The Republican journal., 1898-12-15
The Republican Journal Thursday December IS, 1898

The ladies' sewing circle of the North
church will meet with Mrs. Edward Shl.u
High street, this, Thursday, afternoon from
| to o'clock.
Fred Atwood's calendar for 1899 is a VOL,
OF art. 1t has the reproduction of a n.;,.
ing illustrating this line from a poem nv
James Whitcomb Riley. "When the frost !.
ON the punkin and the folders in ,he
! shock" Mr.. Atwood represents fire l,f
marine, accident and steam boiler insurance
Companies, and is prepared to furnish sur.tv
bonds. His companies are all first cl ..
and represent over So 900 600 of assets
| COLD WAVE AND STORM. A cold w
struck here Monday morning, when the
| mercury IN some places reached zero for the
hrst time this season Mr.. Murchs record
taken at a. m, l and p. M, was 80 100
and 10y above. In the evening light snou
/ began falling and there was brisk nor.heas,
| "lnd during the night and early Tuesd.v
morning. About inches of snow fan ana
| drifted some. The mercury stood at 70 ob,,,o
on Tuesday morning
FLAG RAISING. The people of Poors MiJls
will raise flag over the schoolhouse 70.
morrow afternoon at l 80 O'Clock. weather
permitting The flag is 7 2x12 feet and was
bought by the proceeds of an entertainment
given recently at the schoolbousa Tba
program OF the entertainment consisted Of
music recltations, dialogues, readings, etc,
anu the participants included the teacher.
MISS Mabel Bro Hn, several of the scholar.
and number of the older peonle Of tho
district The entertainment netted enough
TO buy the flag and running gear and the
young men of the nelghborhood cut and
made the pole.
SCH A. b. PERRY SOLD The sch r
Perry, which went ashore at Northport i,
the gale of Nov. 9th has been lightered of
her cargo, the sch Gazelle bringing the last
load to Belfast Monday. The cargo will he
re-shipped from here to New York nv the
underwriters. Monday John Sanborn and
n. s. Lord bought the A b. Perry, with the
intention of stripping her. She has good
suit Of sails, the spanker being new. Her
spars and rigging are all in good condition
The light spars with rigging attached and all
the running rigging will be taken off at
once, but her anchors, chairs, etc, and the
lower-masts aud bowsprjt, with their stand.
ing rigging, will be eft until spring. The
vessel has IA good yawl boat The new
owners will offer the property for sale in
lots to suit buyers. The sch Molly Rhodes
Of Rockland is chartered to take the cargo 10
New York, aud arrived here yesterday for
that purpose.
STEAMER NoTEs. The Castine is hauled
up at Belfast to receive new tubes for her
hoier.. The log OF steamer City of Bangor
shows that her actual running time from
Rock land to Belfast . miles, under f4vora-
able conditions varies bnt little from / hour
and 80 minutes The stop at Camden oc-
cupies from - 10 80 minutes, which makes
the time from Rocklaud to Belfast from
hours anG5 minutes to 2 hours and 20
minutes. The freight from Belfast of
steamer City of Bangor last Thursday was
unusually large including 300 barrels of tp-
pies, the usual large shipment of Criticize t,
Shley, < Co. shoes, lot of tanned sheep
skins from Hunt, Walker 4 Co. of Liberty,
and of leather. board from sherman < Co.
The Manhattan Steamship Co. sent the
steamer Kanawha to the Penobscot Bay and
river ports last week i'll addition to her reg
ular route from New York to Eastport. The
steamer arrived in the Bay and anchored off
Northport Friday night She came up to
Lewis wharf Saturday morning aud after
dischargng her freight proceeded to Bangor.
Her Belfast freight included 40 tons of feed
for Swan & Sibley Co.. and general cargo for
other firms The kanawha is leased, with
her officers and crew, and has been running
between New York and E ,stport, on which
route this was to be her last trip.The
steamer NJ. 4 NJ, Capt Bennett, winch
has been recei"ing extensive repairs and
alterations N Brewer, was hauled off The
ways last Friday and after taking on her fu,-
nlture, etc, at Bangor was lowed to Backs
port. Fhe Manhattan Steamship Co have
announced tlat the reguldr service between
Bangor and New York will be discontinued
for the present on account of the company
not being able to secure tonnage. 1t IS A
pected, however, to it Sume the route in a
few weeks and maintain regular service
with Bucksport the winter termnai.....
Work on the steamer Penobscot del y ed
somewh hat and she did not resume her route
Dec. 9th as expected She Ii probably
leave Boston FRIDAY nght....Ihe City Of
Bangor remained II Belfast Morday night.
The weather looked threatening hen she
was ready to leave here and Capt .ngFaiifm
decided to rema II The s5eamar leit at
about o'clock Tuesday morning