The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-04-08

Sch. Frank E. Swain will be launched from
Beans yard, Camden, today. High tide about
l o'clock
A meeting will be held this week to elect a
new manager of the Young Mems Association
baseball team, to succeed Benz. H. Mosher, re-
signed. Several games are already scheduled
and it is desired to open the season early In
fact, the Belfast grounds are already in condi-
! ton.
Mrs. Flora lie Grande, 1921 Gilpin street,
Denver, Colorado, has written the mayor of
Portland asking him to "try and find the family
of Nichols She says: "My father died in 1895
in Decatur, Texas, and l was raised in Dallas,
Texas. l am 26 years old and am married, and
am looking at the pictures of papa left me,
and l see his mother lived in Portland, Me-, and
a brother. l don't know any of their given
names, but one brother, George. Papas name
was Charles Edward" There are many of the
name in this vicinity, and perhaps some one of
our readers may be able to give Mrs. LIE Grande
the desired information.
THE RIVERS OPEN despatch from Bangor
started Wednesday and moved down river, op-
ening the port to navigation but this was an
April Fool. travelling man who came down
river Friday morning said that the Penobscot
was not then open to navigation. That after
noon, however, the ice went out. The river
closed to Navigation December 10, 1908. The
steamer Bay State Of the Eastern Steamship
Co. went up-river last Saturday arriving at
Bangor at 81 p. NJ. April will go down in
history as the date when the Kennebec river
was clear of ice in the spring of 1909. The
first craft to make the trip from Boothbay to
Gardiner was the tug Kapella, which came up
Sunday under the command of Capt Andrew
Wyman.
A MAY FESTIVAL. The Guild of the North
Congregational church met with Miss l.. Grace
Chadwick, Northport avenue. Monday, and
spent busy evening working on the decora
tons for the May Festival, which is to be held
in Memorial Hall May 3rd. The committee re-
ported that Miss Lillian Morey of Searsport
had kindly consented to undertake the direc-
ton of the May pole dance in which TWENTY
five little children will participate Miss
many demands upon her time, and Belfast is
very fortunate in securing her valuable SER
vices. The baby show will be feature of the
afternoon that will draw many, and Miss Amy
Z. Stoddard was appointed committee to ar
range for musical entertainment by the chill
dren, to be given in the afternoon Arrange
ments We're made, also, for the brass-work
shop which is to be in charge of Miss ENERGY
CHM. German silver, well as brass, for this
fascinating work will be on sale, and MANY
novelties will be shown.
OLD TINE THEATRICALs. w E. Crockett
has written for the Courier Gazette some
"reminiscences of ld-times in Rockland After
mention of Eagle Hall, (which came to be the
Grand Opera House of the town. he says:
Then came Beethoven Hall, where appeared
such famous actors as Yankee Adams, John
Myers, Lanergan, Sanford and Fisk, the famous
Jos. Proctor and others. Then came Atlantic
Hall at the corner of Main and Sea streets 1t
was at this last named hall that first saw
Dudley Sargent, now DR.. Sargent of Harvard
University. He gave an athletic entertain
ment, the first think he ever gave outside his
home town of Belfast.
For many seasons Lanergan, Sanford and
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known as Peirces' Parlor Theater. and Fiske
Moses W. was here with company a short
time before the fire which destroyed the old
American House. The writer had last seen
him in New Orleans, where he appeared at the
Varieties Theatre, which was not variety
theatre but the leading house in the Crescent
City. Fiske was one of the most popular COM
edians of his day
THE HELLO GIRLS DANCE. The dance in
Odd Fellows hall last Friday evening, given by
the operators of the Belfast telephone eX-
change, more than met expectations. 1t was
enjoyed to the utmost by the participants and
the net receipts We're about $50 which will be
devoted to the rest room" the n. E. Tel &
Tel. Co. has provided for the operators The
hall was appropriately and tastefully decorated
in the telephone colors. blue and white. with
many of the familiar bell signs. The coy
corners bore this admoniton when through
with Your conversation, ring off" There was
an old maids corner in red and yaller," but
none present were eligible for its occupancy.
Ice cream tickets were sold by Misses Florence
Brown and Bertha Wood in a booth of blue and
white, over which was bell with the colors
worked out in electric lights. The floor man
ager was Mrs. lisa Wilband, chief operator. and
she assisted by Miss Winnifred Kimball
Keyes' orchestra furnished music for an order
of IA dances and there were about 70 couples
on the floor. Among the guests was E. NJ
Stannard of Bangor, the district traffic chief,
and party from Searsport which included
Misses Florence Colcord and Maud Slavery,
operators in the Searsport exchange All pres
ent regretted when the time came to ring off
SHIPPING ITEMS. The Cobb-Butler Co. of
Rockland have just stretched another keel in
their yard for four -masted schooner sister
ship to the fast schooner Jesse A. Bishop for
Capt. J. w. Haskell of Deer Isle and Bridgeport
and New Haven, Conn, owners. Her dimen-
sions will be: keel, It's feet; BEAM 80 feet;
depth of hold, IA feet. She will have frame
of seasoned Virginia white oak, and the ceiling
and planking will be of Georgia pine and all
the material which goes into her construction
will be of the very best 1t is expected she
will be ready for launching by Sept LIST. Capt.