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

Rev A. A. Smith gave most excellent
and helpful sermon Iast Sunday evening
Monday, accompanied by Mrs. Smith, he
left Belfast for a two weeks S0l0urn and
change in New York, consequently he VIII
not be present with us next Sunday evening
and the regular services will be omitted, to
be resumed the following week.
We hear it rumored that Mr.. ii. l.. Hop
kins will very soon begin the erection of a
three story block on lower Church street on
the lot between the house now occupied by
himself and the Sprague block. The lower
floor will be used for stores, the second tor
offices and the third, furnished rooms for
rental. We understand the building will
be II it. frontage on Church street, running
back 80 feet
Mr. R. P. Grieve, father of the telegraph
operator Grieve, now located at the Cape
Jelison pier, has leased a lot of land of the
railroad company on the Cape and will erect
theron a hotel and boarding house. The
site is on the highway just south of the So
called Leonard Staples place, more recently
cupied until recently by Mr.. c. c. Nealey,
who moved last week into his own house
GA the Mill road, formerly the Darius Berry
house.
The Current Events Club will meet
Wednesday, March 2Sth, with Mrs. Henry
and Miss Emily Overlook. At the last
meeting the Observation-Disclosures course was
completed and the hostess OverStepped the
regulation boundary, celebrating" by
serving most delicious Vienna chocolate,
rich nut cake and lightest of lady fingers.
At the next meeting. the new book of llol-
man f. Day, the Maine writer, esquire
Phin," will be read, the club feeling it needs
something lighter, after its winter Of
"grud."
Up to this date, Tuesday, only partial
communication has been established over
the through telegraph and telephone lines,
and no local telephone connections are IN
order Bangor and Belfast are now in
touch with us, as are also points farther
west but to the east there is still no "con-
Meeting link" The linemen are busy con-
stantly, but the wires, poles and cross bars
are in such terrible condition that it is
slow work to disentangle, reset and
straighten them. John Dolloff of Belfast,
for eighteen years one of the efficient en-
poyees of the Western Union Telegraph
Co., says he never saw the wires in such
tangle and that it will cost the company
fully $4,000 to repair the damages between
Belfast and Bangor.
Mr.. Spellman of Bangor has contracted
to do the stevedOring for the n. NJ. 5. K. X.
at the Cape Jellison pier and Sunday start
ed an engine from Bangor on a big sled,
drawn by four immense horses, to be used
by him at the dock for discharging cargoes.
About two miles above the village the pole
broke and after spending the night strand
ed the damage was repaired, and Monday
forenoon the engine passed through the
village to the "Y,' where it was shipped
onto the railroad and taken to its destina-
ton on the Cape Jellison pier. Contractor
Spellman is also collecting piling and max
other preparations for the work of extend
ing the Mack's Point pier. He also has a
contract in Bangor for the Eastern Steam
ship Company, so he is a very busy man.
He is ably assisted in his work by his
several sons