The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-10-25
The public library was closed Monday


and Tuesday while the ceiling was painted.
The President has issued proclamation
naming Thursday, Nov Goth, as a day of
Thanksgiving.
Chase & Doak have taken orders for class
pins for the classes of 1908 and 1909, Belfast
High school.
A number of the Belfast schools, includ-
ing those on the common, will be closed to-
day and tomorrow while the teachers at
tend the meetings of the State Teachers
Association in Lewiston.
The Belfast business colony on Cape Jel-
lison is growing. Harry W. Clark was the
clothing store with Frank Prescott in
charge. Now Dutch & Berry are building
a new store on lot directly opposite the
Cape JellisOn House, to be 40 by so feet
with an extension in the rear and apart
ments for two families in the second story.
They will carry line of groceries and pro-
visions and run a lunch counter. Harry
Applin of SOmerville, Mass, is building
fine department store with two tenements
upstairs at the Cape, on the road to the vii
lage, and has the work we'll along. The
store when completed and opened will be
under the management of Bert Condor of
Belfast.
The following is a cast of characters in
"The jolly Farmers" the operetta to be
given by the Baptist Society in the Opera
House next Tuesday. Tickets for supper
and operetta IS cents.
Mr. HappyWay, Frank Keene
Mr. Work well, Russell Lord
Pat Murphy, Earle Talbot
Nose Rakitt, Clarence Hall
Mrs. Happyway, Evelyn Frost
Miss Scrubber Edna Hopkins
Miss Dustin, Isabel CHM
Miss Baker, Edith Burgess
jennie, the chore poy, b. L. Davis
Annie, the kitchen girl, Clara Marsh
Ella, Della KnowltOn
I Charlie, Victor COlSOn
Little May, Florence White
Neighbors Gertrude Stevens
| EthOla Frost
STEAMER NOTES. The steamer Ruth,
Capt. B. W. Arey, now making three trips
per week between Bangor and Brooksville,
called here last week. Thursday the Ruth
carried party of officials of the B. & A. R.
R. and Great Northern Paper Co. to
Rockland to witness the launching of the
auxiliary schooner Northland. -. The work
of raising the main deck of steamer Ire
mont now on Gilchrest's marine railway
has begun, the sponsors having been first
taken off. The boat will be greatly improv-
ed....It is reported at Bucksport that the
Eastern Steamship company will shortly
put on a steamer, probably the st. CroiX, |
from Stockton Springs to Boston. -. The |
steamer Lottie & May had her smoke stack
broken and was otherwise damaged while |
towing the schooner Charles F. Sprague out
of Stockton harbor and went to Bucksport |
Friday for repairs. Capt. M. w. Emerson |
of Bucksport was in charge of steamer Bis |
marck for few days the past week while |
Capt Bennett was in Portland on business.
SHIPPING ITEMS. In e write-up of Capt, |
Joseph F. Peterson of South Penobscot |
who recently completed his 39th voyage to
the Grand Banks, bringing home a full fare
in the schooner M. B. Stetson, the Bangor
News says of this successful skipper
ludt Among Tie FoSSelS III W uoSe Coll-
pany he has sailed was the RattIesnake. !!
That is going back at least half a
century The writer now has a pencil
drawing of the Rattlesnake and we'll
remembers making the sketch one rainy
day from the end of wharf. The billet
head of the schooner was the head of
snake, the body extending on the trail
boards. The Rattlesnake had a sharp bow
but rather heavy stern and like all of her +
class of that day had no foretopmast. Sch
Hattie G. Luce has chartered to load pota-
toes at Stockton Springs for Norfolk, Va.
Sch. Bridadier has chartered to load granite
at StOnington for New London, Conn, at
S1.25 per ton. Sch Merrill c. Hart has
to load lime at Thomaston for
New York. Sch. Emily l. White has
chartered to load pilng at River Herbert,
\. s., for New York Capt. VIM. F.
Welch has taken command of sch. Sarah L.
Davis and will load lumber at Bangor for |
New York. Capt. Horace Staples, of !
Stockton Springs is preparing for his an
nual trip down the bay with apples and !
produce in his trim little schooner Inez....
Sch. Celia F., Capt Eden Shute, loaded ,
lumber at the Cape Jellison dock and sailed |
for New York Saturday. |