The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-08-23

Advertised list of letters remaining in
the Belfast post office Aug. 21st: Ladies'
Miss Belle Bridges. conference.-the. A. W.
Buzzell, Mr.. John Smedburg.
The Herrick family reunion, which was
announced to be held at the home of Mrs.
Emery Cottrell on Northport avenue Aug
18th, was postponed on account of the
storm, and will be held at the same place
Thursday, Aug. 5Oth
The horse Halliebird, lately sold by NJ b.
Lawrence, is a trOtter, not a PAGER, as re-
ported last week. The price paid was ST.
500. Mr.. Lawrence has since bought of Will
White of Montvlle 6-year old bay gelding
by Elmbrook dam by the Cooper horse,
which promises to be fast one.
Seaside Chautauqua Circle will hold its
fifteenth annual reunion at the home of
Mrs. Helen Carter, % High street, Tuesday,
August 18th, at , F. NJ. If stormy, the next
fair day. Picnic supper will be served at
80. All c. L. S. C.'s who have at any time
been members of Seaside Circle are cordial
ly invited. All are requested to wear the
class flower. Quotations from favOrite
authors.
FIRE. The fire department was called
out Saturday afternoon by slight fire in
the Ralph c. johnson house on Primrose
Hill. Gas was found to be leaking some
where in the l., and in searching for it
with lighted match a fire was accidentally
started in partition. The fire worked con-
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break through, and was put out by the de-
partment without seriously damaging the
house or contents.
There is an item on the 9TH page captioned
"Artists at Criehaven. Since that was put
| in type Mr.. H. L. Woodcock has returned to
! Belfast and opened his studio in the Savings
| Bank building, where visitors are always
| welcome. Mr. Woodcock's stay at Crie-
| haven this year was briefer than usual and
| he brought back fewer water colors. But
what they lack in quantity is more than
| made up in quality, and successful as the
artist has been in the past in the portrayal
of sea, rocks and shore, his work this season
shows a decided advance in strength and
quality. Visitors to the Maine coast can
have no more pleasing and enduring SOU
venr than one of Mr. Woodcock's water
colors. Visitors to his studio at this time
will also see some line still-life oil paint
ings.
Work was begun last Monday under the
auspices of the Belfast Village Improve
ment Society on a walk along the south side
| of Northport avenue, beginning at the end
of the plank walk opposite the Girls Home.
Nj. j. F. Wilson is engineering the work,
giving his services. and Mr.. Albert j. Mudg-
| EFT turned out Monday with his pair of truck
horses, scraperS. etc, and others aided all
giving their time Tuesday Mr.. }. f. Wight
was at work with d horse and harrow. A
/ beginning has been made i'll clearing the
brush from the roadside on the Reed farm,
| leaving the shade trees along the line of the
wall. and greatly improving the appearance
of the neighborhood. The residents on the
avenue will all contribute labor or money,
and the Improvement Society will aid tnan-
| cially. When the walk is all laid out the
city will be petitoned to furnish gravel for
| it. The need of walk of some kind along
| this principal thoroughfare has long been
| felt.
| Mock TRIAL. The mock trial under
the auspices of Silver Cross Lodge, Knights
of Plthias, was given in Belfast Opera
| House Monday evening before good audi
ence The trial abounded in local hits and
amusing features. The court attorneys,
parties to the trial etc, were as announced
/ i'll The Journal last week, but there were
| few changes in the witnesses and jurors,
! which were as follows Witnesses. DR..
! Elmer Small, \. j. Potte c. j Pattee w.
! j. Clifford. W. j. Hayner. l.. II. .Iipson :;
jurors, {. +. Stevens foreman; f. II. WEIGH,
| Il. c. Barton; {. l.. Pooer, +. Jacobs, Loren
! Colcord, c. b. Patterson, f. j. Stephenson,
! Fred Sylvester, c. {. tOombS Austin l..
| Smith. W. Nj. Wech. EIbridge :. Pitcher
accused Geo. A. Quimby of stealing Ply
mouth Rock rooster. which the complainant
| received from his father and he from his
! grandfather, to wit, the bird that came over
| in the MavtloWer, landed on Plymouth
/ Rock and gave the name to that ledge Quinn
| bv was traced with the bird in his possession
| to the Methodist yestry, where rooster fight
was about to begin, but which was broken up
by officer Jipson, as the result of bright CD
detective work. The defense was that Pitcher
was monomaniac on Plymouth Rock roost-
ers, imagining that some person had stolen
one from him; that the rooster Quimby had
at the fight was dickey bird bought of
Clifford, who got it from Orrn j. Dickey
The case was ably and amusingly argued by
Geo. f. johnson, ESQ.,, for the complainant
and A. V. Newton, ESQ.,, of Worcester, Mass,
| for the defense Judge W. P. Thompson
gave sarcastic charge to the jury, giving
the jury system some hard hits. The YER
dict was ''Not guilty, but the respondent
must return the rooster to the complainant"
| SHIPPING ITEMS. Schooner Sarah L. Davis
arrived Friday from New York with coal
for Swan Il Sibley Co.. Sch. William Slater
received slight repairs on the dock here and
sailed Friday for Bangor. Sch. Maria Web
ster arrived Friday from Rockland and sail
ed Saturday on fishing cruise with party
from Monroe on board. Sch. Julia Edna
took a load of casks to Rockport Friday.
| The three-maSted schooner Almeda Wiley
arrived Sunday to go on the marine railway
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