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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-05-27
The Observance of Memorial Day

M. Q. Dilworth, Adjutant of Thomas H.
Marshall Post, G. A. R., has handed us the
following extracts from the General Orders,
the remainder of the document which in
cludes the program, having been published
in The Journal last week.
HEADQUARTERS THos H MARSHALL POST NO.
A., DEPARTMENT OF MAINE, G. A. r.
In accordance with General Orders from
National headquarters announcing May 81
as Memorial Day.
Memorial Day is not a day to be spent in
idle sport or frivolity, but it is day to fit
tingly honor the memory of those W no fell
defending the best government ever devised
by mortal man.
Comrades of the Post and all ex-soldiers
and sailors, if not members of the Post, who
served in the late war, are invited to unite
with US in the ceremonies of the day.
On Sunday, May 30th, all comrades and
eX-soldlers and sailors, will meet at Memo
rial hall at 10 a. III. sharp, form and march
to st. Francis Catholic church to attend the
morning service, where the memorial ser
mon will be preached by Rev. FIR. kealy
by invitation of the Post.
Grateful to the ladies of Belfast for past
favors, we again kindly ask you to furnish
flowers an humble tribute of respect to
the memory of those who have answered
the last rol-call Those who furnish flowers
ioi VIC otCdSloH " III please ltdNt lut same
at Memorial Hall Saturday afternoon or early
Monday morning.
We invite to our assistance in this pat
riotic work that noble band of workers, the
omans Relief Corps who have done so
much toward the success of our great organ
ization, and also the Sons of Veterans, who
must soon take up the work which the raw
ages of time shall compel us to lay down.
committee of comrades from Thos II
Marshall Post will decorate the graves of
deceased soldiers in the towns of Morrill,
and Waldo Sunday afternoon. 1t is hoped
and assist the committee.
NATIONAL MEMORIAL HYMN
The following hymn, written for and ded-
icated to the Grand Army of he Republic,
will be sung by many Posts throughout the
country Memorial Day. 1t is copyrighted
by J. Edward Estes, Fall River, Mass, and
published by permission
God bless the soldiers brave,
Who did our Union save
From thraldom'S wrongs!
They dearly loved the land
Where Freedoms glories stand,
And praise on every hand
To them belongs.
May angels deck each mound
That was not by found,
With choicest flowers:
Long may the page of fame
Preserve each heros name,
Who freed from slavery's shame
This land of ours
Like leaves in autumn blast
Their ranks are thinning fast
We miss them all
But "Sons will take their place,
March with their measured pace,
All battle dangers face,
Should duty call.
We thank Thee that to-day
The clangor OF the fray
Is heard no more
May peace and Union be
The watchword of he free,
And all our land agree
From shore to shore.
Long may "Old Glory wave
over the land these brave
Old comrades Won:
Long may Columbia stand
Firm as a rOck-huund strand.
guide to every land
Beuea h the sun.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-05-27

The Utah State Journal prints a full-page
portrait of DR.. Amasa S. Condor of Ogden,
Utah, and also picture of his handsome
home in that city. The doctor is a native of
Hancock county, and a frequent contributor
to The American. He is now candidate
for governor of Uncle Sans far-off territory
of Alaska. Ellsworth American.
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Circulation in City and County
austnts of To-Day's journal,

PAGE l.
Week Meeting Of Waldo County
N-N BUildlngs and improvements.
nerlnfendent Stetson..A Presenta-
Name Wheelmen Spring Meet. Base
iu Real Estate The Observance
p8y Memorial Day Exercises in
Nue taautauqua Assembly. Our Con
Personal.
FACE ,.
res. Bravery of Women. Insurance
lr camden Cucumber9...A Noble
-,a cold Properties.
PAGE g.
uatema la...To Shut ont the East
so w Maryland.
PAGE f.
Yachts and Boats. Concerning Local
.- obituary.. Memorial Day Nofthport
Belfast schools. Secret Societies
Bells. Belfast Free Library The
PAGE 5.
s..e- Belfast.
PAGE 6.
-.al e> of Voyaging and Yachting.
NR- and Notes. Register Of Deep Wa
My Lost Love poem.
PAGE7.
Stvie The PenobscOt Bay Yacht
Njykerson Family Reunion Sugar
PAGE 5.
.U- Locals County Correspondence. Ship
f.lsrts Births. Marriages Deaths,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-05-27

