The Republican journal., 1900-06-21


The Non-Partisan W. c. T. Alliance 'sand
invited friends will hold its annual Field
Day on Tuesday, June Goth, at the residence
of Mrs. c. \. Pilsbury on Northport
dinner. Buckboards will start from the
schoolhouse common at 10 A. Nj.
| By the recent annual readjustment of post
offices and postmasters salaries Belfast
again becomes a SecOnd-clasS office and the
salary of the postmaster is increased to 81, ,OOC
per year. The office went into the third
class, with considerable reduction of
salary, after the decline of the patent medi-
cine business, but there has been for some
time gradual increase in the general bus
mess of the office The change goes into
effect July 1st.
| THE CROPS. The latest bulletin of the
| Maine State Board of Agriculture, June IS,
tells most cheerful story of the condition
| OF crops in Maine, and gives promise of the
! most abundant harvests in years. Follow
ing is a synopsis of the returns from Wal dc
county;
III,
Condition of pastures, 93 per cent. Amount
OF young stock turned to pasture: Colts, 90
per cent; young cattle, 103 per cent; sheep,
III per cent. Blossom of fruit trees: Apples,
l4l per cent; pums, 1;'2 per cent; straw
berries, 92 per cent; other small fruits, %
per cent. Varieties of apples blosSoming
most fully, Ben Davis. Baldwin, Greening,
King. Acreage in potatoes, SO per cent.
Acreage III corn. 9S per cent. Amount of
hay on hand, 81 per cent.
THE EBENDIx-BLooDGooD CONCERT If
was not large audience that appeared in
the Belfast Opera House last Monday even
ing to listen to Mr. Max Bendix, violin solo
ist, and Mrs. katherine Bloodgood contralto
but what it lacked in numbers it made up in
appreciation and the applause which greet
ed the several numbers was spontaneous
and hearty. Both the violinist and the yo-
calist We're artists, and the same may be said
of the accompanist, Miss Maud Parads of
Boston. Those who failed to attend missed
a musical treat
North BELFAST Rev. George b. Hatch
of Berkeley, Cal, has been visiting his
brothers few days this week. He recently
arrived from trip to Europe and is to re-
turn to California soon. He gave very in
teresting account of his visit to St Peters
in Rome to IA large audience in the church
last Sunday evening. ...Our village has the
distinction of furnishing the vaedictorian
the Salutatorian, the writer of part of the
class prophecy and the composer of the ode at
the graduation of the High school class
last saturday evening. Mrs. Frank A.
Russ died last Monday, after Il lingering
illness. She was the oldest person in this
vicinity.
THE LETTER CARRIER>. The new meth
od of designating the length of service has
gone into effect in the postot1ice department
and the local letter carriers are beginning to
appear with their new uniforms. bearing
stars instead of stripes, which in the past
have been used. The substitute letter car
! rier is designated by "a small black bar on
the coat sleeve. while the regular carrier,
after five years service, is entitled to wear
one black star. The years of service are
shown as follows: Ten years, two black stars
ID years, one red star; 20 years, two red
stars % years, one silver star 30 years, two
silver stars 80 years, one gold star; 40 years,
two gold stars. The Belfast carriers are
entitled to wear one black star
STEAMER NOTES. The steamer NJ. & NJ.
resumed her route, Bucksport and Camden.
last Thursday, relieving the fremont, which
| VIII be run as an excursion boat from Ban
gor. The NJ. x NJ. has been painted up in fine
shape and came out in dazzling white with "a
1l11-l.nl r
| the Bangor High school will 60 to Rocklaud
! to-day, June u, in the steamer timbra.
The boat will stop at Northport to accomo-
date the cottagers of that resort. -. The Sill
yer Star entered upon her summer time
table on the Belfast, Islesboro and tastipe
route June 10th, and now makes two round
trips daily. Beginning next Monday the
Boston x Bangor steamers will make six
round trips a week. See the new time table
ACCIDENTS. Benz. 7. Boynton of Montville
came to Belfast last Friday for treatment
lie was at work in l.. f. Pitchers mill in
Lincolnville and cut off the middle finger of
his left hand with saw. Fred Frisbee
| lost the end of one finger of his right hand
IN machinery on which he was at work in
r. A. Howard 4, Sons Screw-driver factory
Tuesday forenoon. Geo. w. Townsend of
Searsmont met with quite a serious accident
Monday. He was hauling some logs with
pair OF horses, having the logs chained to
four wheels. When near the house the
horses started suddenly and Mr. Townsend
was struck by a stake on the forward W heels
and knocked down. The hind wheels
passed over him, breaking one leg at the
ankle and also causing a dislocaton. He is
attended by DR.. p. A. Crooker and is doing
as well as could be expected
The BRIDGE. Contractor H. A. Bah
bidge has the work on the bridge well under
way and will finish it as quickly as possible,
consistent with doing thorough work Sch.
Senator arrived Monday from Bangor with
cargo of timber and 4-nch plank, and
raft of piles arrived Tuesday from st. John
A row of piles will first be driven along the
southerly side and the work will be con-
tnued from them. Two pile drivers will
be used, one worked by steam Mr. Bah
bldge says he shall keep foot path open
across the bridge as much as possible during
the work, and when this cannot be done a
ferry will be run for foot passengers. The
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