The Republican journal., 1905-01-19
The Charming League will meet with
Mrs. Geo. A. Quimby, Miller street this.
Thursday, afternoon. at go

AAe Cnanhlne League will meet with
Mrs. Geo. A. Quimby, Miller street this,
Thursday, afternoon, at $50
The annual meeting of the Woman's Hos.
pital Aid will be held in the common coun-
Gil room, Memorial building, tomorrow, Fri
day, at $50 p M, and full attendance is
desired. The meeting was postponed last
week on account of the storm.
CRYSTAL WEDDING Mr.. and Mrs. E. l..
Macomber of this city celebrated the 18th
anniversary of their marriage by a crystal
wedding at their home on Bay View street
Friday evening, Jan. 6. There were about
SO present in all, a large part of whom were
members of the Kings Daughters, OF which
Mrs. MacOmber is an active member. There
were many presents, among which were
two beautiful lamps, one for the hall and
one for the parlor, fine glass cheese dish,
china cake plate of beautiful design, and
fine tea rest, pepper and salt cellars, a
syrup pitcher, and many other valuable
presents, which testified to the popularity
of Mr.. and Mrs. Macomber. During the
evening games were played and ice cream
and cake we're served
For Coon ROADS. The snow roller I.
M. COttrell is building for the city is nearly
completed 1t consists of heavy frame
work carrying two rollers 81 feet in diane
ter and is designed to break road twelve
feet wide The rollers are drums, solidly
constructed of hard wood and hoped with
iron. Harry Kurdish has done the iron
work in the Jones Davis shop. F. V. Cot
trell and Joseph G. Patterson have been en-
ployed on the roller and the workmanship
as well as the material are of the best.
These rollers have been used in New Hamp-
shire for several years and are great i'm
provement over the old-fashioned triangle.
That scraped the snow out of the middle of
the road leaving ridges on each side. and
when thaW came the roadway would be
left bare with snow banks on each side.
The roller packs the snow down, retaining
it in the road, and making it easy for teams
to pass each other.
ICE IN THE BAY. The steamer Penob,
scot which arrived at Bucksport at nool
last Sunday reported Pen0bscot and Bel
fast bays and Fort Point Cove SKINNED
with one to three inches of ice Buckspor
harbor was then badly jammed with float
ing ice and the ice had formed so solidl,
across the river above the town that the
Penobscot was unable to reach Winterport
ana returned to her wharf at Bucksport
Monday the Golden Rod did not run and
the Pemaquid was delayed, but made the
round trip to ROckland and return. Police
man Frlsbee, who came up from Rockland
IN the afternoon, said that inside of the
steamer track all the way up the shore the
Ice was strong enough to walk upon, but
the Pemaquid made her way through ice
at least three inches thick without the least
difficulty The Penobscot was late in
coming down river Monday, and the Pema-
quld was fully two hours late on her up-
river schedule. The Golden Rod did not
show up Tuesday, but the Pemaquid ran as
usual. Tuesday afternoon the harbor and
bay were entirely free from ice, but there
was SO much ice in the eastern bay that the
Silver Star had difficulty in getting into
Castine and would have been compelled to
return to Belfast had not the Pemauuid
come along and broken passage through.
Yesterday morning the Silver Star had to
abandon her Islesboro landing and come d.
rect to Belfast. She found thin ice all the
way and making fast. The Golden Rod and
Pemaquid made their regular trims.