The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-10-06
L. c. Morse of Liberty will be in Belfast
Nov 1st to attend to pension business

L. c. Morse of Liberty will be in Belfast
Nov. 1st to attend to pension business.
] A few friends surprised Mr.. E. H. Haney
by visiting him on Monday evening, Oct. Sd,
which was the anniversary of his birth
The evening was spent very pleas antly
, Mrs. Lincoln wishes us to state that the
gift by her friend, Miss Clark, to the bows
home was to Good Will Farm Home in Fair.
field and not the Boys Home in Deering.
State Constable j. R. Mears made search
and seizure of liquors at the Phenix House
and Windsor Hotel. Hearings We're held
Wednesday afternoon; the proprietors were
bound over and the liquors libeled
| Helping Hand Circle, Order of Kings
| Daughters, will meet with Mrs Fred S.
Hutchins at No. II Union street, Monday.
Oct 10th. All members are requested to he
| present as there is important business to he
brought before the meeting.
A NEW DEPARTURE. Geo. W. Burkett
ODD Fellows block, has added to his large
stock OF dry goods, dress goods and garments
a complete new line of millinery, consisting
of trimmed fet hats and fancy trimmed hats,
which he is selling at very low prices,
| REDUCED RATES TO Boston. The annual
reduction of fares on the Boston & Bangor
i line of steamers will begin Oct. 18th. Single
/ trip tickets, to or from Boston will be as fol-
( lows: Rockland, Sl.75; Camden, 81 s.; Bel
fast, 22.25; Searsport. - 80; Bucksport, s.
30; Winterport, 81 40
Belfast Company. [; f.. X. of P, went to
Bangor yesterday, by d special trip of steam
er Castine, to attend the annual X OF p
field day They We're accompanied by Bel
fast Band. The company We're to take part
in drill at Camp Benson, Newport, and the
Band give a concert there
Mr. j, D. Sanford, the manager Of the New
England Telephone, has arranged to put ia
instruments at the Bangor and Portland
auditoriums at the Festival for the purpose
of transmitting the music to the principal
I cities over the State The patrons of the
Belfast exchange are invited to the central
station the hear the concert free of charge
The Belfast Festival Chorus will 90 to
Bangor by steamer Castine to-day, leaving
Lewis wharf at o'clock, The Castine will
also make an excursion from Rockland
Camden and Belfast Saturday. leaving Cam
den on arrival of the 30 eectrics from
Rockland, and leaving Belfast at s. She
will return after the evening concert
Round trip tickets, IS cts. She will return
to Bangor and bring back the Belfast chorus
Sunday.
NORTH BELFAST. The Waldo County Confer
ence of Congregational Churches will meet with
the church in this place next Tuesday and We'd
nesday Mrs. R. S. Brier, Mrs. F. R. Downs and
Miss Blanche Downs went to Charlestown, Mass
last Monday to spend the winter. Miss Lille
Gilmore of Chelsea, Mass. is spending few
weeks with her cousin. Mrs. Ellen c. Gay MIR.
Ed. Mason, who spent his vacation at home. went
To Hartland Tuesday. where he expects TO find
employment Mrs. Alonzo Beckwith and daugh-
ter arrived home Saturday from Windsor where
they visited relatives.
SCH. GEO. B. FERGUSON ASHORE. tele-
gram was received here Tuesday stating
that sch, George z. Ferguson was ashore on
Fishers Island at the eastern end of Long
Island Sound, and that her master. Cant
StiNt' =
Wreckers to save what they could for so per
cent. No further particulars had been re-
ceived when The journal went to press
The Ferguson was built in Belfast in 1872
aud was of l3l rs tons net register She has
been for several years engaged in Carrying
slaves and beading from Bangor to Hudson
river ports and cement or coal back She
sailed from Bangor Sept 9th for Staten Is
land, and left Belfast the next day.
SHIPPING ITEMS A U. S. buoy tender was
IN the harbor last Thursday to inspect the
buoys and beacon at Steele's Ledge The
tug Bismarck towed the sch. Isaiah X. Stet-
son to Bangor Sept. 2Sth and sch. Almeda
Wiley the 29th, both to load ice for New
York. Sch. Fannie & Edith arrived Sept
18th with general cargo from Boston. That
night she was entered by thieves and a guam
tity of corned beef stolen. The thief was
evidently acquainted on board. as dog in
the cabin made no noise and two men in the
forecastle were not awakened. The beef
was in the lazarette, and no attempt was
made to enter other parts of the vessel...
Sch. A. Hayford, Capt Geo. F. Ryan, began
as Boston and Belfast packet by sailing
from here for Boston with general cargo,
Oct. 4th. Sch. Margaret arrived Oct. 4th
from New York with oil for the Standard
Oil Co. and Swan & Sibey Co.