The Republican journal., 1903-08-06

Lost, supposed between the Camp GrounQ
and Cedar street, silk umbrella. Finder
Will please leave at The Journal once.
The days are rapidly decreasing IN length,
there being more than an hour less OF day.
| light than during the long days OF June.
The days are now IA hours and % minutes
in duration.
The Old Home W eek committee on deco
| rations have contracted with the Allen
Bates Company of New York and Boston
to decorate the public buildings, etc., and E.
E. Pomeroy, representing the company, has
been in the city for several days making the
preliminary arrangements. The first pub
| lie building to be decorated will be the post
office and the work would have been done
yesterday had the weather been favorable.
UNION HALL CORPORATION. The GER
tificate Of organization of the Union Hall
Corporation of Brooks was recorded in
Waldo County Registry of Deeds, July 2eth.
The purposes of said corporation are for
building and furnishing a public hall in
Brooks, to be used and rented for all suit
able purposes, and to buy or lease neces-
sary land, and to do all other things suit
able and necessary for such purpose The
amount of capital stock is $4,000; amount of
preferred stock, nothing amount of capital
stock already paid in, $1,000; par value of
shares, $780, The stockholders are Golden
Crown Lodge, K. of P, Marsh River Cor
poratiOn and several business men Of
Brooks. The directors are F. r. York, l.
! S. Staples, 0. W. Lane Isaac feathers and
7. l. Huxford. F. R. York is president;
Isaac feathers, treasurer; F. G. Roberts,
clerk.
| EMERY WHITES RECITAL. The recital
given at Memorial Hall last Friday evening
by Mr. Emery F. White was pronounced by
music lovers one of the greatest musical
treats ever heard in our city. MIR. White
has {. beautiful tenor voice of great breadth
and sings with an ease of manner and pres
ence that is refreshing. He is at present
pupil of Mr. Clarence E. Hay, one of Bos-
toms best teachers of vocal art. Mr.. White
sang a variety of selections, embracing
opera, oratorio and songs by some OF the
best composers. His rendition OF HandelS
Total Eclipse from sampson" deserves
special commentator. 1t was sung with the
breadth of style and excellent phraSing that
characterize the true artist. OF the lighter
songs special mention should be made of the
two compositions of A. c. Knight, formerly
of this CITY. 'sAbsence" is certainly little
gem and stamps the composer true mu-
Stefan. Miss Pettengill is always fayorte
| with a Belfast audience and merlted the re-
cepton she received. She was heard to best
advantage in the scena and aria from Romeo
and Juliet. The violin playing of Miss
Alice Richardson of Newark, n. j., was
specially well received. Miss Richardson
plays with style and breadth of tone that
would be credit to professional Ylolinlst
of long experience. Her selections were
well chosen. The program was opened by
a four-hand piano selection, finely rendered
by Misses June X. Hills and Helen NJ Dun
ton, who with Miss Mary f. Faunce per-
formed the eXacting task OF accompanies
in their usual acceptable manner. The
under the direction of Miss Carrie Richard
son of Newark, n. j., Miss Helen Batchel-
der Of Boston and Mrs. W. l.. Fish of New
ark, \. J. The audience was all that could
be desired in number quality and apprecla-
ton.
STEAMER NOTES. The Monhegan, the
handsome new steamer of the Portland Il
Rockland Steamboat Co, was given her
trial trip last week, and left Portland Fri
day on her regular schedule. The Nine
ola which has been in the route has been
chartered to New Hampshire parties and
will run during the coming summer be
tween Portsmouth and the Isle of Shoals.
The Merryconeag performed the same SER
vice between these two points last season.
.... Capt. Pierce of the steamer City of
Rockland brought his steamer to Bangor
last Thursday afternoon, but went ashore
Immediately, having had slight shock of
paralysis, and Capt f. W. Curtis of Belfast
is in command of / the steamer. By ad-
vice of his physician, Capt. Pierce, who
for more than year has been anxious to
come ashore for good, will not again take
command of the boat, and has forwarded his
resignation to Boston. He will continue to
make his home in Hampden. Capt Pierce
started in "a years ago as quartermastero on
the Forest City, and has risen steadily until
he finishes his work as master of one of the
finest steamers in eastern waters. For the
past IS years he has been a captain. From
quartermaster of the Forest City he became
baggage master, then he went into the pilot
house as second pilot, then first pilot and
finally captain. He was captain of the
steamer New Brunswick, of the Katahdin
for many years, and of the Penobscot. He
went from the Penobscot to the Rockland,
summer before last. Capt. George Arey,
who for the past year has been the
engineer on the steamer fremont, has
bought the steamer Hector from Bar Har-
Dor parties and will bring her into the Pc
nobscot to run excursions from Castine,
Islesboro and other resorts in the vicinity.
-. Boston papers of Aug. Sd give the fol-
lowing particulars of a mishap to steamer
City of Rockland:
When the steamer City of Rockland of
the Eastern Steamship Company was get
ting ready to dock at the cOmpany's wharf
yesterday morning she met with an acci-
dent that caused excitement for few mo-
ments. About us o'clock the steamer was
making her way to the wharf, and going
with her usual steadiness. When she was
within 80 feet of the dock, through misun-
derstanding of signals, the steamer plung
ed forward and struck the slip of the Bos
ton, Revere Beach & Lynn railroad, max
ing large hole in the bumpers, cutting
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