The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-04-07

The law office of R. F. Dunton, ESQ.,, i.
undergoing renovation, including a stee
ceiling.
Arthur l. Brown has bought Capt. Jane.
F. McKeen's interest in the house, No. 2!
Miller street.
Herbert A. Drink water has the founda
ton stones and lumber ready for a new
house on Congress street.
Leland H. Piper has bought lot of land
on the Charles street extension, north, and
expects to build a house soon.
MIR. Edward johnson has paid out s549. 6:
of the Alfred W. johnson fund the past
winter, 1904, for coal, wood, flour, and in
cash.
The past week we received two letters
stamped "Missent." Ore had been to Che
beague Island and the other to Rockport,
dressed to Belfast, Me.
The April number of the Girls Home
paper, issued this week, contains a port
trait and an appreciative tribute to the
memory of Dr.. John G. Brooks, late presi-
dent of the Children's Aid Society of
Maine.
Holmes & West, real estate brokers, Bel
fast. have had printed in a neat pamphlet,
some of the bargains they offer in farms,
residences, cottages, etc. Those who have
Droparty tn soil and those who RI IN, "
would do well to consult this firm.
The sermon on "The Possibilities of
Man" preached Feb. I, 1904, by Rev Harry
Lutz. pastor of the First Parish Church,
Belfast. has been printed by request in "a
neat pamphlet. from the press of Grace E.
Burgess 1t has an excellent portrait of
Mr. LutZ as frontispiece.
The members of Seaside Chautauqua
Circle will meet Monday afternoon, April
18th, with Mrs. NJ. f. Hubbard, No. Park
street. The lesson will be chapter three,
Evolution of Industrial Society,"" and
from the magazine, ''Socal and Industrial
Problems" The author, Mary E. W.
Latimer.
The third district Democratic congress
sional convention will be held in Fairfield
May 9th for the purpose of nominating
candidate for Representative to Congress,
and electing three delegates, also three al
ternateS, to attend the Democratic National
convention to be held at St. Louis, July 9th.
The call is published in another column.
Horace Chenery is making extensive i'm
provements to his residence in this city,
formerly the Crosby estate. A new veran-
da, - feet wide, has been built on the south
side, another veranda will be built on the
north side and three-room addition on the
west. Fred Ames of Boston is the archi-
tect and G. F. Churchill OF Boston the mas
ter workman
MILLINERY OPENINGS. Our local mil
liners have all returned from Boston and
New York with the latest fashions and nov
elites in their line and announce their
spring openings in this issue of The jour
nal as follows: Mrs B. F. Wells, Mrs R. P
Chase, the Misses Ellis, Miss L. H. Fergu
son. The openings will all be on Saturday,
April 9th.
Fred Sylvester, Chas. W. Rogers and
Axel W. Wiley were at Swan Lake last
week fishing through the ice. In two days
they caught II trout and a land-locked
salmon. Four of the fish averaged 5
pounds apiece. Mr.. Sylvester's catch was
on exhibition at Stephenson & Perkins
market Saturday. The largest fish measured
24a inches in length and weighed 5pounds.
The fishermen report the ice 81 inch s
thick and very hard.
SHIPPING ITEMS Capt. Ralph W. Pat
resume command of sch. Ella NJ. StOrer....
Capt. Geo. W. Pattershall went to Boston
April LIST to get sch. Sarah L. Davis ready.
He expected to load general cargo for Bel
fast. Capt Geo. T. Osborne is in New
York in command of sch. A. w. Ellis. He
is expected to load coal for Belfast. Sch.
Harriet Rogers has loaded cord wood at
Lanes wharf from Eli C. Merriam's for
Vinalhaven. e. Sch. Addie R. McFadden
arrived at Camden March Goth from Vir-
ginia with the frame for vessel No. to be
built in H. NJ. & R. L. Beams yard. The
lower deck frame is all in on vessel No. l
and she is about ceiled between decks.
Planking on her was begun Monday.
Sch. Silver Heels arrived at Rockland
March 29th from Church Point, Nova
Scotia, with ship timber for Captain
Sprague's vessel, to be built in Cobb, But
Ter & Co.'S yard. The fishing schooner 7.
NJ. Nicholson arrived at Bucksport March
3Oth from Newfoundland in ballast. She
went after a cargo of frozen herring, but
was unsuccessful. Schooner Landseer ar
rived the same day from Boston with salt
and supplies for the Nicholson fishing fleet.
49, The Rockland schooner Methebesec has
been chartered by Pierre McConville to load
ice and lumber at Bangor for Curacao,
thence to Bonaire to load salt for j. c.
Towle & Co., Bangor. Sch. Robert H.
McCurdy, with hard pine for Bangor. sail
ed from Brunswick, Ca, April LIST. 1.-THE
new schooner Anthony B. Nichols, launch
ed March Both at Bath, is to load ice at
Rockport for Nassau. ..... The 175 foot keel
of fOur-master has been laid at the Cobb,
Butler shipyard in R0ckland. She is to be
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