Providence is the home of many Maine
people and met here an old time college
friend, DR.. Edmund Abbott, formerly of
Winterport, Ne, and now enjoying large
and lucrative practice, being eligibly located
on Broadway. G. c. Couilard, formerly of
the Boston Herald, and widely known
among Maine people, is now editor of the
Providence Evening Telegram. E. NJ
Blanding in The Industrial Journal.
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PERSONAL.

Fred D. Jones spent Sunday with friends
in Brooksvlle.
Mrs. H. E. Mcdonald went to Bangor
Saturday for visit.
Frank Meservey was at home from Port
land to spend Sunday.
Mrs. A. NJ Holyoke of Bangor is visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. p. Walton.
Mrs. F. E. Cottrell went to Rockand last
Saturday to visit her sister.
Miss Annie Pendleton arrived from Bos-
ton Saturday for short visit.
Miss Mary Twombly left Saturday for a
visit to friends in Somerville, Mass.
Augustus c. Knight arrived from Boston
Monday evening for short vacation
Arnold Harris and family arrived from
New York Tuesday, to spend the summer
Mrs John A. Mace of Brunswick Is visit
ing her daughter, Mrs Ambrose Morrison.
Mrs. F. W. Pote began her seasons work
Saturday matron on steamer City Of BAN
gor.
Mr.. j. A. Gammans arrived Saturday
morning from Chicago for two weeks
visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. p. Ingraham of Rockland
visited friends in Belfast and vicinity last
week
MI. and Mrs Frank T.aa of Rar,,or. .,.,s;t.,4
friends in Ralfos+ ana pa,,,o,- 49, ,+
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weeks.
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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-05-27
We, the undersi gned, agree to pay the
amount SET against our names for the pur-
pose of buying bicycle suit for c. B. Hall
for his llSe ,luriuer the SIMMER of 1907.

This suit was bought from Staples & Cot
trell, and if too large they agree to order
smaller size from the factory.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-05-27

Earned runs Lewistons 2, Belfasts s. Two base
hits, Edgar, Sullivan, McDermott, Mazena. Hill
8: Three base hits, Dolan. Home run. Pulsier.
France, Kane McDermott, Hill 2, Collopy Double
plays. Callopy: Double plays, Calopy and Ritchie,
Bases on called balls, sullivan, McCracken 2,
Richie. Bases on hit by pitched balls, Dolan,
Gilbert Gastonguay. Struck out, by Mulhall
Sullivan, Thorne, Edgar by Conroy, Callopy
Webster, Gastonguay. Wild pitches by Mulhall
2, by Conroy5. Passed balls, Edgar . Time 22o.
Umpire, Carpenter.
At Augusta Saturday the Belfasts were
easily defeated by the local team. Follow
ing is the score
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-05-27

