The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-12-03
The Improvement Society will meet with
Miss Maude E. Barker next Monday at 2.ao

The Improvement Society will meet with
Miss Maude E. Barker next Monday at 2.3O
p. m.
THANKSGIVING MENU. Captain George T.
Osborne, who is at the Portsmouth NAVY
Yard, has sent us the menu for the Thanksgiv-
ing dinner at the U. S. Naval Prison. 1t has
very handsome cover embossed in colors
showing the American eagle, the Stars and
Stripes, two cornucopias and noble looking
turkey: The menu was as follows:
Roast Turkey Oyster Dressing
Cranberry Sauce June Peas
Candied Sweet Potatoes Celery
Giblet Gravy
Pound Cake Apple Pie
Oranges Bananas Apples Mixed Nuts
Coffee Tea
Cigars
A new corporation was organized at the
Der LIST to be known as the Read Garage &
Machine Co. The principal place of business
will be Belfast. The purpose of the company
is to erect and operate garage and machine
works and to manufacture, repair, buy, sell, let
and operate automobiles, machines, machinery
of all kinds, and to buy, sell and lease all the
real estate and personal property which may
be necessary for the business. The capital
stock is $4,000, par value of share $780, These
officers have been elected: President, Clarence
E. Read; Treasurer, Horace Chenery; Clerk
Ralph l. Morse; Directors, Horace Chenery,
Clarence f. Read and Ralph l. Morse. The
president is an expert machinist and junior
partner in the Read Machine Works, which for
some time has conducted garage in connec-
ton with their other business
NEW WALDO COUNTY INDUSTRY In con-
nection with his dairy farm in Center Belmont
Mr.. Horace Chenery has begun the making OF
sausage and intends utilizing every part OF the
hog when all his plans are carried out. he
even hopes to utilize the squeal. AT present
he is making only sausages. They Will De
handled in this city by Fogg q Coomps' VINO
will have them sale at their market every
Thursday morning. The first lot, received last
week. were quickly sold. Mr.. Chenery mas
erected a sanitary Slaughter house, with al
the Ip-to-date conveniences and appointments
and with an ample supply of both not ana eoio
water. The piggery is also constructed OH ','e
most approved methods and the pigs nave liie
same care as his cows. Milk for the pigs IS
mined from the dairy. The sausage are put III
oiled paper in one-pound boxes aid ID bags
and in their preparation the same care Is use"
bUtt6r,
/ TIVE d A. r. The special Thanksgiving
meeting of John Cochran Chapter, ID. "A. H.
was held with Mrs. E. S. Pitcher Friday after
MON November 9th The subject OF the al
ternoon was "The Pilgrims, and the ron gan
was answered by the names OF the s1ghefs Vi
tho MavAower compact. Mrs. Georglanna Ut
tie read Whittiers THE MayHoWers' anu Nilss
Mile Mitchell read 1.-The Pilgrim fathefs' py
1ob,, piernont. Miss Bertha |. Bird had the
naper of the afternoon on women VI ei'e
Ma,,eo,,,or,, and if was very fine one The
paper will be published In tull IN heA' wen .
issue of The journal. Miss Bird also resio 'iie
description of the first Thanksgiving from Jane
Austin's eStandish of Standlsh i'ght re-
/ freshroents were served, and the meetlng Was
an especially enjoyable one In the recently
Issued report of the Maine State Council, u
A % are the lists of State D. A. r. commit
taas for 1908 and 1909. Mrs E. P. Frost is on
the Continental Hall committee, MISS AMY L.
| Stoddard is on the committees on fatrlotie
Educat;on and on The Magazine, and Mrs. Ed
ward S;blev is on the committee on Markers
for Graves of Revolutionary Soldiers ana 1or
locating and marking all Historic Spots IN the
State of Maine.
! MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE? Some seven
or eight weeks ago woman giving her name
as Miss Julia Connolly came here from Boston
to take the place of pastry cook IN Charles
C,connalrs restaurant She brought large
and very heavy trunk with her and rented a
room of Mrs C.. A. Young on Bridge street.
! She worked week in the restaurant and then,
not proving satisfactory Mr. OConneH dls-
CHARGED her She then got position as COOK
in the restaurant of Berry d Worthlng but al
+o,. 1,,o,l;no a week there left October 2lst for
Roston. leaving her trunk in Mrs Young
care. saying she would send for 1t "heh she
GOT located and asking to have any 'et,ers
that came held until shs sent her adoisss'
Two letters came for Miss Connolly few days
after she had left and on one of them was
written: "Return if not called for in B days to
Pete Fortune, Tyler street, Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Young kept the letters for a few days
and then sent them to Boston. They were re-
turned in an envelope on which was written;
Opened by mistake by Peter Fortune sol
Col. Ave" Mrs Young wrote to the chief OF
police in Boston and in replying ne advised
her to consult council here as the matter IN It's
nresent state was not in his jurisdiction. The
ra++er is now in the hands Of local authorities.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. M. P. Woodcock e.
Son have this year one of the largest and best
selected stocks of holiday goods they have
ever shown in addition to their regular stock
! .A.,5,rJ ,rd uift hooks D0pular novels and