Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20
Two More Liquor Seizures
by Sheriff Carleton.
Two Recent Belfast Inventions
for Use IN Cooper Shop.


Carleton and MS deputies coh'"e
wage a vigorous warfare against the
ua1or traffic, and have three large
.e,,ures tn their credit in the last two
days. At the Commonwealth Hotel
and the windsor House they found
quantities of beer and whiskey, on
which the proprietors were arraigned
on search and seizure process, founo
guilty. sentenced to a fine of 500 ana
costs and so days in Jail, and appealed:
Monday the sheriff seized % Kegs OF
lager on the steamboat WnarI III
Searsport, and as the owners are uh-
known the liquor will be libeled. rms
is supposed to be intender for the
Italian laborers on the railroad at
Searsport and Stockton Springs.
The newly organized Reformed
Dutch church In Fast Belfast hoios
regular preaching services IN the
school house In former school district
No. 49, Rev. William Vaughan. the
pastor. breaches in the congregational
church a; the Head Of the Tide every
Sunday forenoon n 1870 o'clock, ana
in the school house for his own church,
fortnightly Sundays at 80 i. NJ. A
Sunday school is held IN the school
house Immediately after the preaching
service and at the same hour on the
DAYS when there Is no preaching. The
PRAYER meetings are held at the homes
of the members Thursday evenings.
The foundation walls for the new
chapel were laid last fall and work will
begin on the main building this week.
The walls will be of field rock, laid in
cement and the design is very at
tractive one. The building will be
ready for use this fall.
Two new inventions for use in
cooper shops have been made here
recently. A. A. Daley of Ninalhaven
has been at work for some time past in
Belfast and vicinity projecting a
machine for shaving hoops. He has
secured his patents and disposed of his
rights in the invention, on royalty, to
the Duplex Roller Bushing Co. which
will manufacture the machines.
Willard +. Wellman of Belmont who
has a dozen or more successful patents
to his credit has invented and is max
ing a novel machine for cutting the
locks in barrel hoops. The knife
blade is made with curve and angle
corresponding to the lock in a barrel
hoop and works with a shear motion
cutting out lock at every descent
The knife is worked by a treadle
similar to a mortising machine. Mr.
Wellmans most valuable patents are
the simplex roller bushing for vessels
blocks, in use by the U. S. Navy, a
rubber sole cutting machine. in use in
many of the large rubber boat
factories: and moving machine de-
vice in which two universal joints and
can take the place of crank and
pitnan.
Christian Science meetings are
suspended until further notice on ac-
count of the absence from town of q
number of the active members.
Waldo Lodge l. o. o. F., observed
Sunday, June 18th. as Memorial day
The lodge met in Odd Fellows Hall al
10 A. NJ. and marched to the Unitarian
church, 4S men in line in full regalia
A large number of members of Aurora
Rebekah Lodge attended but not as &
body. The music was by a choir com
posed of Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Pitcher, c
Z. White and Miss Blanche Sullivan
with Miss Mary E. Faunce as organist
The pastor. Rev. Harry Lut:
preached on "Fraternal Ties" At thu
close of the church service the lodg'
reformed in line and marched u
Grove Cemetery where the graves o
IS Odd Fellows had been previousl!
decorated with bouquets. The ritua
memorial service was impressivel.
prepormed by Jacob h. bennett. Nob
Grand; Alton X. Braley. Chaplain
and Melvin c. Murch, Marshal.
The annual meeting of the Valid
County Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, which will be held in Mon
roe next Tuesday will open with tn
usual devotional service in the morn
ing The memorial service will be a
11.3O o'clock. followed by the noontid
prayer. Mrs. j. X. Barney of Rhod
Island. worlds and national superin
tendent of prisons and jails. will Civ
Bible reading at 100 P. M. The Loya
Temperance Legion of Monroe wi
welcome the delegates at the openin
of the afternoon business session. Re
ports will be made, officers elected an
the representatives of the local unto
will give 10-minute speeches on thei
work The evening session will be de
voted to an address by Mrs. Barney o
prison and Jail Work"
The contract for laying new cemer
walk around the customhouse, in plac
Of the present concrete. has bee
awarded to the Portland Sewer PIP
& Artificial Stone Co.
A party Of Belfast Masons will visi
Searsport to morrow evening to wit
ness a raising in Mariners Lodge.
The frames are up for large add
lions to two prominent manufacturer
plants; a 50-foot two-story extensio
of the Gas & Electric Cos. storehous
on Washington street and a two-stor
extension of j. F. Rogers machine sho
to Federal street. nearly doubling IN
capacity Of the shop and giving
frontage on both Main and FEEDER;
streets.
The star route between Belfast an
Stockton Springs via Searsport wa
discontinued Monday by orders frol
the post office department. The mai
now go by the new railroad 1ro'
Searsport and via Burnham Junctio
There are two round mails per day
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