Castine recently and set up the two iron
dragons he made for Col- Bolan's cottage
They are placed one on either side OF the
driveway approaching the house.
Mrs Mary Cushman CLAIMS the honor OF
being the oldest person livlng III the town of
Montville, having passed her 95th birthday,
May 9th. She enjoys good heath, her eye
sight and hearing are remarkably good and
her intellect as keen as ever
Miss Maud johnson has returned from
Providence, Il. l., where She has been study
ing music under the instruction of MISS
Fannie G. Berry of Camden. Miss John
son will continue her studies with Miss
Berry, who will he at Camden this suuu,er.
We learn from the Brunswick Telegraph,
that the author of "a Slight Romance" of
which brief mention is made in our literary
notes, is the daughter of DR.. Dalton, rector
of st. Stephens Episcopal church. Portland.
former rector of st. johns, Bangor.
Leander Staples arrived Saturday, on his
way home to Monroe from two weeks bust
ness trip in Massac chusetts, and spent Sun
day in Belfast His patent halter is having
a great run this season. He has sold out all
he had on hand and is now working ON
orders.
Capt. L. NJ Burgess of sch. F. c. Pendle-
ton left for Providence, Il. l., last Thursday,
after briet vacation spent in Belfast and
lslesbor0. He was accompanied bv his son
Alverdo M, who recently graduated from
the Bangor Commercial College, and who
Will make trip as second mate.
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and shapely trees, surrounded by gar
dens of the most delicate and costly
flowers ever known, almost while he
waits Here nature does, in the way of
adornment of the home and making the
grounds veritable bit of paradise, what
years of toll and patient endeavor would
not do in other regions, under other suns
and in other soils. Land in the vicinity
of Pomona is not held at extravagant
PRICES and one may secure a good home
at an outlay of a moderate amount of
money.
POMONA BUSINESS NOTES
Pomona is served with three bright
and progressive newspapers, the Times,
Progress and Beacon, each of which has
done yeoman service IL spreading
abroad the name and fame Of their fair
city ard worked like Trojans in up
building its every interest
If visitors to Pomona will go to the Eu-
ropean hotel they will have the pleasure
of viewing one of the finest cabinets of
rare curios ever exhibited. Mr.. ]. J..
Ceyle, the proprietor, has been a great
traveller in his time. having visited every
country under the sun, save one, and one
of the results of these tours is the COL
lection Of this cabinet, embracing curios
from all parts of the world. There is, a
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southeast. They are runring full time
ard have all the fruit they can handle.
w. NJ Avis, who has fruit store ad-
joining the postoffice, has been in the
business for years and handles quite a
volume of fruit, shipping to Arizona ana
New Mexico, especially berries and
green deciduous fruits in season. 1t is
the Oldest esta bls'hed fruit business in
the city. j. w. Tincher, F. E. Ellsworth
ard E. E.. Grape all have retail fruit
stores and DO some shipping in a small
way, but only to nearby trade The
Seth Richards estate has a 300 acre or
ange grove above North Pomona ard a
private packing house on the Santa Fe
track there.
Ir, addition to the limited capacity of
the yards and arrangements for hand
ling apricots, there is a scarcity of labor,
especially of such as are competent to
cut fruit, say women and children, who
could earn from rs cents to s1.25 per day.
The demand for this, labor about ten
days ago was very urgent, and had there
been 200 applicants each ore of them
could have got work without trouble.
This great industry, so successfully
carried on in the Pomona valley, is what
las built up the city of Pomona to a
thriving, prosperous city of 1000 people.
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into bearing, and the older trees BECOME

