The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-12-10
THE NEWS OF BELFAST.

Wilmer J. Dorman, treasurer of the Belfast
Savings Bank has completed his collection of
portraits of the men actively identified with
that bank, having received one of the late
Edward johnson. 1t is a particularly fine
picture and speaking likeness. The pictures
have been hung on the wall in the directors
room.
Hudson D. Ames, who recently went to En-
poria, Fla, to take charge of his orange grove,
writes that the trees are looking finely, and
that the fruit is rapidly increasing in quality
as the season advances. He has shipped thus
far IS boxes to the Rockland Produce Co.,
alone. His family has settled down to house
keeping there and is prepared to enjoy pleas
ant season in the land of fruit flowers and
feas. The oranges arrived this morning and
the Produce Co., pronounce them particularly
nice fruit-Rockland Courier-Gazette.
EDMINsTER IN TROUBLE AGAIN. A Hart
ford, Conn, dispatch of December TIN in the
Boston Globe says that after an all day session
of the police court of that city nine men "were
given various sentences as the result of the
sensational testimony of three young girls
which rivalled that adduced in the Thaw muir
der trial in its astounding features" The dis
patch says further: Though the girls testi-
mony was just enough lacking in stability and
directness to make out good cases against
any one but Rivers, Judge Clark fined Winfield
S. Edminster formerly of Maine and Boston,
800 as proprietor of the Hartford hotel, and
his night clerk, John Reed, $50. Edminster
swore he had never been arrested before, but
the police confronted him with his record in
Maine, where they showed he was arrested for
selling liquor"
A NEW "MUM," The BELFAST. w. E. Ham
ilton, the Belfast florist, has placed upon the
market, and will send today to the flower dis
plays in Boston, New York and Philadelphia,
his new chrysanthemum, the Belfast. 1t is
his own production from the seed, a cross be-
tween the Chadwick and the Western King,
and floral specialists say there is nothing like
it on the market. The display in his green
house is beautiful. About 200 have been cut
and the beds are now literally white with
bloom. The tints resemble those of the May
flower but vary little from a lined edge of
deep cerise on the inner side of the curved
petal, giving the perfect flower blush tint.
They are late in poisoning and Mr.. Hamilton
expects to have them in stock all winter and
their keeping qualities of the best. Com
mercially grown the flowers are from 8 to IL
inches in diameter. The plants will be placed
on the market in the spring. The city is to be
congratulated on having this beautiful flower
bear its name.
MONDAYS STORM. Last sunday the mercury
dropped to Zero but it moderated at night and
Monday morning snow storm set in, which
soon turned to rain. The wind was southeast
and blowing gale and at noon the rain was
coming down in torrents, and the streets were
water courses There was very little shipping
in the harbor exposed to the storm and no
damage resulted. Schooner Charleston, re-
Gently bought by Capt. s. c. Rich, dragged her
anchors, but brought up in the upper harbor
Schooner Harold c. Beecher, in the dock above
the steamboat wharf, drove ahead little but
was held by her stern fasts. sloop owned
bv David Ladd went ashore at this end OF the
lower bridge but was not injured. The steamer
Stockton came down from Bucksport and the
steamers Silver Star and Golden Rod from
across the bay, but remained here until night
There were eight steamers at the Maine Cen
trail wharf and Lewis wharf-steamers Ire
mont, Gardner, Castine, Stockton, Golden Rod
and Silver Star, and the tugs Britannia and
Charlie Lawrence. The mo school signal was
piyen at noon and there was no afternoon ses-
sion of the public schools.