The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-06-04

The Pvthian Sisters will have drama
after the regular meeting Friday evening
June 9TH All members are cordlahy IN
vited to attend. No fee will be charged.
The semi-annual State tax on savings
banks, trust and banking companies ana
loan and building operations mas been as
sessed, The tax of the Belfast Savings
Bank is s4,123. 90, and of the Waldo Trust
Company, $1,O67.s3. Stockton Trust Co.,
$2649.
Mrs. E. P. Frost has heard from the D.
A. R. headquarters in Washington that the
chapter papers sent last month had been
verified and approved. Word came indi-
rectly, also, that they were unusually salts
factory, and that the Belfast chapter might
be formally organized after June 3rd.
Mrs. Charles Creighton of Thomaston,
State Regent, used her influence to
have the papers acted on at once. Those
who sent their papers in last month through
Mrs. Frost are therefore requested to meet
at her home next Saturday afternoon at 8
O'Clock to take the necessary steps toward
organization. The charter members of the
chapter are: Bertha l. Bird, Mary II. Bird,
Lucy A. Cochran, Edith S. Ferguson, Eve
Ign E. Frost, ENERGY CHM, Isabel CHM,
Florence M. Hill, Pearl K. Hills, Ada ii.
Kimball, Florence NJ. Kimball, Winnifred
II. Kimball, Mildred E. Mitchell, Mar
guerite D. Pilsbury, Emma b. Pitcher,
Clara T. Sibley, Amy E. Stoddard, Julia NJ
S. Stoddard, Georgiana c. futile. Their
national numbers range from 67,O1S to 81
034
Hon. VIM. T. HAINEs IN BELFAST. Hon
VIM. 7. Hanes of Waterville, candidate for
the Republican gubernatorial nomination,
was the guest Wednesday evening, May
9th. of the Young Mems Republican Club
at their rooms in Masonic Temple. Mr..
Haines is no stranger in Waldo county and
he met many old friends and made many
new ones by the manly, clean cut remarks
with which he favored his hearers, and
which he called "smoke talk" rather than
formal address. He was introduced to
the club by its President, James Fl. Howes,
and spoke for about an hour. He thanked
the Republicans of Belfast for their loyal
support of his candidacy and expressed his
pleasure at meeting them. He reviewed
what had been done under Republican rule
in Maine in the past 40 years, presenting
convincing array of facts and figures in sup
port of his statements. His remarks on the
State tax, showing how the revenue of the
State is received and how expended, were
both interesting and instructive and he de-
clared himself in favor now, as he has al
ways been, of genuine, honest tax reform.
AS to resubmission he said that his position
on this question, as on some others, had
been greatly misrepresented by his oppo-
nentS He declared that at all times and in
all places he had sustained the prohibitory
law, and he wanted the question resubmt-
ted so that the present law may be sustain
ed and re-atfirmed. From discussing the
matter of the taxation of wild lands Mr..
Hanes took up the question of forest pres
ervaton as a means of conserving Names
water power, an important factor in the
future development of the State. At the
close of his remarks, which were listened
to with marked attention and frequently
punctuated with applause, Mr.. 0. E. Frost
asked few leading questions, which Mr.
Haines promptly and satisfactorily an
swered The handsome rooms of the club
were well filled and this opening meeting
was an unqualified success in every respect.
The regular meetings of the club are on
Friday evenings.