The Republican journal., 1906-09-06

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heatre patrons will have the pleasure of re.
newing their acquaintance with the old-time
favorites, frankie Carpenter (the bright
est petite soubfette of the East) and the
clever comedian, Mr. Jerre Grady, in their
latest and most successful up-to-date sketch,
| ''The Auto Hold Up" assisted by little
Billie, the smallest singing and dancing Lii
liputian in the world, and select company
of clever vaudeville artists. AS this enter
tainment is for one night only patrons
should secure their seats early. The prices
are %, IS and 50 cents, and seats are now on
sale at Follett's.
The city schools will open for the fall
term Tuesday, Sept 18th. The new teach
ers elected for the school year are as fol-
lows: Principal of High school, Walter S.
Adams, Bowdoinham; assistant in High
school, Miss Annie L. Barr, Belfast; 9Th
grade, Miss Mildred NJ. Mason, Belfast
End grade, North Primary, Miss Lillian G..
Spinney; Grammar, Head of the Tide, Miss
| Irene Sibley, Freedom; Primary, Head of
the Tide, Mrs. Grace EmmOns, Belfast
| Primary, brick, Miss Florence Kimball,
| Belfast Pitcher, Miss Lulu M. Dickerson,
Waterville; Poor's Mills, Miss Nellie NJ.
Hall, Belfast; Hayford, Miss Beulah
Rhoades, Northport; Union, Miss Char
| lotte Staples, Belfast The schoolhouses
| have undergone the usual renovation and
| needed repairs have been made at the Head
| of the Tide and in the Union district. The
| term begins with new superintendent and
new principal in the High school.
IMPROVEMENTS. Melvin Clark is build
| ing an L on his house, &C Cedar street 80.
W. E. Hamilton is building a rose house, 80
| by 60 feet, on his lot in the rear of Congress
street, to be uniform in style with the other
three greenhouses. George R. Doak is
| building yeranda on the front and south
side of his residence, No. High street. -.
A new platform has been built on the front
of the upper grammar schoolhouse. -. The
Belfast Illuminating Co. is overhauling its
plant on Goose river and has put in a new
| $50 horsepower turbine water wheel which
has doubled the capacity of both the arc
and incandescent systems. new bunch OF
of three retorts will be added to the gas
| house on Washington street this fall.....
| Those who arrive Belfast by water will
think we are painting the city red. That is
| the color of the shoe factory addition and
| of the big storehouse of the Mathews Bros.
A POISONING CASE. Herbert Briggs,
aged about 10 years, is in the county jail,
charged with attempting to murder by
poisoning one Martha J. Goldsmith, aged
al Roth inmates of tho
Monroe town farm. Briggs had been at
odds with others of the farm family but had
manifested a special luminosity toward
Martha Goldsmith. Last Saturday the
menu for dinner included lemon pie and
into the piece given to the Goldsmith
woman Briggs is alleged to have inserted
Paris green enough to have poisoned a
dozen people. She was made very sick, but
by prompt treatment was brought out of
danger, although still seriously i'll from the
effects of the poison. Briggs was arrested
and taken to Brooks, and at hearing be-
fore F. W. Brown, Jr., Saturday afternoon
was bound over to the September term of
court. He was brought to Belfast on the
evening train and locked up in the county
jail.
UNION TEMPERANCE MEETING. The
Baptist and Methodist churches of this
city joined in a union meeting last Sunday
morning to listen to discussion of the great
moral question of resubmission and high
license, now before the people of Maine, by
Rev Thomas n. Hare of Milwaukee, Wis,
who is lawyer and superintendent of the
Apti-Saloon League of that State Mr..
Hare has been in the State for over two
weeks under the auspices of the Christian
Civic League The church was filled Mr..
Hare is a very able and convincing speaker,
Democrat, who believes that the honest
citizenship of Maine should put aside all
partisan feelings and re-elect VIM. F. Cobb,
who has been honest and done what he WIS
elected to do. He said that if they do not
do so it will be long time before any man
will have the heart or courage 30 be honest
in the discharge OF his official duties, know
ing full well that punishment will be add
ministered. His text was "For this pur
pose the Son of God was manifested that
he might destroy the works of the devil"
1 John, 3-S. He said that if any one in the
East had become 50 advanced as not to
believe there was devil, if they could 60
with him to Milwaukee with her 1900 Ii
censed liquor saloons and her 1920 I'M
licensed liquor joints, with the dance halls,
gambling halls and abodes of ill repute-
the usual adjuncts of the licensed saloon
they would realize that the devil was very
real and had works to be destroyed, and
that such was the mission of the Christian
church. He revealed the practical work
ings of the license system and said that for
any man to be elected to Office in Milwau-
kee he must make a saloon canvass, which
meant that he must get the good will of the
saloon keepers by depositing money with
each, instructing them that when 'the
boys" come around to ''set them up on
him." The rum power in that city and
county would defeat any man for Office
who was not friendly to their lawlessness.
New ADVERTISEMENTS. A. d. Chase &
Son have entered upon their 51st business
year and Mr.. and Mrs. r. P. Chase request
your inspection of new fall and winter
necessities, now ready for delivery. Read
the prices quoted. zee. Fred A. johnson,
Masonic Temple, is offering some unusually
important September fur bargains, and
roaEaS soma attractive OtfariOpS in ntbor