The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-14
Mrs. Wards letter appears this week "a
Usual, and as usual is full of interest

| The Seaside c. L. s. C. will meet With
Mrs. j. McKeen April 18th. If storm
April 10Th.
| James P. Wight bought handsome
matched pair of heavy work horses of w R
| Twombly Of Monroe Tuesday.
| The New York Life Insurance co has
paid the heirs of the late L. A. KnowIton
his lie insurance IN that company of 50 600.
| The Universalist parish will have
Dime Sociable Friday evening, at the home
of Miss Sarah Gardner, High street. All are
| invited.
| new letter-box has been placed in the
corridor of Memorial building for depositiup
notes, letters, etc, for the Superintendent
Of Schools.
The pupils on the common began march
ing into school to the sound of the drum
Monday. The marching was suspended
during mud time.
l.. L. Gentner sent home Tuesday from
Boston eight large coach horses Two
were for Bert Black and the others for use in
Mr.. &. g business, or for sale
About twenty of the young friends of Miss
Mary kilgore met at her home on Bridge
street Monday and passed a very enjoyable
evening, with games, refreshments, etc
The young people of the North Church are
planning for poverty supper and enter
tainment to be given in Memorial Hail
Wednesday evening, April 9th.
George F. Black is changing the roof of
his house on Commercial street. 1t was
mansard with fat top, but the pitch has
been raised considerably and the roof
slated.
c. E. Perkins was to have opened his store
at Northport Camp Ground this week, but
is now at his home in this city sick with the
measles. He will no doubt be able to attend
to business soon.
The Waldo County Teachers Association
will meet in the High school room in Bel
fast Friday May Goth. Prominent educators
from abroad are expected to be present
Fuller particulars will be given soon.
The NJ. E. Musical Society will meet for
| dime character sociable with Miss Lillian
Spinney at "A Union street Friday evening
April 18th. All friends are cordially invited
to be present and participate in the enjoy
ment. Refreshments will be served
The letter from Alaska on the Sd page re-
lates the experience of two plucky Young
men who seem we'll equipped for the hard
ships of mining in Alaska. Next week we
shall publish an interesting letter from Col.
H. E. Mcdonald, giving his experiences in
| Alaska.
Miss Mary A. Danforth,I for We years a
Missionary in Japan, will deliver one of her
thrilling and instructive lectures in the
Methodist church i'll this city on Friday
evening, April 22d. She is conceded to be
one of the most talented speakers for the
missionary cause. Those who have had the
pleasure of listening to Miss Danforth say
that she is the equal of Miss Frances E
Willard.
The cabinet organ agent who tried to get
up an excitement here by telling people that
he was government officer inspecting the
Notifications, failed dismaly. Like the
traditional parrot in the monkey story he
talked too much. He thus threw suspicion
on the genuineness of his claims. He did 60
to the battery, but his business savored not
of a foreign war. He was trying to sell
Elbridge Pitcher an organ.
The coal hopper Lewis wharf was
dumped overheard todily Monday and drift
ed across the harbor to the reef opposite the
railroad wharf, where it grounded. AS seen
from up town it looked like a wrecked yes
sci badly stove up, and great was the Won
derment as to what it was and how it got
there. The hopper was getting weak and
dangerous and was taken down from the
wharf as matter of safety.
The ladies of Thomas H. Marshall Relief
Corps will have dinner and sale of fancy
articles, aprons, etc, in Memorial Hall
Thursday, April Dist Dinner will be served
to all at % cents each. The Corps will have
meeting to make arrangement for the
same in Memorial Hall to morrow, Friday,
afternoon, at which full attendance is
desired. Should the weather be stormy on
Friday the meeting will be held the lay
following at the usual hour.
The County Commissioners opened their
regular April term at the Court House Tues
pSoiololi
Waldo to discontinue the highway in that
town laid out to avoid railroad crossings, the
Commissioners decided not to order a dis.
continuance. A petition was presented
from the selectmen of Searsmont and others
to discontinue a highway laid out by the
Commissioners, on petition, in 1896. The
road was laid out from the house of l.. B.
Morse to the Muzzy Ridge road, at the foot
of the ridge on the north side. 1t has not
been built. The date of the hearing is not
yet fixed. The Commissioners desire that
all bills against the county be presented to-
day, if possible.
ACCIDENTS. Mrs. Bertha Light fell and
broke her left leg near the ankle the even
ing of April 9th. She was az the home OF
her daughter. Mrs. l.. H. Jipson, and slipped
on walk between the back door and the
woodshed,. -. Charles A. Mckinley was
seriously injured last Monday forenoon. He
was delivering milk on Bay View street and
his horse became frightened at some loose
electric wires and started to run while Mr..