The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-03-22

The members of Seaside Chautauqua
Circle will meet Monday afternoon, March
26th, with Mrs. B. Robertson, No. Is Cross
street. The lesson will be from the G. L.
S. c. books, Greek Literature, chapter six,
page 81 to 101, and Greek Art, chapter six.
Roll call, quotations on Cline"
There will be grand masquerade ball in
! the Belfast Opera House Tuesday evening,
March 9th, under the auspices of Golden
Cross Temple, No. II, Rathbone Sisters,
with music by Keyes' Orchestra, The
grand march will start at O'Clock, when it
is expected there will be over one hundred
couples in costume. Admission 80 cents
per couple; ladies' single tickets, % cents :;
admission to balcony, 25 cents; reserved
seats 80 cents. Tickets on sale Monday
morning at o'clock at D. f Stephenson's
store.
THE ADELPHIANS. The rooms formerly
occupied by the Banks Business College
are being put in readiness for the reading
rooms for men, and the committee in
| charge of furnishings inform us that they
will be made as coy and homelike as pos
sible. Tickets to the entertainment to be
given at Memorial Hall Friday evening are
selling rapidly. The program will consist
of an illustrated lecture on travels around
the world, interspersed with vocal and in
strumental music, etc. 1t is earnestly
entertainment and give this enterprise
their hearty support, for it is something
greatly nee ded.
SHIPPING ITEMS Sch. Charlotte T. Sib-
ley sailed from Gulfport, Miss. March 18th,
for this port with hard pine for Pendeton
Bros, to be used in construction of the
schooner put in frame last fall. Capt. Ma
than f. PendletOn, formerly in command of
the schooner Sadie Wilcutt, has taken com
mand of the schooner PenObscot of the PEN
dleton Bros. fleet, now at this port. Capt
Caleb Haskell of Rock land has gone to New
York to take command of sch Mary A.
Hail.. Capt Arthur Crowley, commander
of the seven-masted schooner Thomas W.
Lawson, who was obliged to relinquish
charge of the vessel on account of Illness,
has been ordered by his physician to re-
main ashore for year. He has become as
ISOLATED with a firm of ship chambers in
Boston.
THE NEW CITY GOVERNMENT. Two
sessions were required to complete the Or
ganZation of the new city government
The members elect met at 10 a. n, Monday
and were in session until noon, when thew
adjourned to p. m. The first contest was
over city clerk, when Maurice W. Lord re-
ceived votes and Wayland Knowlton 4.
City Treasurer S. A. Parker and City So
lcitor VIM. p. Thompson were elected
unanimously. Drs. L. A. Wilson, L. W.
Hammons and T. Sidelinger were candi-
dates for city physician, and the former
was elected. j. f. Wilson and A. J.
MIDGET were named for street commission
er. Mr. Wilson, who had held tie office
some years ago, got the position f. L.
Cook was elected chief engineer at the
morning session, but there was misunder-
standing and at the evening session, Mr..
Cook having declined, Mr.. CIough was re-
elected. F. A. Greer was a candidate for
auditor and A. L. Mudgett for assessor, but
these positions went respectively to Luville
}. Pottle and George &. Pierce
The going out of existence of the Maine
Telegraph Company through its sale to the
Western Union Telegraph Company recalls
some interesting facts. 1t is not generally
known that Professor Samuel F. B. Morse
himself, the inventor of the telegraph, was
one of the incorporators of the former COM
pany, and that the so years lease to the
Western Union Company made in 1856 was
signed by Peter Cooper as President of the
American Telegraph Company and Hiram
O.. Alden of Belfast, president of the Maine
Company. The controlling consideration
which led to the leasing of the Maine COM
pany's line was the fact that it covered part
of the land route between Hearts Content
and New York City over which Atlantic
cable messages must be transmitted, and in
making the lease this was the governing
factor with Peter Cooper, Cyrus W. Field
and others connected with the American
Telegraph Company, and with Hiram 0.
Alden and James Eddy, who were officers
of both companies. The late William H.
Simpson, for many years editor of The Re-
publican Journal was stock holder in the |