The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1903-05-28
NEWS OF TIE week.


MAINE MATTERS. Complaints have
been made to the commissioners OF In
land fisheries and game that mllllners
in some parts of the State are offering
for sale aie rets made from the plumage
of birds. Chairman Carleton went to
Bangor last week to investigate three
cases of milliners having such in their
store windows in that city. Notices
citing the law in this particular have
been sent to all milliners in the State
by the commissioners.....U to the pres
ent time applications for pension have
been received from 10 veterans OF the
Aroostook war, under the provisions OF
the law passed last winter, which
gives them S4S a year If they are IN
need Applications have also been re-
ceived from 2209 persons for state and,
under the general pension laws OF the
State. :. Owing to the stringent enforce
ment of the pIohibitory law but $1,000
was received in fines at this term OF
the superior court in Augusta. AT the
April term OF the court a year ago s14,..
600 was paid in tines....The State OF
Maine association of California Will
hold their annual reunion and picnic at
Shell Mound Park, Oakland, j une 9th.
The Secretary finds over 100 voters
from Maine on the great registers OF
San Francisco and Alameda countles,
and these, with their families, Will re-
ceiye due notice of the reunlon..... Inc
Maine delegates to the International
Convention of the Woman's Christian
Union held at Geneva, Switzerland,
beginning on June 9, sailed from New
York May 10th on the steamer Mime
haha of the Atlantic Transport line.
The delegates from this state are Mls'
l.. Nj. n. Stevens and Mrs George >.
Hunt, Portland; Mrs. E. A. tonnes,
PASSPORT; Miss Mary Crosby, Bangor;
Miss Sarah Monroe Hall, Rockland;
Mrs susan F. Soule, Freeport; Mrs. G:
NJ. Keyes. North Jay.....A feature OF
the Waterville- Oakland trolley line Will
be the bridge over the picturesque
Messalonskee cascades, 10 feet above
the water. Rockland's ST., 1000 TOR It's
smallpox epidemic last winter looks
small to Biddeford, which had to pay
$4,000 to fight the same disease.....The
new Methodist church in Houlton was
dedicated May 18th, the first annlver,
sarv of the great fire which DESTROYED
the former church editice.... The library
building to be erected at Portland TOT
the Maine Historical Society Will De
erected from plans to be furnished by
A. w. Longfellow of Boston.....R Key.
H. w. Tilden, D. D., has resigned the
pastorate of the Baptist church IN Llv-
ermore Falls. His health has not oeeh
the best for a year or more ana ne ~
tends to 90 West.... One OF the leaulhg
speakers at the meeting OF the Hoou
Templars in Waterville, June ~, VIII
be Uncle Scion Chase, the sage OF
the Colonial Danes OF Name VIII oe
held with Mrs. John Fremont Hill at
Augusta, Friday, May 10Th. Gentle
men are asked and after the meeting
luncheon will be served....ln the bank
rlptcv matter of the Stevens lumber
Co. of Fort Fairfield the papers filed lii
the district court at Portland place the
liabilities at 1901 1928 and the assets
at 5000 sol "a In Rockport, June 30,
Miss Maude f. Norwood will become
the bride of Sumner L. Packard. MISS
Norwood is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs ! II. Norwood of Rockport, and
Mr.. Packard is a graduate OF Brown
University ard also of Harvard law
school and a member of the CONNER
cia and Algonquin clubs OF Boston;.:"
Maine couples cannot get married III
New Hampshire without tliey pllii2
marriage ctrtltlcale Nllll lltHi. ms
is in accordance with a law passed 10y
the New Hampshire legislature at It's
last spssion....A few years ago the " a
tervlle Trust Company established
branch at Dexter. and last week the
deposits III it passed the S24O,ooU marx,
a pretty good evidence of the prosperity
of that section.... For the first time IN
80 wears WaIdoboro has liquor agency
and the reports indicate that 1t is dong
a lively business. 1t IS open ten hours
a day.. During the month OF April. artl-
Giles of incorporation were filed at the OF
flee of the Secretary of State by l33 com
panies, many more than were filed IN
the corresponding month OF 1902. II
the same ratio of increase continues
throughout the year the numbero1 new
corporations organized for 1903 Will
reach 1900 as against 1898 for the record
breaking year of 1902.....The petition OF
the Central Trust Company of New
York for foreclosure of its mortgage
against the Washington County rail-
road came up in the circuit court at
Portland May 10Th. Judge Putnam re-
ferred the matter to Hon. Charles +.
Libby, and appointed hearing for his
report on June b.. Forest Commission
Ell Ring received telegram May 20th
stating that there had been heavy
rainfall in the Moosehead region and
showers in many parts of Aroostook
county, thereby checking the forest
fires to considerable extent.