The Republican journal., 1897-05-27

There Will be election of officers Of
Thomas H. Marshall Relief Corps. to.mor-
row. Friday. evening. A full attendance is
requested
Prim Robbins, the little black and tan dog
owned by Mr. L. l. Robbins, died last Sat
urday night, aged about IL years Prim had
been intirm and blind for long time
The mail carriers have received their new
uniforms. which are identical in style and
color with those Of last year There is a
slight change, however. in the style of the
| badge worn on the hats.
THE ALFRED W JOHNSON FUND The
past winter, 1861 Mr.. Edward johnson
has paid out S5o4 do, as follows For coal
and wood. S4o95o, in 90 different lots and
sos in cash t. SIN Individuals
The New England Telephone and Tele-
graph Co. has put a new cable into the Cen
trai office in this city which makes large
increase of service possible. The new card
Of subscribers says: always ring off when
through talking" which means one short,
sharp ring.
Two ladies of East Belfast recently went
10 Swanvile to visit friend and on the
way We're somewhat alarmed by suspicious
noises and motions under the buggy seat
On arriving at their destination they found
a hen with newly egg under the seat
The ladies' of the North church are re-
Quested to remember the meeting Of the
Dorcas Society at Mrs, Frank f. Wilev's on
Congress street. every Saturday afternoon
at > o'clock. There is much to be done, and
the ladies are requested to bring scissors
needles, etc, with them.
Frank D. Blake Of Buffalo, \. V, former
ly of Belfast is in this city putting in cleo
trcal appliances. He has wired the Common
wealth and Windsor hotels for electric bells.
and is putting an alarm gong on the Savings
Bank building, which will be sounded for
testing at o.+5 a M. every Monday. The
alarm at any other time means that help is
wanted at the Bank,
The Carnival of the Republic as given at
Rockland last week was great success. In
its report of the entertainment the Courier
Gazette says THE charming Young skirt
dancer, whose identity next kept the audi
ence guessing, a professional brought
here by the Williams Carnival Co." Our
Rockand contemporary use of the word
professional is misleading. but Belfast peo-
PIE will readily guess the identity of the
dancer.
Mrs. W. H. Moody has bought the Capt.
John w Ferguson house on Congress street
and will occupy it; and F. r. Wiggin,
cashier of the Peoples National Bank, has
bought and will occupy what is known as
the Hodgdon house on Congress street. The
Fergusons il is understood will not move to
Massachusetts at present. DR.. A o. Stod-
dard, who has occupied the Hodgdon house
for a number of Years, will move to the
Wiley house on the same street.
In an article on the coming Maine Chorus
: Festival an exchange gives the following
facts in regard to the work of Prof. Chap
man, who is managing the affair:
Since last October Prof. Chapman has con-
Quoted 260 times and travelled over 100000
miles by rail. He has also kept up his
teaching and composing and has been to
; Maine three times, conducting in 20 different
Clues anu LOW uS, III TbUtdTSdlS IOr Tue COM
ing festival. His work conductor has
included such eminent associations the
Apollo and Reubensteln Clubs of New York,
the Apollo Sixteen and Reubenstein Club of
Poughkeepsie, and other famous musical
organizations.
GROVE CEMETERY. More than the usual
amount of work in extending Grove Gene
terry was laid out this year. A number of lots
have been sold on the knoll west of the old
yard, and the avenue in the old cemetery
next to and parallel with Belmont avenue
, will be extended across the new part and
another entrance made opposite the knoll
The top of the knoll will be laid out in oval
> form, and the avenues on each side extend
ed to the avenue which runs past the Grand
Army lot, and which has been built west
ward to meet these two. New avenues will
also be built on each side of the Grand A rmv
| lot northward to intersect another to be ex.
tended from the old yard. Many of the lots
have been improved, and several new monu-
ments have been set, both in the old Gene.
terry and i'll the extension; and on Memorial
Day everything will be in the best possible
condition.
ADJUSTMENTS. There were three euter.
tainments at the Belfast Opera House last
week. Wednesday night Trilby, play in 4
, acts, dramatized from Du Mauriers novel
was the attraction, and drew a good house
Some were enthusiastic as to the play and
others the reverse. The latter were IN ainly
those who had not read the novel. Friday
night the Canadian Jubilee Singers gave a
very enjoyable concert. The program in
cluded number of old plantation melodies
some new features by the full chorus, and a
number of solos. j. A. Cockbin, bass, Miss
F. Stewart soprano, and j. E. Lightfoot
bass, soloists, were fine singers, and F. N
Warner, trombone and opherclide solost, a
fine performer. 1t is one of the best troupes
of the kind that has visited Belfast for a
long time. Those who went to the Belfast
Opera House last Saturday evening to meet
"Our Friend from India" got their moneys
worth of fun. The company is an excellen
one and the play is full of snap and go.
What can be more enjoyable than to be
comfortably seated in a big armchair in a