The Republican journal., 1901-05-30

=" - y s~sA>SsA ~ ASeAA8VA CI0OIGUES I88C week.
and the hospital is closed
Meetings were held Monday and Wednes.
day evenings. May 9th. and 18th. to organ
ize Young Mems Business Association
The objects are to advance the business in
terests of the city S
Furniture and furnishings for the Folwell
log cabin on Warren's Island came by the
Boston boat last week and were taken TO the
island by steamer Castine. The family are
expected here early in June.
| The meeting of the Waldo Veterans, A.
ISOLATION, which was called to be held in
Belfast, June 9Th, is postponed until further
notice on account of a previous engage
ment of Memorial Hall.
A few of Mrs. J. NJ. Leighton's personal
friends presented her with very fine life
size bust picture of her late husband, as a
birthday gift, May 30th. 1t was beautifully
framed in a gilt oval scroll.
THE VIEWS OF ROME are still on exhibit
tion at the Free Library. They have been
very much enjoyed by persons interested in
Michelangelo and other painters whose
work adorns the great St. Peters church.
The pictures will be on view few days
longer.
1t is reported that boys make practice
of shooting at doves and other birds with
air guns, which cripple but do not kill the
birds. The laws both against killing birds
and animals are very strict, and will be ap-
piled to the offenders if the practice is
continued.
Advertised list of letters remaining in the
Belfast post Office May 2Sth: Ladies-Mss
Grace Booker, Miss Gertrude Bryant, Miss
Grace Moulton. Gentlemen--Samuel S.
Brown, Child, Chamberlain Co., Mr. F.
NJ. Davis, D. A. Nye, j. E. Small, Mr..
Peter Williams.
Weather permitting the Belfast Band and
Thomas H. Marshall Post, G. A. R., will 90
to Searsport at 9. A. NJ. to-day on steamer
Castine to take part in the Memorial exer-
cises. A dinner will be served them in
Searsport and Freeman McGilvery Post will
come to Belfast in the afternoon.
The New England Real Estate Co. of Bos-
ton, Mass, will open an Eastern Maine office
in this city on June first. This concern is
one of the largest in Massachusetts and
every attention is given to the disposal of
cottages, lots and farm property. The CON-
pany will be represented in this city byOrrin
j. Dickey.
Seaside Chautauqua Circle will meet with
Mrs. c. A. Hubbard, Park street, Monday,
June Sd, at p. NJ. Lesson, search ques-
tons on "Rivalry of Nations" and "Read-
ing Journey in the ORIENT and chapters
l to 5 in c. L. S. Z. book, the Human Ma
ture Club" author, Albert Laighton.
The officers, committees and members of
| the Belfast Improvement Society are ear
nestly requested to be present at the annual
meeting to be held at Memorial Hall, Mon
day, June Sd, at p NJ Important matters
of business are to be considered. Cake and
| tea will be served at the close of the meet
ing. All interested are invited.
The following graduates of the Castine
| Normal school are to graduate from the
special course at the State Normal school in
Bridgewater, Mass, June 25th: Miss Bertha
Batson, '9s, Addison Point; Mr.. Leonard
0. Packard, '94, Rockville; Marcia Young,
'96, South Hancock; Mary A. Brown, '91,
Liberty. Miss Catherine Nickels of Sears
port will graduate from the four years
course.
| MEMORIAL DAY. No changes have been
made in the arrangements for Memorial day
| from the program as announced in The
Journal last week, and the out of doors
program will be carried out if the weather
permits. The exercises in the Opera House
! in the evening will be held without regard
! to weather. Mayor Small has issued a re-
; quest that all places of business be closed
! from to O'Clock in the afternoon.
, Judge Geo. E. johnson has had bulk
| head built on the shore front of his lot at
the Battery, and E. S. Pitcher has begun
work on what will be substantial pier to
extend some twenty feet in front of his cot
tage. Mr.. Pitcher has planted quite large
garden and Coombs and Riggs and Judge
johnson also have gardens. They can dig
clans in their front yards and potatoes in
the rear of their cottages, while lobster pots
add to their bill of fare what is coming to
be luxury to most of us.
We have received with the compliments
VI OIIlH d. Oickcy, CLERK Ol Ine beacon
! Ethical Union, the first number of their
| new publication, The Pearl Magazine.
prize of $500 was offered for the best name
suggested for the magazine, and the winner
was William Pinckney Roberts, a native of
Brooks and a portrait and biographical
sketch of him are given. DR.. Roberts is
well known to many of our readers, and to
wider constituency through his efforts to
| stamp out the scourge of consumption. The
Pearl Magazine is devoted to short stories,
| with occasional poems, and each number is
| complete in itself. 1t is attractively printed
The publication Office is 1856 Boylston street,
Boston. Five cents number, 50 cents a
| year.
"When We Were Twenty-One," by H. V.
Esnond, which scored an enormous success
at the Knickerbocker Theatre, New York,
and has been pronounced by press and pub
lie the greatest play of modern times, will
| be presented at the Belfast Opera House
Friday evening, May 31st. by Mr.. Edward E.
Rice's superb company. The story OF
| "When We Were Twenty One" is simple.
1t turns on the determination of middle
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