The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1903-12-10
THE NEWS OF BELFAST.

"
The moon goes halting through the sky,
The stars appear by hours too soon.
The things eat no longer please,
To my tired eyes sleep does not come.
The world is tOpsy turvey turned,
For this weeks Journal has not come
Providence, r. l.
The regular term of County Commission.
ers' Court will open in Belfast Tuesday
Dec. 18th.
VIM. A. Monroe has installed 81 horse
mower gasoline engine at his farm near
Poors Mills.
viii Jackson of Poor's Mills lost valu
able cow last week. She got loose and ate
too much meal.
capt Jere O. Hayes has bought the
Mathews mare of E. R. Conner for fam.
i}y carriage horse.
The meeting OF the Waldo County Veteran
Association, which was to have been held
Al Monroe Dec. Sd, was postponed until
Jan. It'll
There will be sale of cooked food, home
made candy and fancy articles at the Bap-
t,l vestry Tuesday, Dec. 18th, beginning
at o'clock.
The two horses, TallapOOSa and Naughty
Inn. shipped to New York by Horace
th-nery. were sold at the Madison Garden
auction SALE
The venires have been sent to the variou s
towns for traverse jurors for the January
term of Supreme Court, which opens in Bel
last Jan. 4th
The first calendar for 1904 to reach this
Mice came from Col. Fred Atwood of Win
export, general insurance agent 1t is
very handsome one.
Four citizens whose front name is Charles
r-, by chance in a grocery store the other
inning. The fifth Charles had stepped
.i+ minute before.
-.obert F. Russ has bought Alfred S.
u,or's Mills, and is to be appointed post
4>ter in place of Mr.. Jackson, who has
res gned.
he Bangor Daily News recently publish
gel! an advertisement OF lost cat in which
ta- following appeared: "a liberal reward
~ ~ W
contemplate as cat thief they Will re-
IT. - their reward hereafter
he shoe factory in Massachusetts OF
Which Francis II. WEIGH of this city was
-.perintendent, has shut down. Lee j
alley was the selling agent and A, I. Con
Uul of this city was in charge OF de
...tnent. 1t is understood here that the
fsc.ory was closed because of disagree
.-ut of the prOpretors.
Two nice, new putfs were presented last
week to the Girls Home. One was from
~pattergood branch of Sunshine Society
Troy. Me; the other from Mrs. A. P
Hatch of Troy, in memory of her niece
Mss Nellie Hunt Mrs. Hatch, who is &
member of Scattergood branch, has been &
.rtpple for six years and for many month:
au nvalid
All readers of The journal, at home and
aoroad, are invited to send us personals and
Jews items, wedding notices, obituaries
ar. Although we have in some of the
towns of Waldo county several cores
qrudents. many things worth recording dc
mot come to their notice and volunteer con
u buttons are always welcome, but must II
cases be accompanied by the name OF
tI4 writer.
WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH ASHES
No person within the limits aforesaid shall
asst or deposit or cause to be cast or depoS
--i in or upon any of the streets, lanes OIL
L-hways aforesaid any ashes. etc" This
f., an extract from chapter IS, section 3, OF
liz ordinances of the city Of Belfast. Now
-h- question arises, what shall be done witt
the ashes? There are many who occupy
.p,tairs tenements, offices or stores, who
lave no place to dump their ashes or tt
.-ep them on the premises. 1t seems tina
-ome provision should be made for sucf
asses
SHIPPING ITEMS. Captain Scott recently
tied out his schooner yacht Wndward fol
a bay packet and expected to run to port
long the Reach and in Deer Isle. Las
week. however, he entered upon an ar
.angement with Capt. Thomas Burgess b,
Which the Windward will succeed the
II Bonney on the Belfast and Vinalhavel
route under the management OF the tw'
skppers While the Windward has not 81
much deck room as the Bonney. she is larg
Fl and is otherwise we'll adapted for thu
packet business, having good cabin accom-
mOdations. She sailed last Sunday morning
on her first trip to Vinalhaven with gen
eral cargo, including hay, apples, etc. III
friends of "Capt. Tom" on both ends of TIN
route will be glad to see him afloat again
Captain j. L. CoOmbs of Boston OF tn
four-masted schooner Calumet, built fou
years ago by Kelley, Spear Co. for the ). 5
Emery Co. fleet, made a business visit IL
Bath last week. He is going in command
of the new four -masted schooner Fr0ntena
building at Kelley, Spear Co. yard for tn
Emery fleet. She will not be ready for com
mission before next March,. Capt Jane
Staples of Vinalhaven recently bought tb'
sch Circle of Boston, and is to run Ter as
Belfast and Vinalhaven packet The vesse
is 80 tons net, and was built at Port Jeffer
son, n. Y, in 1867 80. George A. Gilchres
has exchanged his schooner Puritan will
Capt. Clarence L. Lyman of Seal Harbo
for the schooner Harriet Rogers. The Purl
tan is 10 tons net, built in Belfast in 1886
and the Rogers is "a tons, built in Freepor
Dur lon