellsworth the Enterprise of that city says
The Belfast band is one of the finest in
New England. 1t will render twenty-six
pieces. They will play at Wyman park in
the afternoon and in the evening will give a
| concert down town.
The Belfast Band gave their irst out of
doors concert on the common last Friday
evening. The band stand, which had been
considerably damaged since last season, has
been put in good repair. There was large
and appreciative audience, and they were
delightfully."- entertained.
Alvin I. Condor moved into his new
house on Northport avenue last week.
Samuel Adams is to move in the II. A. Car
ter house on High street, vacated by Mr..
Condor, and Elmer A. Sherman is to take
possession of his house, which he lately
bought of Hon. VIM. B. Swan.
Pike Bros. of Searsport shipped three
cows to Libby Bros. of Waterville Saturday.
D. c. Greenlaw received six oxen from Blue
hill the same day, but drove them to his
farm to await shipment later. W. A. Ar
nold's shipment the past week was 1000
pounds of wool.
| We have been shown bean stalk grown
in one of the schoolrooms in this city as an
object lesson in nature studies 1t stands
about foot in height and at the close
of school had a number of pods from
to inches in length. The pupils had the
chance to watch and study the growth from
| the planting of the seed to the nearly matur-
ed bean-pod
The Crowell Emery Mason Company
with Floy Crowell and Edwin Emery as
stars, appeared in Belfast Opera House
| Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings.
The plays We're La Belle Russo, Molly
! Bawn, and Tennessee Heiress. The shad-
! owgraphs We're amusing. A matinee was
announced for Saturday afternoon, but was
not given on account of the small attend
ance.
FISH FACTS. The Rockand Star reports
that the first mackerel caught III that vicin-
| ity this season We're taken from Kacklif's
| weir at Pleasant Beach the first of last eek
| 1.-The present is said to be the best fishing
| season ever known at Afford lake One day
recently seven land-louAed salmon We're
caught there which varied from two pounds
4, l,oI
l, S, Fish Commission schooner Grampus
was at Rockland last week. June 18th the
schooner liberated i'll Maine waters 80 thous-
and lobster fry. The schooner has collected
100000 eggs since April, and the Holsters
| which are Matched from these eggs will also
be placed in Maine alters. The Grampus
is now working to the westward collecting
eggs. The schooner covers the ground from
Bar Harbor to Cape Elizabeth, making con-
tinuohs trips. Sloop Now Then arrived
Sunday from Isle au Haut with about 1000
pounds of fresh and corned fish. W. E.
Page and James W Jones returned Sunday
from fishing trip to Mt Desert in Mr. P. 8
boat, the ale. They We're able to fish but a
half day on account of the weather, but
| louIu SOUu lSu1uS W ME II lasted
STEAMER NOTES. The first number of the
| Boston & Bangor Steamship CO.. Journal,
which is printed by 7. j Hurley of Bangor,
was issued June 18th. 1t gives the follow
ing report of the time made by the different
boats on the line: The average time of ar
rival at Bangor Of the City of Bangor,
through the whole season was 10 Is a. N 4:
the average time of arrival at Bangor of the
| Penobscot was II 56 a. III. The earliest ar
rivals of the City of Bangor We're at 1905
Sept. p 10 10, May -, and 10 II May 10
There We're numerous other arrivals at to
10 minutes later. For the first time in
their history, the steamers City of Bangor
and Penobscot from June 2jth to Sept I
Will be able to fly the I. s. Mail pennant,
by reason of contract with the U S gov
eminent to carry the mails. One hundred
and six post-otfces will be supplied by this
service, at an improvement of from one to
| twelve hours over the usual railroad or stage
routes. Rockand will be the distributing
point for the most of the mails, via electrics
to Rockport and Camden, then to Lincoln
vile, Northport; also Hope, North Appleton.
etc. The boat service does not dispace the
other routes, but is mainly an auxiliary.
-. The new steamship John Englis of the
Maine Steamship Co., arrived at Pier IS.
East river, New York, at 1870 P M. June
18th, from Portland, having accomplish
ed the trip in IS hours aud 80 minutes,
and covering a distance of 1913 miles from
dock to dock, Hereafter she will sail from
| New York on Monday and Friday. and
from Portland on Wednesday and Saturday.
Her owners are of the opinion that she will
within a month make the trip in Is hours
Her average speed on this trip was II knots
per hour The Silver Star will make an
excursion tomorrow, Friday, from Castine,
via Ryder's Cove, Hewes' Point, and Dark
| Harbor, to Crescent Beach near Owls Head
returning after the dance. The time -table
of the Silver Star will be changed to two
round trips per day on July 1st. She will
arrive in Belfast at 90 a. H. and %, M. and
leave at 10 a.. N. and p. NJ. The Hector
came to Belfast Saturday night to take the
| Crowell- Emery Mason theatre troupe to
Bar Harbor. On account of the rough
weather Sunday morning she did not leave
hare until avanipu