The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-04-07

life was lost in the burning of the buildings
recently.
The Non Partisan W. c. T. Alliance will
meet with Mrs. E. H. Conant. Church street,
Friday, April Stb, at 80 p. NJ A full attend
ance is desired
List OF unclaimed letters remaining in the
Belfast post office for the week ending April
I'd: Ladies-Miss Mamie Fernald. Gentle
men-Dr l. Getchell
The baggage, mail and express car of the
passenger train have been returned from the
repair shops at Watervllle, where they were
thoroughly overhauled.
Fourteen attachments against the Wis
casset & Quebec R. R. Co. have been record
ed in Waldo County Registry of Deeds The
claims aggregate S137 200
The Northport Hotel at the Camp Ground
will be conducted this year by the owner
Mrs. Barker, with Mr.. French, now of Hotel
North, Augusta, as landlord.
Harry Toothaker has sold his interest in
the farm and dairy business of Toothaker
Bros. to his brother Fred. He left Monday
LOT fortldAu, oregon, anu possibly 1or
Alaska
Mrs. Edwin Frost of Mddletown, CT,
desires to express her thanks to all her
Belfast friends who kindly remembered her
with such beautiful gifts on the occasion of
her silver wedding.
Harvey Il. Smalley shoveled through
snow bank feet deep on the back road
to Searsport near John Carrs farm after the
snow storm of March 31st. 4 cut made
through after the earlier SHOWS filed full
that night.
T. H. Marshall Relief Corps will have an
apron sale and dinner at Memorial Hall,
Thursday, April 21st. All members of the
Corps are requested to be present at the
next regular meeting, April Sth, to complete
arrangements.
On account of the large amount of work
just come III, Armor Bearer Circle, Kings
| Daughters and Sons, have been obliged to
hold special meetings for work, and several
of the members have taken work to their
| homes to finish.
S. W. Woodbury. of Bangor writes to the
Daily News of that city: II have a hen
| that breaks the record on the one in Monroe
She has recently laid three large eggs First
6x7 IA, second 6x7 IL, and the last one,
April I, 1898, 6x7 IS inches.
a meeting of Spirituaists was held at
Mosman $ Hall, East Belfast, Sunday after
noon. On account of misunderstanding
Mrs. NJ. j. Wentworth, who was announced
to speak, did not arrive, and brief address
was given by DR.. A 7. Stevens.
Swift & Paul had the first straw berries of
the season last Saturday and we are indebt-
ed to them for a box. We doubt if later
arrivals will have a more delicious flavor
than these berries, partaken Of in freezing
weather with the ground snow covered.
Castine, at its town meeting, extended a
vote of thanks to 9. H. Hooper for 81 years
of faithful and efficient service to the town
as treasurer. Few, if any other men in the
State, have record of continuous service in
50 important Office. Mr.. Hooper declin-
ed further election, to the regret of the
voters who recorded their appreciation for
his past services by the vote of thanks.
CHM & Field have at their store an i'm
proved box opener, the invention of Waldo
County boy, Len I. Snow of New Haven
CT, formerly of Prospect. 1t is similar to
the old style but has the addition of re-
movable and adjustable jaw and hand
lever by which nails not very firmly set
may be drawn faster and without the noise
of the old style. The opener will also cut
| by single movement the hoop.ron bands
by which many packing boxes are pro-
tected
CHAT. Wendell S. Reynolds of Brooks
left by steamer Penobscot Monday for Bos-
ton with three fine carriage horses for sale
....How about winter lingering in the lap
of spring.. Russell Curtis has sold his
carriage horse to Plymouth parties. The
Assessors are taking the census of the city
for poll tax payers Swift & Paul received
the first invoice of st. John alewi yes Satur-
day, which sold at cents APP iece CITY
Clerk Murch reports that more dogs have
been licensed this year than at the corre-
spending date last year.
| The CUSTOM HOUSE REPAIRS. The bids
for repairs on the Belfast Custom House and
Post Office were opened Monday by Col
| lector Hartman, Postmaster Kilgore and
Deputy Collector Mitchell. The work in
cludes relaying the stone steps in front of
the building, laying new tile floor n
the corridor, putting in new post Office
| boxes, plumbing, painting the building in
/ side and out, and many minor details. The
bids We're as follows: W. H. Glover & Co.,
Rockland, 1920; J. c. Durham AMI San
ford Howard, Belfast, S1,7S5; Ii. J. Morri-
son. Belfast, 81, 500 r. P Stickney put in a
bid for the plumbing for 500. The bids
have been sent to Washington for action by
the Treasury Department.
FISH FACTS Capt. Sol Jacobs of Glouces-
ter in sch. Ethel B. Jacobs. landed the first
trip of mackerel of the season at New York
March %. The fare consisted of one humid
red barrels of fresh mackerel, all large. The
fish were caught off Body Island, and the
Jacobs had large school in her seine, but
it burst and the trip of 100 barrels represents
what they saved out of it. The Jacobs also
| sighted one more school. The mackerel
weighed from a pound to pound and a
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