The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1903-06-11
The Banks Business College is taking a

The w. c. T. U. will meet with Mrs. S. B
Fletcher on Bay View street, Friday, jun
18th.
Rev. E. S. PhilbrOOk took his Sunda,
school class of 20 young misses on picni
to City point Saturday.
smiths, began business Monday at the shol
occupied by D. c. Davis at the rear of tn,
Windsor Hotel.
William Haugh has ret ired from the firm
of W. E. Jones & Co. The firm will put or
an additional baker this week and another
team next week.
C. o. Poor has rented the johnson store
No. 80 High street, to Queen Lila, for 6
palmistry camp. Al! the stores on Phoenix
Row are now occupied.
The summer time table on the Maine
Central goes into effect June 14th Traini
leave Belfast at 7 a. M, 1. 3Oand 3. cop. m
I and arrive at 9. As a. m. and IL. As and 6. O5
pm.
Thomas E. Shea lately presented his wife
. Charlotte Burkett, with GrOut steam auto
mobile, and the machine arrived here Tues
day. Mrs. Shea is said to be chaufeuress
of no mean order.
The quarterly session of Waldo District
Lodge Good Templars, which was to be held
at Jackson, Saturday, June 10, has been
postponed on account of an epidemic OF
measles in the town.
List of unclaimed letters remaining in
the Belfast postoffice for the week ending
June 6: Ladies-Miss Eupensie Martin,
Miss Stella Moore, Miss Oracle Packard.
Gentlemen-Dr. Edwin Fuller, A. Kent.
| G. B. Marsano has bought of Abbe A
Barstow and Georgia l. Elwell the Gilchrest
property at the corner of High and Miller
streets. The father of the grantors, Capt
James Gilchrest, bought the place in 1887.
Oscar Shibles of Searsmont sold to j. A.
| Clough of Haverhill, Mass, last week a
| handsome bay gelding, Little Joe, by Nor
gan Knox; cam, a Morgan mare. Little
Joe is years old, weighs l. 10 ,ounds and
| has fine gait.
/ A mortgage was recorded in Waldo Coun-
| ty Registry of Deeds last week, from Daniel
W. Kerst of Bucksport to Pascal p Gil
more of Bucksport for $4,000 for one-half
of the wharf property at Standpoint, owned
Jointly by D. W. Kerst and W. D. Bennett
Chief Engineer Clough has ordered three
new fire alarm boxes, which are to be To-
Gated as follows; No. IS, corner of Church
and Park streets; No. y, corner of Franklin
and Congress streets; No. Sc, corner of High
and Bridge streets.
The members of the Belfast Improvement
Society are earnestly requested to be pres
ent at the meeting Monday, June 18th, at
the home of the President, Mrs. II. II. John
son, to plan the public clambake and for
the dinner to be given to the Maine Press
Association under the auspices of the socie-
ty Several items of unfinished business
will also come up for discussion.
Evidently determined to shake the dust
of Belfast off his feet, a dog belonging to
Clarence McIntire of Belfast, formerly of
Camden, arrived in this town Saturday,
paw sore and weary, a tired, but happy
animal. He went directly to the office of
Knowlton Brothers. in Mechanic street,
where his owner was formerly employed,
and stretched himself out on the floor in a
manner that indicated the words, "Well,
now Pm content That dog evidently
knows a good thing when he sees it.-Cam-
den correspondence Rockland Star.
The cases of the liquors seized recently
by Sheriff Norton and his deputies were
disposed of in the Police Court June 9TH.
There were two cases against W. S. Edmin-
ster and one against L. l.. Gentner, all on
search and seizure process. The defendants
waived hearing, were convicted and SEN
fenced in each case to fine of 800 and
costs and 60 days in jail in default of pay
ment of fines and costs to 60 days addition
al. They appealed.
THE TANNING OF THE SHREw Mr.. Fred
erick Koch of Boston entertained a large
audience in Memorial Hall last Monday
night by reading 1.-The Tanning of the
Shrew," one of Shakespeare's most laugh
able comedies. Mr. Koch has a pleasing
personality and enters into his work with a
vim that is enlivening. He impersOnated
many of the minor characters of the play,
but was specially good in the parts of Bap-
tiste, the father Katharine, the shrew, and
Petruchio of Verona, her sutton. He sue
CCcuCO duHllld Uly III DllhSihS Ouo VIC lelll-
ingS and reform of the self-willed, INDUCED
woman and the cunning intrigue of an
equally willful man. Mr.. Koch also read a
New Hampshire farmers version of a
speech by Daniel Webster and one of Ella
Wheeler Wilcox's poems, My Ships at Sea.
Mr.. Koch is assured a good audience when
he visits Belfast later, which he expects to
do.
The Silver Dagger is the name of a new
play written by Mark E. Swan. The title
suggests blood and thunder, melodrama
and murders galore, but the piece is moth
ing of the kind. 1t is most original and
modern play dealing with murder mys-
terry, which is solved by lawyers clerk
detective, whose subtlety and knowledge of
human nature are equal to those of Sher-
lock Holmes. In fact, The Silver Dagger
is much such play as Sherlock Holmes, a
high class powerful play with beautiful
story full of heart interest and intensity,
devoid of the tawdry, the unreal and the
cheap An excellent cast interpretS the
play. 1t will be presented at the Belfast
Opera House Monday evening, June 18th,
by the Williams Stock Co., which begins
weeks engagement on that date. Another