into bearing, and the older trees BECOME
fuller bearers, the total yield of oranges
in Pomona valley will be upwards of
5000 carloads. The growth of the decid-
uous fruits is also a matter of pride
among Pomonans. In no other part of
the Golden state, so eminent horticul-
tural experts say that oranges and lem
ons be found growing SO luXuriantly
alongside of immense orchards of peach
es, apricots and prunes, which in turn
are not to be equaled anywhere in the
world for wonderful productiveness and
steady bearing. There are localities
where lemons only may be cultivated
with marked success, where the soil is
adapted only for oranges, or where the
climate is suitable only for apricote or
pears, but in Pomona valley they all
grow with such thrift and bear such an
abundance OF fruit that one hesitates
to say what variety of fruit is really
best adapted to Pomona.
I, During the summer months the hand
ling of the enormous peach, prune ana
apricot crops keeps thousands of hands
busy and makes the fruit drying estab-
lishments and canneries about as busy
hives of industry as were ever seen.
The yield of apricots this season in the
vicinity of Pomona is about 1000 tons;
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J Hawaii were upon the point of conclud-
ing a treaty of annexation, a rumor the
circumstantiality of which had caused
| it to be the subject for an interview be-
tween them before the note was sent to
the secretary. In the note itself the
minister stated that the japanese gov
eminent could not view without concern
| the prospects of a sudden and complete
change in the status of Hawaii, whereby
the rights of Japan and of japanese sub
| jectS may be imperled, and that while
they confidently relied upon the United
States to maintain towards them just
and friendly attitude, they felt that I'M
der the circumstances they could not be
regarded as spectators merely, without
| interest in the important change which
was about to be made. For these rea-
sons the minister said he felt himself
justified in inquiring of the secretary
what provision had been made for the
preservation and maintenance of the
rights acquired by Japan under treaty.
| In Secretary Shermans reply, which
was dated the following day, it was an
nounced that the treaty of annexation
had been signed. In regard to the par
ticular inquiry made by the minister the
secretary said his understanding was
| that the government of the United
States did not take upon itself any obli-
cations of the Hawaiian government
arising from treaties and conventions
made by it with other governments, but
that it was believed that there was moth
| ing in the proposed treaty prejudicial to
the rights of Japan, and that certainly
the United States had no disposition to
disturb the friendly relations which had
| long existed between Japan and this
country.
This reply of Secretary Sherman was
not satisfactory to the Japanese govern
ment for in three days thereafter the
minister having communicated with the
Japanese minister for foreign affairs In
the meantime, he laid before the secre-
tary his formal protest against the an
nexation of the islands. Thls protest
was based upon three grounds, viz:
First, that the maintenance of the
status quo of Hawaii is essential to the
good understanding of the powers which
have interests in the Pacific Second,
that the annexation of Hawaii would
tend to endanger the residential COM
mercial and industrial rights of Japan
csc subjects in Hawaii, secured to them
by treaty and by the constitution and
laws of that country. Third, that such
annexation might lead to the postpone
ment by Hawaii of the settlement of
claims and liabilities already existing in
favor of Japan under treaty stipulations
The protest concluded with an emphatic
and unequivocal reputation of the sug-
gestion or report that Japan had designs
against the integrity or sovereignty of
Hawaii and 9, declaration that Japan
has not now and never had such designs
or designs of any kind whatever against
Hawaii. In this shape the incident re-
mains for the present. 1t is scarcely con-
ceivable that the protest of Japan can
have any appreciable effect upon the
fate of the treaty.-Bradstree
The herald., 1897-07-25

From about thirty acres of orange trees
a few acres of apricots, about forty
acres of peaches and other fruit in 1880
the horticultural industry of Pomona
has so grown that it now comprises lit
orally thousand sof acres of the most
luxuriant and beautiful orange groves
that man ever looked upon, about 2000
acres of thrifty full bearing apricot or
chards great areas of the historic olive,
hundreds of acres of peaches, twice as
many more of prunes, while thousand
more acres are covered by strong an
prolific pear orchards, lemon groves
mighty profitable fruit nowadays-and
all manner of small fruits. The orange
crop of Pomona was shipped in two car
loads in 1858. This last season there
was grown in this locality over 1900 car
loads. New groves have been planted
to oranges every year, and it has been
closely estimated that in a few years
more, when all the young groves come
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ready sold and contracted for. The firm
of Loud & Gerling is probably the old
est firm drying fruit in this valley. They
have warehouse on the Southern Pa
cific tracks in the city and have drying
yards with a large capacity about one
mile southeast. The largest part of the
product they handle is acquired by pur-
chase, besides which the firm this year
dries for growers on either percentage
or per ton basis. F. Schwan & Son, who
are dealers in green and dried fruit
handle both deciduous and citrus fruits,
but are not operating very heavily at
this time and drying very little fruit, if
any, this season. j. d. McClenney &
Co. and c. X. Short also operate in both
citrus and deciduous fruits, each with a
warehouse on the Southern Pacific
tracks, but neither of them do any dry
ing. Crawford & O'Donnell have dry
ing yard on their grounds adjoining the
corporate limits of Pomona on the
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Thousands of Acres of
Fruit and Big Crops
A CITY OF ELEGANT HOMES
LARGE CANNERIES AND DRYING
ESTABLISHMENTS
Many Hundreds of Men and Women
Find Employment in These
Hives of Industry

