The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-11-23

Swift & Paul have a sweet potato vine
growing in their store
The stores and other places Of business
will close Thanksgiving day at l o'clock, for
the remainder Of the day.
The Shoe Workers Relief Association
will have Thanksgiving ball at Odd Eel
lows Hall Thursday evening, Nov. 30th.
The music will be by Ames' Orchestra, and
1. 7. Ctough will be floor director.
Advertised list Of letters remaining in
the Belfast pest office Nov. 18TH Ladies'
Miss Samuel Arnold, Mrs. Lottie Chase
Mrs. Lizzie Howard, Mrs. Ella Potter q let
ters), Mrs, A. J, Pierce. Gentlemen-New-
ton Bunker. Samuel Moore Abner smith.
Bray & Maxheld are making temporary
platforms for the Belfast Opera House floor,
by the use of which the rear seats will be ell
evated, as in other modern theatres The
platforms are removable and can easily be
taken ont when the hoor is needed for dane
ing.
The coal dealers advanced the price Of
coal Nov Goth, to uniform price of Sc %
fo- egg, stove and chestnut. The price of
coal at the shipping centres has recently ad-
vanced 80 cts per ton and freights 10 cents.
The usual discount of p cents per ton is al
lowed by dealers for cash.
Henry c Marden has lately received a
large stock of State prison sleighs from
Thomaston, and expects another shipment
of Massachusetts, work soon. The prison
sieighs are nicely upholstered, have high
backs and sides, wing dashers and other i'm
provemeuts Mr.. Marden also carries a
viii appear next week.
The executive staff of the Belfast Opera
House under the new management is as fol-
lows: House manager, w. II. Bray; treas
urer, Charles II. Maxtield; stage manager,
Percy E. Greer chief usher, Marshall Knowl-
ton; master OF properties, E. NJ. Jacobs
police officer, W. H. Sanborn. Reserved
seats will be on sale at Mixers, Main street.
Those Searsmont young ladies' who last
summer purchased au imported hurdy CUR
dy are grinding out dance music TO "beat the
band" 1t is reported from that usually
quiet Waldo county town that dancing par
gurdy music has become so popular that I'VE
old fiddler and his accompanying melodeon
have been pushed to the wall. Long live
the hurdy gurdy, they say in Searsmont.
Aroostook Pioneer.
VET ERANs' MEETING. The Waldo County
Veteran Association will meet with E. M
Billings Post, Monroe, Dec. 7, 1899. If the
day is stormy, the meeting will be held the
next fair day. The Post will turnis beans
bread and coffee. Bring along your lunch
baskets, and don't forget to bring your ladies'
This not Zee is given more for the Eastern
part of the county than the Western, which
is all right. Comrades, let US rally in Mon
roe, where we are sure of royal ent ertain-
ment. A. Stins on, Sec.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Sch. A. Hayford sailed
Nov. 10th for Boston, with hay from the Bel
fast Fuel & Hay Co.. Sch. Herbert E.
lowed to Frankfort last Thursday to load
granite for New York. Sch. Harriet Rogers
sailed Nov. 10Th for Mt. Desert with hay snd
coal for the Belfast Fuel & Hay Co... Sch
PM. Bonney sailed Nov, 10th for Vinalhaven
with large general cargo. Capt. Geo. W :.
Pattershall arrived home Saturday from
New Bedford, where his schooner the Sarah
l.. Davis, is hauled up for the winter. The
Rockland Opinion says Capt Mark Gil
bert, formerly of schooner S. NJ. Bird, which
was recently sold to Pendleton Bros. of
1slesboro, came home, Tuesday, from New
York, and will soon take command of another
vessel. Capt Phibrook of Islesboro will
now command the S. M Bird, which will go
from New York to Nassau, N. P with gem
eral cargo; she will then go to Brunswick,
Ga, and load lumber for New York, at 81
per thousand. The frame is up for the
four-masted schooner in Beams yard Cam
den. The two vessels now on the stocks
will be hurried along as fast as possible in
order to begin work on the six-master. A
big five master will also be built next sum-
mer alongside the six-master. Sch. Merrill
c. Hart arrived Saturday from New York
with phosphate for l.. A. Knowlton u Co...
Sch. Flora Rogers of Camden is to be repaired
by. Geo. A. Gilchrest on the Belfast Marine
railway. Sch Menawa was libelled last
week at Bangor as result of her collision
with sch. D. L. Sturgis off Seguin, but it is
reported that the matter will be settled out
If court. The Sturgis is at Bath, where she
was lowed for repairs.