Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-08
Sheriff Carleton Takes Two
Prisoners to Bangor
Trout For Swan Lake---An En-.
gagement Is Announced.
Fire Drill at High SchooI-..BasebalI
notes...Pers0naIs.

Belfast Me, May 7--(SpeciaD.-
Sheriff Amos F. Carleton took the two
prisoners, Andrew Berry and Herbert
HAYES, who were sentenced to the Ban
gor Jail at the last term Of the supreme
judicial court, to Bangor day or two
ago, returning last night to this city.
The men in question were indicted by
the grand jury for breaking and enter
ing and larceny of property from the
summer cottages at Qunati, owned by
Belfast men. They pleaded guilty ana
were sentenced to 16 and II months
respectively in the Bangor Jail, where
they will be obliged to labor. There
were two others implicated. Zcthan
Berry, an old man and relative of the
others, whose case was moi pressed as
it was found that he really had no d.
rect evidence against him. Granville
Richards, the other, was sentenced to
l6 months in Bangor at hard labor, but
because of a lame arm and his inability
to work. his sentence was changed and
he was remanded to the Belfast JAIL
where he will serve his time. He will be
| obliged to work but it will be Of kind
with which his lameness will not inter-
| fore.
| Fifty thousand brook trout have re-
| Gently been placed in Swan lake. The
pend is rapidly becoming a popular
! fishing ground and the sports come
from far and near to fish.
A meeting of the Waldo County
Hospital Incorporation was held Tues
| day afternoon at the office of Dunton
& Morse and the following directors
were elected: For three years, w. r.
Swan, G. o. Poor and r. D. South
worth; for two years, Fred W. Poto.
Fred A. Johnson and Arthur 1litchie.
The directors holding over are L. 7.
Shales, r. B. Dinsmore and j. z. Dur
ham. The hospital is in a fiourishing
condition and an institution of which
the city is very proud.
The Acme Concert Co., composed of
all Belfast talent, gave a concert in
| Brewer Tuesday night under the aus
pices Of the Baptist church and are
much pleased with their reception
there The company has had very
| successful season, which being its first
is highly gratifying.
| Wilbur Grecnlaw is quito iii at his
| home in Northport with typhoid fever.
Bond Elkins, who was placed under
bonds at the last session of the SUI
prcme court, for assaulting a man with
a knife at dance in East Belfast the
first of March, has secured bondsmen
for $50 and was liberated from the
county Jail this week.
Sheriff Carleton says that his family
is the smallest at present that it has
been for some time. there being but
six inmates now in the institution ION
the hill"
| The baseball game on Saturday be-
tween the Rockland High and the
Young Mems Association will call out a
big crowd. for both teams want the
game badly and will work hard To
get it,
The High school will play in Vinal-
haven Saturday with the High school
of that town. Last Saturday the Vinal-
| haven lads were beaten in Rockland by
| the Kockland High by a close score
and it will be interesting to watch the
two Belfast teams meet Vinalhaven
and Rockland next Saturday. Belfast
has two fast teams and expects to
q
The engagement has been announced
of Miss Alice Hinckley and David n.
Porter Miss Hnckley is the daughter
of Rev. and Mrs. G. w. Hinckley Of
Good Will Farm, and well known in
this city. MIR. Porter has won consid-
cradle fame as the first Maine student
to win Cecil Rhodes scholarship to
Oxford University, England. He is also
graduate of Bowdoin College and is
now national Y. NJ. c. A. secretary of
High and Prep. schools. The wedding
will take place in June.
A fire drill has been instituted within
the last few days in the High school
building. A gong was installed there q
few days ago and when the alarm was
given yesterday the students passed
out in just one minute. The building is
occupied by the High school and the
Fifth and Sixth grades.A gong is also
to be placed in The Grammar school
building and drill will be practiceG
daily The fire escape which is to be
placed on the High school building will
add materially to the safety of the
building in case of fire. The contract
for the work has not yet been awarded
but it will be given to one of two firms
in Detroit. Mich the Phoenix Wire Co,
and the E. T. Barnum Co.
Freeze Quick is the name of the
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