1t was a pleasant senSa alton when on
arriving in Pomona the writer found en-
ployers seeking for laborers. Not that
he wanted a job himself but that for so
long he had moved in fields where the
laborer sought for work and found it
not. Verify, the hard times seem to have
passed by in Pomona. Said a restau-
rateur: IAN orchardist, a cannery
man and two fruit dryers each left word
with me during the day to send them all
the men 1 came across" The hotel man
remarked: Il have orders to eend out
all the men and women 1 can find for
immediate work at good pay" Stroll
ing into the postoffice to inquire for mail,
two big hand-written posters near the
general delivery window met our gaze.
Read one: Fifty men wanted immedi-
ately by the Fruit Growers associa-
ton" And the other: Fifty men wanted
by the North Pomona Packers associa-
ton" Surely his satanic majesty has no
business in Pomona There are no idle
hands here for him to monkey with.
The section of country of which Po
mona is the commercial center is just
now in the midst of the picking, drying
and canning season for deciduous fruits,
which accounts for the extraordinary
demand for help. 1t is one of the richest
and most prosperous fruit growing sec
lions of the state. While the development
of the fruit growing interests of South
ern California in the past decade has
been simply wonderful the growth and
extension of the fruit industry in Po-
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peaches, 1000 tons, and about 1000 tons
of prunes.
The remarkable success attending the
fruit industry in this beautiful valley
and along the foothills surrounding Po-
mona is due to the great richness of the
soil and the prevailing climatic condi-
lions.
Too much cannot be said in praise of
this lovely climate nor of the grand
mountain scenery.
Pomona is city Of beautiful homes.
The attractions that it offers to people
seeking to have a steady income and
a beautiful home for little outlay of
capital cannot be told in few hundred
words. The fertility Of the soil of Po-
mona valley has no superior anywhere
Anything that will provide food and the
finest food, too) for man or beast will
grow luxuriantly. A man may have a
house EMPOWERED by most fragrant
flowers, shaded by the most ornamental
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ABOUT PROSPEROUS POMONA

a large and commodious curing and
packing house on the Santa Fe tracks
at North Pomona.
These associations market their
output through the San Antonio
Fruit exchange, in whose Of
fees we find the banner stating that they
took the first prize as the best exchange
exhibit at the state citrus fair held in
Los Angeles in March, 1895, at which
| exhibit the Pomona Fruit exchange.
above referred to- took first prize for
the best locality exhibit, all in competi-
ton with the entire state. These prizes
were pointed to with pride, and it is
believed were won because of the united
effort possible by cooperation to make
such locality exhibits. The San Antonio
Fruit exchange has since its organiza-
ton, nearly four years ago, marketed
about 1900 cars of oranges, and lemons
at prices that average the growers so
much above what returns for shipments
| before their organization realized, that
there should be no question in the mind
of any grower in this valley where he
/ should stand with the citrus industry.
The deciduous growers associa tons
are the Pomona Fruit Growers associa-
| ton and the North Pomona Deciduous
association. The former has large dry
ing yards in the southern part of the
| city, while the latter's grounds are at
North Pomana, adjoining the Santa Fe
tracks, Both have large membership,
which is increased very materially
within the past few days and many APP
plicants have been turned away on ac
count of there not being sufficient ca
pacity to accommodate all those apply
| ing
| We find the condition of the apricot
! growers here in a somewhat chaotic
state. The associations have made am
pie preparations and are taking care
of all their old members and as many
new growers is they could accommodate
The buyers seem to either have their
hands full, or do not care about buying
more fruit, so that large number of
growers who have not made prepare
lions for drying their product, not being
able to sell the same or gain admittance
to the associations, are at a loss what
/ to do, and quite a number are allowing
their fruit to drop and rot on the ground
! This IS lesson which should teach those
growers who are not members of the
/ cooperative associations that the lat
| ter is the only way in which they can
count and depend upon handling thei,
! crop and they should lose no time III
making preparations for next year. Ell
ther by affiliating with the associat ions
already formed, or, where it is more de-
sirable, form new ones, so as not to be
caught mapping again and at the mercy
| of buyers or spectators.
II addition to the above named asso-
Citations there is the Pomona canning
este blishment. owned ard operated by
| G. H. Waters & Co. These men have
large and commodious three-story brick
building. situated on the Southern Pa
citic tracks, with a canning capacity of
| 20, 600 cans per day In addition to this
they dry quite a volume of fruit that is
not of sufficiently good quality for can
nirg. They will dry 200 tons this season.
! Their output is sold mostly direct to
eastern jobbers, where they have estab-
lished quite a reputation, and large
percentage of this years output is al