The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-11-02
THE NEWS OF BELFAST.
The regular meeting of the City Council
s;Il be held next Monday evening.

L. L. Gentner has bought the Wells
aiding on Phenix Row and will renovate
hid improve the property.
The Waldo Clinical Club held special
5-eting Tuesday evening and decided to
+et Tuesday evening, Nov 21st, for the
ling Of papers on speciel subjects.
Mrs. Rose White of Waldoboro, Inspect
tficer of the Ladies Aid Society and Geo
Hamilton of Bucksport Junior Vice
nmander of the Sons of Veterans inspect
.l A E Clark Ladies' Aid Society last
Tursday evening. The society ranked 81
f-r cent. Refreshments were served.
e.. c. Fowler, one of Unlty's prominent
.4rmers, is in the city on business. Mr..
Nler went out to hunt deer one day last
,,-rk and seeing five beauties about 300
Yards away placed his sights for that dis
ttutp and prepared for shot. Thinking he
gilt gain better vantage ground he went
ward until he reached point about 90
i--t from the deer, and blazed away nine
mes without hit, overshooting each time.
Ri pulled down his sights and went again
l-N1 day, when he brought home one beauty
s reason of careful attention to his sights.
v sterville Mail.
A family in East Belfast mad very I'M
yasant experience last week. They were
.tking repairs on the house and had heated
tar for the roof on the kitchen stove,
T-t tar took fire, and although it was extin-
shed as soon as possible the house was
I'd with smoke, which gave everything a
ing like lamp-black. The smoke pene-
ted every crevice in the house and as the
Il. !
to clean house.
THE CROPS. Following is a summary of
Waldo county crop reports in the last
AID Of Agriculture bulletin:
Arreage of corn, yellow, 50 per cent.
eet rs per cent. Yield of oats, SO bushels,
ilty, 100 per cent; peas, yield, % bush
rye, yield, % bushels; barley, yield. IS
1els, quality, % per cent. mixed grain,
a. "a bushels, quality, 80 per cent. Con
On Of fruit, 46 per cent. Potato pros
t. 103 per cent. Slight indications of
a few localities. Yield of ensilage
a 16 tons. Amount of stock fodder, 81
emit.
le journal has received from the pub
IT. Capt Charles f. Nash of Augusta
ssue of the good Old Maine Farmers
4nac for 1900. containing the usual valu-
information concerning the weather
-Jus, ecGpses. tides etc. One of the
things noticed is that Maine Will see
seipse of the sun on May IS, visible at
5lsta as partial eclipse. On June 18th
rtlal eclipse of the moon Will be visible
Maine. The only other eclipse OF the
viii be visible in Maine.
al E,
b. Tlonhs was killed last week and
th others of his kind in the trotting
rs grounds. W. H. Glover Go. of Rock
are to build a house at Isles boro cost
.Aout 5000, for Mrs. B. c. Riggs of
tielphia. They began work last week.
D E. button raised this season on his
.-- Ii Waldo. on three-fourths of an acre,
Htskets of ears of corn, which will shell
-p bushels The family horse of S, L.
e was found dead n the stall one morn
asst week. Webster's sloop tbs Con
the catboat Spray and the plpky Sham
have been hauled out south of the
uh0at wharf.... The new schooner
adletOn Brothers still awaits the arrival
Ter chans....S. B. Holt is to build three
row boats for bis fleet the coming
Capt. Isaac Leadbetter, in the
p Marguerite, arrived Sunday with full
of fish
BOUND THE STOVE. Hoyt L. Conary
appear in this popular play at the Opera
Sc, Nov. 18th, under the auspices of Bel
knights of Pythias The following is
# many favorable press notices:
Around the Stove was given last night
he first Presbyterian church by Hoyt L.
trv. Mr.. Conary has rare gifts as
+eucian and an impersonator of charac-
humorous, grave and gay. To hear him
IS to Want to hear him many times.
audience for one hour and half was
gifted and charmed. Mr.. Conary is a
red artist, yet retains all the grace and
ralness OF genius born for the stage.
IS gentlemanly, scholarly, pOetical, mu-
and-well, be sure and hear him for
self when he comes again. Port Huron
Times.
TIPPING ITEMS. Sch. Vineyard arrived
9Th with coal, from New York. for the
Ast Fuel x Hay Co.. Sch. Alfalfa dis
rged kerosene for Swan & Sibley Co.
Thursday Sch. Mary Standish ar riv-
4rgo of coal for T S. Flood & Co. of
Fl 4terville. Sch. Levi Hart was launched
the marine railway Saturday and tow
2 Bangor to load lumber for New York .
Loduskia is on the railway, where she
be repaired by George A. Gilchrast. She
Vent ashore at Stonington recently, while
nd from New York to Ellsworth with
20 Of coal. The insurance people sold the
and the vessel was got off the rocks
au3 bought by Capt Thayer of Deer Isle,
started her Oct. oath for Belfast. She
-4Sed so badly on the way that the revenue
Ter Levi Woodbury. was called to her as
stan ce and towed the vessel to this port.
it Thayer was at this port year or two
u the sloop yacht Volante to have a new
----u put on, and has been yachting the
t-t season. He will fit the Loduskia for
casting trade. She was built at Freeport
,Il, and is lO2 tons net. Among recent
srters of ocaI vessels are the following
Pendleton Bros. new Brunswick to
York lumber, p. t. Sch. Emma S.
rs. Port Reading to Gardiner, coal
Sch. R. W. Hopkins, Baltimore to
seston, coal, g and discharged.
-ilcIDE OF CHAs. E MOODY. Monday
noon coroner Charles R. Coombs reeeiv-
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