The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-03-28

serve IdtrlotS uay, April l9tn, Dy CLOSING
the stores and other business houses. Pa
triots day takes the place of Fast day, which
has been abolished by the Legislature. A
petition to that effect will be circulated
during the week
The members of Seaside Chautauqua Cir
Gle will meet Monday afternoon, April 1St,
/ with Mrs. E. p. Frost, No. ~ High street.
The lesson will be from chapter eighteen of
Literary Leaders" and chapters four and
/ five from" Rational Living" Magazine topic,
Oxfordshire and Oxford" Quotations from
Mathew Arnolds writings.
The school committee met and organized
last Monday evening. ChaS. 5. Bickford
was elected chairman and the standing COM
mittees were appointed. Miss Annie l..
Barr's resignation as assistant in the High
school was accepted and Miss Florence E.
Dunton, Mt. Holyoke, 'O6, was elected to
complete the school year.
The last meeting of the S. G. and T. B.
whist clubs was held with the Misses Kim
ball, Waldo avenue, recently. Sandwiches
and coffee were served during the evening,
and the first prizes We're awarded to Miss
Florence Kimball and Fred Tibbetts. The
boobies were taken by Miss Gladys Carter
and Ivan Kimball.
SHIPPING ITEMS Sch. Lizzie D. Small,
which has been on Gilchrest's marine rail-
way all winter, was launched last Thurs
/ day after receiving extensive repairs She
is now practically as good as new. The
same afternoon sch. George Nebinger was
| hauled out and will have a thorough over
hauling. IS Sch. Maria Webster, Capt. Rich
sailed March Dist for Bar Harbor with hay
from the Belfast Fuel & Hay Co.. Sch. J .
! W. Baano, of the Gilbert Transportation
| Company, which has been rebuilt at Mystic,
Conn, had her name changed last week
to Gracebelle Taylor This schooner for
merly hailed from Thomaston, Me-, and was
built at st. George, Me, in 1894. Sch. S.
j. Lindsey has loaded cord wood at the
railway wharf for c. E. Bicknell, Rockiand.
....Sch. PemaQuid, owned by {. A. Mcken-
ney of Wnterp0rt, which sank several
weeks ago at the railroad wharf, Rockland,
with cargo of grain on board, has been
pumped out and will 60 on the south marine
railway for repairs In a severe storm she
pounded against the wharf and stove hole
in her ide.......Sch. Flora Condor, which
wintered at Cape Jelison, has chartered to
load spruce lumber there for New York at
IS.
A MILITARY BALL. Canton Palas, p.
NJ, l. O. o. F., is making preparations for
a grand military ball to be given in the Bel
fast Opera House Tuesday evening, April
2nd. and which will be the leading society
event of the season. The ball will open
with the arrival in the hall of Canton Pal
las in full uniform, having under escort
Brigadier Genenal Levi Nj Poor of Augusta
and his staff. Then will come Canton Hall
fax of Waterville under command of Col j.
l.. Merrick of Naterville. Following their
arrival there will be a concert of three
numbers by Reyes orchestra, which with
seven pieces will furnish dance music
Canton Halifax, one of the best in point of
work in the State, will give a drill, and then
will follow the grand march and the ball.
The officers of Canton Palas are as follows
Captain, E. F. Littlefeld; Lieutenant,
Austin j. Fernald; ensign, Austin J..
Jewett clerk, Charles II. Sargent account
ant, John S. Davidson; picket, Harvey II.
Gray; sentinel, Ira I. Clough; standard
bearer, Charles NJ. Perkins. The reception
| committee consists of Col. Frank A. Folett
Major Elmer Small, Capt. Orrin j. Dickey,
Past Captains, Fred V. Cottrell, l. NJ. Cot
trell, Lendal T. Shales and D. F. Stephen
| son. The floor will be under the direction
Major Ralph II. Howes as floor marshal,
! Past Captains Eugene L. Cook and Ira T.
| Clough, with the following chevaliers as
aids: John A. Fogg, Robert A Curtis, L.
II. Hart, NJ. W. WEIGH, W. K. Whitehead,
c. W. Follett, Henry w. Mariner, Herbert
\. Black, Clarence Hall and Peter F.
WEIGH. The visiting delegations will al
rive on the train Friday evening at six
O'Clock. The Belfast Band has been engag-
ed to act as an escort to Canton PaIlas and
will accompanying Cantons from Odd Eel
! lows hall to the depot, returning with the
visiting delegations.
STEAMER NOTES. The City of Bangor
arrived here about a. IN. last Thursday
She was delayed in leaving Boston by the
storm until Wednesday morning and then
made a harbor at Portland. She left on the
return in the afternoon with large freight
clearing up the accumulation at this land
ing. Steamer Norumbega of the Maine
Central line is on the ways at the South
marine railway, Rockland, for general
+ overhauing, and will have new propellers.
tail shaft, etc. Steamer James T. Morse
of the Eastern Steamship Co. has been
hauled out on the railway of the Camden
Yacht Building and Railway Company for
painting ..... The steamer Ruth, which
has been laid up at the railroad wharf all
winter, had new smokestack put in last
Thursday The fremont, Captain Arev.
| went to Bucksport, March 10Th, to take the
Castine Normal students to Castine. but the
storm was so severe in the afternoon that
he did not make the trip and the rs students
remained in Bucksport over night. They
were taken to Castine Wednesday morning
and the fremont returned here Thursday
she made trip to Brooksville. Cant
Isaac E. Archibald will begin running his
steamer, the May Archer, on the Georges
river about the first of May. Steamer
fremont toWed steamer Ruth to Camden
Saturday. The latter is to 90 on the
marine railway there as Gilobrast,s ,,;,