The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-02-27

The Sea Breeze, in this number. has few
Interesting items
List OF advertised letters remaining in
til Belfast post Office Feb. - Gentlemen
Arnold Anuis, A. K. Eames, Mr. George
les. Nj. John McSorley. NJ. y. Seeger.
Thomas II, Marshall Relief Corps will
VII have supper al Memorial Hall, Tues
day March 4th. at SIX P NJ. All m ,mbers
OF the Corps are requested to furnish some
thing for tie supper The public are cor
daily invited. Admission 10 cents. If
stormy the supper will be postponed
The annual bal Of Washington Hose Co.,
t. be held in the Belfast Opera House March
18th. bids fair to be as successful as such af-
fairs Invariably have been. There Will be
10 public supper, hut refreshments will be
served 10 dancers at ntelmis>ion. MI Ne
servey, the leader OF tie orchestra, is i'll,
and may not he able to direct the music, but
has able substitutes in his organization.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Garlic * Jones
again call attention to their sale of wall
papers, comparing the price OF last year
with that OF this year. They have 10000
rolls Of 1902 wall papers, and sample books
as well from " hich to select. Gantner x
Lancaster advertise Ii sale oi Iowa horses
at the PheniX House stable. Belfast Native
horses taken IN exchange. Mrs. Fila
Grace, belmont. wants d situation to do
house~ ork... Mrs {. T. Reynolds and
family publish a card of thanks....F. T.
Chase has an L to sell
LIBRARY ART CLUB. Photographs of
Sicily are now on exhibition at the Free
Library and may be seen until March H.
Sicily IS the largest island in the Aledterra-
mean and is separated from Italy by the
Strait Of MeSsima, two miles vide. The
scenery is mountainous the highest peak is
Mt. Etna. The island was conquered by
Carl bald and annexed to Italy IN 1850 after
many years of revolutions and inyasions.
The views OF Palermo and of works Of art
within the city number thirty; views Of
| Monred!e, SeEaSta, Syracuse, TaOTmina and
other cities Of the island number nearly one
hundred. All are invited to take a trip to
Sicily by studying these pictures.
The third lecture of the Universalist
course Will be given in the church to-
morrow. Friday, evening at 0 clock. The
speaker Will be Prof. a. j Roberts of
Colby College. and his subject ''On Books
! and Reading" Prof Roberts spoke in the
High school course Jan. p, 1901, on 1.-The
Bible as Literature" Those who heard it
will recall it us a scholarly and interesting
discourse. The Journals report the follow
ing week said
''The hall was well filled and the audience
was both entertained and instructed. The
| Professor speaks rapidly, yet distinctly,
and although he spoke nearly an hour, so
interesting was his discourse that his hear
erS did not realize it was half that time
party OF young people of Wnterport
and Frankfort enjoyed moonlight ride to
Monroe last Monday evening and had sup
per at the Forest House. They left Winter
port at p m, and arrived at the Forest
House at 9 p. m. Among the party were
Miss Iioaway of Boston, Misses Kit At
wood, Louise Smith, Elizabeth Rich and
Ellie Curtis of Winterport, Miss Vivian
Jordan, Oldtown, and Mrs. James F. Hur-
ley of Frankfort. The gentlemen were
Ellery Bowden, Esq, Joshua Treat, Jr.,
Edward B. Lowe, Henry Eldridge and
Frank Mccormack of Wnterport Oliver b.
Atwood of PASSPORT and }. f. Hurley of
Frankfort. After doing ample justice to the
| hne supper the time was pleasantly passed
with vocal selections by the company and
invited guests present.
t'ELFAsT PEOPLE IN Boston. Thurs
| day evening, at their pleasant suite of rooms,
II Wellington street, Boston, the Misses
June X. and Alice Ada ILLS of Belfast en-
tertained small party of Belfast and ELS
worth young men and women. The greater
part OF the evening was occupied in playing
games and listening to a very interesting
musical programme. The latest news from
Maine WAS read aloud from the last issue Of
The Republican journal and called forth
many pleasant "reminiscences of school
days. The musical programme included
vocal solos by Emery White, who is studying
under one of the best instructors in Boston
piano selections by Miss Helen NJ. Dunton,
graduate of the New England Conserva-
tory of Music, and who is now teaching
in Boston, and Miss June X. Hills, a
student at the Conservatory; and a banjo
solo by Miss Julia Cook, formerly of Bel
/ fast, now employed in Miss Fishes store on
fremont street. Other Belfast people pre-
sent were Miss Bernice G. Rogers, student
at Tufts College; John Holmes of the
| Waverley Hospital and Elmer F. Murch of
the Boston Evening Transcript; Miss Mabel
| L. Lord of Ellsworth, who is taking a
| course of study at Bryant & Stratton' s
Business College, and Martin l.. Adams,
employed with Langley, Burr & Company,
! and formerly of Ellsworth, were also pres
ent. A Belfast-EllswOrth club has been
formed by these young people, and meetings
are to be held frequently to keep in touch
with old associations of the Pine Tree State,