The Republican journal., 1903-12-31


i cannot get along without The Journal
writes a Maine subscriber.
The regular meeting of the City Council
a5ll be held next Monday evening.
The journal wishes to all its readers
happy and prosperous New Year.
The Improvement Society will meet with
Mrs Geo. f. Bracket Monday, Jan. 4th, at
-,u p. m.
taxpayers will please take notice that
here are only four days more to save the
,.,, per cent discount.
omelts are caught in numbers beyond
f- Ioeal demand, and the market men are
81 -l'ping large quantities.
The Ladies' Aid Society of East North
non: will have a supper at the church to-
a.orrow, Friday, evening.
enry D. Clough had a large sale of his
A furniture for Christmas, and has nu-
m-r5us orders for future delivery.
Ae dealers in mems clothing, hats, caps,
urnishing goods will close their stores
. o'clock p. m., except Saturdays, until
her notice.
- ROdel A. Packard farm on Beech
Northport, was sold last week through
lgency of Holmes Il West, to Willard
.>n of Fall River, Mass.
s..rion E. Brown and DR.. John Stevens
...- bought the Charles Griffin house at
.- corner of High and Harbor streets and
make extensive repairs and improve
rf4 Waldo County Veteran Association
meet with f. NJ. Billings Post, Monroe,
. 7th. This is a postponed meeting
NJ Dec. Sd The Monroe boys will ex
.. "A royal welcome.
It of unclaimed letters remaining in the
flSt post office for the week ending Dec.
'adies-Mrs. Lulu Paul. Gentlemen
ST. q. Knowlton, Mr. lott, Base Ball Play
-mes Jellison, F. j. Mirch,
-unard 4 Barrows shoe factory and
hops of the Duplex Roller Bushng Co.
down for Christmas and started up
Monday morning, thus giving en-
.S who wished an opportunity to spend
ltliday out of town.
Jack souville correspondent Of the
and Advertiser says: 81 saw gentle
.esterday who bought box of Indian
..r oranges, paying $50 for them. He
them by express to Winterport, Me,
#- express charges were $3.50 Pretty ex-
We oranges, two hundred in the box"
.- members of Seaside Chautauqua Cir
nI m meet Monday afternoon, Jan. 4th,
% Mrs. G. r. Carter, No. 9 Commercial
--r The lesson will be from chapter
.-s-n. Geographic Influences in American
story and from the magazine, "lmmi-
ZION During the Nineteenth Century,
,ations on the New Year.
rAa collection of Indian relics owned by
W. Pearson of Citypoint, and mentioned
The journal last week as on exhibition
.ta CITY Drug Store, contains a number
-..re and curious pieces One is stone
70 Is inches long, dug up at Seekonk,
"--, at a depth of 10 feet. One piece
les the experts in that line. 1t is i'll
.- =orm of grindstone, about inches in
ater and 3 inches thick, and the edge
worm smooth as though it had been
.- as pulley for belt or truck for
1t has thumb holes on both sides and
marks which might indicate any one
great variety of uses. A case of 63
mems includes tomahawk, arrow
Is, spear heads. knives, etc, all of stone:
. one egg-shaped piece, perforated
-thWise, the use of which is unknown.
Pearson found the specimens in the
.-. N the town of Cranston, X. |.
Sic MISSOURI GIRL. The natives of the
TX mountain regions of Missouri and
5ansas are crude people, who worry
e., . about what goes on in the outer. world.
lay founded on these interesting people
..,5ming here Thursday, Jan 7th, and that
- makes the following story doubly inter
ing: 1t seems that during the blizzard
-at struck that section i'll the spring of
... newspaper by some chance strayed
.ro a benighted neighborhOOd in the
'1arks. The natives got hold of it and lost
ua time in finding man who could read,
M being anxious to hear the news. One
Hlii4 dSheu ICduCl3 w hap oA 'AANIS Wv
~ down there in Washington, now ?"
They are doing lots of things" the reader
replied. Congress has just passed law
aIding two more months on to the year,
and they are both winter months. The
.lestioner jumped from his seat saying,
'Ieeminee, whz. And l am just out of
oder" The play referred to above was
tritten by Fred Raymond and is called
The Missouri Girl" The leading charac-
-ers are ''Zeke" and "Daisy"-a Missouri
Huy and girl. The characters are just such
. are met with in those regions and be-
-.des present picture of life in a corner of
this great country. 1t is said more comedy
Introduced than is generally seen in
l.ay.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Sch. Josie Hook, Capt.
Getchell of East Hampden, when bound
from Bangor to Salem was caught in the re-
e-nt severe storm off Monhegan and sprang
leak She began to fill so rapidly that the
men at the pumps were unable to keep
down the water, and Capt. Getchell decided
10 head her for RocklaDd, which he reached
n Saiyr oil