The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-04-18

Miss Louise H. Ferguson, Miss Lulu
Hinckley, milliner, had remarkably
successful opening Saturday, April 18th.
and made fine showing of stylish
hats. Among the notable ones was one of
, white maine with pink satin binding
around the brim, ''collar" of plated pink
maline, an ostrich plum and handsome
pearl ornaments one in the modish "onion"
shades, with chrysanthemums and streamers
of shaded ribbon and an imported feather
almost covering the crown; handsome
large black Neapoliton hat with one of the
"willow" piumes so popular abroad, and
black, yellow and white buttercups, and
black velvet streamers a small lilac colored
| flower hat, with trimmings of shaded rib
| bon and viOlets and roses in lilac shades a.
white french chip in stylish shape, with a
| white bird and white ribbon trimmings
There were many others equally worthy of
mention, and the usual display of handsome
all-black hats and bOnnets
SHIPPING ITEMS. Sch Sarah L. Davis
| has discharged cargo of coal at Camden
and is loading stone for New York at
| Ioothackers Cove. Sch. Hattie C. Luce is
| chartered to load ice at ROckpOrt for St.
lhomas, ID. W. L., at $1,000, and return
| with coaco nuts from Anguadilla and
Mayaguez to Philadelphia at $1,000 :. The
| little lotion sch. Fannie May of Stockton
dragged her anchor in ROckland harbor
last week and went ashore on the rocks
| near the Five kilnS. The seams were omen.
ed on the port side and the bottom badly
| damaged. -. Searsport is preparing to cele-
! brate the Tooth anniversary of the launching
| OF its first vessel. The first vessel built in
Searsport was the schooner Friendship.
launched in 1907 OF the 2O2 vessels built
IN Searsport SO were briggs, a rig now nearly
| obsolete in American registry. Searsport
has built Is ships, but the favorite rig of
| the old-tlme shipmasters was the bark, of
| which SearSport contributed 49, The first
! ship was the b. Aymar of SIG tons, built in
1870; the first of more than 1000 tons was
the Oneida of 1,1S0 tons, built in 1866
While the last and largest was the William
ii. Conner, Laos tons, built in 1877. The
leak in the schooner Ella F. Crowell, which
sprung aleak in Long Island Sound during
viz S"iC VI APP IL y, lids luCI6dSeu since Sle
arrived at Vineyard Haven and the vessel
may tow to destination. The vessel is
bound from Elizabethport to Belfast with
fertilizer. Stmr. Hector arrived at Stock
ton, Sunday, with 1000 tons of sulphur from
New Orleans via Portland, where she dis
| charged 500 tons of her cargo, which is con-
signed to the Union Sulphur Co. The
Hector was Is days from New Orleans and
towed the schooner Harwood Palmer, also
loaded with sulphur. The Hector is one of
the largest craft ever in Stock ton harbor, is
$50 feet long and 3s feet beam, measures
1888 tons gross and 1851 tons net .... Capt.
Willard G. Dow of Bucksport, formerly of
the bark Rebecca Crowell, has been engaged
as master of the new auxiliary schooner
Northland, now at Mack's point. Sch.
Lizzie ID. Small sailed from Stockton Sun
day for New York with lumber from Stet-
son, Cutler d Co... Capt. jefferson S.
Smith, lately in command of the schooner J.
f. Whitcomb, which was wrecked near the
Virginia capes two weeks ago, has been
given command of the schooner Nellie
Grant, succeeding Capt. Ed. Dodge, who is
now in the Julia Frances.