The Republican journal., 1903-10-08
IHE NEWS OF BELFAST.

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80 o'clock.
Harry Townsend has bought Leslie Mil
,,r : milk route and herds, and took possess
.iou oct. 1st.
V. Miller will soon open fur parlors on
rbnrch street in the building opposite The
r,urnal office.
Geo. L. Ryan reports picking handful OF
Inn. strawberries beside the railroad track
IN belfast Oct 9th.
The cottage owners at the Battery have
,onght the golf house formerly used at the
Walton farm and are fitting it for an ice
hu>e
Miller Colby was in port Monday in the
smack Daybreak with small lot OF live
obsters. He expects to resume trawling
f,r bottom fish soon.
Holmes & West have sold cottage lot at
.s- East Side Battery to Mrs. Nellie Hard
rs If Albion, and she will build a cottage
ttsre the coming season.
Il. Conner recently bought handsome
"a. age of S. R. Bailey & Co.'s stanhope
cattsrn. 1t has bicycle tires, Is richly up
ared and of elegant pattern.
arthur A. Moore of Bucksport bought c..
Fletcher's fish market and took posses
g oct. 5th Mr.. Moore has been in the
-.r business in Bucksport and Castine sew
III. years.
mas. A. Hartman, the jeweler, has on
.v. 5ition in his window an "anniversary"
- which is attracting much attention.
n lock is enclosed in a glass case and is
anteed to run 400 days without rewlnd-
Bath Times.
watermelon measuring 5 feet and .
a Les in circumference and weighing 49a
,....,ls was on eXh btion in G. G. Pierce Il
, confectionery store last week. The
.r-..l was raised by Stephen P. Hadley Of
U-tdo.
The Cniversalist society will hold rum
- sale at the johnson block, High street,
thursday, Friday and Saturday, Oct.
18th and nth Allmember of the par
are requested to donate articles for the
without further notice.
.. W L. West performed an operation
, week on horse owned by NJ. b. Smith,
, greatly improved the appearance of
animal In non-Scientific terms, the
-. had a crooked tail, but was otherwise
looking and valuable animal. DR..
-, straightened the offending member
-.-Itf Norton received word from Knox
~ last week that horse had been
....u, and describing foreign peddler liv-
% Belfast as the culprit. Mr.. Norton in
rwed the suspected man and others who
..u Of his movements and satisfied him.
4 that none of the peddlers here had
-4 in the vicinity of the stealing, and
they had no horses that could not be
unted for. No arrests were made,
lie three men arrested at Searsport last
,...l on suspicion of being concerned in
Tan Buren, post office robbery were re
--i Friday Men who saw the robbers
- here Thursday and said the prisoners
not the men wanted on that charge.
- prisoners, who gave their names as
-nfse Healey, George Williams and Will
r smith, were arraigned in the Police
nj Friday and sentenced to go days each
. ..til as yagrantS, but the mittimuses were
pended on condition that the men leave
- state, and stay out.
LuE TRADING STAMPS. Mrs. w. L.
H4-t, local manager of the blue trading
-.tup business for the New York, Chicago
aoI II. Louis Trading Association, moved
-, ltlice and exhibition room Oct. 1st from
+ McDonald's furniture store to EnOch
ililtou's tailoring establishment, No. 81
. liu street The new location gives ample
I'd to display the goods to fine advantage.
following have been added to the blue
mp directory since the original list was
she'd John G. Damon, blacksmith,
last; F. A. Mariner, general store.
Lire Belmont; 5. E. Cello, general store.
t. -' ~earsmont; NJ. w SWEET & Co., gener.
.re, East Knox.
frrUREs II REAL ESTATE. Charles H
5 of Camden was in Belfast Saturday
business for the newly incorporated
ien, Lincolnville Beach and Islesboro
4..-y Co. The company was incorporated
l1ox county in July last, with capital
& Of $500, ,00O one half of which is treas
--s took The par value of the shares is
Mr. Lewis is president, and R. Fl
ldy of Belfast, treasurer. The company
IL deal in options on real estate on plan
lar to Wall street operations in wheat
aud cotton, except that the options will be
fr une year instead of one month. One
1t will be to attract capitalists to the
i-.lbscot Bay to buy summer homes
company has already bonded large
/, Its along the shore and at Islesboro.
Mes. BoYNToN's BIRTHDAY. Mrs. A. l.
A..wn sends the following as correction
an item in The journal last week, in
oh names became inadvertently con-
+ cd
pleasant surprise party came tog ether
saturday evening to assist Mrs. Amos
IL ioynton in properly observing her 84th
hday. This lady has wonderful tact
1nly in keeping her old friends about her
Dr. of adding new ones to her list. These
Il ids of hers are always glad of an oppOr-
i.I rs to give her pleasure; therefore the
hday party. 1t was a genuine surprise
eu the many little tokens left for her testl-
fy 80 the good will of her visitors. To grow
I PEACEFULLY is to grow old kindly, and to
E'"w old kindly is not only to retain the
.u- new ones to the pleasant circle. Several
gt he company were friends of her later
y~ars, yet there were those present who
could count back to a fifty years acqualn-
lance with their hostess. The evening was
Mnch enjoyed by all, and in bidding our