The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-07-17
The W. c. I. L. will meet with Mrs 5.
Bicknell, % Pearl street, to-day, Thursday

proving rapidly and is thought to be out of
| danger.
The Universalist Sunday school will have
their annual excursion Monday, July DIST
They will go to CaStine, and will start from
the Boston steamboat wharf at 10 A. NJ.
The Methodist Sunday school went on its
: annual excursion yesterday, by steamer
| Castine, to Bucks Harbor and Brooklin.
| The weather was fine and large party en-
joyed the trip.
| The Baptist Sunday School will make
their annual excursion to Verona Park on
steamer Castine, Wednesday,, July 23rd.
They will sail up to Wnterport and return
| to Verona for dinner.
| The regular summer ballasting is in prog
ress on the Belfast branch and the two gray
ell trains are at work at the Unity gravel
pit. The ears of the passenger train are in
repair shop and are replaced by others for
the time being.
| The members of Seaside c. L. S. C. will
meet at the home of Mrs. G. K. Carter, 9
| Commercial street, Monday afternoon, July
! -lSt 'NtttIttt lol SlutlN chapters III te anu
| five of First Steps in Human Progress !;
author, James Montgomery.
| A new hook and ladder company was or
ganized Monday evening in place of the
company which resigned last week There
are l. members, with the following officers:
Captain, w. L, Walker foreman, Laforest
! L. Robbins assistant, Coleman Sheldon :;
clerk and treasurer, Samuel IIodgkinson.
| Bay View Stock Farm, in East Belfast
owned by George ID. Otis X Co. of Boston,
is making dairy butter from fourteen COWS
for the Boston market They have a large
Silo and have six acres in ensilage corn.
Frank Reitnour is foreman and he keeps
everything about the place well in hand and
tidy.
L. II. Murch, City Clerk, reports that the
number of marriage intentions recorded
during the first six months Of 1902 was
smaller than for the corresponding period
fer many years The number was II,
against an average of 23.6 for the first ST.
months for ten years past. The largest
number was 81 in lo97.
\ meeting of the executive committee of
the High school Association was called for
Monday afternoon to take action i'll regard
to holding ii reception old Home Week The
matter was informal! discussed by those
present, and the generalopiuion sin!favor
of having a reception someN hat like that of
last year. The meeting adjourned subject
to the call of the president
VIM A. Mackenzie and v E. Brown
have formed a partnership under the name
of the Brown Medicine Co., for the manu-
facture of a remedy called Browns Royal
Stomach King. They have taken the store
in the LangworthN building opposite the
court house, and are putting up the medi-
cine there. They have made and disposed
OF about 300 bottles, and are now putting
up a lot OF 1000
The windlass, capstans and winches. and
the engines for WOrkin. them, have been
placed ON board the dredging steamer in g.
A. Glchrest's yard, and the propeller has
arrived The furnishings and setting of the
machinery are not i'll Mr. Gichrests CON
tract, but all the lighter apparatus will be
put in before launching The boilers, pro
pelling engines and dredging machines will
be put in at Bath.
irwin l. Perry is putting water into his
cigar factory and residence in East Belfast,
The supply is a never-faling well led by
Syringe The water will be pumped by
windmill power to a 1900 gallon tank in the
top of the factory, which gives a 20 foot fall
at the house and stable. The premises will
be supplied with all the modern sanitary APP
planes, automatic fire sprinkler, fountain,
etc.
Charles y. Black has bought of Randall
W. Ellis the farm formerly known as the
Elmbrook Stock Farm, on the cross road
from Equity Grange hall to "Dog Island"
The farm Was at one time under lease to a
company known as the Elmbrook Syndicate,
and was used as a stock farm. The we'll
known stallion Elmbrook was at the head
of the stock. The buildings were burned
September 10, 1900. There is a fine orchard
on the place and Nh Black buys it princi-
pally on that account.
There are many beauty spots in and
around Belfast, and one OF the most notice
able at this season is the premises OF Henry
". Mariner, corner of Congress and Grove
streets. Everything about the place is in
perfect order, but the ''Queen of the Prairie
rose is the centre of attraction. The vines
completely cover one side of the two-stOry
L. and are in full bloom. This variety of
rose is of very rapid and vigorous growth,
shoots growing last year from l6 to IS feet
in length. One shoot has grown feet this
year There are a number of plants of the
golden elder in the city, but that at the
residence of Thomas W. Pitcher on Frank
lin street, is unusually fine. 1t is very
large, and with its variegated leaves and
large blossoms pres ents a beautiful appear
ance
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Poor " Son
have d summer time advt. this week. They
have new sponges, Zoe. to soc, root beer eX-
tract at l0c. bottle, and a large variety of
choice Porto Rico, Havana and Key West
cigars. You will find SpaTrow's best con-
fectonery at Swift Il Paul's, Masonic Tenn
pie also 20-cent chocolate and all kinds of
confectionery. See announcement of the
Banks Business College and School of
Shorthand to be opened in Belfast about