The Republican journal., 1904-07-21
The regular meeting of the school com.
mittee will be held next Monday evening.

The regular meeting OF the school COM
mittee will be held next Monday evening"
FOgg & Brown had new string beans and
new potatoes July 14th from C. L. Walker
of Monroe.
Leland H. Piper has the foundation built
for his new house on the northerly extern
sion of Charles street.
Waldo county is credited this year with
6,272 pupils between the ages of 5 and q
years, and her share of the school fund
will be $17,441.4o The apportionment is a
trif1e over S2.7s for each pupil
Mr.. A. A. Fowler, the driver of Mr..
Chenery's stable of horses now at Central
Maine track, has had a wide experience
among good horses and he declares that
ever visited for the number of good road
horses it contains, and the best of it is that
many of them are daily driven by ladies'
Turf, Farm and Home.
l. NJ. Cottrell will complete his work on
the boats for the U. S. Government this
| week, which finishes his boat work for the
present His next job will be to put Gil
chrest's marine railway in thorough re-
pair. Much of this work is below low
water mark and will require his services in
the diving suit.
A small boy was asked on his return
from church If he remembered the text.
He replied that he did not remember ex-
actly, but guessed it was something about
keeping record of what the mayor carried
to picnic. When pressed for further par
ticulars he said man was told to write
down what was in Mayor Shales' hash
basket. The text was Isaiah 81. Another
Jereboam and answered: "Ile's man in
! Monroe who wants to be sheriff.
SCHOOL SAVINGS BANKS. The w. c. T.
U. having introduced into some of our pub
lie schools the school savings banks, the
statistics of the operations of these banks
in the United States to Jan. /, 1904, COM
piled by j. H. Thirty of Long Island City,
n. Y will be of local interest. Mr.. Thry's
report shows that this system is now in
practice in 7S9 schools of JOG cities of 26
States. and the pupils of those schools have
saved S1,367, 93o25 in the aggregate, of
naming due the little depositors to Jan. /,
1904. the sum of 1895 425
The house of E. W. Willis of Portland
was entered by burglars July 11th, during
a temporary absence of the family. Some
of the rooms were ransacked, the contents
strewn about and few articles stolen, in
Guiding two bracelets and two stick pins
belonging to the daughter, Miss Josie Will
lis, small sum of money, and some cigars
belonging to a boarder. The thief Or thieves
were amateurs, for about $50 in bills and a
gold watch were overlooked. The Willis
family lived in Belfast few years ago.
Mr.. W. was in the furniture repairing bust
ness and subsequently with J. c. Thomp-
son & Son.
George S. Cobb Relief Corps of Camden
made fraternal visit to Thomas H. Mar
shall Corps, Tuesday. Mrs. Edwin Ander-
son, President, officers and members of
Geo. 5. Cobb Corps, with one each from Ed
win Libby Corps of Rockland and Lafay-
cite Carver Corps of Vinalhaven were
present. They came by buck boards, and
took dinner at Northport Campground
Arriving in Belfast they attended meeting
of the Relief Corps, at which the best of
good fellowship and sociability prevailed.
An excellent supper was provided by the
Belfast sisters, consisting of salads, cold
meats, cake, ice cream, fruit, etc. The hall
and tables were prettiy decorated. The
visitors started for home about 5 D. M,
and expressions of good feeling were
mutual.
AT HERsEY RETREAT. The second party
to go to the Hersey Retreat, Standpoint,
from the Universalist church Sunday
school left Bangor Thursday morning on
the steamer Cimbra for that resort. Those
III the party were Mrs. A W. McKusick,
George Mckusick, Mrs. Jones, Linwood
Jones, Mrs. Thomas Davis, Ralph Davis,
Mrs. W. a. Palmer, Marion Palmer, Roy
Palmer, Mrs. Parker, Mildred Parker, Mrs.
Crowell, Adele Crowell, Edward Crowell,
Mrs. Chaplin, Gleneida Chaplin, Madeline
Chaplin, Jessie Severance, Ethel Grady,
Helena Granville, Aline Leighton, Mrs.
Dillingham;, Alice Dillingham;, Mrs. Whit
man, Donald Whitman, Eva Libby, Frances
Dow, Martha Nichols, Ida and Mary Gil