The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-02-21


F. A. Howard, Elijah Reed, Mr.. D. H.
Thompson.
At the meeting of the Claiming League
with Mrs. f. L. Stevens last Thursday
afternoon Mrs. G. w. Stoddard read paper
on National Hymns, and Mr.. and Mrs. f.
S. Pitcher, Mrs. Ralph II. Howes, Miss
Charlotte W. Colburn and Miss Marian
Wells gave vocal selections. Mrs. George
F. Ryan distributed valentines among the
members, each person reading the senti-
ment expressed on her card each one also
read quotation from the poet Whittier.
The next meeting, Feb. 2Sth, will be the an
nual business meeting. The subject will
be THE International Council of Untar-
ian and Other Liberal Thinkers and Work
ers.' and the quotations from William f.
Charming.
LEGISLATIVE. There are three measures
of local interest before the legislature: An
act relating to the Belfast police court, in
PRODUCED by Representative Dunton aud re-
ferred to the Waldo delegation. makes an
increase in the fees of said court. Another
measure gives the Belfast police court con-
current jurisdiction with the SearspOrt
court in civil and criminal cases. This
change is asked for by the law officers and
bar Of the county. Another measure relates
to record of instruments affecting or con-
veyng title to real estate in Waldo county
now recorded in other counties, on which
the Waldo county delegation will hold a
| hearing in room II, State House, Augusta,
Feb. Goth, at 80 p. m. The resolve in favor
| of the Waldo County General Hospital pas
sed both houses last week, and the resolve
in favor of the Children's Aid Society of
Maine had previously passed.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Sch. Merrill C. Hart
is chartered to carry fertilizer from Balti-
more to New York at 81 net per ton, thence
to Stockton Springs or BuckSport with fer
tilizer at 81. 10, loaded and trimmed. -. Sch.
Annie B. Mitchell, Capt Z. S. Mcdonald,
has chartered to load stone at Hurricane
Island for Fall River, Mass, at Sl.50 per
ton, The schooner has been laid up at Port
land during the cold weather, and Capt
| Mcdonald, who has been at his home here
with his family went on last Friday to get
| her ready for sea. .Stmr. Mohawk arrived
at Cape JellisOn Feb. 18th with 279 tons of
fertilizer and will take out a full cargo of
potatoes. Sch. Cumberland has finished
discharging sulphur and has hauled up for
the present, Sch. Gardiner B. Reynolds
| sailed Feb. 18th for New York with a.179
| sacks OF potatoes from r. T. Prentiss 4 Co.
/ Sch. Samuel c. Hart, loading potatoes,
was delayed by shortage of sacks. -. The
/ Reading barge Logan arrived at Buckspor
/ Feb. Is with 1,505 tons of coal for the Bacon.
| Robinson Co. of Bangor, to be forwarded
by rail.
One of the prettieSt' parties of the season
was given in Memorial Hall Wednesday
/ evening, February 18th, by Mrs. EsSie P.
earle, Miss Nellie II. Hopkins, Mrs Theo-
dore \. Winslow and Mrs. Charles Craw-
/ ford. The affair was a valentine bridge
party, and the hall looked charming with
its prettily arranged pillows and screens
and the daintily set tables. Miss Edna
| Crawford opened the door and the hostesses
! received their guests at & 80, after which
elaborate refreshments were served BY
Misses Sarah E. West, Alice n. Nickerson,
Katherine Brier, Helen Doak, Florence NJ
Hill, Gladys Pitcher, Marion Hazeltine and
Marguerite D. Pilsbury. The young ladies
were gowned in white, with red hearts de-
coratng their dresses and accenting the
valentine idea, which was further carried
out in the use of valentines for score cards
and table markers. Bridge was enjoyed dur
I ing the evening and the winners in the three
SartippS rpaaiuad han of
their skill. Delicious punch was served
during the evening. The hosteSSes received
many assurances of a delightful evening
/ and most successful party from their de-
parting guests.
/ STEAMER NOTES. The Bay State is
giving the best winter service we have had
TO. years on the Boston route She is not
! only an excellent sea boat but has a large
freight capacity and in making her semi
weekly trips cleans up the wharves at all
the landings. The freight from here is
heavy and includes apples, potatoes, eggs,
leatherboard, etc....U. S. revenue cutter
Woodbury. went to Friendship Feb 18th
and cut out the ice so that the boats of the
Portland and Rockand division of the
Eastern Steamship company are now able
to make their landing there. The Wood
| bury has done excellent service this winter
keeping the harbors on the Maine coast
free from ice. The cutter has also rescued
number of derelictS. ..... Steamer j. r.
Morse of the Eastern Steamship company
is at Camden having boilers and engines re-
paired and being thoroughly uverhauled in
readiness for summer travel. When the
Morse goes in commission again every
thing about the boat will be in the pink of
condition. While Fox Island thorough
fare is blocked with ice the Vinalhaven
makes landings at Pulpit Harbor. :. In the
illustrations which have appeared in the
daily papers of the collision in the Sound
the steamer LarchmOnt figures in all shapes
from an ocean liner to a tug boat. Evident
ly anything in stock in the way of a steam
caft was used for an illustration. The
steamer Stockton, which has been at Mar
| shalls' wharf since she was launched from
the marine railway, is not yet ready for
service, work on her having been delayed
| by the cold weather. The keel of the
Eastern Steamship company's newest boat :,
| City OF Belfast, is now at the yard of the
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