The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-01-10

Pattee & Son, insurance, Belfast.
| A few smelts are caught in the upper har-
Dor, but the supply is short.
The sloop Now Then was in port the first
of the week with frozen fresh fish.
Thomas Fl. Marshall Post, G. A. H., held
a campfire Tuesday evening" A clam supper
was served.
Advertised list of letters remaining in the
Belfast post Office Jan. 8th: Gentlemen
George X. Ricketson ESQ.,, James II. Wiley.
! We are indebted to CHM & Company,
publishers, for copy of the Twentieth
Century reprint of the New England Primer
! DR.. w. L. West has received fine i'm
ported Belgian hare doe and standard
bred buck from one of the leading rabbit
ries in the country.
1t is reported on good authority that
George A. Gilchrest is to build another
large schooner for McQuestion Brothers of
Boston, the firm for whom he built the
Theoline last year.
Mrs. Emery o. Pendleton, Past President,
installed the officers Of Thomas Fl. Marshall
Relief Corps Tuesday afternoon. There
was large attendance and refreshments
were served.
An adjourned meeting of the Belfast Inn
prOvement Society will be held at the home
of Mrs. NJ. j. Gammans, Monday, January
14th, at $50 p. M. Members are earnestly
requested to be present.
The trustees of Grove Cemetery are about
to order the iron fence authorized by the
city government for the front of the extern
sion. 1t will be from the same firm and SIM
liar in style to the present fence.
Charles R. Coombs has lost his valuable
and much priced setter, which died Monday
night of distemper. Mr.. Coombs attended
the dog day and night for nearly week,
and had the aid of DR.. West, but was unable
to save him.
Seaside Chautauqua Circle will meet with
! Mrs. E. P. Alexander,- "a Court street,
Monday, January 18th, at . p. m. Lesson
Rivalry of Nations, chapters twelve and
thirteen; French Revolution, chapters eleven
and twelve. Quotations on The New Year.
Chas. F. Brown of Pulpit Harbor is build
ing 35-footer for j. Murray Forbes of Bos-
ton, 21-foot raceabout for C. F. Ames of
! Rochester, 21-foot raceabout for George
| and Harry Shattuck of Boston, and racing
launch for the Rockland Machine Company
a very successful meeting of the Parlor
Musical Society was held at the Unversalist
vestry Tuesday evening, Jan. Sth. The next
rehearsal will be Tuesday, January 18th,
and a full attendance is desired, as work
will be done on Memberships Hymn of
Praise.
Geo. o. Hatch has the contract for trans
porting the school children on the Northport
avenue route and has bought the barge
Mikado of Elijah Phillips, who has perform
ed the service for nearly two years. The
route has been changed from the avenue to
the back road.
ACCIDENTS. Fred CIR osby cut a severe
wound in his left foot NJ onday, while chop
ping in the woods. The axe went nearly
through the foot cutting off a number of
muscles. Mrs. VIM. I. Rogers fell at her
home in East Belfast few days ago and
broke her left wrist.
Jesse E. Wilson left yesterday for New
York, where he will spend week and at
tend the great furniture sale. He will buy
largely for the firm of Spencer & Wilson
From New York he will go to Southern Cal
ifornia for the winter, and return via the
Canadian Pacific, making short stop at
Chicago, Niagara Falls and other points of
interest
New ADVERTISEMENTS The great
slaughter sale of boots, shoes, etc, still con-
tinues at the Francis shoe store, "a Main
street. See the cut prices quoted this week
DIR Foss' Tablets for La Grippe and
colds are for sale at the City Drug Store,
Edmund Wilson proprietor 3. See notice of
tax collector, NJ. c. Hill. Mrs. G. L. Field
publishes freedom notice. Mr.. and Mrs
James d. Tucker publish card of thanks
Nathan P. Folwell of Philadelphia is to
complete the log cabin on Warren's Island,
at the upper end of Gilkey's Harbor, begun
by his father, the late William II. Folwell
1t was laid out on a grand scale, land it is said
will cost when completed about $500 The
logs used in its construction are cut on the
island, which is only few miles distant
from the Folwell's summer home, Isola
Bella.
We have received Bulletin Y of the Agri-
cultural Experiment Station of the Rhode
Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts. The bulletin is devoted to special in
struction in poultry culture, and is beauti-
fully printed and handsomely illustrated. 1t
comes from the press of E. L. Freeman &
Sons, printers to the State. The head of
the firm was formerly of Camden, and is a
brother of E. c. Freeman of the Camden
and Belfast stage line.
FIRE IN WINTERPoRT. At 10 o'clock Sun
day night the barn on the Davidson farm in
West Winterport was destroyed by fire, and
with it all the live stock and other contents,
with the exception of one horse. The fire
made such rapid progress that little could
be done to save either building or contents.
One horse, a colt, two cows, one hefer, two
hogs and lot of poultry, the farming tools,
a quantity of hay and several wagons, were
burned. The origin of the fire is mystery.
The annual ball Of the Belfast Hook and
Ladder Co. takes place at the Belfast Opera
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