The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-12-05
ThA NnWS OF BELFAST.


Geo. A. Leavitt returned last week from
a hunting trip to ArooStook county with
one deer.
Thomas II. Marshall Relief Corps will
have supper at Memorial Hail next Tues
day evening.
There was good skating Thanksgiving
day on Kirby Lake and on the larger ponds
on the East Side.
New windows of plate glass have been
placed in Edward A. Wadsworth's market,
in Opera House block.
The W. c. T. U. will meet with Mrs. VIM.
A. Mckenzie, % High street, this, Thursday,
afternoon, at 80 O'Clock.
There will be Gospel services at the City
Point schoolhouse next Sunday afternoon
at O'Clock and in the evening at O'Clock.
We noticed ON High street Monday, a
man wearing straw hat, and without an
overcoat, talking TO a man buttoned up in a
fur coat.
Four girls were received last week at the
Girls Home from Portland, but two were
under and one over age, and they were sent
back to Portland.
A little school boy Of this city has coined
a new word. He calls the telegraph and
telephone posts, "teleposts," making one
word answer for both.
The regular term of Probate Court will
be held next Tuesday, and the December
term of County Commissioners Court will
omen the Tuesday following
DR.. Chas. P. Bean of Boston lately sent
TO Walter F. Hall of Belfast number of
Chinese curios, among them copper idol
attached to a large copper coin. 1t is
thoughtIto be very old.
The cars of the passenger train have been
eturned from the repair shop in Water
vile, where they were thoroughly overhaul
ed and some modern improvements added.
The locomotive, No.::25, is now in the shop
and No. SO is on the branch. A new snow
pow has been:sent here.
The ground is unusually dry. The total
precipitation, rain and melted snow, for
November was but 81 inches, and the
ground being frozen the snow of course
lives no benefit to the wells. Many farmers
and persons outsidelthe water service limits
are greatly troubled by the drouth.
f. L. Macomber has placed over the door
of his boat shop sign which reads 'Boat
Shop when viewed from either up or down
the street, but reads ''E. L. Macomber,"
when seen from directly in front 1t was
used several years ago by his mother, Mrs.
G.. O. Macomber, at her hair-works on Bay
View street, and has been repainted for his
business.
1.-The horse owned by the American Ex-
press Co. was attacked.last Thursday even
ing with eueritis.5 As soon as DR.. West
was called he decided that the case was
hopeless and the horse was chloroformed.
An autopsy revealed condition which
could not possibly have resulted otherwise
than fatally. A loop of the small intestine
20 feet long had slipped through a rent in
castro hepatic omentum, (the membrane
between the stomach and liver) and had be-
come Strangulated
ACCIDENTS. Walter Dyer of Northport
met with bad accident recently. He fell
from the roof of a new building in Camden
"a distance of about so feet-and struck on
his feet. No bones were broken, but he
was badly shaken up and suffered injuries
to his back. Two ladies were riding on
Cedar street last Friday when their horse
took fright and ran and both ladies We're
thrown out. The horse kept on to Main
street, where he collded with pung in
which a man and his wife were riding
Both were thrown out and the sleigh was
smashed. None of the people were hurt.
BURKETTs FIRE SALE. AS result of
Geo W. Burkett's announcement in last
weeks journal that his fire sale would be-
gin Friday, Nov 29th, his spacious store in
Odd Fellows block was filled on that day
to overlooking with eager buyers. Even
with the large number of extra clerks it
was found impossible to wait upon all the
customers. The drawing of such a crowd
is due to two facts: First, there are few
homes in Waldo county in which The Jour.
nal is not attentively read; secondly, peo-
pie know that when Burkett advertises a
sale he means just what he says; and has
the goods Thus it is that since his sale be-
gan every town in Waldo county has been
represented among those who have daily
thronged his store, and the overflow has
given others in the same and other lines the
best business they have had for weeks
Many who come in quest of the bargains
offered in the various departments of Bur
kett's mammoth dry goods store also want
groceries, boots and shoot, clothing, medi-
cine, ETC., etc., and the increased sales in
these lines show that one enterprisng man
in literally advertising his own business
benefits the whole community as well as
himself. The sale is still going on, and
there are bargains galore for everybody.
STEAMER NOTES. Notices have beer
received by the stockholders of the Boston
& Bangor S. S. Co., in various Maine cities
to the effect that they are offered $40 pei
share, $40 being in cash and the 800 in five
per cent. gold bonds given by the Eastern
Steamship company, payable in 1926 the
same to be taken up at any time before thai
date. 1t has been rumored that the new
company will use the Atlantic wharf, Rock
land, as a landing place, but it is stated al
the Boston office that no change is contem
plated. Capt. Otis Ingraham took the
PenObscot to Bangor Saturday and returned
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