The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-06-07
THE NEWS OF BELFAST.


49,. Ellen F. Rockingham on High street.
. ON Cedar street Tuesday evening
srooeh of odd design. Please return
.,..ou \ Dunton's office.
,,...au> Bros. are filling an order for 200
- rameS and the door frames for a
.u Boston. Many of the window
..-alr 10 feet square.
r ~ed list OF letters remaining in the
t po>t office June 9Th: Ladies-Mrs.
Blake, Mrs Lydia p Coombs Gen
.... Nh Francis W. Dana, Joseph
SON IL Mcdonald beg an work last
ln thp new sewer and drainage sys-
"a tmden. The sewer pipes are laid
..l aud the pipes for surface drainage
-lme trench few inches higher.
.ue- of The Society Circus" have
HIuurronS for some time and will take
-..., lorh soon 1t will be an out-of-door
r.. muent and should attract crowd.
Hhuite information will be given at IA
me The Belfast Universalist.
-.ilar meeting of the Nature Club
p. held in the High School room next
4t rvenng at 80 O'Clock. 1t will be
.a-nptj ence meeting" in which several
....r- VIII tell of their field work during
.d-
I.r- It new method of stealing plants
4pmetery. On lots where there are
tars common wild blossoms are
who'd for the rarer kinds When seen
they appear to be simply REAR
he towers, as they bring supply
. ben they enter the cemetery.
VIZ ArHER. The weather report of
AIluch for the month of May is
mean temperature, 53.95 mean
Ns. $40, 81 mean for May for IL
The highest temperature was
th day lowest 3 the 10th Rain
fetN> with Il total rainfall of 71S
partial eclipse of the sun May
mncrats of Belfast held caucus
....... . tVrum@ to nominate delegates to
.ei Convention in Fairfield June
Thompson presided and Francis
was clerk The following dele
o chosen: j. L. Wilson, G. f.
W lote. e. f. Stevens, +. A.
NuA land Know lton, +. W. Brown
alton was empowered to fill vacan-
oN- If our recent heavy rains the
reservoir on Washington street
leak and Il stream ran across
street and down Market street to
making bad wash-out. The
epaired, but the water has since
..".. to TOW and ii considerable brook
DOWN the Market street gutter
Nojr is probably receiving surface
-. from S0mew here above. or it would
dry long ago.
p4r victimized number Of people
ru Belfast and >ear>port last Thurs
flag ave his name as IL. Richards of
Wd claimed to represent Il furni-
So in New ork, After showing Il
book Of furniture, With prices quot
rmrl} low, he offered for So cash in
10 send a - box of soap and 81
u furniture. nne woman gave him
4deI ami three single orders are re-
he matter was reported to the po-
lH1 Il Was found that the man did not
to the city, and he was not heard
ailr taking his last order.
last week in an adjoining building
une damage by water to the drug
f wv. e. pooler, Rockland, fully GOV
however, by Insurance. OF the pro
fine Eockland opinion says:
ou.er had an experience that was
HIAlabIe to the spectators than To
| he tiremen brought the hose
i> store and into his back office, in
Ass It out of the rear window. AL
eWmoddting to visitors. Nh Pooler
-ld to raise the window, when, UNI
'It, the water was let on when the
several feet distant. The stream
ru fun in the back of the neck,
@ VIVA TO drop the window, and the
ru was flooded in an instant No
.I- drowned.
Jeff }crs. T.. II. Colby and son Miller
ust Thursday night from their first
trap for the season in sch. Clara.
AZ a good fare, taken in Eagle Island
ut utnerS have come. A number
nu lie first of the week. :. Salmon
dNt week at 10 cents pound for
sch sJna.l- Pow Eo+n,,
saturday with a full fare of live
ai'!"ck etc. In hauling their travis
@ a. ago at Isle au liaut they brought
rADrman'S splitting knife, which had
been in the water a long time
Ne men i'll the crew claimed the
ny that he lost it there four years
red Lewis of Camden caught a
hnrsday in Lake Meguntcook,
four pounds and two ounces, and
. ne 20 inches. Sloop Marguerite,
'adbetter, was i'll port the first of the
lth good fare of fresh fish. In
airs trolling in Swan Lake recently
.-s6nr Colburn caught 81 pound trout
pound salmon. He caught three
@a.'f n,h the same day
ANhG NOTES, The flags on the
'. and wharves of the b. 4 B. s. S
hefr at half mast last Thursday and
.7 n memory of R. +. Rowe, who has
company's agent at Winterport
HtI forty years .... The steamers Gov.
ana y inalhaven resumed their reg
49,, June LIST. The Bodwell will
tochland at $50 A. NJ, and 1870 p. Nj.
'Halhayen. The Ninalhaven will leave
AAi for swans Island at > p. NJ. The
NH lremont of the Bar Harbor fleet is