The Republican journal., 1903-11-12
THE News OF BELFAST.

street.
The next attraction at the Belfast Opera
House will be The County Fair, November
18th.
The W. c. T. U. will meet tomorrow.
Friday, afternoon at go with Miss Ellen T.
rockingham.
Ur. w. L. West tested herd of milch
COWS Monday for Chas. Riley of Monroe.
They were to be shipped to Massachusetts.
charles W. Lancaster and VIM. F. White
are buying apples for shipment, with head
cnarters in the Mansfield store at the foot
af Main street.
The Cooper mare, owned by W. S. Ed
Minister, died of pneumonia Monday night.
She was one of the best known carriage
horses in Belfast.
The article on the 7th page on "Mining
f1r Cryolite" has local interest as two YES
,pfs for the cryolite fleet were built at
Bucksport few years ago.
The big dam about one and half miles
above Burnham on the Sebasticook is being
rapidly pushed toward completion by Pitts
field capitalists. Some 800 men and 100
horses are employed on the works.
NEW Iron BRIDGE. Work on the abut-
ments of the Wiley bridge at the Head of
th4 Tide is well along, and the iron work
v be mounted soon. The bridge was
fo-merly of two spans, with stone abut-
u4ut in the center, but last May the abut-
n-uts became weak and the bridge was
81 led to travel The centre abutment was
-iTen out, an iron bridge was bought to
.-.>s the river in one span, and the end
sr.tments were strengthened. The iron
u TX arrived at Citypoint some time ago
,t will be put in place as soon as the stone
5.. k is ready to receive it, The bridge is
NO parts, each of which weighs IL tons,
..,.. ) 50 feet long. 1t will have iron beams
plank flooring.
THE TALE oF A Doc AND A LAMP. A
,-,.lus fire was narrowly averted in Fogg
crowns market Friday forenoon. The
70 is small and is heated by large kerr
... ls lamp. A dog went into the office and
1T the lamp and the fire spread rapidly
f. -ome papers and chair and was blazing
xiv on the lamp Mr.. Brown put the lamp
1.-the street and smothered the fire with
lrlap sack. Miss Alma Colby, the book
..-arr, showed great presence OF MIND.
T- ire was between her and the office
and she stepped back farther from
9,aze and called to the men in the store
use the safe door, which was standing
..a near the blazing lamp. When the
..p was taken away She turned her atten-
- to the smaller fires and helped put
,.-.l out. No damage was done except
ming the cane seat from one chair.
..uNrAGIoUs DISEASES. There is no
uge in the varioloid situation. Arthur
Brown, who was quarantined last week,
ole to be up and to assist his mother
H5ut the house work. He has very light
mack thus far. The school committee voted
N.v 18th that all teachers and pupils in the
.aic schools who have not been vacci-
Id within four years be relieved from
...lool duty All the teachers and pupils
..F. complied Mrs D. f. Dickey's kin
,rarten school, which was in building
THarsday until it is considered safe to re-
ai4u it. Monday morning the South Primary
I'D south intermediate schools were closed
. account of scarlet fever There were
item five cases, in four families, of children
8o belonged in those schools, and 1t is not
-.a.yn how many others have been ex-
~-i. The cases are all carefully quaran-
.L-i One case appeared in the North
. mary school Yesterday The school is
..- vet suspended but the room has been
roughly fumigated.
I'VE ELECTRIC ROAD. AS before an
need the tn ird, and it is believed the
NAL survey, for the electric road from Bel
Inst to Camden has been completed. and 1t
, thought that the work OF construction
. n begin at an early day. The route as at
resent determined upon will be from the
road station in Belfast along Front to
Ain street, up Main to High, down High
Northport avenue, and on the east side
a The avenue to the road leading to the
4rl5ins district, where it will leave the
-hway, not to enter it again until the res
r.+nce of Miles Benner in East Northport
reached 1t will then follow the highway
b he barn on the Oscar Hills place, where
:, vill sweep to the westward. While later
here may be spur track to the Northport
amp Ground the road where it DIVORCES is
lite near that resort. Temple Heights is
lot so well situated, as the line runs about
three quarters of mile back. At Saturday
owe the road will run little less than
half a mile back of the village. An easier
ade is obtained by going back from the
shore.
LIQUOR SEIZURES. Sheriff Norton maze
Il seizure of two barrels containing bottled
vdskey and two barrels of beer, in
trright car at the Maine Central station
last Thursday. One barrel of whiskey was
MARKED "R. II. Moody" one was marked
nH. T." and the beer was marked
81 thomas Haugh." The beer was found to
he Juno beer" which does not come under
The law, and was returned to the owner
Mr. Moody, who is a druggist in Belfast
i eaded not guilty in the police Court Mon
day, to the charge of keeping liquors for IL
I-sal sale. He said the liquor was not his
and that he knew nothing about it. He was
acquitted. No person appeared to claim the
other barrel of whiskey. The liquor will be
beed and will, after due process of law, II