The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-08-08
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appointed committees for their observance
of Labor Day and 1.-THE arrangements are
progressing favorably. The program will
be announced later.
The Belfast Locals will run an excursion
to Castine Friday, august 9th. The boa
will leave Dickey's landing at II 80 p m.
Fare for the round trip, So cents. The
Locals will play the Castine ball team.
Among the nominations by the governor
Tuesday were the following: John A. Pat
terson, Belfast, agent to prevent cruelty to
animals; Frank A. Nye, Searsport, coroner
! Fred ". Brown, Jr., Brooks, dedimus JUS
tice; Charles P. Hutchins, Freedom, trial
juatice; n. d. Ross, Lincolnville, notary
public.
PooRs MILLS. Mrs. NJ. A. Saywood of
Thorndike was the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
j. F. Sheldon last week. Joseph Shea has
returned to Boston but Mrs. Shea will re-
main while longer with her sister, Mrs.
Henry Wentworth. Edmund Walton of
Rockland visited MIR. and Mrs. F. T. Went.
worth last week. Joseph Banks has had
another i'll turn but is somewhat better.
| A search and seizure was made at the
! Commonwealth Hotel during the evening
of August 9TH by the Sheriff and Deputy
Ellis. The officers found ISL quarts of
whiskey, some rum and several bottles OF
| lager. The present proprietor, Guy Gray,
| was taken before the Police Court the fol
! lowing day and given the usual sentence
from which he appealed, furnishing bail in
the sum of 5000 for appearance at the next
| term of Supreme judicial Court.
| ATTENTION, FARMERS. Wednesday
Aug. 18th, at . p. m. at the Belmont farm OF
| Horace Chenery, Professor Arthur W. Gil
| bert, Assistant Professor of Agriculture
at the University of Maine, will give q
demonstration on Soil Management. The
! demonstration will be free, of course, and is
given for the benefit of farmers, and al
who can possibly do SO should not fail to at
tend. There will be no postponement OIL
account of the weather, as in case of rain
large crowd can be Accommodated in the
| COW barn.
The recent lawn party on the grounds OF
the new DUTCH Reformed church, by the
East Side Tennis Club was very successful
and netted nice little sum which will be
| expended in grading the grounds around
the church. The Grand Army Memorial
window will be dedicated Aug. 18TH the
Waldo County Veteran Association meet
ing on that day, and two other memorial
windows have been ordered, one for the
| Ladies' Aid Society and the other for the
Unity Sewing Circle. The church will be
| formally dedicated Oct 9th, with appro-
| pirate exercises.
/ SHIPPING ITEMS. The bark Josephine
built at Belfast for the coffee trade, is load
ing stone at Clarks Cove for Philadelphia
and will load coal there for an eastern port.
....Sch. I, A. Stuart, Hartford, Stockton
| Springs for New York with lumber, made a
/ harbor here Thursday and sailed Sunday for
her e ST tito n........The siX-maSted
sch. Mertie B. Crowley, to be launched
August 24th from the yard of Cobb, Butler
Il Co., Rockland, is chartered to carry coal
from Newport News to Boston on her
maiden trip....Sch. American Team has
chartered to load paving at Frankfort for
New York Last Friday a report was in
circulation that sch. C. P. Dixon had been
lost with all hands. The report was cor
rect, but the schooner, formerly the bark C.
p. Dixon, was lost nearly a year ago.
She sailed for West India port and was
never heard from. Capt. E. S. Mcdonald
is at home for a few days while his schooner,
the Annie B. Mitchell, is on the railway at
Roekland for repairs. She is also to have a
| new mainmast.. Capt Albert Smith has
bought a schooner and gone to coasting.
| He goes to Rockand this week with wood
and will bring lime back. Sch. Lizzie
| Lane which discharged a cargo of coal at
| this port, is at Lewis wharf having her
| topsides. calked. Sch. Nil Desperandum
/ is loading lumber from Dustan's mill at the
| Duplex Roller Bushing Co.'S wharf for
| Quincy, MaSs.....Sch. PenobScot arrived
Aug. 9Th, light, from Rockland, where she
discharged a cargo of coal, and is at the
| PpndletOn Bros yard for minor repairs
! The PenObScOt and the Charlotte T. Sibley
also in port, were built here for the Jack
sonvlle trade, which once employed quite a
fleet, and were commanded, respectively,
by Capt. George R. Carter and Capt Thos.
G. Bartlett.