The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-12-19

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. They are all
| ready for Christmas, and for Christmas
shoppers. at the store of A. d. Chase & Son,
Chase's corner, half way between the Bel
fast Savings bank and The City Natonal
Bank. The goods they offer are seasonable
and reasonable in price, and include many
household necessities. ......The Christmas
goods at The City Drug Store include
leather goods, Christmas bells, wreaths,
and garands, Huyler's candies, and many
other pretty things suitable for gifts. IN.
p. Woudcock & Son have fine display of
Japanese goods, pictures, fine china and
brio. a-brac, books and booklets, fine leath-
er goods, etc. William A. Clark, Clark's
Corner, extends Christmas greeting to the
public and makes some seasonable sug-
gestions. Go to mans store for mans
Christmas presents......W Will Thayer, the
jeweler, has Christmas watches, clocks,
jewelry, lockets, elegant chains, rings and
cut glass. Engraving free. For Christ
mas goods go to Lords, The Fashion, High
street. See statement of the SearSport
National Bank. Christmas furs at Miller's,
collectors of Belfast, Northport, Searsmont,
Belmont, Monroe, Lineolnville, Swanvile
and Searsp0rt. The City National Bank
of Belfast extends the seasons greetings
to it's numerous patrons, reviews the
history of the past year and invites
| you to enjoy its banking facilities. Fred
| A. Johnson, Masonic Temple, is in tele-
| phone connection with Santa Claus. Read
his advt....In anticipation of the coming of
Santa Claus W hitten Bros. have in d fresh
line of candies and Christmas goodies of all
kinds. They wish everybody Merry
| Christmas and a prosperous and Happy
| New Year. Annual meeting of the stock
holders of the City National Bank, January
14th, at 10 a. m See Christmas suggestions
from Foiiett's, post office square. B. A
| Spencer, Central Market, extends Christmas
| greetings. He has fine line of poultry, etc.
SHIPPING ITEMS. The American-Ha
waiian S. 5. Co. is planning to equip all its
steamships between San Francisco, the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Honolulu, and
the East, with wireless telegraph apparatus,
and also with the submarine bell signal SyS-
TEN, Which is of great value when fogs are
encountered. Sch. Charley Woolsey Al
rived Dec. 10th from New York with coal
for the Belfast Fuel C Hay Coca big
| fleet of six, five, four, three and two -masted
schooners sailed from Portland Dec, 10Th
with favorable westerly wind. The six
mastef schooner was the George W. Wells.
| Among the five masters were the William
| c. Carnegie, Nj. D. Cressy and James W.
| Paul, Jr. Other big schoonerS to sail were
the Magnus Manson, Alma E. A. Holmes,
Miles NJ. Merry, and Marie Palmer. Among
| the coasters to get away were the P. f.
French, Henry May, Samuel Hubbard,
Matte j. Allies, Kate L. Pray, Louis "
Chapman. Bark Mary Barry has been
chartered to carry coal from Baltimore to
Havana on private terms. THE Belfast
Fuel Il Hay Co. loaded the following
schooDers with hay the past week: Maria
Webster and Mary j. Elliott for Old Har-
Dor, Sunnyside for Stonington and Mary
Eliza for 1slesboro.. The iron freight
steamer Benefactor which has been in mort
frequently in the past two years as an extra
boat on the Eastern Steamship Company's
route, has been sold to a Baltimore concern
and will be dismantled and converted into a
coal barge. The Benefsctor was for over
90 years Clyde liner plying between Phil
adelphia and New York. The lumber
coasters Nat Aver for Vineyard Haven for
| orders and Irene E. Meservey for New
York, sailed from Bangor December
18th. The Meservey anchored in Fort
Point Cove to wait for crew. The schoon-
| er Lizzie Lee went to Bucksport to haul up,
| leaving the {. b. Clark the only vessel in
port. She was loading. Sch. Matte j.
| Allies from Portland with sulphur for the
Great Northern Paper Co., arrived at Cape
Jellison pier, Stockton terminal, Dec. 18th.
| -Four schoOner5 arrived at the pier of
the American Agricultural Chemical Co.,
Searsport, Friday and Saturday, al from
North Weymouth with fertilizer. :. The
steam lighter Atlas arrived at Cape Jelli-
son pier Saturday with hard pine from
Portland for the b. & A. railroad, and the
| steamer Hector arrived from Sabine Pass
via Philadelphia with sulphur from the
Great Northern Paper Co. The Hector
was formerly the Spanish steamer Pedro,
and was the first prize captured by the
American warshps in the Spanish-Ameri-
can war.... Sch. f. S. Wilson is loading
hay at Lewis wharf for Deer Isle. Sch
Harriet Rogers is loading telephone poles
at the railroad wharf for Rockland and viii
| bring back fOremast for Sch Sarah L.
Davis and keel timber to be used in re-
pairing sch. Melissa Trask, now on Gil
chrest'S marine railway.