The Republican journal., 1903-10-29
The regular meeting Of the City Council
will be held next Monday evening.

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will be held next Monday evening.
The Waldo County Veteran Association
will meet with Dana B. Carter Post. Free.
dom, Nov. 5th. A royal welcome awaits the
boys in Freedom.-A. Stinson, Sec'y.
The section men on the Belfast branch Of
the Maine Central are helping the ballasting
crews this week in addition to their general
oversight of the roadbed, which latter work
is light at this season.
The meeting Of the W. c. T. U. was post
poned from last Friday on account Of the
storm. The Union will meet tomorrow.
Friday, afternoon at 2.3O O'Clock. with Mrs.
A. NJ. Fernald, Miller street.
Carle & Jones have the agency for the
Savage rifle, weapon fully up to date. but
in some respects re-adopting an old principle
in re-arms that many hunters and marks
men prefer to the newer method.
The U. S. revenue cutter Seminole arrived
at Belfast Friday afternoon. Oct. 23d. and
sailed Sunday forenoon. She is enlisting
men for the revenue service, but it is not
known that she secured any here.
In. Cottrell went to Camden last week
to do diving job-the blasting of rocks at
Bird Bros. & Willey's wharf. The water
was filled with small herring and great
numbers were killed by the explosions.
e. McMahan had some repairs to make
to a chimney on his house on Lincolnville
avenue, and having been disappointed by
the masons two or three times he went up
and retopped the chimney himself. 1t was
his first experience in operative masonry.
Unclaimed letters remaining in the Bel
fast post office for the week ending Oct. "A
Ladies-Mrs. Sarah A. Carter, Mrs. A. F.
Cochran, Mrs. Stephen Davis, Mrs Addie
Dewing, Miss Lena Harvey, Sophia NORM.
Gentlemen-C. l.. Pendleton, DR.. Prince
Luce.
The Maine Farmers Almanac, like the
Maine farmer, Is up with the times, and
the issue for 1904 has reached US from the
publishers, Charles E. Nash & Son, Augusta.
This is an Indispensable handbook in every
Maine home and Maine office. 1t is for
sale at the book stores.
The house on the farm of James P. Wight
occupied by John Campbell was burned
Saturday forenoon with all its contents.
Campbell occupied the house alone and was
out rabbit hunting when the fire was dis
covered. The house and contents were a
total loss. The value was small
Manager Clifford has a number Of fine
booked for the Belfast Opera
House for the near future, including such
local favorites as Neil Burgess in the County
Fair, Culhane, Chace & Weston's minstrels
and Shamus O'Brien, and the following
plays new to Belfast audiences; Blondells
''Through the Centre of the Earth y
Missouri Girl, and Uncle Josh Sprucely.
THE GAY Mr.. GoLDsTEIN. Manager
Clifford has another good show to his credit
in The Gay Mr.. Goldstein, which appeared
in the Belfast Opera House Saturday even
ing, Oct. oath. Mr.. Goldstein was greatly
given to flirting, and his wife tried all the
means possessed by a strong minded woman
to curb that propensity. The play abound
ed in funny situations and Kept the audi
ence convulsed with laughter from the rise
until the final fall of the curtain. The COM
pany is well balanced one.
BIG GAME. One of the largest deer
killed in Waldo County this year was buck
killed in Morrill, last week by Edward Sim
mons. 1t weighed 400 pounds. Fred
Hatch and Austin SWEET of Knox each
killed deer last week. wv. S. Morse of
Belmont returned Saturday from Houlton
with large buck, shot in Township No. 49,
Aroostook County. Thursday, Oct. ODD,
three deer were brought into Searsmont
village by local hunters. Charles Hemen-
way shot a doe that weighed 210 pounds :;
Herbert Knight a doe, and Miss Mary
McCorrison buck. These deer were Sc
cured on the Woodcock farm on the east side
of Quantabacook Pond. ..... Vinal Turner
and son Burleigh, Joseph II. Jones, Eben
Linscott, George Bryant and George Tur-
ner, all of South Liberty, each have deer
to their credit .... Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Clay
of Portland came to Belfast Tuesday from
a two weeks hunting trip at Molunkus.
They were accompanied by B. II. Mudgett
of Unity, who shot buck that dressed 230
pounds, and had very handsome antlers.
Mr. Clay killed small doe.
FARM CROPS. A. B. Stantial, who has
the greater part of the State of
Maine this fall selling fertilizers, tells The
Journal that he finds Waldo county favor
ed section this year. The crops generally
are in better condition here than in any
other section. Potatoes are good, except in
Southern Cumberland county. Hay was a
good crop, but late. Apples bore well and
are good crop except where killed by early
frosts. Beans and onions are failure
everywhere. Tie cabbage crop is short,
and Mr.. Stantial has shipped cabbages from
his farm in Belfast to Kennebec county,
the best cabbage land in the State. The
corn crop is short, both for ensilage
and packing, and the kinds that should
ripen are failure. Squashes are of good
quality, but short crop, and pumpkins
and cucumbers are very scarce. Melons
and citron did not ripen, and tomatoes did