The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-03-31

Remember the April Fool Party in Me-
mortal Hall, tomorrow, Friday, evening,
April list. There viii be program con-
sisting of musical selections and the farce,
"Per Telephone The candy table will be
decorated in red and yellow and attended
by young ladies in appropriate costumes
A Jack Horner pie will be filled with plums
at five cents apiece, and little fools in mot
ley will serve as ushers and have fortunes
for SALE
SPRING MOVES. The spring of 1904
begins with an unusual number of changes
of habtation. The journal announced
several in a recent issue, and number
more have developed the past week.
James H. Howes has bought the H. P
Thompson estate at the corner of Cedar
and Franklin streets. Capt. J. F. McKeen
has bought of Willis f. Hamilton his former
home on upper High street, and is to move
there from the house No. % Miller street,
which he owns in company with A. l.
Brown. Mr.. Hamilton has bought the Asa
F. Riggs place on Franklin street and will
move in soon. He has been living during
| the winter in rooms over his greenhouse
office. Mr.. Riggs will board with his
daughter and her husband, Mr.. and Mrs
J. X. bennett, who have rented Mrs.
Esther Carter's house on Park street. E. A.
Matthews of North Searsport has moved
| into the house on Union street recently
bought of Mrs. Carrie F. Black by Walter
j. Clifford. Mr.. Clifford will soon move in
! from the Griffin house on High street, late
ly bought by Dr.. John Stevens and Marion
f. Brown. Mr.. Brown will make extern
sive improvements before moving in. c. L.
Wright has moved from the Mcfarland
house on High street to the Russell house
on the corner of Charles and Park streets,
lately bought by Mrs. E. S. Pitcher Fred
Brewster has moved from the Russell
house to his farm in Belmont. Chas. NJ.
Leavitt has moved from W. J. Clifford's
house to N. F. Patterson's house, No. 5
Union street Mason l. Stevens has moved
from Newport to his farm in Northport
SHIPPING ITEMS. AS reported last week
the schooners Edward Fl. Cole and Marian
N. Cobb sailed from Rock land March 18th,
the Cole for Newport News and the Cobb
for Port Royal. The Cole arrived at des-
tinatOn the 18th and the Cobb was re-
ported at Port Royal the ed, five days
later :. Sch. Arthur V. S. Woodruff, Capt.
Fred L. DOrr, with phosphate for Belfast,
arrived in the bay last week, but owing to
the thickness of the ice was unable to
make the harbor and was towed to Rock
land by the revenue cutter Seminole She
will fr1rp M Ro1fo et ho rhor
is clear. Capt. Charles Gushing of Bucks
port has gone to Boston to bring the
schooner Landseer-one of the Nicholson
fleet of Grand Banks fshermen-to her
home port. She will bring outfits for the
fleet. -. The keel has been laid in Stetson's
yard, Brewer, for the four-masted sch.
Augustus Fl. Babcoek, 1900 tons, to be
completed in the fall and to be commanded
by Capt. E. G. Hutchinson of schooner
Estelle. Following this vessel, the Stet-
sons will build a 3masted schooner of
about 400 tons, to be named, so it is said,
Augusta W. Snow, for the wife of VIM. B.
Snow of South Brewer, secretary of the
Merchants Insurance Co. This vessel is to
be commanded by Capt. Frank Armstrong
Of Hampden, master of schooner Norom-
bega. Among recent charters are the
following: Sch. Medford, Newport News
to Boston, coal, 81 .25: sch. Inez N. Carver,
Savannah to New York, lumber, S..
sch. William E. Downes, brunswick or
Savannah to New York, lumber, 5.37a and
ties 16c; schs. Stephen Bennett, Ira B.
Ellems and John S. Beachem, Stonington
to New York, stone, $1oo; SCH Abbie G.
Stubbs, Mobile to New York, dry cypress,
p. t.; sch. F. G. Pendleton. Savannah to
Boston, lumber, 90; ship Erskine M.
to Honolulu, iron pipe, $500, and coal,
dina to Elizabethport, lumber, $3.50; sch.
Iona Tunnel, Norfolk to Bangor, coal,
$1.10; sch. Adelaide Barbour, Fernandina
to New York, lumber, 153c..: Sch. Mabel
Hall, which sailed from Rockland March
ed for New York with lime. ran ashore on
Friday night on Block Island and is total
loss. The crew we're saved but lost their
personal effects. The vessel was built in
Addison, Maine, in 1854, and was insured,
as was the cargo. She was worth probably
$4,000 and had on board 34OO barrels Of
lime worth about $780,