The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-11-21
THE NEWS OF BELFAST.

Shipments OF apples still continue large.
The Boston steamers take from 800 to 400
barrels every trip
The Deer Isle Messenger says that the
weir fishermen report the past season the
best for several years.
New slate blackboards have been bought
for the upper room of the High school and
both rooms of the Upper Grammar.
Work was begun Tuesday for placing
the new hydrant on Northport avenue oppo-
site the residence of Geo. R. Williamson,
Esq.
Founders were in the market Monday at
- cts. per dozen. They were of small size.
A few years ago no founders were brought
to market except in the early spring.
Pitcher and Lancaster have bought and
shipped during the past three weeks 10000
bushels of cider apples, a class of produce
for which there has never before been any
demand for shipment.
Joseph B. Wilson shot handsome buck
on Tileston Wadlin's farm in NorthpOrt last
week. 1t was the largest deer brought into
Belfast this season, weighing, dressed, 22S
pounds and was sold to Fogg & Brown.
F. d. Aldus has begun work on extensive
changes on his place on Mountain street.
lie will move his barn back onto his garden
lot and move his house along to where the
barn was located facing Cross street and fit
it up for two tenements. In the spring he
will build new house which will be on the
Mountain street side of his lot.-Camden
Herald.
The Boston Sunday Globe gives a record
of the New England hand fire engines, from
which we learn that Washington engine of
Peabody, Mass, formerly of Belfast, has
aiken part in two musters this year and won
one first prize of $75, with record of 200
teet and Al inches. Her best record since
!eaving Belfast was pa feet and q inches.
Work on the sewer extension is progress
ng more fayorably than in the past, both
IN excavating and pipe laying. Some of the
surplus earth and stone from the deep cut is
used to grade up the low place below Ma
camber's boat shop, which is to be raised p
teet at the lowest point. There is to be a
tamporary outlet to dispose of the surface
water from the lower manhole at the steam
boat wharf
c. O. Poor is making extensive repairs
and improvements to the Poor and johnson
blocks owned by him. The old wooden
cutters are to be replaced by modern iron
ones and the slate near the cutters removed
and replaced by iron, making the caves
snow and water tight The old cutters
we're very large and it would have been
ltficult and expensive to have duplicated
Them had Mr.. Poor so desired, as none of
hat size are now made. He is also paint
ne the front of the blocks and repairing
The Band Hall.
THE CROPS. The November bulletin of
the State Board of Agriculture contains the
following summary Of crop reports from
Waldo County:
Quantity of apples, 70 per cent. quality,
Jos per cent. Per cent. of winter varieties,
S. Proportion of apples that will be ship
ped at once, y per cent. Yield of potatoes,
l52 bushels No indications of rot reported.
some Bordeaux mixture has been used,
with good results. Yield of yellow corn, 40
bushels. Amount of young stock to be
Wntered, Iii per cent Conditions of grass
fields, 103 per cent.
Allen Shaw had a singular experience
with his ducks during the snow storm last
week. He lives ON the Bird place at Little
River, and his ducks have the run of the
shore and often swim in the bay. Wednes-
lay during the storm they became bewil-
,lered and swan out instead Of in. Mr..
shaw was unable to find them that night,
hut the next morning he rowed across in
The direction they were heading when last
seen and found them on Moose Point, East
Belfast. They swan nearly three miles in
The storm AS they are very tame he had
no difficulty in getting them home.
To TRIBUNE SUBSCRIBERS. Our present
contract with the publishers of the New
York Tribune expires Dec. Z, 1901, and
after that date we shall be unable to furnish
the weekly free to those who pay one year
in advance for The Republican Journal. In
fact, the Weekly Tribune has ceased to exist,
and its place is taken by the New York
Tribune Farmer, publication for farmers
and their families. To those who pay one
Years. subscription to The Journal in ad-
vance prior to Dec. 9TH we will send the
Tribune Farmer for one year free After
that date the clubbing price of the two
papers will be 1925 Further particulars in
an advertisement on the 9th page
"GORGoNZOLA." In England and Scot
land the members of the Elwell party found
d cheese very much to their liking, the ma
jority pronouncing it ''just the cheese" It
resembles the RoQuefort, but is milder in
taste, and also in price. 1t was first sug-
gested, and then urged, that one of the Bel
last party, who is in the grocery business,
should buy cheese of this desirable brand
and bring it home in his trunk and possibly
some of the party are still under the i'm
preston that he did so. Fear of the Gus
toms officers prevented this enterprise,
however, as the cheese would surely have
revealed its presence, for while acceptable
to the palate it is not likely to supersede
the popular perfumes. But GOrgonzola
cheese is to be had on this side of the Allan
tic, and it was included in Swift & Pauls |
line stock of table delicacies received by
last Saturdays boat. Try it.
SHIPPING ITEMS. The masters and own
ers of the large coasting schoOners have in
sisted that a clause be put in all their
charters on voyages to the Penobscot and