The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-03-24
THE NEWS OF BELFAST.

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81 ~ D. 1904, at o'clock to choose eight
AI,,teS to attend the District Convention
az held in City Hall, Waterville, April
ta choose eight delegates to attend
~+t, Convention to be held IN City
Mlr prrtand, April IA, 1904.
liza ARLEs +. KNowLToN, Chairman.
GEORGE f. JOHNSON, Sec. pro TEN.
.'G,,t, Me, March %, 1904.
Ella. belfast Band had a rehearsal Tues
ia evening
-.s belfast schools closed Friday for a
~..uon Of two weeks.
ia, Rankin and Sherman iceboat was re-
-.,.-I 10 swan Lake last week.
lg.,mo has voted to raise money to cele-
+..-. the towns centennial this year.
The ocular meeting of the School Com
, ..4p will be held next Monday evening,
March 18th.
r..d Atwood, Winterport, promptly fur
....l4s administrators and executors bonds.
-tatement of the Fidelity and Deposit
# N Hodgdon received last Saturday
a.. Royalston, VT, q full blooded Barred
..muth Rocks for his poultry farm in
N--l Eefast.
.I- lorty-sixth annual session of the
...s Lodge of Good Templars of Maine
o ae held in Bangor Wednesday and
I'll day, April 18th and 18th.
r,Io af in no
-r Sore last week and the interior
I.- been thoroughly renovated. Mr..
-a, vent to Boston Tuesday to buy a
r.. -aek
harden, who recently bought the
store and lot on upper High street,
t the building in two parts, finish
- the house and one for the stable,
W1 an l. between them.
Cottrell had a diving job at Seal
-. ... near Spruce Head, last week. a
balIasted sloop about 80 feet long
-te and Mr.. Cottrell went down and
fast ropes by which to raise her.
I-uewing her subscription a Massa-
sells subscriber writes "The journal
.- me- usually on Friday, and no mat
IS busy | may be | feel that | must
- me to skim over the news to learn
rs tdking place in dear, old Belfast"
(. ugh the crows, like the poor, we
WAYS with us, the writer heard
rting last Saturday morning for the
.- me- this season. The binds We're
themselves heard at the same time
ih the bright sunshine it seemed as
>pring was really at hand. AT this
,,t year much planting had been done
tile ground is covered with snow and
. 0a,tIS reported to go down fully five
MING ACCIDENT. James C. Aborn is
uE from severe wounds caused by
ypluslon of Il gasoline bloW-pipe lamp
Sis using the bloW-pipe for soldering,
he amp exploded and set fire to his
.. us- He rushed out of doors and
himself in the snow until the fire was
tnd then returned to the shop and put
tre that had started there. He then
help and sent for a physician. His
... lrnS, hands and breast are badly
....rl.
- senior class, b. II. S., gave very
.lnle dance to the school and invited
.,. in Seaside Grange Hall, Friday
... .nl, March 18th. Reyes orchestra
he'd the music for the nineteen
IS ON the order, and the grand march
J by the two class officers, President
nee Wight and Miss Leona Bucklin,
.ri-tary. Ice cream and cake were
down stairs at intermisson by the
-r~ Of the class. The two hundred
z, mostly young people, had most
uie time. The net proceeds were
Ting ITEMS. The following masters
en-Or last week to take their vessels
n winter quarters: Capt Remick of
-... of the schooner David Faust,
at Newport; Capt. Hardy of Ban
3Ster of the schooner Hannah Garlic
LOW at New York; Capt. Maddocks,
~, for the George b. Ferguson at New
apt. Morehouse, Brewer, of the
Luling at New York Capt, Nye,
gton, of the A. F. Kindberg at Port
apt. Charles Bullock, Orrington, the
g Nebenger at New York Capt. Nor
WinterpOrt, of the Telumah, which
-.' oeen receiving repairs at New York
aW NcDonough, Winterport, of the An
z. Lewis at New York; Capt. George
-ht5eI, Winterp0rt, of the Loduskia at
Ne"port; Capt Bennett, Brewer, of the
Liam ii. Archer at Boston, and Capt.
t.Us # Brewer, of the Annie P. Chase at
H,N Aork..... -Four vessels are on their
N- to this port with phosphate for L. A.
AiowIton. One is at ROckiand, one at
h1tkport, and one at Portland, and the
lel7.h was at Salem the 18th. A new schooner
'' n tons for the Boston fleet is being built
al last Boothbay for Capt. N, P. Hutchns
M NE schooner Flavilla. She will be equip
,-l "ith auxiliary power and will have an
engine of 50-horse power. She will be ready
.". omission June /, and will be the first
~ vessel of her class to be constructed
4'~ ally for the market fishery for ground
l... The new four masted schooner Ed
.Hl II. Cole and the three-master Mar
m \. Cobb left Rockland March 18th
Fun Il quarter of an hour of each other,
.7 ole for Newport News and the Cobb
Port Royal. The Cole arrived at New
,f news March 18th. Both vessels were
'- by Cobb, Butler & Co., ROckland, and
l"Signed bytJ. j. Wardwell -. Sch. Pen