The Republican journal., 1903-11-12

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spinach and cucumbers yesterday.
James P. Wight has sold his pair Of gra!
colts by Invader to Rockland parties.
Miss Pauline Edgett picked a spray O.
Dattercups with one blossom and thret
ouds apparently growing in the snow Tues
day. Nov. 18th.
MIS-. Elizabeth Ellis has a chrysanthemum
plant that stands but % inches high and
mas more than hundred buds and bios
SONS.
Mrs. Florence NJ. Wallace of Union in
spected Thomas H. Marshall Relief Corps
tuesday afternoon, and the Corps had a
public supper at o'clock, in Memorial
Hall. Mrs. Wallace was the guest of her
mother, Mrs. Mary e. Moore, while in Bel
fast.
F. Fl. circuit of Northport shipped three
coon cats by express for Yreka, Calf,
Tuesday. This is probably the longest
journey trio Of kittens ever started on
from Belfast. and the express agent at
Yreka has been asked to report their con-
ditiOn when they arrive.
The members Of Seaside Chautauqua
Circle will meet Monday afternoon, Novem-
Der 10th, with Mrs. c. Rhoades, No. IS
Cedar street. The lesson will be from
chapter four, Literary Leaders of Ameri-
Ca" and from the magazine, "Colonial Race
Elements" The author, Edgar Allan Poe
The supper by the ladies of the Improve
ment Society in Memorial Hall last Friday
was not so we'll patrOnized as it would have
been on account of the storm; but the sup
per was one of the best of the kind ever
given in Belfast, and the tables were attrac-
lively laid and the viands nicely served
The society Melted about $50.
The steam dredger Geo. A. Gilchrest is to
build for the U. S. Government is on the
same general principle as the Cumberland
but as she will be used in shOaler water
is smaller and the machinery somewhat
different. She will be used in Key West
harbor, Florida. The carpenters have be-
gun work in the yard on the keel, stem
and stern post, and crew is in the woods
getting out the frames. Fred V. COttrell
has begun on a large shop in the yard to
take the place of the various smaller build
ings now in use. 1t will be 40 60 feet on
the floor and stories high.
THE BIG GAME. Edgar Harding and
Castanus NJ. Smalley returned Monday
from a hunting trip in the near by woods
Mr.. Harding brought in a large doe and
MI. Smalley young buck, both killed in
the town of Waldo, Monday. ...Perley W..
Bradford shot buck on the Whitaker
Hill in Knox, Monday, the meat of which
weighed $50 pounds. Samuel Morse OF
Belmont shot large buck in that town
Monday, but one of his neighbors failed to
get so good result. He shot one deer and
wounded it so it fell. AS another was IN
sight he reloaded and while doing so both
got away. .Adelbert Dunton of Sears
mont shot large buck Monday. Two deer
were shot near Kelley's Cove Tuesday by
local hunters, but we did not learn who the
lucky sportsmen were.... Lawrence Simmons
of Waldo shot a buck Tuesday in that
town that dressed 235 pounds. 80. Horace
Wentworth. of Waldo shot large buck at
Winnecook, Tuesday.
ACCIDENTS. Horace Chenery met with
what might have been serious accident
last Saturday morning. Wishing to take
advantage of the first snow of the season,
he was on an upper floor of his stable assls-
ting in getting sleigh down. scuttle
was opened behind him and not noticing 1t,
he fell through it to the floor below, a dis
lance of nine feet, striking on his shoulders.
He was stunned by the fall. but no bones
were broken and he escaped with severe
shaking up. He had on fur coat al the
time, which no doubt protected him some
what Mrs. Chenery was to have lett Tor
Boston that morning, but had postponed her
departure Mr.. and Mrs. Chenery will leave
for Boston this morning Drew Patterson,
son of the late Everett Patterson, is suffering
from severe wound received because he
didn't know the gun was loaded. lie was
handling shotgun and discharged it, the
shot passing through his right foot. Her
bert L. Bucklin had his right hand badly
cut by broken glass while working at the
fire in the Knowlton building Monday
morning.
FIRE ON HIGH STREET. An alarm from
| box 25 called out the fire department at 4.3l
| O'Clock Monday morning to attend to fire
| in the attic of the store owned by Frank b.
| Knowlton, next south of Masonic Temple
| There are two wooden stores, connected
and under one roof with stable in the
rear, all owned by Mr.. Knowlton. The
| stores were occupied by Mr.. KnoWltor
| with a general stock and Stephenson &
Sargent, confectionery and fruit. The sec
| ond floor over Knowlton's store was w. ii.
Clifford's barber shop and over Stephen
son u Sargent was tenement occupied by
Miss Ethel Webster. The upper floors
were occupied on the one side by club OF
young men and on the other by DR.. Fowler,
an eye specialist. When the firemen got
into the building the upper part was full OF
smoke and fire was burning in the parti-
tions in the attic. The water was turned
on and by the time the fire was out the roof
had fallen in in some places and some of
the partitions had burned down. Every
thing below the attic floors was flooded
with water, and the stocks were damaged
by both smoke and water. The goods OF
the club and DR.. Fowler were burned, and
were not insured. Miss Webster's effects
were ruined by smoke and water, with no in
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