The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-03-10

Keen next Tuesday afternoon.
The Unitarian parish supper will be held
in Memorial Hall Wednesday eVeniny.
March 18th. There will be dancing after
the supper.
The State stipends have been apportioned
do county receives S6s, and Waldo and Pc.
nobscot S393.63
Unclaimed letters remaining in the Bel.
fast post Office for the week ending March
5th Miss L. B. Walker, Mr.. William A.
Jones, Harrington OsgOOd, Capt. W. E.
Pendleton, Walter E. Patterson.
Indications are brighter that the new
rural delivery which at one time was plan
ned to start from Stockton Springs, taking
in Standpoint and Prospect, will have its
headquarters here instead. An Overwhelm-
ing census of opinion is ip favor of such a
step. Inspector Ed BOutelle has been look
ing over the ground this week.-BuckspOrt
Times.
The members of Seaside Chautauqua
Circle will meet Monday afternoon, March
14th, with Mrs. A. c. Weber, No. 7 Union
street. The lesson will be from chapter
four, Evolution of Industrial Society,""
and from the magazine, american Sculp-
tors and their Art Author, Edmund
Vance Cooke.
Maurice NJ. Ham has entered suit for
the April term of Supreme judicial Court,
against Howard F. and Elmer Mason ct al,
of Belfast, for $1,000, on account of per-
sonal injuries alleged to have been inflicted
on the plaintiff by the defendants in East
Belfast, a few weeks ago, in a personal en-
counter.
At the corner of Miller and Congress
streets Saturday afternoon four two and
three horse loads of wood, ice and granite
were seen on their way into town. With
wood to keep us warm, ice to keep us cool,
and granite to fashion into "fitting tributes
to our memory who need speak envi0usly
of the metropolis of Stockton Springs 90
The students at the Castine Normal school
had some difficulty in getting to their homes
at the close of the term last week. A few
were taken across to BroOksville in the Sill
yer Star, and six crossed on the ice to
west went to Bucksport in sleighs, to take
the train to Bangor, or other cOnveyances.
We are indebted to Mr.. Charles 4. Town
send for a very fine photograph Of our ice
bound harbor and bay. The view is from
above the eastern end of the lower bridge,
showing that end of the bridge and the
shore down to the ice wharf, with the city
opposite. Every detail is clear and dis
tinct and the picture is valuable memento
of our memorable freeze-up. This and
other specimens of Mr.. Townsend'S pho
tographic work may be seen at the City
Drug Store.
A DIVERS JOB. When the new four
masted schooner Edward II. Cole was
launched from the yard of Cobb, Butler d
Co. at Rockland last Saturday she struck
forward as she left the ways. This was
not noticed at the time and when later a
piece of her forefoOt was seen floating l. NJ
land at once with his diving equipment
He left that afternoon for Rockland and
Sunday morning went down and examined
the vessel. He found the shoe gone and
also the under piece of the keel forward for
a distance of nearly fifteen feet. Nothing
else had started and the vessel did not leak
Monday morning Mr.. Cottreil went down
again and smoothed up the broomed ends,
and the vessel will proceed to Newport
News to load coal for Boston. Before load
ing she will go into dry dock for repairs.
STEAMER NOTES. While the steamer
Golden Rod of the Bucksport and Camden
line is tied up at BuckSport by the ice EN-
barge, Capt. Bennett is making the best of
the time by giving the staunch little craft a
thorough overhauling. The interior is be-
ing painted throughout, newly carpeted and
upholstered. The dining room now extends
the full width of the boat and will be much
more commodous than formerly. The en-
CINE which is a fine triple-eXpanson is be-
ing given a thorough going over. Many
new valves and fittings have been added.
The boiler and other equipment has been
receiving attention. When ready to resume
her route the Golden Rod will be in the
best condition she has been since she was
launched. .... The MerrycOneag which got
out of Belfast harbor with the aid of the
revenue cutter Seminole, went over to Cas-
tine and has since been ice-bound there,
was released the first of the week and
will run between Castine and Rockland
until the ice goes out of the river.
The Rockland Star says that the East
ern Steamship Company will start the
PenObscot over her route as soon as the Pc
nobscot river is navigable as far as Bucks
port and will not wait for the opening Of
the Belfast harbOr. =. The Eastern Stean.-
ship Company has recently sold the side
wheel steamer Mt. Desert to Capt. Beebe
of New York and during the coming sea-
son she will run on the route between Ma
hant and Bass Point. The steamer State of
Maine has been sold to the Joy Steamship
Co., to run between Providence and New
York. For the past two or three weeks the
State of Maine has been running on the
Portland and Boston route in place of the
Bay State.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Many of our readers
will be interested in the article on the 6tI
page on american COasting Schouners,'
with the sail plan and lines of the new s.
master building in the yard Of ii. Nj. Bean
& Son, Camden, and which we are enabled