The Republican journal., 1908-04-16


Society,"" was presented before Aurora
Rebekah Lodge at its regular meeting
Tuesday evening. It was given under the
direction of Mrs. E. S. Bowker, and was a
great success and much enjoyed by the
lodge members. 1t was exceptionally well
cast, and each part was taken to perfection.
The cast was as follows:
Mrs. President, aged 40 dignifed,
Mrs. Annie Adams
Mrs. Knowall, excitable. aged 45.
Miss Bertha l. Bird
Mrs. Wise, aged 81, calm.
Mrs. E. L. Cook
Mrs. Short, aged 40 pert,
Mrs. J. K. bennett
MIS- o'ee'' AsS' '0' '0"nsfsef, MIS-. I. S. Bowker
Mrs. Brown. aged 30. very deaf.
Mrs. A. A. Roix
Miss Ida Ames
Mrs. Gossip. aged 45, talkative,
Mrs. William K. Keene
Mrs. NJ. c. Murch
Miss Chatter, aged %, up-to-date,
Miss Gertrude Patterson
Miss Flutter, aged 25. mischievous,
Miss Katherine Brier
Mrs. John Stephenson
Miss Pert, aged 35, disagreeable,
Mrs. Ralph D. SouthwOrth
Miss Small, aged %, very pretty,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. James H.
HoWes, Odd Fellows block, has just receiv-
ed some more new suits for Easter and they
will be on sale today All suits bought at
this store will be altered free Of charge
IF init in oil tbo nf-
ed lengths and colors. Mail orders filled
the same day they are received. ......A. d.
Chase & Son publish again very useful
receipt for filling for cracks in floors. If
you want floor coverings-carpets, rugs,
mattings, lineolums, oilclothS-you will find
| them at Chase's Corner. A third invoice of
fancy net lace waists in black and white
just received. Muslin and lace curtains,
draperies, portieres and couch covers.......
Dwight P. Palmer, Masonic Temple, has a
fine display of Easter goods, including the
spring style of Lamson & Hubbard hats,
neck wear, hosiery, gloves and shirts. The
Townsend Fotograf postals, new views, are
now on sale at the places advertised. The
Hutchins Brothers, Front street, Belfast,
,
and are prepared to fill promptly all orders
for monumental and cemetery work..
Fred A. johnson, Masonic Temple, an
nounces a sale of muslin underwear at
prices that must tempt buyers. He also
makes a special offer of Easter neckwear.
See prices quoted on these seasonable and
desirable goods. .....Dexter c. Davis and
NJ %ho ri
man shop on Washington street and are
prepared to do horse-shoeing and general
jobbing.. Poor & Son have mixed sweet
peas, quarter of pound for 10 cents, and
many beautiful colors separately at 5 to 10
cents an ounce. Also dwarf and tall mas
turtiums and a complete assortment of
flower and vegetable seeds. Easter post
cards, birthday cards, local news and the
Cute Kitty at The Fashion, High street,.
Mrs. C. S. Webber, Bell street, is having
her spring sale of suits, coats, skirts and
| dresses No suits Friday and Saturday
All new goods Tuesday
SHIPPING ITEMS. If the public have not
been treated to another fake the fate of the
missing ship Arthur Sewail has been
solved, and she was burned shortly after
rounding Cape Horn, her cargo of coal hav-
ing been fired by spontaneous combustion
This news was brought to Philadelphia
| April 9th by George Baker, a Hawaiian,
one of the crew and who with Charles Dix
on aud second mate Weinberg, are, so far
as known, the only survivors. Baker re-
| ports that the fire broke out the night of
Sept. 9Th, and that in lowering the boats the
starboard boat, in which were Weinberg,
Dixon and himself broke adrift, and that on
the third day they were picked up by Nor
| Wegian bark The Arthur SeWall was one
of the largest ships ever built in this coull-
try. She had four masts and was of 1913
tons register, 1886 feet in length, Is feet
beam and 25.6 feet deep. She was launched
at Bath, Me-, and was a sister ship of the
| Florence Leland discharged part of a cargo
of fertilizer at Portland last week and
brought the remainder to Stockton Springs.
.......Schooners Young Brothers and Harry
Messer loaded ice on the Kennebec the past
week, the first shipments from there this
season. They took about $500 tons. The
| ice was cut in the winter of 1867, and is re.
ported as in excellent condition. ....The tug
Bismarck made her first visit to this port
for the seaso nastl Friday. She towed the
schooner William Jones to Bangor. ..... Yes
sci owners are alive to the possibilities OF
placing heavy tonnage at profitable rates
when the Government on the first of May
asks bids for carrying 4,50O, 900 barrels of
cement to Colon for use in the construction
of the Panama Canal. There is any amount
of tonnage available. The first call for bids,
it is understood, will specify that the cement
shall be carried in American bottoms, but
it is feared that if the proposals are regard.
ed as too high the Government may invite
bids from the tonnage of the world, which
not only would hurt American tonnage, bu,
might also mean that the cement would be
bought in other countries. Foreign square
riggers for months have been coming from
abroad in ballast to secure cargoes of lum.
ber at Boston to carry to South America
and they are still coming, especially ships
of Norwegian register. They secure cargoes
ranging from 600, 600 feet to more than l ,O0O,-
600 feet of lumber and are paid freights av-
eraging, perhaps, So 80 a thousand. Some
of these ships have come distances of 10000
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