The Republican journal., 1909-10-14

banking rooms OF the waldo Trust C0mpan,
was taken down Monday but there is still
? much,work to do on the interior finish. Tn
business of the bank has been continued a
usual while the improvements were in prog
. ress.
PooRs MILLS. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Mer
RAM returned last Friday from visit in Vinal
haven. :. Mr.. Ernest Hirsh died quite sudden
ly last Saturday night. Mr.. J. A. Hartshor,
of Belmont and Mr. Pease Of Connecticut wer,
recent guests of Mr.. Hartshorn's daughter
Mrs. Delbert Robertson. :. Mr.. and Mrs. Morris
Wood have gone to Montville to spend few
days with Mr.. and Mrs Herbert jackson.
The club met last Thursday for their annual
meeting and new officers were chosen. The
next social will be on Tuesday October 18th.
APPLE SHIPMENTS. Charles w. Lancaster is
buying apples this season as usual and last
week shipped from Union 20 car loads for
Cincinnati. He finds a large yield of apples
within the city limits and estimates the crop in
the northwestern section at 1900 to 1000
barrels. The baldwin trees in particular have
outdone themselves this year and from three
will get rs barrels. Many have had their trees
break down from the weight of the fruit.
Capt. George T. Osborn had one of his trees
break down, after he had propped it up, as he
thought securely, and picked two barrels of
| apples from the broken limb. There is no lack
of buyers this season, and there is a market in
Belfast for all the apples that are brought in.
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store on Maine street for packing and storing.
This may be the last year when barrels will be
used to any extent for shipping apples. Boxes
are coming into general use. Mr.. George B.
Dyer of this city got the dimensions If an
Oregon box and had a number made at the
factory of James C. Durham, in which he ship
ped apples and pears to the Boston market.
The boxes hold one bushel, and the Pacific
coast growers get as much for box as our
growers do for barrel
THE STARS STAR SUPPER. The home of Mr..
and Mrs. Horace E. Mcdonald was the scene
of good time and fine supper last Friday
when the ladies of Primrose Chapter, No. 1872,
o. E. S. enjoyed their first social function and
also made the first payment on the new piano
in Masonic Hall with the proceeds of the even
ing, $14 The house was beautifully decorated
with autumn leaves, woodbine, sweet peas,
nasturtiums, dahlias, palms and potted plants
Candelabra, numerous candles and the timely
JACKIE lanterns furnished light. There were
four tables placarded Ginning Hail. Ladies
Lunch" Lunch Cafe" and "Den Hail. and the
guests were seated by drawing place cards.
The menu consisted of baked beans, brown
bread, cold ham, hot rolls, Salads tea and coffee,
doughnuts, pumpkin apple, custard and cream
pies. The table decorations were unique, con-
sisting of half pumpkins filled with small
fruits and vegetables. After supper short
musicale was enjoyed and the evening was
spent with bridge and the new and popular
game of "soak- charles" The committee IN
charge consisted of Mrs. Ralph H. Howes,
chairman, Mrs C. R. Coombs, Mrs. C. ]. Pattee,
Mrs. D. L. Wilson, Mrs R. D. Southworth, Mrs.
F. R. Woodcock and Mrs. S. A. Parker. The
stars first supper was a social and fnancia
success.
SOME SPUDS. Potato items are all the go
now. One thousand bushels were shipped one
day last week from Waldo station and reports
received from the county are that the potato
crop is large and the tubers of excellent quail
ity The weather the past week was very
favorable for harvesting. A. A. Howes & 20.
had on exhibition last week five potatoes raised
by William H. Wight of this city which weigh
ed in the aggregate nearly ID pounds. While
some of them were irregular in shape others
were compact and each one enough for din
ner for family. An exchange reports that
from one seed potato given him by friend in
Dover, Capt E. A Cass of Skowhegan has dug
80 large potatoes. The gross weight was 145
pounds. Fred c. Beal of East Dover raised
potato that weighed three pounds. From six
hills Dennis Pike of Norway got three 1O-quart
pals full of good marketable size Green Noun
tain potatoes, besides more or less small ones
and one potato of good oval smooth shape, no
punches or protuberances,, weighed Ii lbs. 3
ozs One thousand bags went out to the Hay
ford farm last week in which to pack potatoes
Mr.. Ralph Hayford's crop is estimated at 1000
bushels While buyers up the line have been
paying AS cents a bushel, so cents has been
paid in Belfast and there has been market
for all that offered. E. M. Knowlton, post
office square, began buying early in the season,
and R. P Coombs has been large buyer.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Mention was made last
week of the filing of libels against eight YES
sells of the fleet of the Gilbert Transportation
Co., of Groton, Conn. The company has since
gone into the hands of receiver The float
ing indebtedness is stated as $150,O00, and the
bonded indebtedness as $685. 600. The assets
are not scheduled. The company employs a
line of schooners and other craft and is capt.
talized for $S6OOOO 1t is under contract under
forfeiture of the sum of 10000, to supply
stone for the new Cape Cod canal =. Among
the schooners libeled last week was the ]. ".
Wellington The libel was brought by James
E. Brennan of St. George in behalf of E. W..
Brown Co. owners of the motor boat Verona,
for services in pulling the craft, laden with
lumber from Bangor bound westward, from a
reef outside Port Clyde during recent storm.
The schooner was taken to Port Clyde and
docked for repairs and the libel was brought
on claim for salvage. The first launching
in Ellsworth since the schooner Harry w.
Haynes slipped from the ways nineteen years
ago, took place October End, when the schooner
Nellie, of 50 tons, built by Charles H. Curtis,