The Republican journal., 1908-01-23

A coming social event is the concert and
ball Of Washington Hose Co.. Thursday
evening. Jan. 30th.
The Trinity Reformed church Ladies'
Aid will meet with Mrs. e. o. Pendleton
this, Thursday afternoon.
There will be a meeting of the Woman's
Hospital Aid with Mrs. T. B. Dinsmore
tomorrow, Friday, afternoon at 2.30 O'Clock.
The rummage sale by the ladies of the
Methodist society is still in progress at 1875
Main street, opposite the post office.
The Universalist Social Aid will meet
with Mrs. Fred S. jackson, Church street,
this, Thursday, afternoon at 230 O'Clock.
AT the last meeting of Thos. Fl. Marshall
Post the time for the meetings was changed
to the first and third Tuesdays of each
month at Up. m.
Arrangements are well in hand for a
song recital to be given at an early date
under the auspices of the Improvement
Society. 1t will be novel and rare treat
to all music lovers. Full particulars will be
given next week.
The Unity Club met at the Unitarian
parsonage last Tuesday evening. Miss
Mildred Slater read an interesting paper on
"Concord-One Little:Town and its Great
ness" and this was followed by discus
sion on The Trancedentalist and the Over
soul, led by the president, Rev. Adolph
Rossbach. The next meeting of the club
will be on Feb. 4th.
The first tent of the smelt fishing colony
morning, Jan. Doth. Like all pioneers in a
new and untried country this first settler
has gone in for the rugged and substantial
instead of the beautiful and picturesque,
and has covered the wilderness of his tent
with dull weather-bea brown paint. 1t
is hoped that smelts have not the "artistic
eye" and that his fisherman's luck may not
desert him.
Starl Crowley, who left Toledo, Ohio, at
10 a. M, Oct. Is, 1907, to walk around the
United States, arrived in Belfast yesterday,
and will leave this morning. To accom-
plish the task he has undertaken he must
travel 1900 miles and if he completes
his journey in two years and eight months
he is to receive $1,000 from three of the
Toledo newspapers. The distance he travels
is registered by a pedOmeter. He called at
the post Office and had the post mark
stamped in the book he carries, and made a
Gall at The journal office.
The Acme Concert Company gave con-
cert in Freedom Wednesday evening, Jan.
18th, under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid
Society of the Union church. The concert
was largely attended and the audience were
loath ID leave at the close of the program.
The company has been engaged to furnish
an afternoon and evening program for the
Food Fair to be held in Rockland the week
beginning February 10th. The Acme Con
cert Company, which is composed of local
artists, has been very successful since It's
first appearance here last fall and is having
many engagements.
LIGHT WANTED. At the January meet
passed that the committee on lights be in
structed to demand of the Belfast Gas &
Electric Co. that all street arc lamps shall
produce approximately 1000 candle power,
the same to be determined by test at the
pleasure of the committee. 1t may fairly
has had the light it pays for. Often these
street arc lights do not appeo to have more
than 20 candle power and hardly serve to
make darkness visible. The police are said
to have reported 112 of these lights out dur
ing the month of December. The night OF
Jan. 7th they were all out, and the city
was in total darkness. The wind was blow
ing gale, the rain was coming down in
torrents and the streets and walks were
slippery. The city could not have been
deprived of light under worse conditions
| and that there were no serious accidents If
miracle The rate charged for gas, 49, &c
per thousand feet, is the largest in this
| country-some say in the world. At times
| it has been so bad that it has caused con-
sumers great inconvenience and expense
The unpurified gas has forced its way
through the fixtures and defed all efforts
to remedy it. From time to time announce
ment has been made through the news.
papers of improvements soon to be made il
the lighting service, but they have not ma
| terialized to any great extent, and the in
| vestgation ordered by the city government
was certainly called for and should be
made