The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1903-09-17
DR.. W. L. West has bought the Wooster
Parker house, so High street.


Parker house, so High street.
The steamer Castine will make an ex-
cursion to Camden and Crescent Beach
next Sunday. leaving Lewis wharf at $50.
The Commonwealth Hotel, newly equip
ped, is now open. Mellen & Ryder. proprie-
tors. Board by the day or week on reason
able terms. Livery and boarding stable
connected. Telephone connection.
Close time on cartridges and wOodcock
ended at - O'Clock Monday night. Quite a
number of local gunners were afield Tuesday
in this immediate vicinity and met with
varying success. 1t is generally thought
that the birds will be plentiful this season
and that good sport will be had later.
Mrs. McLain of Washington, D. c., who
bought the Williamson estate on Northport
avenue, has begun alterations in the house
to fit it for summer residence. She has
sold the southern half of the 2O-acre lot to
Ralph c. johnson, who will build small
cottage near the shore for occupancy next
season.
Sheriff Norton and his deputies searched
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found liquors at three. At the Manor
House, Frankfort, they got whisky and
lager and at the Phoenix House and Jesse
STAPLES place in Belfast, whisky and beer.
At Gentner's and the Windsor Hotel they
found nothing. The respondents on whose
premises the liquors were found were ar
raigned in the Police Court, convicted ana
sentenced each to pay fine of 500 and
costs and 60 days in jail; in default of
payment ct fine and costs to 60 days addi-
tional They appealed.
The Savannah, Ga, Morning News, in
recent issue, reports that the sea-golng
barge Cumberland, built by G. A. Gilchrest
last year, made the trip from Savannah to
Newport News in 81 hours and 45 minutes
and the return trip in 50 hours and 80 mlnu-
ties, from wharf to wharf The News con-
cludeS:
s'The dredge is one of the largest in the
service, and the fact that she stores the
sand in her bins and takes it out TO sea her
self, thus doing away with the necessity OF
flat on which to dump the sand, makes
her all the more valuable as working ship,
and is one of the reasons why so many OF
the harbOrs were anxious to have her,
STEAMER NOTES The Silver Star en-
tered on her fall arrangement of one trip
per day Sept. 18th, arriving III Belfast at
20 a. M, and leaving at p. m -. Sept.
10th steamer Gov. Bodwel of the Ninal-
haven & Bockland line entered on her
fall schedule leaving Vinalhaven at a. m.
and l p. III. for Hurricane and Rockland.
Returning, leaves Rockland at $50 a. m.
and D. H. for Hurricane and Ninalhaven.
Last April the schooner Lillian Web
ster and the steamer Cimbria were in col
lision at Northeast Harbor The owners
of the schooner brought suit for $500 dam
ages The case was referred by the United
States District Court to Judge John b.
Redman of Ellsworth, assessor. Judge
Redman awarded the owners of the schoon-
er S52S 80. The City of Bangor had an
unusually large freight from all ports Mon
day. From Belfast she had large consign-
ments of leather board, shoes, apples, live
and dressed poultry, cucumbers and general
merchandise. When the steamer Castne
completes her excursion season she will be
hauled out at Islesboro, and will be given a
general overhauling and repairs before
SHIPPING ITEMS. Sch. F. c. Pendleton
arrived Sept. 18th from New York with
coal for the Belfast Fuel & Hay Co. and
discharged at the Lewis wharf. Sch. E.
L. Warren arrived Sept. 10th from Boston
with feed for Shales Il Follett. The Bel
fast-built barkentine Josephine, Capt Nc
Clean, sailed from Bangor Sept 9th for Rio
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deals This is the second cargo shipped
from Bangor to South America this season,
the bark Frances, also built here, taking
the first cargo. Both vessels belong to the
coffee fleet of c. Morton Stewart " Co. OF
Baltimore Two other vessels, the bark
Eros, now due from London, and the bark
Lillian, which arrived Sept. 14th from Phila-
delphia with coal, are to load at Bangor-the
former for Rosario, the latter for Rio Jane
rio Last week Master Wardwell put the
finishing touches on the model for a four
masted schooner to be built by Cobb, But
Ter & Co., Rockland, for Capt. Sprague of
Stockton Springs. She will have capacity
of 1900 tons. Her dimensions will be
Length, 175 feet beam, 80 feet depth, Is
feet The new four-masted schooner Frank
Barnet, Capt. Francis, arrived at Boston
last Friday night from Fernandina on her
maiden trip with cargo. She brought
CSC, 900 feet of southern pine. The Theollne
and Henry B. Fiske of the McQuestion fleet
! arrived at Boston Sept. 10th from Bruins
wick, The three schooners were built at
Belfast by George A. Gilchrest ....Sch.
Robert Petts arrived Saturday from Boston
with general cargo for merchants in Bel
, fast and Castine. Sch. Annie May has
charter to carry a number of cargoes OF
J kiln wood from Wheeler's Bay, near White
Head to Rockland and Thomaston.
FISH FACTS. A U. S. Fish commission
| car from the Green Lake hatchery came
| over the Belfast branch last Friday and
| left land-locked salmon and brook trout at
various points. Salmon were left at Unity
, for Unity Pond, and at Belfast for Quanta
: bacook Trout were left at Brooks for Marsl
). River and at the M. G.. water tank for the
stream there. =. E. II. Colby and son Miller
: arrived at this port last Friday in their
: smack Daybreak II. with good catch OF live
: Holsters. They report that dog are