The Republican journal., 1909-07-22

at 2.30 p. m.
F. e. Smythe, contractor and builder, is t.
build garage for o. E. Frost at the latter's
residence on Northport avenue.
The Methodist Epworth League will have q
lawn party at the church grounds next Mon
day evening to which the public is invited.
Eben T. Hatch while cutting the grass on q
side hill near his home on Bayview street last
Monday, slipped and in falling struck his right
hand on the scythe, making an ugly cut and
severing an artery. He went to Dr. John,
Stevens who dressed the wound, taking five
stitches
Unclaimed letters remaining in the Belfast
post office for the week ending July Goth: Mrs.
John Cosgrove, Mrs. Winnifred Cunningham,
Miss Catherine Lamberton, Miss Myra Ordway,
Carlton Bailey, Willis E. Clark, John Flagg
Geo. E. French, DIR. E. L, Williams.
THE SITE FOR THE FERTILIZER PLANT. A
visit was paid last week to the proposed site
of the fertilizer plant just above the lower
bridge 1t has been surveyed for leveling, so
that there need be no delay in beginning
work, There is decided depression near the
center Of the lot and adjoining the railway em-
bankment, south of which is sandy knoll and
above is a mass of rock, not ledge, but loose
rock As the lot rises at the rear it is thought
it will furnish all the rock and earth needed
for grading, and the Maine Central can easily
make the necessary fill for spur track, A
wharf will have to be built some distance out,
but when it reaches the edge of the channel it
is said there is 10 to 20 feet depth of water.
The shore in front of the lower end of the
lot is rocky, but just above there are flats in
which it will be easy to drive piling. The
proposed widening of the draw in the lower
bridge will be an easy matter and not necesari-
ly expensive. There is substantial cobworll
on the western side, which need not be dis
turbed and on the other side there is piling
which can be easily removed to give the de-
sired width.
SHIPPING ITEMS The schooner Puritan re-
Gently discharged cargo of corn at the Spratt
& Greeley grist mill, Bar Harbor. This will
pass as a local item. The members of the
firm named are from Waldo county, and the
schooner was built for Cyrus ]. Hall to bring
stone from the quarry on Somes Sound to his
granite works in this city in what is now the
building of the Duplex Roller Bushing Co.
The Puritan is 100 tons net was built at Bel
fast in 1886, and was specially designed for
stone carrying. She proved to be fast sailer
even when loaded to her full capacity.....
Capt. Wallace W. Turner, who for many years
has been engaged in bay coasting out of this
port, commanding in turn many vessels, includ-
! Ing the New Era, Senator and Maria Webster,
recently exchanged the Mary J. Elliott, in which
he has sailed for several years, for the
schooner 1mogene of Al tons net built at
Essex, Mass. in 1916. " Schooner Sadie Will
colt has chartered to load paving at Frankfort
for New York. Pendleton Bros. have a
crew at work repairing schooner Etna. Her
after house was practically destroyed by fire
some weeks ago, as previously reported....
Schooner Sadie Corey is loading paving at
Mosquito Mountain for New York. The Ital-
ian bark Nostra Signora del Carmine arrived at
Stockton Friday to load box shocks for Paler-
mo from the T. J. Stewart Co., which will wind
up the shipments to Palermo for the year.
Another bark, the Oramaso, is now due at
Rockland with salt and after dscharging her
cargo will go to Stockton to load shocks,
which will go to Catania, the next port to Mes
sina on the island of Sicily. Most of the
shocks shipped from Maine go to Sicily, al
though one cargo has been shipped into the
bay of Naples from Stockton this spring, the
first in three years. Great interest is felt in
shipping circles in the announcement that 100,
900 tons of Maine ice will be sent to Philadel-
phia in the coal barges of the Philadelphia &
Reading railroad. Up to this time the coal
barges have returned light. The order of
100000 tons is the largest placed this year, and
the ice will be in part taken from the houses
at Portland. The effect of the placing of so
large an order for Maine ice to be taken in
barges will be bad for the Maine feet of big
schooners, because it will not only mean the
loss of large amount of freight, but posi-
BILE changing of the manner of carrying ice to
all coal ports. Sch James Slater was launch
ed Monday from Gilchrest's marine railway |
where she underwent extensive repairs. The
work of Tightening coal from the schooner
Alice E. Clark, hung up in Coombs' ledge, is
progressing. -. Sch Mary L. Crosby of Pen
dleton Bros feet was taken out On Gilchrest's |
marine railway Tuesday for calking and
minor repairs.
LIGHTNING STRIKES. Last Saturday after
noon black clouds were banked up in the north
east, but the wind here was westerly and it
was thought that the storm would pass by, but
after time two masses of clouds moving
rapidly alongto the west came together, and
then down came the rain accompanied by
thunder and lightning. hail fell with the
rain, but no damage of any kind was reported
In this city or immediate vicinity. Monday
afternoon a like storm was experienced, but
was more severe. The vivid flashes of the
lightning and the sharp detonations of the
thunder were terrifying to the nervous, and
every one felt that damage must have resulted.
The returns were not long in coming in, and it
was learned that the lightning had struck in
several places. Leslie P. Miller, whose build
lngs were struck by lightning and burned
about one year ago, was one of the sufferers |
The new barn he is building on Belmont aven-
ue was struck, but was not set on fire. Three
windows were torn out and some of the beams
were broken. The lightning also struck the
residence of B. B. Greenlaw, Northport aven-
lie Mrs Greenlaw and bor con William, x,ora