The Republican journal., 1903-10-29
THE NEWS OF BELFAST.
THE GONE GOOSE.

Helen hlCnaruSOu.
There will be an Old Folks Dance at Sill
yer Harvest Grange Hall, Waldo. Friday
night, Oct. 30th, 1908.
Mrs j. L. Sleeper has at her store rose
hush that stands but six inches high and
has four fragrant blossoms.
Capt A. A. Daley of Vinalhaven was in
Belfast and vicinity last week buying bar
rels for packing Holsters.
Nathaniel ShOles and son sailed last
Thursday in their schooner Ida May, for a
fishing trip down the bay.
Chas. F. Merriam of Morrill, set some
monumental work and curbing last week in
the Davis Cemetery in Albion.
The advt. of A. A. Howes & Co. last
week should have read ''three pieces of to-
bacco for 25 cents" ; not three pounds.
The body of Mrs. Sarah Stanley, who
died in Troy Oct. 18th, was brought to Bel
fast last Thursday for interment in Grove
cemetery.
The journal received by mail Monday,
from Chester B. Patterson, a specimen of
the grasshoppers raised in Montana. 1t is
An able bodied insect, sure.
Local smelts and founders are now quite
plentiful in the market, but Holsters are
hard to get at any price. Lobsters sell for
. to 25 cents per pound alive and 25 cents
boiled.
Geo. Flint of Hartland recently purchased
from r. A. PillSbury of Troy a 5-year-Old
hay mare standing Is hands high and weigh
NJ 1925. This mare is by Almont Withers
out Of Il Knox mare and is booked for speed
Turf, Farm q Home.
lsaac Staples, in digging last week at his
f ace on Northport avenue near Little River,
found an axe embed ded in clay bank
feet below the surface. 1t was in a good
state of preservation and an inscription on
{, " hch is partly legible, shows that it was
made in Louisville, KY, in 1888.
FATALITY IN SEARsMoNT. Miss Lizzie
Ndttocks of Searsmont was instantly kill
saturday by jumping from carriage.
ld breaking her neck. She was riding
IS Ill her brother on the road from Sears
auut village to South Montville, and an
eyi,lent to the harness caused the horse to
1 The brother, who was driving, dropped
.a- rein in his excitement, and when Miss
lattockS realized that the horse was un-
anagable she jumped out of the back of
h- carriage, facing backward. The horse
sowed down at the first hill, and was easily
>rupped. Miss Mattocks was found lying
u the road, where she jumped from the
image, dead.
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schooner Lois V. Chaples of New York
has been sold to Scammell Bros on private
terms, and will hereafter be commanded by
T. ant. +. l.. ROblnSOn-BOStOn Globe.
The Lois v Chaples is 1856 tons net and
ras built by Carter & Co. of Belfast in
ls-5 for Capt. Henry J. Chaples, and named
to his wife. Capt. Chaples commanded
her until 1888, when he left her to take the
f3latka, which was also built for him.
sept. 9, 1885, while on a voyage from Jack
>uyile for New York the Chaples was
strlck by squall and capszed. Her masts
we're cut away, and she filled. She was
pcked up days later and towed to Charles
ton, where she was sold by the wreckers to
lr L Engle of Jacksonville. She has since
been engaged in the West Indian and gene
RAJ coasting trade.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Lord & Co. are max
ing sails for schs. Clinton of Br0Oksville
and Lizzie of Lincolnville.. ...SchOOner
Caroline Gray arrived from Rockland OctO-
ptl "a, anu 10 lOduiIS paving az VIC Idli-
road wharf from John Peavey's for New
York.. Sch. Sunnyside loaded produce in
belfast last week for Stonington. Sch.
Pandora sailed light for st. John, n. B.,
oct. 22d. Sch. Orion arrived Oct. 22d
from Bangor with lumber for Cooper & Co.
., Sch. Annie May arrived light from
Rockland Oct. 22d.. Sch. A. W. Ellis sail
ed Oct 22d for Orland to load granite paw
ing for New York. k....Sch. Polly sailed Oct.
oct, 22d for Boston with hay from the Bel
fast Fuel & Hay Co., and other merchan
disc. Sch. Maria Webster sailed Oct. 22d
for Mt Desert, with hay from the Belfast
Fuel & Hay Co....Sch. Henry B. Fiske has
arrived in Boston from Brunswick, Ga,
having made the round trip, including load
ing twice, in five weeks. Mr.. Littlefield of
Bangor is in the woods near Patten getting
out the frame for fve-master to be built
by H. NJ Bean of Camden. E. A. Went
worth will get out the frame for another
fve-master this winter in Virginia. The
first frame is expected to arrive in Camden
in December. Sch. Clinton loaded general
cargo for Brooksville Friday. Last week
a man giving the name of Harris told the
superintendent of the Sailors Rest at New
port News story about the wreck of a