The Republican journal., 1898-08-04

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inches and two hours after it was cauob+
| weighed IL pounds.
The Board of Registration has comnla,sa
its preliminary work. Forty-six namas
were stricken from the voting lists. eleve n
! on account of de ath
| Attention is called to the article Inv Dr
| w. l.. West, V. S., on dehorning, published
on the It'll page. 1t was originally written
| for the Maine Farmer
| The regular meeting of Thomas II. Mar.
shall Relief Corps will be held tomorrow
Friday, afternoon, at 3 o'clock. The sociahle
is postponed until further notice.
! A blackboard containing Is Sargents drove
up in front of Swift & Paul's one day last
week. They were from Searsport and vicin.
| ity and bound for n orthport. There were
more Sargent's in other teams, making ouita
a family party.
David E. Bird of this city has novel
| wheelbarrow. II is made by taking the
frame and wheel of an ordinary earth har.
row, such as is generally used in work on
the highways, and mounting part of the
bilge of a hogshead for a body
SUNDAY SCHOOL EXCURSION. The Metho-
dist Episcopal Sunday School society and
| friends Will make their annual excursion
| Aug. 10th by steamer Castine leaving evils
wharf at 50 a. N. The committee, officers
and teachers will make every effort to sat-
lsfy all the excnrsionsts and give them a
good time. Particulars will be given in Sun
| day school next Sunday
| July WEATHER. The weather record of
Mr.. L. HI. Murch shows the month of July
to have been trtle cooler than the ayerare
The mean temperature was 6S AZ against
81. in July, 1897, and $3.50 for 80 years
past. The highest was S97 the Sd day: low
/ est, 30 the 18th. Rain fell on 10 DAYS, to
the amount of ] 3S inches. Nearly one.half
OF this or 10 in. fell in one day, the Goth, and
IS in in about one hour on that day
AT an adjourned meeting Of the school
committee last Thursday afternoon quite an
| amount of routine business was transacted
and repairs voted on several of the school
addition to the North Primary building was
/ accepted. The addition is to be 30x30, with
cellar and built according to the original
specifications except that the floor is to be Of
spruce instead Of hard pine. Mr.. Potte was
the lowest bidder (S702) and will begin work
| this week
| GOLDEN WEDDING. Mr.. and Mrs George
S. Chase celebrated the tftieth anniversary
Of their marriage Wednesday, Aug 81, by a
family dinner at their residence. No. 46
Cedar street, The following We're present.
Geo. S, Chase and wife, Capt G. W Chase
| and wife OF South America, Geo. a. Quinn
by and wife of Belfast; Simeon Lewis and
wife of Boston; Miss Julia A. Chase If
Taunton, Mass. and five grandchildren
Elena Chase, Theodore Winsow, Edward
Winslow, Katharine Quimby, Elizabeth
Quimby In the evening Mrs Geo. A.
Quimby gave an informal reception to her
parents at her home, No. 81 Miller street,
from s to TO-
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS. The Republicans of
Belfast met in caucus at the Court House
Monday evening l.. I. Shales was chair
| man and F. r. Wiggin clerk. The follow
ing delegates were elected, to the county con-
vention to be held in Belfast, Thursday.
Aug. 4th: A. c. Burgess, Chas. L. Fletcher.
E. S. Carter, H. W. Clark w. H Sanborn
H. j. Locke, G. 2. Lombard, NJ. R. Knowl-
ton, w. r. Ford, j. F. Mckeen, A. l. Brown,
G. F. Cobbett c. F. CHM, E. o. Pendleton,
j. A. Stinson, A. G. Mosman, F. NJ. Bailey
Chas. Havener, Horace Parks Delegates
We're empowered to fill vacancies M G.
Hill was nominated as candidate for Rep-
resentative of the Legislature. The follow
ing city committee vas elected G. W.
Frederick, G. E. Johnson, C. E. Knowlton.
G. Z. Lombard j. NJ. Fletcher, f L. Field,
j. f. Sheldon. Il. F. Russ, A. c. Mosman,
D. I. Guptill.
CHAT. Z. H. Lttefeld & Co have opened
lunch room, fruit and confectionery store
in the Wells building, Phoenix Row . The
August calendar of the Belfast Printing Co.
has tor an emblem rubber band, and the
inscription informs US that "if this band
could play it would sound the praises of the
work done by the Belfast Printing Co....P.
A. Sanborn recently pair ted very life
like portrait in oil, of Rev. C. Fl. Wells.
Mr.. w. will present it to his foster parents
THE Fire Department Las received 800
feet of new woven cotton, ruober-lined hose
....T The pension of W. A. Heal was increas
ed from 81 to S14, and not to 1924 as an
nounced in the press reports last week..
The large American eagle which was recent
ly gilded by WEIGH & Stevens was put upon
the front of Memorial Hall Tuesday. The
Belfast Light & Power Co. has sold the ice
in its houses in East Belfast TO the Rock
port Ice Co.
| SHIPPING ITEMS. "The heaviesu and thick
est in twenty years" is what shipping men
say OF the fog that for the two weeks East
had hung over the coast of Maine, and which
was said to De a little more dense in
| Penobscot bay tnan anywhere else. :. Schr.
Joseph (probably Joseph Eaton Jr), of
Barnstabe, Mass), has been sold to Capt
John Phibrook of Winterport, Me-, for
5000. Sch Woodbury. NJ. Snow, Capt.
| knowton, is chartered to load lime at
Browns kiln, Islesboro, for New York 80.
n. S. Lord is making a foresail and lib for