The Republican journal., 1903-05-14
Charles O'COnnell has put in a new soda
fountain at his store on Main street.

Oudk lcS " SOuHOIl uoo PUe Ah ~ A0' So~'~
fountain at his store on Main street.
The members of Seaside Chautauqua Cir
Gle will meet Monday afternoon, May 18th,
with Mrs. J. F. McKeen, 25 Miller street.
Lesson, chapters seven and eight of the
"Great Worlds Farm" and from the maga-
zine, A Reading Journey Through Russia
Author, Charles Darwin.
WALDO COUNTY TEACHERS AssoCIA-
TIoN. The evening address to the teachers
at the semi-annual meeting in Belfast, May
18th, will be omitted. An informal recep-
ton to the visiting teachers is to be held in
the UniversaliSt veStry. A short program
has been arranged and it is hoped large
number may remain.
WOMEN LIFE SAVERS. One day last
week boat containing William Kellar,
Miss Nina Kellar and Jacob Fairfield was
capsized at Islesboro and the occupants
were saved by the prompt action of Mrs.
Joseph A. and Mrs. Ernest Sprague. The
two women witnessed the accident from the
shore, launched a boat and went to the
rescue. Mr. Fairfield was nearly exhausted
when they reached him, but prompt work
saved his life.
Coroner Charles E. Sherman was called
to Searsport Sunday to view the body OF
man found dead in boat on the beach. The
victim was Lincoln A. Webber, and phy-
sicians stated that he was subject to heart
disease. He went out to haul lobster pots,
and probably died in an attack of the dis
ease The boat drifted ashore and filled
with water by the wash of the sea- MIR.
Sherman decided that an inquest was un-
| necessary.
VETERANS MEETING. The Waldo Coun-
ty Veteran Association will meet in the
| Grange hall, North SearspOrt, June 4th. Ii
the day is stormy the meeting will be held
the next fair day. Comrades, this invita-
| ton is extended on account of the untavor-
able circumstances of the last two meet
| ings. CLANS will be served, with the usual
| fare of pork and beans. Comrades, throw
| care aside for one more meeting; let us
| have grand rally in North Searsport. A.
| StinSon, Sec'y.
A New CoRPoR ALTON IN FRANKFORT
| The certificate of organization was recorded
| in the Waldo Registry of Deeds May 9th of
the W. F. Curtis Company of Frankfort.
The purposes of the corporation are buying
and selling merchandise of all kinds, and
also to buy and sell such real estate as may
| be necessary. The amount of capital stock
| is $4,000: par value of shares, $50 The
directors are w. F. Curtis, W. L. Heagan,
| Charles Beal, NJ. II. Cuddy and Andrew
Flaherity. W. F. Curtis is president; w.
L. Heagan, treasurer; and T. L. Hopkins,
clerk
| REEDS SHIPYARD. w. H. Reed, for
merly of Jonesboro and Stonngton. who
some weeks ago announced his intention of
establishing shipyard in Belfast and
building two schooners here, has chosen a
site in Rockland on part of the property of
the North Marine Railway, according to
the Rockand Star, which says further:
Mr. Reed says that about forty men will
be employed in the yard, and nearly all OF
them have to be brought in from outside
places. The men will probably be secured
| in Machas and Calais. The first vessel to
be built will be a three-masted schooner,
the keel of which will be laid next week.
The schooner is to be 1856 feet in length, 80
| feet 6 inches beam and 10 feet inches
depth. She will be about 400 tons gross.
| The model of the schooner is from the lines
of the d. j. Sawyer, built in Jonesport IN
1890. 1t is expected that the launching will
| take place about August 2Sth, and the keel
of another vessel will be laid early in Sep
tember.
FISH FACTS. Harry and Arthur Coleman,
who leased the fishing privilege at Sears
Island, report the salmon very scarce.
They have taken less than a dozen this sea-
son. One, weighing 21a pounds, was cut up
at Bramhalls May sth and sold readily at
10 cents per lb. Stephenson Il Perkins had
one from Stockton Springs and Fletcher
one from Islesboro the same day. Large
shad sold for so cents apiece last week..
Edmund Wilson caught ~ brook trout in a
stream near Belfast Friday. The largest
fish was 10 inches long and the shortest
inches. Brook trout from the L. S. hatch
cry at Green Lake were received last week
for streams in Knox, Thorndike, Liberty
and Searsmont =. One of the largest sal
mon ever caught in Swan Lake by hook
and line was taken few days ago by Frank
f. Whitcomb of Searsport. 1t weighed II
pounds. E. NJ. Hall recently caught 81
brook trout in one day in a stream in Jack
son....E. II. and Miller Colby arrived
Monday with good catch of live cod, had
dock and Holsters in their new smack Day
break H.. .SloOpS Jennette and Hector
were in port the first of the week with fresh
and corned fish and live Holsters. -. Mr.. and
Mrs. l. NJ. Cottrell returned home Tuesday
from week at Swan Lake. Mr.. c. caught
four land-locked salmon and one large trout.
Tuesday his mother, Mrs. c. c. Glover, and
Capt. Glover went TO the Lake and the
family went fishing and Mrs. Glover caught
a fine salmon. -. Lucian II. Duncan captur-
ed two good salmon Sunday in his weir at
NOrthport near Lincolnville Beach. One
weighed eighteen and half and the other
eighteen and three-fourths pounds.
Dock SQUARE. Noting the changes on
| Phoenix Row has suggested paragraph in
regard to business developments in another
section of the city-at the foot of Main
street. When the Dana Medicine Co. closed
its sky-rockety career the big Dana build
ing was left empty and deserted for time,
and the two bri elk stores on the corner op-
posite have for many years been occupied