The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1903-01-08

street TO rooms Ill tne fOrUcS UullulHS
on Main street. l. L. Perry made i'm
portant Improvements at his factory in
East Belfast, including private water
works with windmill pump. His out
put the past four years was more than
a million cigars per year, and IN l9oZ IL
was 100000. The Standard Cigar Co.
at Citypoint increased its crew to q
hands early in the fall and had mark
ed increase in business. The company
makes several private brands of and
10 cent cigars for customers, III addition
to its regular ''Seth Bullock" brand.
Paul Carnes sold his business to George
E. Pendleton.
The carriage repairers and black
smiths generally had busy year. 5.
B. Hartman & Sons on Washington
street, carriage WORK and horSe-shoelng,
closed out and returned to SWanvllle.
C. ID. Hartman had good run OF SHOE
ing and general blacksmithlng. Jones
S. Davis leased his business in March
to E. L. & c. W. Booker, but they gave
it up later and Mr. Davis continues at
the old stand. j. l.. Havner had
good run of smith work at his shop on
Tower Main street, and C. w. Coonbs
and Fred \. Sanborn each did vessel
work in the ship yards. d. c. Davis
sold his blacksmith business in the rear
of the Windsor Hotel to Fred Cousins
and Cassius Dickey, and went to Mont
Vile. The Beaver street carriage
workers. Geo. \. Mathews on wood and
Joseph Tyler and J. &. Damon op iron,
were busy as the animal for mich the
street was named. The blacksmith
shops of c. G. Havner at Gitypoint, L..
A. Wilson. Poor's Mills, and Frank
Grady in West Belfast had plenty of
work.
James C. Durham makes the packing
eases for the shoe factory and did a
good business in general wood work.
He has added boat building to his bust
ness.
In 1901 Fred j. Stephenson fitted up
a machine shop on High street, and
John +. Rogers occupied a portion OF
the shop for manufacturing the Rogers
patent vamp markers. Both lines of
business increased rapidly. Mr.. Ste
phenson now occupies the whole shop
with his machine and bicycle repair
business and Mr.. Rogers has fitted up
new shop on the second floor Of the
Rodolf building near the depot.
The demand for the rolls and brushes
of the Condor Manufacturing Co. in
creased considerably during the year,
and these appliances are now sold
wherever shoe factories exist through
all North America and Europe.
Sherman x Co.'S three leather board
mills We're run most of the year on full
time-one OH n hours and two on II
hours per day. The demand is con-
stantly increasing.
The Kelley axes have been popular
with lumbermen and wood choppers
for more than half a century and seem
to have taken still stronger hold on
the market i'll the past year The de-
mand was large and the factory had a
busy var
The saw and grist mill of r. A. Cur
new near the Head of the Tide was sold
to Fred Holmes, who put the establish
ment in thorough repair. added some
new machinery. and is doing a large
and increasing business.
Elmer l. Rankin had a good years
work at his saw mill in East Belfast.
T. :. Johnsons grst mill at Poor's
Mills had a good run OH general work
and also in grinding wheat for flour.
The swan & Sibley Co. operated their
prjst mill on orders for their wholesale
trade. and Mathews Bros. did general
grist mill business.
Hatch Bros. near the Head of the
Tide, made and shipped the usual num-
Der of fish barrels to Gloucester and
filled many local orders The coopers
in nelghboring towns shipped large
numbers of casks from Belfast to
Rockland and other lime producing
ports.
Geo. T. Read did a good years work
in putting in steam and hot water APP
paratus. and IL general machine work
He made large number of patent roller
bushings for Gloucester firm. Mitch
ell 4 Trussell, r. ?. Stickney and
Wright 4 Hall had all they could do
III steam and hot water heating and
general plumbing work.
$. G. Small & Co., Sanford Howard
and \, j. Potte had numerous orders
for putting patent roofing on buildings,
both in and out of town.
Leander Staples moved his halter
factory and harness shop from Monroe
to Belfast in May He makes patent
halter, invented by himself, and the
demand for it is increasing so fast that
he expects soon to organize a stock
company TO manufacture and sell it.
J. w. Burgess erected suitable sheds
and put III piping, ETC., at the Highland
Springs, and did good business selling
water therefrom. Percy B. Redman
also has a spring water on the local
market.
VIM. A. Mackenzie and n. E. Brown
formed partnership under the name
of the Brown Medicine Co. for the
manufacture of remedy called
Browns Royal Stomach King. Their
factory is in the Langworthy store on
Church street. The medicine is meet
ing with good sales.
BUSINESS CHANGES.
C. W. Follett bought the interest of
VIM. NJ. Woods in the grocery and grain
business Of l.. r. Shales & Co., and the
name of the firm was changed to Shales
& Follett.-W. H. Snow bought the
teams and regular business of E, S,