The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-01-14
THE NEWS OF BELFAST.
j JANUARY.

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In chill brown lines the hedges creep
Past sheltered farms to forests deep.
The Steel-bue ice, windswept and clear,
Covers the breast of the lonely mere.
In cedar thickets the blue jays Scold,
While snowbrds whirl through the bitter
cold;
And tiny, tmid, hasty print
On white drift gives of hares a hint.
sara Andrew Shafer in The Outlook.
Hugh Crowley is again in charge of the
Rankin saw mill in East Belfast.
The W. c. T. U. will meet Friday after
noon, January 22d, with Miss rockingham
The c. c. c. Shoe Store will be opened
next Saturday for the fire sale. See his
advt. next week.
Walter j. Clifford installed the officers of
Andrew f. Clark Camp, Sons of Veterans,
Tuesday evening.
Mrs. f. S. Pitcher has bought the HoratO
Nears house at the corner of Charles and
lark streets, through the agency of Holmes
West
pr ". L. West went to Frankfort last
week and inspected the milk herd of 2Ocows
,f Albert PIERCE. He found all the cows
rl}sically sound.
uclaimed letters remaining in the Bel
last post Office for the week ending Jan. 9:
BAD es- Miss Blanche Danforth; gentle
.-a-D DR., j. J. Sewell.
The repairs on the upper and middle
-ather- board mills of Sherman & CO. in
East Belfast are finished and the three
.Is are running on full time; two u hours
-- day and one "a hours
Il b. Stephenson is building Il story
use on the site of the A. j. Stevens house
East Belfast. The lumber is taken from
Holmes house on the back road to Sears
port, which has been torn down.
Lumbermen report that the snow storm
asst Saturday made excellent teaming in
woods and that conditions for getting
The winters cut of wood and lumber are
,-er than for several seasons past.
aTle " Jones report a good sale this
.-5 in their mark down and closing out
of suits, cloaks, furs and surplus stock.
sale continues all this month. They
-.al the room. See advt. in this paper.
--rpnteen years ago last Saturday Swift
Jul, grocers, began business in the
they now occupy in Masonic Temple
r first sale was stick of candy, and
has since been one of their speciali-
steamer fremont, which had been
n up at this port for some weeks,
-n running last week on her new route
u broOkSville and CaStine to Bucksport
-turn daily. The steamer leaves West
asyile at six and returning leaves
sport at . p. m.
ta- Waldo County Law Library associa-
Las chosen officers as follows: VIM.
Mcclellan, president; j. S. Hartman,
ST., =tary; Geo. f. johnson, treasurer
-,ton Wadln, librarian; John R. Dun
Frank A. Greer, Fred W. Brown COM
ee to purchase books
FAMILY REUNION. Mr.. and Mrs. Cor
us Woods of Poors Mills, Belfast, enter
. "A their sons and daughters with their
les on New Years day. Twenty-Five
-..f present DbSlueS MI. anu MIS-. w nit
b. They We're Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis A.
"A comb of Waldo, MI and Mrs James H.
comb and eight children of Morrill,,
and Mrs. John Leavitt and four chill
uf Waldo, Mr. and Mrs i. S. ErSkine
- 40 children of Centre Montville, and
grandson, Chester Whitcomb, who
his home with them. Seventeen
children We're present, the oldest
and the youngest one year old.
Nhitcomb prepared bountiful din
which all enjoyed The occasional re-
OF families is very delightful. 1t
to bind closer the family ties, and
ways be pleasant memory in years
NE. The day was pleasant, and all
Nome feeling that they had had a
New Years day.
PING ITEMS Sch. Star of the Sea,
'iuinlan, which, it was reported, had
eiuSed clearance papers at Carta-
ogether with another Boston vessel,
I'd safely at Black river, Jamaica,
d, where she will load cargo of log
Tor Chester. The J. S. HOSkinS
Der Co, of Baltimore will build a four
ID schooner at DamariScotta this year
'pt. Cortlandt d. Perry of the schoon-
N-tlnic.. The three-masted schooner
D. Hall of New York has been bought
ael Snow of Rockland, Me-, for $1O,-
She will hail from Rockand, and will
t' -lgaged in the New York and southern
"w pine trade. Sch. Joseph W. Haw-
%, bound to Portland from Jackson
WILLIE Ia, with cargo of cypress, was Sc
't-' )ut last Saturday, and has not been
rrr--d Her regular commander, Can't.
j ''es, is at home and Capt Frank Po-
I'D IS in charge for this trip The
euer Helen Thomas, recently launched
dc Washburn Bros. yard, Thomaston,
last week for New York .. Sch.
'.- NC Of Rockland, which has been load
IN ship timber for Bath at Pamunkey
.- a, has been unable to leave West
d., on account of low water and
he schooner to be built by the Stet-
SOUS " Bangor for Capt Hutchinson will
aided the Arthur H. Babcock .. The
'-~Fr schooner Estelle, Capt. Hutchin-
arrived in Curacao Christmas day,
"''s.H@ record run of ID days from Rock
"i' To shat port She was loaded with ice
."' general cargo by Pierre McConville
bangor and left Rockland Dec 10.