The Republican journal., 1899-09-28

will leave Belfast at us A. M, 20 and $50
p. arrive at Belfast at 1910 A. NJ, - As
| and 20 M.
List of advertised letters remaining in the
Belfast post office Sept. Goth Ladies-Miss
| Cora Whitney. conference.-the. Geo. A
Baker; B. H. Henshaw, Esq Thos. Kind
ley Mr.. Perl Ostin.
Although the drouth lowered the water in
the reservoir of the Belfast Water Company
at Little River there has been an abundant
supply, as it is fed by never-failing springs
Sunday the water was within IL feet of
the top of the dam.
| An adjourned meeting of the Belfast HUI
name Society will be held in the police court
room next Monday evening at 80 o'clock !;
| also a meeting of the directors of the So
clety. The appointment of successor to
the late j. W. Knowlton, agent, and other
| important business, will come up for action
| The annual meeting of the Maine State
| Spiritualist Association will be held in City
Hall, Watervile, Sept. 30th and Oct 1st.
Harrison B. Barrett of Boston, Edgar W.
Emerson of Manchester, and other promi-
nent speakers, will be present. There will
doubtless be large delegation from Belfast
and Waldo county.
| The County Commissioners met Tuesday
to receive and open bids for the proposed adj
dition to the court house. The estimate of
the architect was S12 900 for the whole work
Two bids were received for about $4,000
| of
kinds of material has advanced materially
within short time, which accounts for the
increase of the bids over the architects esti-
| mates.
The annual inspection of A. E. Clark
Camp, Sons of Veterans, of this city will
t Ike place Tuesday evening, Oct. Sd, under
! the direction of Capt. Chas. NJ. Titus, In
spector of the Maine Division. Capt. Titus
will be accompanied by a delegation from
his camp in Rockland, and among other
guests will be Junior Vice commander Geo.
| .. Hamilton of BucksporI. Degree work
will be conferred and supper will be serv-
ed by the Ladies' Aid Society.
| Last week Superintendent Bird of the Bel
fast " alter Company received from the gov
| eminent hatchery at Green Lake an invoice
| of = 900 salmon. which he placed in the res
ervoir at Little River They are lively little
| fish, averaging five inches in length and will
take on a pound in weight next year. The
reservoir had previously been stocked
with trout but feed is so abundant that they
| will not take bait
Though the apple crop is reported gener-
ally a failure in this section, and in the
| State. there are exceptional cases. For ex-
| ample, Mr.. William Olson brought to The
| journal office last week a twig on which in
the space of seven inches. were Is merchant
able Baldwin apples. Daniel S. Kinds.
Northport avenue, had one tree fairly loaded
| down with Baldwins. He gathered 10
| bushels from this one tree.
| Alden Benedicts "Fabio Romani,' which
will be presented at the Belfast Opera House,
Monday evening, Oct. 2nd, is a spectacular
| production Of much merit, being an adapta-
| ton of Marie Correllis novel THE Ven
| delta" The story of the play is sad, weird
and interesting, but with the dark passages
OF the sombre story many enlivening
|
ant entertainment. The promised realism
i comes at the end of the drama in the earth
! quake scene. The last act commences with
mausoleum scene, which occupies the en-
tire stage. At the climax of the commoton
the whole tomb sinks out of sight and re-
veals dwellings, falling in ruins, the earth
rocking, and rent with fury and fiery assures,
| W 10 in hoo Il
belches forth huge columns of ire and smoke
and pours red streams of lava on the city OF
| Naples at its feet. Reserved seats at Xii
gore & Wilson's.
The MAINE Music FESTIVAL. Belfast PEG.
pie have an exceptionally favorable oppor-
| tunity to hear the great artists who are to
appear in Bangor next week under the d.
rectlon of Prof. Chapman. The Maine Cen.
trail offers the very low rate. Oct 9th OF
81 80 from Belfast to Bangor and return A
special train is to leave Bangor at II 80 Sat
urday night, and there will be special
from Burnham to Belfast to connect with
this train. 1t is hoped that with these ia
ciities The musc-loving people of Belfast
will be largely represented at Bangor next
week The Belfast chorus will number
about the same as last year. E. S. Pitcher
has diagrams of the seats and will receive
orders for festival tickets. The programs
received here Tuesday night, are very hand.
somely gotten up. The illustrations include
portraits of E. S. Pitcher, leader of the Bel
fast Choir us, and c. o. Poor, president of the
Belfast Parlor Musical Society.
STEAMER NOTES. The old steamer New
Brunswick, at one time on the Bangor &
Boston route as an extra boat during the
rush of summer travel, and which was solo
some years ago to Boston parties and has
been running between that port and Prov
incetown as an excursion boat, will be re
paired at Newburyport and will then b,
used as excursion boat during the inter
national yacht races in New York. Late
she will go TO Mobile to ply between tina
port and Tampa. Capt O. A. Crockett in
tends to take the steamer Catherine to New
York, to carry excursions down the harbol
to see the international yacht races. Parties
interested have given a guaranty of gooC
paying business Before going the boat will
he mt N Fl rSt. class condition Monday