The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-10-31

The regular meeting of the City Council
will be held next Monday evening.
Fred Jackson is buying lime casks in
Belfast and vicinity for parties in Rockland
and Islesboro.
A brisk fire Started in pile of manure
at A. E. Hutchins' stable on Union street
Monday forenoon, but was extinguished
by the neighbors without an alarm
A man in Liberty had A barrels of apples
he sold % barrels of the same kinds for S44
Apples are apples this year.
Ralph B. IIerrick, whose collection of
plants received from his father was men
toned in The journal last week, has since
added a tobacco plant from the same source
A lump-tish over 3 feet long grounded on
the beach near the steamboat wharf Satur-
day, and laid on the flats alive while the
tide ebbed and flowed again. He drew
quite crowd.
Lucius Jackson of Morrill, reports that
he counted the beans on one stalk of the
variety known as the thousand-to-one, and
found that it came near verifying its name.
There were 81 pods and 912 beans, while a
few pods We're accidentally threshed out
Street Commissioner Robbins has cut
down the weeds and gravelled the walk on
Northport avenue. After the gravel was
on the walk was rolled, and it ought
now to be good for several years. 1t is Il
very great Improvement
The HUNTERS. The Armstrong brothers
brought a fine deer to Fogg IL Brown last
week. 1t was shot near their farm in
West Belfast. Judge George Z. johnson,
Hon R. F. Dunton and c. P. Hazeltine re-
with one deer each, and with two foxes
shot by Judge Johns on.
ACCIDENTS. Mrs. Emery Boardman is
suffering from wounds on her left arm, in
tiicted by a cat. She attempted to separate
two cats that were fighting and one of them
bit her severely. The wounds are doing
well and no serious results are feared. "
Wallace Shaw is at home from Bangor on
account of bad cut on his right hand re-
ceived in Morse 4 Co.'S mill, where he was
at work.
The exit from the Opera House leading
into the Opera House Lunch Room, near
the Church street entrance, will be con-
structed during the coming month In
addition, the stage entrance will be kept in
readiness so that all times when audiences
are assembled there will be three distinct
exits on the Church street side for use in
case of fire. The owner also proposes that
the new exit shall be used for the con-
venience of the patrons of the Opera
House, and that it shall be opened at the
close of performances when specially large
audiences have assembled By this means
those in the centre and front Of the house,
who have been detained many minutes by
the crush from the galleries, can go quickly
and safely to Church street-Com
RUMMAGE SALE. The rummage sale bv
the ladies of the North church last Friday
and Saturday was largely attended and the
sales were good. The stock included a
large variety: books. clothing, boots and
shoes, dishes, wheelbarrow, bath-tub,
coffee mill, pictures, furniture, bric-a-brac,
etc. The customers began coming early
and kept coming until late. In fact good
many sales were made Monday forenoon
while the ladies were packing up the goods
to take away. The net proceeds were
about 1856, and it was the means as well of
providing many poor people with warm
clothing at small cost. At meeting of the
ladies of the society held Wednesday, Oct.
80, a vote of thanks was passed to Mrs J.
Y. McClintock for the free use of the store
in which the sale was held and to C. II,
Maxfield for lighting the same free of
charge.
STEAMER NOTES. The repairs on the
Nj. Il Nj. are finished and she resumed her
route between Camden and Bucksport Mon
day. The Silver Star again has the North
IslesbOro and Belfast mail contract At the
letting OF the contracts last spring this
route was secured by the Coombs brother s.
who have carried the mail in the little
steamer Edna, formerly the Guinevere,
She was found too small for winter service,
and the contract was sold out to the Pendle-
ton Brothers, owners of the Silver Star,
who began under their contract Oct. 25th
The old steamer Pioneer, recently pur-
chased by the South Marine Railway CON-
pany of Rockland, has been calked and is
now lying at their yard. The Pioneer has
been owned by the NJ. C. r. R. for the past
five years, and was used as lighter at Bar
Harbor Her stove-pipe hat has been
knocked off as well as her topwork in gen.
eral. but her corpulent form is as rotund as
ever. The City Of Rockland had her
colors flying when she came in Tuesday
morning in honor Of officials of the COM
pany who were on board: the new treasur-
or, N. T. Morse; the general superinten-
dent, Calvin Austin and Mr.. VIM. Cobb Of
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