The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-01-04

Belfast and Liberty via Belm0nC cor
ner and North SearsmOnt.
Mr.. Augustus Perry retired from the
position Of money order clerk in the
Belfast postoffice in September and was
succeeded by Miss Florence Hill.
REFORM AND HUMANE MOVEMENTS.
A sale, supper and entertainment was
held in Belfast Opera House Feb. 18th,
for the benefit of the Home for Aged
Women. and Melted $S1.52. The enter.
tainment included game of basket
ball between the B. H. s. Lady Seniors
and Sophomores. The Home has been
improved in many ways during the year,
including new hot water heating.
The business of the Waldo County
General Hospital had increased so that
an additional nurse was employed in
January. New rules for the government
of the hospital were issued in May, and
the staff of physicians was revised in
August. The Legislature appropriated
$500 for the hospital for the years
1905 1905. Needed Improvements and
changes were made in the hospital
buildings.
The annual report of the Girls Home
showed that during the year ending
May 10th 20 girls entered the Home
and 16 were placed out. The average
number at the Home during it's ten
years of existence is we'll summarized
in the following paragraph from the
Girls Home paper for October:
'.Into this Home have come more than
two hundred little waits from all parts of
the State. Many of them in neglected,
half clothed, i'll fed condition, and in some
instances with scarcely the intelligence of
some of our dumb pets. In the Home they
have received everything for bodily com
fort and the love and kindness that prevail
in the best private homes They have been
instructed in the ways of cleanliness and
good order, and given the uplift of Chris
tian living When well fitted to fill places
in homes outside, they have been sent to
those who were ready to receive them. In
comparatively few instances have they been
of cases the girls have been taken legally,
and have proven comfort and blessing to
their adopted parents"
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas E. Shea gave
the girls their usual Thanksgiving din
ner, Col. Conkling gave them number
of rides and the various Sunday schools
gave them invitations to their annual
excursions and the Epworth League
had charge of the Christmas tree
The Belfast improvement Society
maintained the rubbish barrels about
the city streets, kept their pavilion and
bath houses open for the use of the
public during the season, partially paid
the expenses of a forester in trimming
the city trees, kept the weeds down by
the principal sidew alks, and agitated
the question of new receiving tomb,
with chapel, at Grove Cemetery. A
concert by the Gee and Mandolin
Clubs of the University of Maine, fol-
lowed by dance, was given in Belfast
Opera House March I'd, and Melted $27,
and the opera "Mikado" was presented
by local talent Aug. 25th and Goth, both
for the benefit of the Society.
The Non-Partisan w. G. T. q. main
tanned its sewing school during the sea-
son of 1904-5 and has one now in opera
ton.
Belfast Lodge of Good Templars
moved from Sons of Veterans Hall to
knights of Pythias Hall in June, and
subsequently moved, with the Knights
of PythiaS and other societies, to the
new X. of P. Hall in the McClintock
block. Belfast Lodge observed its 10th
anniversary by appropriate exercises
March 9th. The lodge introduced a
number of novel features into its pro-
grams the past year Sunlight Juvenile
Temple was reorganized May oath, with
p children and II adult members.
Several meetings in the interests of
good citizenship and civic reform were
held by the local churches during the
year. Three officials of the Maine
Civic League occupied the Methodist,
Baptist nd~Universalist pulplts in
the forenoon, June 18th; held an in
formal conference in the Congrega-
tional church in the afternoon and a
public meeting in the Methodist church
in the evening.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union showed a gain of 20 members at
the annual meeting, and maintained
the Loyal Temperance Legion, the
juvenile adjunct of the Union. Miss
Jennie Price, National Organizer, gave
an entertainment in the Methodist
church May 1st Mrs. Ada Wallace
Unruh of Oregon, national lecturer,
made tour of Waldo county in Au-
gust, speaking in the Methodist church,
Belfast, Friday, Aug. 4th.
THE COURTS AND CRIMINAL MATTERS.
Judge Emery presided at the January
term of the Supreme Judicial Court;
Judge Wiswell at the April term and
Judge Whitehouse at the September