The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-02-08
Prob ate Court will be held next Tuesday

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Prob ate Court will be held next Tuesday
The trout and salmon are biting we'll in
Swan Lake and some good catches are be-
ing made.
Fogg & Brown bought an OK of D. G..
Greenlaw the past week, the beef of which
weighed 1 100 pounds.
$1,000 clothing sale began Feb. LIST and
ends Feb. 28th. Don't fail to visit this sale,
4S and 80 Main street.
The W. c. T. U. will meet with Mrs Ed
win Frost. 36 Church street. this, Thursday,
afternoon at the usual hour.
j. W. Burgess is cutting ice on the upper
part OF the Light & Power Co.'s pond The
Ice Is IL inches thick. The L. & P. Co. will
begin cutting next week.
W. c. futile 4 Son have bought all the
Photographic studios in Madison and will
open in that village next week, Thew now
have nine studios in as many different
towns.
Mrs. Ira M. Cobe, 511O Hubbard avenue
was hostess for the Twenty Club on Tues
DAY. The decorations were red. Mrs. Don.
ohue received the first prize at the euchre
game which followed the luncheon, and the
hostess won the second. From the s.Sontb
Side Sayings" Hyde Park, Chicago.
The Ladies' Aid Society of A. E. Clark
Camp, S. of ", will hold fair. supper and
dance at Memorial Hall, Wednesday. Feb.
18th, afternoon and evening, to which the
public are invited. Sale of quilts, aprons.
and fancy articles in the afternoon, supper
at six O'Clock at Is cents. Dance tickets.
50 cents.
SHIPBU1LDING. Capt. Fields S. Pendleton
has the moulds ready to go into the woods
for new schooner to be built in Carter &
Co.'S. yard, and xpects to begin work in the
yard about April 1st. Geo. A. Gilchrest
has chartered sch. Jennie Lockwood to
bring 240 M. lumber from Boston for his
new vessel. She will also bring 100 M for
Mathews Bros. Fred Sanborn began on the
blacksmith work for Mr.. Gilchrest Monday.
JANUARY WEATHER. We present here
our regular monthly weather report, which
has been feature of The Journal for many
years, and for which we are indebted to Mr..
l.. II Murch. who has kept tri-daily rec
ord for Al years. We now begin an addi-
tional record, that of the barometer, kept by
N. S. Lord 4 Co. at their ship-chandlery on
Front street The barometer is 30 feet above
the sea level Average barometer 80 inches
highest, Jan. 9th, 30 6 inches; lowest, JAN
29th, 2S.S inches; greatest daily range of
barometer. Jan. 29th inches. The mean
temperature for the month was % 79o.
against 20 Is for January 1899, and $500 for
January for Al years past. The highest was
450 the 18th day, and the lowest 90 below
zero the 4th. Rain fell on days, and snow
on 10; total snow fall 16 inches; total pre-
cipitation, 5 6S inches.
81. l.. Woodcock returned last week from
trip to Washington, D. c., Philadelphia,
New York and Boston. In Washington he
saw the private collection of paintings by
the old masters owned by Ralph c. Johnson,
which is said to be one of the finest, if not
the finest, collection in this country He also
visited the Corcoran Art Gallery, private
collection of paintings in Georgetown, and
the Congressional Library. Mr.. johnson
accompanied HIM on his return as far as
Philadelphia, where they visited the Phila-
delphia Academy of Art. In New York
Mr.. Woodcock saw much to interest an
artist, and in Boston he found two of his
paintings hung on the line in the exhibition
of the Boston Art Club. 1t is the first time
he has been represented by two pictures in
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good sale in Boston and he is to have them
on sale in New York.
THE BEST YET. The concert last Friday
evening in the Opera House by the Belfast
Band was the best of the series. The Over
ture, Semiramide, was alone worth the price
of admission, and was most enthusiastically
encored. The soprano solo, "Wouldn't You
Like to Know by Mrs. E. P. Frost, was
well received and encored. The band kind |
ly responded to several encores. You miss
if you do not attend these con-
certs. The next concert will be given Tues
day evening, Feb. 18th, with the following
program:
Overture, Orpheus, Offenbach-I
Melody in F. Paraphrase, Rubenstein
(Rtquest)
Ballet Music from Faust, Suite II, Gounod |
Song The Holy City, Adams
Mrs. Maynard.
Mariana, Selection, Wallace |
(Request)
Clarinet solo, Selected
F. j. Rigby.
Waltz, Wine, Women and Song, Strauss |
(Request.)
dance, Baker |
STEAMER NOTES. The M. & M. lowed the |
Sedgwick to Bucksport Tuesday She was
taken on the marine railway for repairs of |
the damages occasioned by the storm of Jan.
18th. The Penobscot arrived from Boston |
last Thursday noon about 80 hours late, and |
left on her return trip Friday afternoon.
She arrived in Boston Saturday morning and |
left again at o'clock p. M, arriving here at |
30 Sunday morning.. The Boston and |
Maine Steamship Company are to open |
steamship line from Boston, Bar Harbor and |
Eastport soon. The company was organized
in Portland last ulywith Horatio F Nichols,
president, Arthur Teel vice president, S. N.
Ellison treasurer and gener Al manager, and
A. W. Coombs of Portland attorney, and
owns outright the steamer The City of |
with which the line will be open
ed The steamer will be commanded by