The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-12-03

waldo, on Frl08y, december 1lCn, uHuer IAe
management of Ernest Townsend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur w. Morse entertained a
evening. Lobster la Newburg, stuffed olives,
fancy crackers, cookies, cake and coffee were
served and enjoyed by the merry party. The
evening was pleasantly passed.
Thanksgiving Day was rainy and foggy and
it was muddy under-foot, so that outdoor
amusements were out of the question. The
family dinner was the great feature of the
day. There were two games of basket ball IN
the Opera House-Belfast High and Colby Col
lege second team, won by Belfast Sc to 10; and
Belfast All-Stars and Morrill, the former win
ming, IS to 9. Union services were held IN the
Baptist church in the evening, all the local
clergymen participating. The sermon was by
Rev. Adolph Rossbach, pastor of the Unfair
ian church, whose text was Joy Cometh IN
the Morning" Rev. A. G. Roberts, the new
pastor of the Baptist church, led the opening
exercises; Rev. Albert E. Luce of the Metho-
dist church read the scripture; Rev. Ashley A.
Smith of the Universalist church offered the
prayer, and the offering and benediction were
made by Rev. David L. Wilson of the North
Congregational church. The Baptist choir
rendered special musical program, with solo
by Mrs. E. P. Frost A collection was taken
for the Girls Home.
A New GEOGRAPHY OF NEW ENGLAND. A
recently issued book from the press of Rand,
McNally & Company of local. as well as gen
eral, educational interest is "Dodge's Geog-
raphy of New England, by Lyman R. Allen,
Instructor in Geography at the State Normal
School, Providence, R. l., and Alonzo J. knowl-
ton, Superint endent of Schools, Belfast, Maine.
1t is intended for supplementary use with the
large geography in the higher grades, and is
divided into three parts: New England as a
Whole The Growth and Development of Cities,
and Statistics and Aids to Teachers. 1t is one
of series of geographical books issued by
Richard E. Dodge, Professor Of Geography at
the Teachers College of Columbia. Typo
graphically the book is exceptionally hand
some, and is profusely illustrated with map
studies in color and outline, etc, and fine half
tones depicting the cities, famous and historic
buildings and the industrial and commercial
pursuits of the citizens of New England. In
this work another of our citizens had a share
as two of the photographs used, one of Pitch
ers Pond and one of the shpyards in Belfast,
are the work of W. L. Hall. Mr.. Knowlton,
who has been engaged on the work for about
four years. furnished all the data and iilustra-
lions for the three northern States Maine,
New Hampshire and Vermont, and also wrote
an essay of 5000 words in connection with It,
The third division of the book contains eX-
haustive tables of statistics dealing with the
population of the leading towns and cities,
manufactures, agricultural products, etc. The
book will doubtless be widely adopted and is
certainly a credit to its authors and its pub
fishers.
SHIPPING ITEMS We printed in our marine
news department last week, under date of New
York. November GOTH what purported to be
report of the perilous voyage of schooner Me-
tinic to New York with two huge granite mono
iths, weighing AZ tons each, the trip taking
seven weeks. We learn, however, from the
Rockland Opinion that this is simply a case OF
New York yellow journalism. The Metn1c had
a prosperous trip of about ten days and her
cargo consisted of random stone and two uncut
pillars for building material weighing about
ten tons each . The schooner coming here to
be hauled out on Gilchrests marine railway TOR
repairs is the Mary Weaver, of 1877 tons net
built at Philadelphia in 1867 She is owned by
Norton & Hall of Portland and has been hauled
up at that port for the past year The log
off the coast last week is reported as the dens-
est ever known and many collisions are report
ed. Six ocean liners were detained OFF Boston
for fully "a hours and did not make port until
late on Thanksgiving day. Sch. Eliza Leven-
saller arrived last Friday from New York with
fertilizer for Jackson & Hall and discharged at
Lewis wharf 1t is reported that the Pendle-
ton Brothers have made a settlement with the
owners of the tug that got schooner Harold Z
Beecher ashore and that the Beecher will be
repaired on Gilchrest's marine railway. The
schooner has been laid up at this port for some
time awaiting a settlement of the case 1.-The
tug Britannia is coming here for quite extern
sive repairs at Gilchrests. She has the same
owners as the tug Stella recently rebuilt here
Jackson & Hall have one more cargoe OF
| fertilizer to arrive The schooners Margaret
M. Ford and Allen Green sailed from the Mt
Waldo wharf last week with cargoes of paving
blocks for New York city. The following
item appeared in the marine news of the New
York Herald under date of November 9th
at is reported that schr. Mary Weaver, which
has been hauled up here for about year, was
lowed to Belfast, repaired and put into COM
mission" This is decidedly premature, as the
Mary Weaver has not yet arrived here and it is
not expected to have her ready to go into COM
mission before next spring. The new five
masted schooner Fuller Palmer, Capt. Clark
sailed from Newport News Thursday with hei
maiden cargo of coal for Boston. She had 5O0t
tons. There were $40 guests on the six.
master Edmund B. Winslow when she was
launched at Bath. Capt. Shubal Z. Rich has
sold schooner Maria Webster to Portland par
ties and is negotiating for another vessel. The
Webster is SIS tons net and was built in Essex
Mass, in 1861 She has been engaged in bay
coasting out of this port for a long time, ant
when owned by Capt. Wallace w. Turner tool
many parties down the bay in the summer TO
fishing and blueberrying at Isle au Haut.-.
Two more of Capt. T. M. Nicholson's tishin.
vessels have gone to New oundland-schoone
M. B. Stetson, Capt. John Cross, cleared from