The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-02-08
THE NEWS OF BELFAST.

Nam ot'
Til. w. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. Fan
,,s Frost. 81 Church street, this, Thursday,
lftefnoon'
Tickets for the last half of the Belfast Band
ucert course are for sale at Poor & Sons
Al 70 cents.
Last Friday was Candemas Day but we
ltle not heard from the meteorological
aoodrhuck.
T. Brown and crew of Camden are al
Dark Harbor at work on a cottage to be
ttijt for ex-Gov. Ames of Massachusetts.
Mrs j. G. Damon has presented hand
-ome piece of battenberg work to the Bel.
fast Band 1t will be sold by tickets in the
scar future.
joel p, Wood of Northport brought to
Sv fl & Paul's Tuesday supply of nice
.risp iettuce, raised in his dollhouse. 1t met
IS, th a ready sale.
The next lecture in the Teachers Club
oarse viii be in the High school room, Fri
l,y evening, Feb. 18th, by State Superinten-
aett W W. Stetson; subject Men that l
Ave known"
Gh- iceboaters had great sport for few
last week until the snow storm We'd
lSday, and parties went out to Pitcher g
ui and Quantabacook every day.
Advertised list of letters remaining in the
b. fsst post office Feb 6 : Ladies-Mrs. Alton
81 ror, Mrs. 6. W. Parker, Mrs. E. W.
N.ois Mrs. Carrie l.. Woods. Gentemt n
h NJ. Ford, Capt. j l.. Smith, Harry W
Esq.
here is so much hay on the market in
4toH that station agents of the railroads
been instructed not to load cars for
s1 point until further notice. AS conse-
.Iiruce the storehouses in this vicinity are
...Hung full.
Av Board of Registration was in session
week striking off the names of persons
nave died or moved away. The list
te posted this week. The Board con-
SIS Of 6. p, Lombard. chairman, c. E.
lib witon and j. F. Wilson
i-'rge A. Dunning of Bangor has been
-JWiuted American Express agent in Bel
t.t the place of F. A. Gilkey, deceased
look charge Feb. LIST. Mr.. Candage will
Bangor to-day to take position in the
,tdee.
~ former years there will be two
l-us eDumerators appointed for Belfast
lor Wards l and =, and one for Wards g.
and 5. There are now four candidates.
E. johnson, o. }. Dickey, NJ. {. Hill
su has f Rhoades
Mrs. s. A. Reed of Minneapolis. Mimi,
7ruewIng her subscription says: - | have
tsen the Journal for % years in my adopted
State, and my grandmother Eells took it
the time it was first started | have
ard her say The journal is one of 10y
.,sJ friends"
NATURE STUDIES. The next meeting of
file Nature Club will be held in the High
school room to morrow, Friday, evening, at
o'clock. Miss Sue NJ Partridge will
slrak on Butterflies aud moths" chiefly
't0u her personal experience and investiga-
ms last summer These meetings are not
-1nuntd to Iuembe of the club but III per
7ons who interested in nature studies
are cordially invited
r T. Rankin, fish and game warden, went
Linconville last week, by direction of
tlne Commissioner Carleton, to look after
4eer reported last week AS caught by
1-orge Rankin of that town The animal
Is reported having a broken leg and
Of horns. When Warden Rankin arriv-
l there he found the animal dead, The
zen leg was an old wound, and it had
baby suffered from hunger by not being
cole to travel Though little early for deer
-hed their horns Mr.. Rankin thinks they
ere lost in the natural way
Through the efforts of w B. Twombly
ard DIR, j. E, Cook it is almost certainty
.aat a telephone line will be continued from
slruham to Unity village. While in Port
and recently DIR. Cook called on the manage
llent of the New England Telegraph & Tel
phone CO.. and conferred with them as to
Lie possibility OF having such line The
ompany agreed to put in line, providing
lie citizens of Unity would subscribe $50
toward the construction, which was readily
subseribed. 1t is expected that if the line
put 10 it will run to Brooks. with branch
me to Freedom,
A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. w ednesday,
Jan. 3lst, Capt David H. Libby left his
house on sUpper High street to go to his
place of business taking as usual cut
across the fields in the rear of his home
Mrs. M. P. Woodcock, who was at her
kitchen window, saw him fall and remain
where he fell, He was not visible from his
own house. Mrs. Woodcock was able to
arouse the inmates and Mrs. Libby and
Miss Hook succeeded in getting Mr.. Libby
INTO the house. He was then unconscious
and remained so some time, having struck
on the back Of his head in falling Forth.
ndteIy no bones We're broken and he WAS
able to come down town Friday. Mrs.
James +. Brakeman slipped on the ice at her
home on lower Congress street Jan. 31st,
and spralned her left ankle In irving to
arise she fell again and broke both bones
Iu5t above the ankle. 1t is a very bad com.
bnatlon-.. Mrs. Ann Robinson slipped on
the Ice at her home on Fridge street Jan.
}0th, and broke one bone of her left arm
near the elbow Mrs. Robinson is 81 wears Old
and up to the time OF the accident was I'M
usually smart and vigorous She was uo,nu