The Republican journal., 1902-03-06

The Fortnightly club will have ten cent
sociable in the North church parlors next
Monday evening at 80 O'Clock.
The Tniversalist Society will have dime
social this, Thursday, evening at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. L. Gentner, Church
street.
The Democratic City Committee has
organized for the campaign by choice of W
p. Thompson, Esq, chairman and L. H.
Murch, secretary.
Messrs. W. IL Bray and c. G. Dickey
have formed the Belfast Bill Posting Com
pany for posting bills, distributing adver-
Using matter, etc They will put up addi-
tonal bill boards.
Pensions have been granted as follows
Increase, restoration, reissue, etc, Benia-
min F. Arey, Rockport, So; Alfred G. Fur
bush, Hampden Corner; original. widows,
etc, Martha A. Parkman, Unity, ST.
Advertised list of letters remaining in the
Belfast post office March 4th: Ladies'
Miss Eve Millay, Mrs Francis Shute, Mrs.
Maria II. Stevens. Gentlemen-A. L..
Banen, Mr. Ralph Brandreth, Capt. Cum
mings, Mr.. John Leavitt, Mr. Frank K.
Walls
The Board of Registration is in session
daily this week from a. m. to .. H., from
3 to ) and To 9 p. M, up to O'Clock Fri
day afternoon, for the purpose of revising
and adding names to the voting lists. Per
sons who wish to have their names added
must appear personally before the Board.
|. ". Parker has got out the material for
a cottage to be erected on his lot at the
Battery the coming spring 1t will be 10 by
20 feet on the ground, one story and half
in height, with square tower, and a veran-
da 10 feet wide in trout. 1t is designed only
for summer use and will be sheathed inside
The finish, stairs, etc, are all ready to be
put up.
The children OF the Junior League will
give fair and entertainment in the vestry
of the NJ. f. Church Wednesday afternoon
and evening, March 18th The affair will be
unique and entertaining. There will be a
table of fancy articles for sale. Lemonade,
candy, cornballs, doughnutS and cocoa will
be served at moderate prices, from dainty
little hands. 1t is earnestly desired that all
will aid the children in their efforts and
give them a liberal patronage. Admission
% cts. a couple those coming alone will be
charged Is cts.
JUVENILE TEMPLES. Seven new .Iuve-
nile Temples have been instituted during
the past few months and the county organ
izers are unusually interested in the work,
and have some gifted superintendent who
have seen twenty years or more of service.
Mrs. f. +. Alexander, the State Superin-
tendent, has been i'll for several weeks, but
is out again and earnestly working for the
cause. Those interested anticipate very
enthusiastic meeting of the institute at the
annual Grand Lodge of Good Templars in
Waterville in April. Mrs. Alexander is
very much in love with her work and en-
thusiastic in the good work done among the
children
STEAMER NOTES. The Marjorie was
launched from Gilchrest's marine railway
Feb 2Sth, and took a quantity of freight to
BrookSvllle Saturday. The Penobscot
was obliged to remain in Boston last week
until Thursday morning, on account of a
storm. She arrived here at 10. 80 that night,
and left on her return at go Friday after
noon. She had some trouble in making her
landing at Bucksport, in which her stem
was slightly damaged. She laid in Rock
land until Saturday, arriving at Boston Sun
day, and leaving Monday morning on the
return trip. She arrived here about 3
O'Clock Monday evening, and left for Bos-
ton Tuesday. -. The steamers City of BAN
gor and City of Rockland are receiving
thorough overhauling in East Boston. pre-
paratory to going on the Boston and Ban
gor route. -. The steamer Governor Rod.
well has been overhauled at RockIand and
renovated. A saloon has been
placed on her upper deck and all the fittings
in it are new. Capt George W. Webster
commands her, and she has gone on tho
ROckland and Swans Island route We
were told last week that Capt Bennett had !
not got all the stock taken in steamer
Florence for the Stonington route, and that
unless this could be accomplished soon the
enterprise would be given up. 1t would be
a paying route and bring a good deal of
business to Belfast. The steamer Golden !
Rod, formerly owned and operated by a |
syndicate OF Philadelphia cottagers between
Southwest Harbor and Bar Harbor, has
been purchased by the Bennett brothers of |
Brewer and will be put on a daily line be-
tween lslesborO and Bangor, touching at |
Castlne. The Golden Rod is light-draught |
propeller, IS feet long, and built by the Bar
bours IN Brewer in 1893. Capt. Chas.
Shpte, formerly pilot and captain on the |
Bar Harbor line, and one of her new
owners, Capt. Fred Bennett, for 20 years
chief engineer of the steamer Cimbria of |
The Bar Harbor line, will be captain and |