The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-05-07
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The J. KS enjoyed their first evening
sewing meeting for some weeks at the
home of Miss Helen Bird. Congress, street,
Monday. Next Tuesday evening the club
will be entertained by Miss Amy E. Stod-
dard at her Church street home.
THE S9TH ANNIVERSARY OF ODD FEEL.
LowsHIP. This anniversary was very sue,
cessfully and appropriately observed in the
Odd Fellows lodge room, Odd Fellows
block, Wednesday evening, April 29th, by
members Of the order and invited guests
The affair was in charge of the following
committee of arrangements: Lewis j. San.
born, chairman; Ii. d. Clough, Mrs. J. K.
bennett, Mrs. E. L. Cook A. j. Clary, Mrs.
M. c. Murch, Mrs. John A. Fogg. The
program included vocal and instrumental
music by local talent, whu furnished a
musical treat, and every number was
heartily encored. At the close of the
entertainment many availed them
selves of the opportunity to exchange
greetings with Past Grand Charles E. Jack
son of Portland and congratulate him on
gram was as follows:
Opening, Mr.. A. J. Fernald, Noble Grand
Reading Anniversary Proclamation,
Miss Bertha l. Bird, Secretary
Prayer, Rev. A. A. Smith, Chaplain
Baritone Solo, The Holy City, Adams
Mr.. John Parker
Piano Solo, Valse Caprice, Newland
Miss A. Louise bennett
Address,
The Birth of American Odd Fellowship
MIR. Charles E. Jackson, Past Grand
Soprano Solo, Lightly Fly, Arditi
Mrs. f. P. Frost
Saxophone Solo, Cavatina, "La Favorite"
Mccoy
Mr.. j. Lee Patterson
Reading, The Fall of the Pemberton Mill,
Miss Irene Sibley
COrnet Solo, Prismatic Polka, RollosOn
Miss Cecil Littlefield
Duet, If Fiial Love, ''Il Trovatore" Verdi
Mrs. F. P. Frost and Mrs. E. S. Pitcher
Trombone Solo, The Nightingale's Song,
MIR. H. A. Drinkwater
Quartette, The Bells of Shandon, Nevin
Messrs. Morse, Titherington,
STEAMER NOTES. Charles c. Brown,
formerly general passenger agent OF the
Bangor & Aroostook railroad and later
holding the same position with the Console
dated Steamship lines, has been made gener
al passenger agent of the Eastern Steam
ship Co. to succeed A. Ii. Hanscom, who
has held that position for a long time and
who has now been assigned to other duties.
Mr.. Browns appointment took effect May
1st..... Beginning Monday, May 4th, the
boats of the Eastern Steamship Co. on the
Bangor division will make six trips per
week Boats leave Belfast for Boston
every day except Sunday, and for Bangor
and up river ports every day except Mon
day.......The Maine Coast Transportation
Co., which has had temporary quarters on
Central wharf, Portland, has secured lease
on Custom house wharf and will move to
their new quarters as soon as accommoda-
tions are made. This company is engaged
in doing freight business between Bos-
ton, Portland, Stockton Springs and other
points in eastern Maine, having built up a
profitable business between these pOrts....
The steamer Percy ", which sank at Surry
a few weeks ago, has been raised and is on
the marine railway at Ellsworth for repairs.
1.-The Bath Anvil hears on excellent au-
thority that the fight between the CONSOLE
dated lines and the steamers controlled by
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad has progressed to such a point that
the railroad is contemplating establishing
new steamship line between Boston and
Maine port in competition with the Eastern,
and that the New Haven steamers will
make their first stop in Maine at Boothbay
Harbor. .. Captain Isaac E. Archibald, for
merly of Rockland, and one of the best
known steamboat captains on the Maine
coast, has been appointed eastern manager
of the Maine Transportation Company.....
It has been announced in Boston, unofficial
Iy, that Fosters wharf, which has been used
for generations as the berthing place of the
Bangor and Boston steamers, is to be given
up altogether by the Eastern Steamship
Company. The plan in contemplation pro-
vides for the making of India wharf, now
used by the Metropolitan Steamship Com
pany, the terminal of all the Bangor, Port
land and Kennebec boats, and boats on the
division running to St. John.
The Metropolitan line freighters, and also
the turbine fiiers, Harvard and Yale, will
be moved up to Union wharf.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Over twenty-five YES
sells were laying idle at anchor in Portland
harbor last week. Several of them had
been in port number of weeks, and few
of the vessels bringing coal have charters
for any length of time. The four-masted
sch. Geneva which cleared from Boston
April 30th for Sierra Leone and other Afri-
can ports had cargo that would stock
variety store. 1t included 5000 cases of
petroleum, 1872 packages of tobacco, 1890
barrels of -four, 20 barrels of bread, boxes
of watches, boxes of patent medicine, %
packages of furniture, "a packages of lamp
goods, "a cases of canned fruit, cases of
sewing machines, "a oars, 2 boxes Of clocks,
100 packages of trunks, boxes of scales,
5000 tin cans and 277,219 feet of lumber. -.
Steamer Silver Star was launched from
Gilchrest's marine railway, April Doth and
the Babbidge pile driver and sch. Nelson Y.
Mcfarland were taken on, both to be re-
calked. The schooner halls from Castine,
is SO tons net. and was builttat Essex, Mass,
in 1881. Sch. Harriet C. Whitehead, Capt.
Batchelder, is loading paving at Franklin
for New York. Among recent charters
are the following: sch. j. q. Straw bridge,