The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-01-14

mixer store.
Henry &. Moody of ThOmastOn has sol,
the Maynard cottage at Northport Cam
grou nd to Abbie E. True of Lincolnville
The winter term of the Belfast school
opened Monday, January 18th, after thu
holiday vacation of three weeks. A few O
the smaller pupils are out on account o
whooping cough, but the scarlet fever ha
entirely disappeared.
Roscoe Whitcomb of Waldo reports thai
he has a stallion colt, months old, of darl
brown color, that weighs 600 pounds. TIL,
colt is called "VictOr Marston," is By
Marston c. of the Pearl Brook Farm, anG
his dam brown mare by Black Rock.
The Maine Lake Ice Co. has begun har
vesting at Sargentville. The boarding
house, Minnewaukon Inn, will be run by
J. w. Snow, S. H. Hinckley of Bluehill act
ing as cook. Fred Pierce Of Brooklin ha.
also opened a boarding house.
McKenney & Mahoney of Lincolnville re
port that between Aug. 25th and December
10Th, they threshed more than IS 900 bushel.
of grain in Waldo county. They say thai
there was very little wheat and barley
raised last season, and that they did moi
thresh more than 200 bushels of the former
The crop of oats was large and of excellent
quality.
The members of Seaside Chautauqua
Circle will meet Monday afternoon, Jan
uary 18th, with Mrs. Ralph Herrick, No. "a
Union street. The lesson will be from
chapters nine and ten, Literary Leaders
of America and from the magazine
"Hawaii and the Philippines" Quotations
from Whittier's poems.
A little miss in this city received dol
for a Christmas present, and in course OF
time one of dolly's arms became crushed
The little girls mother tried to cheer her
by promising to make new arm, when the
little one frightened up and said: go, never
mind, mamma. Leave her as she is and let
her be a veteran like grandpa McCarty."
The enumeration of Maine poultry last
April showed that there are only a few
more than 5000 turkeys in the entire state
This accounts for the fact that at Christ
mas and Thanksgiving time the bulk of
turkeys eaten III Maine homes came from
the west. Waterville Mail.
The majority of the turkeys eaten in Bel
fast at Christmas and Thanksgiving came
from Aroostook county and they were a
prime article. Some birds were raised in this
county, and the percentage of western
turkeys was small. 1t was bad year for
turkey raising in this section.
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The Libby Company made a shipment of
live stock from Belfast, January 9th, con-
sisting of three fancy white head cattle fed
by Herbert Black of Searsport; one pair of
very nice $500 pounds cattle fed by f. II
Nickerson of Swanville; three of George
H. Erskins, Morrill,; three of Daniel Wey-
mouth, Morrill,; two from Richard Greer,
Belmont; and two fed by Ed. Brewster,
Lincolnville; also severalmilc cows bought
by their local buyers, II. W. Murphy and
W. II. Arnold
AN UNUSUAL CASE. Alonzo Dutch was
taken suddenly Monday morning with a
pain in his left forearm. The entire left
hand became pale, cold and numb. He con-
suited physician who found the trouble
to be an embolism or plug in the radia
artery, completely shutting off the radia
pulse in the left wrist At this writing the
artery is still occluded, but the hand will
probably be saved, as circulation can be
supplied by the ulnar artery and collateral
circulation.
KNIGHT TEMPLARs' BALL. Palestine
,Commandery knights Templar, No. IA, will
have a concert and ball at the Belfast Opera
House Monday evening, January %, 1904
with music by Harry E. Brigham's Orches
ira of Marlboro, Mass. Following is the
concert program:
Overture. Morning, Noon and Night, Suppt
Cornet solo, Reception Polka, Casey
Mr.. Bert Ii. Fisher.
Selection, The Mocking Bird. Robert t.
String Quintette, Dance of the Bumblebees
Bagley
Finale, Medley, SaddleI
Spectator tickets, front row gallery, 7;
cents; two back rows, so cents. Seats on
sale at NJ. P. Woodcock's Saturday, Janu
AIRY 10TH Ball tickets, per couple, incud-
ing supper, So; ladies extra ticket, 81.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred G. Spinney and Mrs
b. F. Wells had a narrow escape from suffo
cation by coal gas last Saturday morning
They have a large coal stove in the dining
room. Mrs. Wells sleeps in room ovel
the dining room, with an open register in
the floor. Mr. and Mrs. Spinney's room
opens out of the dining room. When q
market delivery clerk arrived to deliver
goods Saturday morning he found the
house fastened and no one moving, and,
thinking something was wrong, raped I'M
til he awoke Mrs. Wells. She was barely
able to move, but got down stairs and
aroused Mr.. Spinney and they opened the
windows and doors. They had consider.
able difficulty in restoring Mrs. Spinney.
In a few minutes more the whole family
would have been beyond help
VETERANS MEETING. The Waldo Coun-
ty Veteran Association met with E. NJ.
Billings Post in Monroe, Jan. 9TH. The
towns represented were Belfast, Brooks,
Waldo, SearspOrt, Swanville, Monroe and
Winterport. The meeting was called to
order at IL O'Clock by the president, Capt.
N. Smart of Swanville. The committee on
time and place were Comrades A. E. Nick
erson of Swanville, Porter Nash of Bel
fast and James Knowlton of Swanville.
After dinner the meeting was again called
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