The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-07-07
Probate Court will be held next Tuesday


H. NJ. Flagg of Belmont brought green
peas to this market the 4th.
Parada will be given at the Camden
] Opera House for three nights and Saturday
matinee early in August for the benefit of
the public schools of Camden. Rehearsals
will begin Saturday, July 10th.
| The steamer Golden Rod will make an
excursion to Ryder's Cove. IslesborO, Sun
day, July 10th, leaving Lewis wharf at
/ 80 a. N. and arriving at Ryder's Cove in
| season for dinner at the Seaside Inn, re-
Gently opened by Knowlton & Rose. The
keys Harbor
| Maurice ". Lord, John B. Mcintyre,
Harry L. Kilgore and Claude B. Roberts
spent a few days last week at the Lord cot
tage, Little River. They entertained
; friends Saturday afternoon. Among the
events of the day were feeding the animals,
the long distance service. target practice,
rowing exhibitions and demonstration lee
lures on "How to get Burned" and "How
to Rise in the World and be of Some
Weight"
A lady in Belfast recently met with a
singular mishap. She was caught out in a
shower in the evening, and as the kitchen
stove was only partially cooled off when
she got home she placed her hat in the oven
and then forgot all about it. Her husband
built the fire next morning and the oven
was not used for getting the breakfast.
| When the lady remembered her hat she
fastened to the oven only to find the
specimen of millinery.
STEAMER NoTEs. The Castine took the
masts and standing rigging from the sch.
Webster Barnard, wrecked on Barley
Ledge. and lowed them to Castine last
Thursday.....L. H. Hopkins, formerly
purser on the Merryconeag, has position
with business house in Exeter, n H., and
! is succeeded on the steamer by NJ. J. Gull
! lity... Charles 5. Nash. formerly chief
clerk at the Rockland Office of the Eastern
| 5. 5. Co., has been appointed permanent
agent at Camden and will move his fam
lily there. .....T The Merryconeag was not on
her route Monday, and it was reported that
she was at BuckSport with her rudder- post
broken. The Castine took her place yeSter-
day.
/ FOUND IN THE GAS PIT. The workmen
who cleaned cut the pit of the old gaso-
meter at the gas works found a number of
) articles imbedded in the tarry water at the
bottom. Among them were a pair of boots
with other articles inside them. The boots
/ were heavy solid calf leg boots of style
worn about 10 years ago. In one boot were
two axes bearing the mark of William
! Hurd, Liberty, and inside the other boot
was large pair of woman's congress boots
! Both pairs of boots, although heavily
+ coated with tar, are in good condition and
! had not been worn, the leather being as
soft and pliable as when new. The axes
were tied up in wrapping paper, which was
! in good condition, and the labels were
/ legible. Besides these there was pair of
brogans that had not been worn, an old
rubber boot the bones of a dog, and other
articles. 1t is thought that the articles had
been stolen and hidden in the space between
the walls of the ga>Ometer and the walls of
the pit, or that they were thrown in to
avoid detection.
/ IMPROVEMENTS AT THE GAS PLANT
/ The Belfast Gas Il Electric Co. is making
good progress in the repairs at the gas
works. Some time ago it was found that
/ the gasometer was not capable of sustain
ing the strain of supplying the city with
gas and the company decided to replace it
is Of 10;
iron. closed at one end and inverted in a
pit filled with wafer 1t is 81 feet in diam
eter and - feet deep. The gas is let in at
/ the bottom through the water and the tank
rises and falls according to the amount Of
gas in it. The new machine arrived last
week and the work of cleaning out the pit
was begun. The gas works were put in 81
years ago and this is the first time the pit
has been opened. 1t was found to be nearly
half full of thick tarry water, and a steam
pump was put at work to remove the accum-
ulation The tarry mass was discharged
into an open drain on Washington street
and ran down through the old sewer into
the harbor. When the water was pumped
down to foot or less in depth it became
toO tAASh 1o1 tIC pumps anu uOH NCl 2 SOAs
into the pit to shovel it into buckets to be
hoisted out. Although the pit is but II
feet deep the fumes of the tar were so
strong that men could only work in it a
short time and an air-pump was put in to
force air down to them. JEFF. Alexander,
the superintendent, prepared for the change
in the works by building a. small gasome-
ter and shutting out portion of the city.
He has since let the gas on to most of the
streets, and the whole city will be supplied
soon. The new gasOmeter will be put in
place this week, and the purifiers, retorts.
etc., will be replaced by new and improved
ones as soon as possible.
New ADVERTISEMENTS. F. II. Black &
Co., successors to F. B. KnowltOn, dry and
fancy goods, tin ware, small ware, etc
have coupon in our advertising columns
good for 10 cents in making payment for any
dollar purchase at their store during July
....See advt. of the Belfast Business Col
lege, which thoroughly and practically
teaches all the commercial branches which
lead to success in business. ...H. S. Col
man, Searsport, is agent for the Tubulal
Separators. Call OH him or send for cata
lOgue Special sale of shirt waists at Jas