The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-11-22

The annual sale, supper and entertain
ment by the ladies of Trinity Reform church
will be given Dec. 10Th in Memorial Hall.
Ii is for the benefit of the church edifice on
the East Side.
sit pays to read the advertisements of en-
terprising home merchants. They are the
people who make it possible to have con-
veniences right at your door, so to speak"
says the Old Town Enterprise. That is
true, and there was never time when the
advts of our home merchants were better
worth reading than now, and wise buyers
will take advantage of the attractive goods
advertised at such attractive prices.
LIQUOR CASES. Deputy Sheriff Charles
F. Drake of Frankfort was in town last
Thursday with John Donlin of that town,
arrested charged with the illegal transport
tation of liquor. These were two old cases,
which had not been prosecuted because of
Donlin's promise to do nothing more in that
line Nov 14th he was caught at it again,
and arrested. He was tried in the Belfast
police court Thursday morning, convicted
in each case and sentenced in each case to a
fine of 500 He appealed. deputy Sheriff
Drake seized barrel containing IS quarts
and IA pints of whiskey at the steamboat
wharf in Winterport Nov 14th, 49,. Last
Thursday Sheriff Carleton and Deputies
iIurd and Ellis went to Frankfort and the
equities made a search and seizure at the
Mansion House and arrested the proprietor,
Edward Hanson. AS Mr.. Hanson on three
previous occasions had given the officers
the slip it was decided to take no chances
and he was brought to Belfast that night
and committed to jail. Friday his case was
tried in the police court and he was found
guilty and given the usual sentence, from
which he appealed and furnished sureties in
the sum of 5000 for appearance at the next
term of the supreme court. In case he fails
to appear then the sentence of the lower
court will stand and he can be committed
to Jail for 60 days.
STEAMER NOTES. The steamer Monhe-
gan after thorough overhauling at Bath
has entered upon her winter schedule of
two trips per week between Rockland and
Portland, and one trip to Jonesport, leaving
Portland on Wednesday and Friday morn
ings, touching all landings between Rock
land and Portland, returning from Rock
land on Tuesday and Thursday mornings,
touching at the above landings. On Saturday
mornings the steamer will leave Roc&land
at g. a. H., for Stonington, South West Har-
Dor, North East Harbor, Seal Harbor, Bar
Harbor, Prospect Harbor, Milbridge and
Jonesport, returning from JonespOrt on
Mondays at a. The Mineola has been
withdrawn from the Portland and Rock
land route and will undergo repairs and a
general overh auling before going on the
Bar Harbor route for the winter. The
Governor Bodwell now leaves Vinalhaven
at I a. m. and 1890 p. IN. Returning leaves
Rock land at $50 a. m. and 5 p. IN. The
change of time is made in order to reach
Vinalhaven before nightfall.. Steamer
Catherine has been launched from the rail-
way at Camden, where she received a
new wheel and general overhaulng and
has begun winter service on the Bluehill
route. The Courier-Gazette says that Ar
thur Wardwell and Captain Ned Davies of
Rockland have sold the hull of the yacht
Wanderer to Capt l. E. Archibald, and the
craft has been towed to Port Clyde, where
it is understood that she will be altered
into barge for carrying coal. In this con-
nection there is an interesting rumor that
Capt. Archibald will inaugurate steam
b. - between Thomaston and Monte
0hi'., - Port Clyde. Last Thurs
sn\ fp was very severe all along the
Coast, and the City of Bangor, bound west,
laid over at Rockland that night, and the
City of Rockland did not leave Boston until
Friday....A Boston despatch of Nov. 18th
says: "The Eastern Steamship Company
recently sold to George A. Fernald & Co.
$4,000 5 per cent. first mortgage bonds.
The bonds are issued to pay for the con-
struction of the company's new turbine
steamship, the "Governor Cobb" which
cost $55O,OOO The entire amount of bonds
issued was $4,000, of which $4,000 were
taken by the sinking fund. The bonds of
the Eastern Steamship Company have been
in very strong demand, the market being
entirely bare of them at the time OF this