The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1903-06-11

The Belfast Hand has been engaged t,
furnish music for the commencement exer
cises at Colby college on the oath of June
and will play in Camden, July 4th.
The Non-Partisan Alliance will meet
with Mrs. E. II. Conant tomorrow, Friday
at 2.30 p. m. A full attendance is desired
as important business is to come before the
meeting.
The members of Seaside Chautauqua Cir
Gle will meet Monday afternoon, June 18th
with Mrs. W. A. Mckenzie, II Spring street
The lesson will be from chapters fifteen and
sixteen of "Great Worlds Farm" and the
Reading Journey in Eastern Siberia.
Some good catches were made at Swan
Lake the first of the week. 1t is reported
that fully fifty fine fish were taken Sunday
and several Monday morning. Augustine
Colburn of this city was as usual one of the
successful ones, taking eight fish.
Mrs. A. L. Mudgett OF Belfast was riding
in Knox Sunday when an axle of her car
riage broke and she was thrown heavily to
the ground. Her left foot and left shoulder
were badly injured. She went to the Maine
General Hospital in Portland for treatment.
Changes in salaries Of presidential post
masters in Maine. to 60 into effect July LIST,
have been announced. Camden has been
increased from $2,7OO to $1,000, and Bucks
port decreased from $1,4OO to $780, The
| salary of the postmaster at Belfast remains
unchanged for the coming fiscal year. Mr..
Field has not yet received notice as to in
crease in clerk hire.
Henry W. Mayo of Hamden and VIM. P.
Thompson of Belfast, commissioners ap-
pointed by the Probate Court on a disputed
claim of Ella NJ. Kimball against the estate
of Elizabeth D. johnson, late of Winterport,
have made their report to the Court. The
claim was for ,$654 for board and nursing
during the last sickness of the deceased.
The commissioners allowed $141.
The County Commissioners met in Swan
vile last Friday on a petition to locate a
Webster's, in Swanville, to avoid a hill.
There was considerable objection to the
change, some of the original petitioners
even appearing against it. The petition
was denied. On the petition of Benjamin
Knowlton and others for an alteration in
the county road from Knox Centre to Mont
vile the commissioners granted the petit
ton. On the petition of &. E. Lane and
others for new road from David Ladd's
house in Knox to the highway near the
house of J. W. Knowlton in Brooks, the
commissioners granted the petition.
Orrin j. Dickey of this city will conduct
an excursion party from Belfast to the
National Soldiers Home at Togus on Thurs
day, June 18TH The party will leave this
city on the train at seven o'clock in the
morning and return on the train arriving
about six in the evening. This will give
about six hours stop, during which the party
will visit Gardiner, Hallowell and Augusta,
where they will be given an opportunity to
visit the. State House. The cost will be
nominal, and those desiring to take the trip
should notify Mr.. Dickey at once, as only a
limited number will be taken. Every effort
will be made to make the trip pleasant one
SHIPPING ITEMS. Sch. E. S. Wilson load
ed hay and produce from the Belfast Fuel
& Hay Co. for Stonington last week Sch.
Maria Webster loaded casks for Rockland
Saturday,. Sch. j. Frank Seavey has load
ed coal at New York for Swan & Sibley Co.
and sch. John c. Smith is at the same port
loading for them. Schooner Pendleton
Satisfaction, Capt. Burgess, which stranded
Monday night, June 1st, east of fort Morgan,
while bound from Dry Tortugas to Pasca-
goula to load lumber for this port, has been
tioated by a tug and towed to MOBILIZE.
Capt. Geo. 7. Osborne is to command sch.
Sadie Willcutt, from Belfast for New York
with paving. The sch. Mary E. Morse,
owned by Pendleton Brothers, is coming
from Philadelphia to Belfast for REPAIRS.
The bark PenobscOt, Capt. NTcCaulder,
which arrived at Boston May Doth from Ro-
sario with cargo of wool and hides, has
been chartered to load cargo of lumber at
Mystic for return passage to Rosario
She will receive SO thousand feet freight