The Republican journal., 1904-07-21
The next meeting of A. E. Clark Camp,
Sons of Veterans, will be held at their

hall Tuesday evening, July 2isl
Henry Dunbar recently sold three valua-
BILE livery horses for use at summer resorts
and will buy others to take their places.
/ The horses of Pearl Brook Farm will re-
turn to Belfast after the races at Water
vile next week, and some of the stations
will stand for service at the Belfast race
track for the remainder of the season.
Fuller & Cobb of Rockland have adopted
a new summer rule whereby each clerk is
| given half holiday each week. Saturday
every clerk is expected to be present. The
Star says that 'this new arrangement is
greatly appreciated by the clerks"
! The improvements at the Eastern S. s.
| Co.'S wharf this week included new gear
for working the slip. An overhead gear
takes the place of the former machinery,
which was under the wharf and was work
ed by walk-around lever in the freight
house.
AS announced last week the Waldo
! County Hospital Association has bought
! the David Peirce residence on Primrose
! Hill for use as hospital. Subscription
papers will now be circulated throughout
the county, and those who wish to con-
tribute to the establishment of hospital in
this city will have an opportunity to do so.
The many friends of Miss Katherine
! Bickford will be pleased to learn that she
will give recital the last week in August
She will be assisted by Prof. Robert Gay
! Ter, the orgauist in Christ's church, New
York, and by Mr.. Harvey G. Self, New
! York soloist This combination will give
i Belfast a musical treat and afford an OPP
/ portunity to show appreciation of one Of
, Belfast's most gifted young ladies.
| Sheriff Norton made searches and seizures
| at the Windsor Hotel, Phoenix House and
| Thomas Haugh's place last Friday, getting
/ hard liquors at the hotels, and finding
newly emptied vessels at Ilaughs. The
! proprietorS were arranged Saturday in
the Police Court and were given the usual
! sentence of 800 and costs, and 60 days in
! Jail. or in default of fine and costs to 60
days additional.
! Five men were recently committed to
, the Belfast jail as traEips and there were
suspicious at the time that they belonged
to a gang that was committing depredationS
! in Maine and Massachusetts,. Descriptions
were sent to the police of all the principal
cities of New England and officers from
! few places came and looked the men over.
| The prisoners were not identified and were
released last week on the expiration of
| their sentences.
SHIPPING ITEMS While the schooner
| Flora Condor, Capt. ". NJ. Sellers, was in
| Rockand harbor last week, lumber laden,
| Bangor for New York, two of her crew,
| McDermott and Morrissey, are reported to
have robbed a shipmate, William lngersol},
of $50 The money was taken while Inger-
| soil was asleep, and the men then made for
the shore in the schooner's tender, which
| they sold, but which was recovered later
by Capt Sellers. The men went to Thorn
aston on the electrics and there took the
| afternoon train for Boston. Sch Polly,
| Capt. George F. Ryan, sailed July 18th for
Quincy, Mass, with hay from the Belfast
| Fuel Il Hay Co. After discharging she
will go to Amesbury, Mass, where she
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lions at the celebration of the 250th ami
versary of the town. Sch. S. NJ. Bird
sailed for St. John, y. B., July 10Th, to
load plaster rock. Sch. Maria Webster
sailed Saturday for Mt. Desert with hay
from the Belfast Fuel & Hay Co... The
4-masted schooner Brina p. Pendleton,
Capt. Walter j. Small, arrived July 10th
| foil of
| coal for the Belfast Fuel 4 Hay Co. The
schooner was launched from the Pendleton
yard, Belfast, in October, 1902, and has
been in commission constantly since. Capt.
| Small says that not a butt or seam has
| started and that she is as tight to-day as
when she was launched. The vessel is of
handsome model, very substantially built
and finely finished. Every door on board
will close and lock perfectly whether the
vessel is light or loaded, and even when she
is in the toughest weather Capt. Small
has followed the sea since he was 10 years
old and has been in the employ of the Pen
dletons 23 years. The Pendleton lis dis
charging at Lewis wharf Sch. Circle
loaded general cargo for Vinalhaven Mon
|
with leatherbOard stock for Sherman &
| Co.. .Schs. Circle and Sunnyside loaded
general cargo fer Vinalhaven and Stoning
ton, respectively, Tuesday ...Sch. ORION
arrived from Bangor Tuesday with the
frame for the new grandstand to be built
at the trottng park :. Sch Harriet Rogers
will take Boston party out Saturday for
cruise down the bay.
| A PLEASANT SAIL. About 50 people
from Searsport, Belfast and NOrthport went
on the excursion to Camden last Sunday on
steamer Golden Rod. 1t was a hot morn
ing but the sOutherly breeze made the trip
down the bay very enjoyable. AS steamers
are not allowed to land at the Campground
on Sunday Searsport man was set ashore
just below in a rOwboat. Three passengers
were landed at Temple Heights and 1.-THE
steamer was then headed for Gilkey's Har-
Dor. 1t was apparently raining heavily
just ahead, but the shower passed and not
drop fell on the boat then or later, al
though there were evidences of showers in
| MANY dirootionc Tho r1oooS Of intQroSt n