The Republican journal., 1901-05-09

name Society will be held in the Memorial
building, Tuesday, May 14th, at 7.3o P. M
Mayo, White and Carter are making their
usual amount of bottled goods and expect
an increase of trade over previous seasons.
Advertised list of letters remaining in the
Belfast postoffice May 7th: Ladies-Mrs. }.
E. Kelley, Mrs. Leona ST. Merre "a letters),
Mrs. James Wearne. Gentlemen-Walter
Adams.
We are indebted to Capt. j. P. Showers
for copies of the New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat containing reports of President Nc
Kinley's visit to the Crescent City. He had
royal reception there.
The graduating class of the East Maine
Conference Seminary have secured for the
commencement concert the Wasgatt string
orchestra of Bangor and Mrs. Rubna Raw
Brooks, soprano, with other talent.
| The assessors have finished taking the
school census, and have now only a few
| cases to verify before announcing the total
| number of scholars, which they think will
not vary half a dozen from last year.
| Charles B. Hazeltine of this city was
| among the losers in the recent fire in Jack
sonville, Fla. He owned the HaZeltine block
| at the corner of Bay and Laurel streets, val
ed at $4,000. 1t was partially insured. He
had an Office in the building, the contents Of
which were destroyed. His other property
in the city was not reached by the fire.
| United States Senator Talaferro, who is well
known here, lost his fine residence
VIEWS OF ROME. There will be shown at
our Free Library eighty views of Rome
showing the Castle of St. Angelo, ST. Peter S
and the Sistine Chapel. In the set are twelve
freScoes on the walls of the Sistine by Sig
norelli, Botticelli and other artists, and thir-
| ty pictures of the famous frescoes by Mich
elangelo. These pictures are loaned by the
Library Art Club and will be on exhibition
three weeks, May IA to June ;, 1901 All
picture lovers are invited to enjoy them.
! FISHING IN LAKE GEORGE. The ina
tives' at Georges Lake, Liberty, who fish
with alder poles and with worms for bait
won handsomely over the Belfast men who
went out recently armed with fancy gear.
They caught land-locked salmon in one
day, the smallest of which weighed lbs,
while Belfast got none. One man hooked a
12-pornd (more or leSS) salmon, and not
having dip-net, successfully worked the
''double bank" plan, as practiced by dory
fishermen in catching cod. The man stood
up on the gunwale of the boat until the
water flowed in, and then scooped in the big
fish The boat was half filled with water,
but he did not care-he caught the biggest
fish of the day.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Sch. Maria Webster
loaded fish barrels last week from F. A.
Tower of Belmont, for parties in Damaris-
Gotta. :. Capt. Fred d. Pattershall and son
Melvin A. have bought the sch. Annie May
of Castine for a bay coaster. She is Al tons
net register and was built in Yarmouth in
1868. :. Sch. j. V. Wellington loaded gener-
al cargo in Boston the first of the week and
was to have sailed for Belfast Wednesday
evening .....Sch. William Slater arrived
Tuesday from Hoboken, in tow with coal
for the Belfast Fuel & Hay Co.. Sch. Min
ME Chace, lately bought by Capt. John
W. Ryder and others, is on the marine rail.
way for repairs. The main and mzzen
masts are stepped in the sch. Myra B.
Weaver at PendletOn's dock. These masts
were carried away when she was wrecked,
but the foremast was left standing
MAINE CENTRAL Tours TO THE PAN
AMERICAN Recognizing that hundreds of
Maine people who will visit the great fair
at Buffalo will want to be sure of good
hotel accommodations and all details arrang-
ed in advance, the Maine Central r. R. has
arranged a series of personally conducted
tours under the personal direction of Mr..
Frank A. Elwell, who is SO well and favor
ably known to Maine people on account of
his marked success in conducting foreign
tours for the past seventeen years. These
tours will leave Portland every other We'd
nesday commencing June 18th, with through
sleepers, via the grand scenery of the White
Mountains. Patrons will be served with
meals en- route and Quartered at the hotel
| ''Niagara," one of the first class hotels of
Buffalo, near the lake front and which is
not temporary hotel built for the discom-
fort of visitors to the exposition. Attrac-
| 1--WE parks uedrly surround Lno motel ana
while but eight minutes ride from the busi-
ness center of the city, its guests are free
from the usual annoyance of noise, dust
and smoke so common to commercial hotels,
and no hotel can offer more absolute CON-
fort than may be obtained at the Niagara.
Trolley cars every minute for the exposi-
ton within one block of the hotel. Here
the party remains five days for visiting the
exposition, one day to be devoted to visit
ing Niagara Falls in special trolley cars.
The price of membership $500 includes
special Pullman cars, berths each way,
meals en- route each way, room and break
fasts at Niagara hotel, trolley ride to Nj
agara Falls, transfer of baggage to and
from hotel, and in fact all expenses. The
number for each tour will be limited and
full particulars can be obtained by sending
for an itinerary to F. E. Boothby, Gen'l
Pass. Agent, Maine Central R. R., Port
land, Me-, as per advertisement in another
column