The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-05-31


mittee last Monday evening teachers wert
elected for the coming year.
We have in type for publication mex
week compositions of the Freshman class
of the High school on love Of country.
There will be meeting of the Woman's
! Hospital Aid on Friday afternoon, june
LIST, at 9 80 O'Clock, at the home of Mrs. G.
O. Poor, Church street.
The annual meeting of the Improvement
Society will be held next Monday afternoon
at . so o'clock in the common council room
in Memorial building. Members are ear.
nestly requested to attend.
A. knight returned by boat Tuesday
night from weeks, vacation spent with
friends in Boston. He brought with him a
very large box of flowers to place on the
graves of his wife's relatives in Belmont.
The Democratic county committee OF
Waldo county met in Belfast last Saturday
and organized with F. A. Greer of this city,
as chairman and S. W. Shibles Of Morrill,
secretary. The date of Saturday, Aug. 4th,
was fixed for the county convention, which
will be held in Belfast at 1890 O'Clock on
that day, The basis of representation will
be the same as two years ago.
Senator L. c. Morse of Liberty was in the
city last week on his way home from Port
land. He was a member of the legislative
committee appointed to enquire into the
obligations of the State Of Maine to the
University of Maine and to report whether
or not in the opinion of the committee it
was State college within the intent of the
statutes and should continue to receive
State aid. The Portland Evening Express
is disposed to think shat the opposition to
the University has taken form which will
lead the people to feel that professional
jealousy is at the bottom of the opposition
developing to the University"
which has been undergoing repairs the
past few weeks, is now completed and Will
be opened for services next Sunday. The
interior of the church has been greatly I'M
proved in appearance. A new ceiling has
been put on, walls tinted, pews painted and
the furniture frightened with fresh varnish
The foundation walls have been rebuilt
Rev. VIM. Vaughan of East Belfast has
been secured to preach for us during the
summer and autumn, services to begin next
Sunday at 1880 a. m. All people in this
vicinity are invited to attend. Mrs. NJ. +.
Ferguson who spent the winter with her
daughter in Waltham, Mass, arrived home
last week to remain during the summer.
HIGH SCHOOL GRApU ALTON. The grad
uation exercises of the Belfast High School,
will take place in the Belfast Opera House
on the 18th OF June and there will be II
graduates The baccalaureate sermon will
be delivered by Rev. Ashley A. Smith of
the First Uniyersalist church at that church
on the morning of Sunday, June 10th, at
the morning service. The parts for the
graduation have been assigned in the fol-
lowing order: Naledictory, Gertrude
Banks; salutatory, Maude Herriek, class
history, Frances Abbott; class prophecy,
Isaphene Patterson; class flower, Nettie
Shuman; Grafton, Eugene Thomas; pre-
sentation of gifts, Hugh Hayford and
Theodore Shorey; class ode, Ethel Davis.
The officers of the class are: Theodore
president; Frances Abbott, treasurer
and secretary. The class colors are white
and gold and the class motto coward and
Upward"
THE CREAM BUSINESS. Business is
rushing at the creamery of F. j. Gerry Il
Co. in this city. They received the past
week five tons of cream and made $50
pounds of butter. The butter is made every
week and ready local sale is found for
most that is made. Forty gallons of heavy
cream and 600 gallons of milk were sold To-
cally and the remainder shipped to Boston.
The firm is receiving 400 gallons OF cream
per week from Thorndike and Knox and
the amount increases every week. They
will soon start creamery in Thorndlke, in
the building owned by Mr.. Cornforth,
which will make eight creameries conduct
ed by the firm in Maine. They are not only
receiving cream from some OF the good
farmers of Waldo county, but from the
best farmers Mr.. L. F. Marden, who has
been the local manager for the past four
years, has painted the interior OF the cream
cry and made general repairs He says
that business is starting in this spring bet
ter than in any previous year
STEAMER NOTES. The Eastern Steam
ship Co. is to build new boat for the B0S-
ton and Bangor route. A contract has been
closed with the Bath Iron Works for the
boat and it is expected that she will be
ready to 60 into commission in 1907. The
new steamboat will be much larger than
either the City of Bangor or City of Rock
land and is to be called the Camden, after
the town of that name on PeDobscOt bay.
Very few details have been given out but it
is known that the boat will be 355 feet in
length, "a feet beam and II feet depth. Ac-
cording to these dimensions the new craft
will be SO7 feet longer, 1873 feet wider and
26 feet deeper than the City of Rockland.
The dimensions of the new boat and of the
two now on the route are as follows:
Length Beam Depth
Camden 800 Oh II
City of Rock land. .....,.274.3 1876 144
City of Bangor. 277 80 Az
1.-The Kennebec journal says: ga. III.
Hanscom, assistant general manager of the
Eastern Steamship Co. of Boston. arrived