The Republican journal., 1901-12-12
The NEWS OF BELFAST.

The American Express Co. has sent to
Belfast a new horse to take the place of the
one that lately died. He is called "Teddy."
The winter term at the E. NJ. c. Seminary,
Bucksport, opened Dec. Sd with large
increase in students. Miss Evelyn Buck,
A. NJ, graduate of Wellesley College, has
been secured as an instructor in English
composition.
The State tax on the Belfast Savings
Bank for 1902 is 81, 233 Al, against $3,751. 70
for 1901. The tax on the SearSport Savings
Bank is S517.1 against $52O35 in 1901. The
tax for the whole State is $7,666. SO larger
than in 1901.
Mrs. ThoS. E. Shea sent IS to provide
turkey for the inmates of the Girls Home
Thanksgiving day, and also provided ice
cream. A. A. Howes & Co., Swift & Paul
and CHM & Field contributed fruit and
confectionery.
Bucksport temperance people want the
liquor agency discontinued. The death of
Lemuel 7. Dorr, town liquor agent, leaves
a vacancy which several desire to fill. At the
same time it gives rise to the discussion of
disseminating the agency.
Our clubbing terms are: To advance pay
ing subscribers, The Republican Journal
and New York Tribune Farmer, l year,
1925; The Republican Journal and Farm
and Home one year, So. See advts. ON other
pages for further particulars.
one family in Belfast has been keeping
house more than thirty years and has
bought every barrel of flour they have
used at one store, now the Swan & Sibley
60. They have never been obliged to ex-
change barrel on account of quality.
A Brooksville correspondent of the Ban
cor Daily News drops into poetry, as fol-
lows:
The feed of hogs is higher
SO all the hogs are dead;
The boys tramp the woods and fire
The deer chuck full of lead.
At the annual election of Washington
lose Company, last week, the following
Ulcers We're reelected for the ensuing year:
aptain, William NJ. WEIGH; Foreman, n.
F Patterson; Assistant Foreman, George
Darby Clerk, Walter J. Clifford Treasurer,
Herbert Hamlin.
The usual pressure upon our advertising
columns at this season has compelled us to
hold over number of interesting contribu-
lions, for which We shall find space as soon
H. possible. Last week we were compelled
TO defer most of our county correspondence,
tready in type, and it will be found on the
It'll page.
The ponds, streams and wells are unus-
ually low and unless rain comes very soon
serious trouble may be expected The Water
GO. is pumping wholly by steam, but has
ample water for the city service. The mills
on the East Side are running on half time,
and the Electric Light & Power Co. is using
steam principally. y
ACCIDENTS. At Mathews mill last week
William Blazo had finger quite badly cut,
and Scott Creasey received severe bruises
by being caught in belt. Harvey S.
Cunningham received severe bruises about
his right shoulder Saturday by falling from
a tree. He was telling trees in the woods
and tree lodged. He went up TO clear it
and fell to the ground.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Capt. S. C.. Rich is
giving the sch. Charon general repairs in
Lanes dock. Sch. Thomas Hix is hauled
up for the winter at the lower BRIDGE.
sch. Maria Webster loaded hay for Mt.
Desert from the Belfast Fuel & Hay Co.
asst week =. Sch. Minnie Chase loaded hay
at the Belfast Fuel and Hay Cos for Ten
ants Harbor last Friday. The four masted
schooner Sarah W. Lawrence of Taunton,
Mass, has been sold to Asher Curtis of
Manasquan, n. j., for $4,000 The Law
renee was built at Bath 10 years ago. She
was commanded by Capt. AlZo M. Carter of
this city before he took his present vessel,
schooner Henry W. Cramp. just before
The journal went to press last week there
was rumor on the streets that the new
schooner Henry B. Fiske had been lost on
the voyage from Brunswick to Boston, but
We learned that no such news had reached
here by telegraph or telephone. The Fiske
arrived at Boston Friday from Brunswick
with $4,000 feet of hard pine lumber con-
signed to her owners, George McQuesten &
60. She sailed from Brunswick Nov. 25th,
and encountered some pretty severe wealth
er. She lost her foretopmast and flying jib,
but sustained no other damage. The
three-masted schooner Estelle, Capt. E. G.
Hutchinson, has broken all existing records
between Bangor and Curacao The Estelle
left Bangor Nov. 9th with cargo of ice
and lumber and arrived at the South Amer
lean port Nov. 21st.. Augustus Wentworth
Of Rockport is to 60 to Virginia this winter
to get out the frames for ive-masted
schooner H. NJ Bean of Camden is to build
next spring for Capt. j. G. Crowley. She
will be 2GO feet on the keel, 4S feet wide,
and q feet deep. Calvin S. Elwell of
Northport is first officer of the ship A. j.
Fuller, having been transferred from ship
Mary L. Cushing at Cape Town, South
Africa. The A. j. Fuller sailed from Cape
Town Oct. u and arrived at Newcastle, N.
s. w, Nov II, a passage of 80 days. The
Mary L. Gushing sailed from Cape Town
oct. IA and arrived at Newcastle Nov. %, a
passage of ~ days. The shipping season
at the port of Bangor closed Saturday noon,
when the last vessel, the five-masted schoon-
er, Louise B. Crazy, was towed out. The
Maud Briggs went out Saturday morning
about O'Clock, after having discharged
cement, and the Ella Francis and the
catherine and the Silver Heels, went down