The Republican journal., 1904-11-03
THE NEWS OF BELFAST.

The regular term of Probate Court will be
held next Tuesday.
The Improvement Society will meet with
Mrs. F. W. Pote next Monday afternoon al
2.9o O'Clock.
Chicken thieves are getting bold in the
northern part of the city. One instance is
reported in which the birds were killed and
plucked before being taken away.
Mrs. Edwin D. Curtis picked large and
fully blossomed double buttercup in her
garden Oct 31st, and there were several
buds on the plant.
Mrs. Nelson Richards fell on the steps al
Mrs. S. Fl. Mathews residence Oct. 26th
and injured her right shoulder. The
shoulder is so badly swollen that the sur
geons have not been able to determine the
nature of the injury.
School Superintendent Ellis has put new
sanitary arrangements into the North Prim-
ary school building, and removed the former
outbuildings. lie has also removed the out.
buildings from the Pitcher district. where
the school is discontinued, to the Hayford
school. where better buildings were needed.
DIR. j. b. Riley, V. S., of Providence, R l.,
was in Belfast last week in consultation
with DIR. J. V. Darling in regard to Henry
Gentner's horse Henry liter. An opera
ton was performed on the horses jaw, and
the many friends of this promising PAGER
will be glad to learn that it was perfectly
successful
The Dodge will contest, in which several
| Maine people are interested, is in progress
! in Jacksonville, Florida. The contestants
are endeavorng to show that Mrs. Dodge
was incapable of making the will filed for
probate and that Macdonald used his in
tiuence on her to make the same. They
have presented some strong testimony to
that effect
The PAssAGAssAWAUKEAG BALL
CLUE. In the Boston Sunday Globe of
Oct. Both appears a sketch of the DirgO
Base Ball Club OF Augusta, one of the first
| teams formed in Maine. This leads to
| memories of our own original club-the
Passagassawaukeags- organized in
the same year, 1867. These two clubs were
among the leading competitors for the
| championship of the State in 1869 and 1870
In the published list of games played by the
Dirigo appear two games with the Belfast
club, one in each year, in both of which the
Augusta boys were victorious. The scores
were % to 13 and 80 to 80 respectively. In
most cases large, almost without exception
in the double figures. These scores corre-
spond with the score book of the Passages
sawaukeag club, which is still in existence.
In the first game, played Sept. 20, 1869, the
Belfast team was as follows: Moody, catch
er; Monroe, pitcher; Boardman, short :;
Dlnsmore, first base; Washburn, second :;
Chase, r. p, third; O'Connell, c., left field :;
Colburn, middle; Sibley, John, right Of
these players of thirty five years ago, seven
are living and five of them are mddle-aged
business men of this city. OF the Dirigos
it is said that all are living at present, but
the old members are scattered over the
country. There seems to be no mention
made in the sketch of the 1871 games. This
tells differ ent story. On August 18th, of
that year, the Pastimes, legal successors of
the Passagassawaukeags, played the Diri-
gos in Belfast and beat them to the tune of
20 to 13. On that occasion, Chase Che of
opera fame) and Wadlin were the Belfast
battery and it is needless to say that Rob-
ert used some speed. Mr.. E. S. Payson of
the U. S. Coast Survey was umpire and N.
c. Wheeler the scorer
SHIPPING ITEMS. The Gospel ship Wan
derer, owned by Mr.. Sanford of the HOLY
Ghost and Us Society at Shiloh, arrived at
this port last Friday evening, anchoring off
the lower shipyard. She sailed again Sun
day morning. The Wanderer, originally a
yacht, but not the Wanderer that was in the
slave trade, was built at Brooklyn, N. Y,
in 1871 and is 90 tons net. She is an able
looking craft. The Vinalhaven packet
Circle loaded slaves at Pixies new mill
in Searsport last week and sailed Monday
The Circle is doing good business. Be-
tween her trips to this port she runs to
Rockland with freight for Lane & Libby
| 900. Sch. M0pang was launched from the
marine railway Saturday, and sailed for
Bangor Monday. Schooner Robert Fl. Nc.
Curdy, one of designer WardwelPs crea-
tiOns, has made the run from New York to
Rockland in 80 hours. The Marine Jour-
nal, New York, says: "The schooner John
G. Smith, recently wrecked on one of the
Nantucket shoals, was built in 1874 and
named for the founder Of the Maritime Ex-
change of this city, who has been dead for
several years" "...... Lumber freights from
Bangor to New York are up to $3 so, which
is very unusual at this time of year, that
figure being seldom reached until late in
November. The Bath Times says that
many Bath-built vessels are idle at the
present time and that complete list would
astOnish Bath people. In the port of San
Francisco alone there are seven Bath-built
craft lying idle owing to the fact that for
eign ships are doing nearly all the import
ant freight traffic on the Pacific 1ean to-
day, American ship-Owners not being able
to compete with them on account of the
subsidies paid the foreign ships by their
governments. The Bath-built vessels in
San Francisco are: Ship Abner Coburn,
built by Mcdonald, commanded by Capt.
Burgess, idle since Feb 90, 1903; ship A. j.
Fuller, Capt Haskell, idle since Sept. 30;
bark Carrollton, built by E. & A. Sewall,
commanded by Captain Gordon, idle since