The Republican journal., 1909-03-04
The Improvement Society will meet with
Mrs. F. w. Pote Monday, March 9th, at 2:sO ..

The Improvement Society will meet with
Mrs. F. w. Pote Monday, March 9Th, at ESQ q
m.
Monday evening an interested audience q,
about fifty invited guests were privileged to
listen to a lecture on Persia by Rev. Henry M
Perkins of Melrose, Mass, given in Christian
Science Hall. The lecture was most interesting
and instructive, and the Persian curios owned
by Mr.. Perkins were an especially attractive
feature.
The board of registration, consisting of DR.
G. P Lombard, Austin W. Heating and H. T
Field, are in session this week at the CITY
clerks Office to attend to the registration ri
voters, changes, etc. Sessions are held from
9 to l, 8 to 5, and to 9, but on Friday there
will be no evening session. The board will
meet again Saturday to correct any errors that
may have been made.
John Cochran Chapter, D. A. R., will hold its
regular March meeting next Monday evening
at the home of the vice regent, Mrs. Edward
Sibley. The roll-call will be answered nv ra-
calling Quaker customs, as the subject of the
meeting is Pennsylvania. The paper will be
on William Penn, and there will be readings
pennsylvania" by Whittier and Elizabeth"
from Longfellow's "Tales of Wayside Inn"
The masquerade ball under the auspices of
the Pythian Sisters will take place in the Bel
fast Opera House this, Thursday, evening.
Reyes full orchestra, assisted by Mark s.
Crockett of Rockland as solo cornetist. will
give concert and furnish music for the dance.
Fred G. Spinney will be floor director. The
hall will be handsomely decorated for the occa-
sion. Dance tickets, so cents.
Wednesday evening, March 10th, a Dollar
Social will be held in the vestry of the Metho-
dist church, at which time those who have
been earning dollars" for the society will be
expected to bring them and also to relate their
experiences Doubtless many amusing and in
teresting stories of pennies earned and saved
will be told Ice cream and cake will be on
sale during the evening. Admission free. The
public invited
The question now is, not "who killed cock
robin?" but who shot the sparrow? Four Ct
our local hunters went rabbit hunting the other
day; but the Dummies, seeming their approach,
had taken to the tall timber, and it looked like
an Improbable tramp. Finally lone sparrow
simultaneously. AS result only few tail
feathers We're left to tell the tale. Now it is a
mooted question as to who shot the sparrow,
as each one of the quartet claims to be dead
shot.
New ADVERTISEMENTS. Fred A. johnson,
Masonic Temple, is offering six bargains this
week. and they are real bargains. See his
advt. -. The City National Bank of Belfast in
vites deposits from Waldo county people.
Eggs for Matching at the Ferguson Poultry
Farm, Northport avenue, Belfast, from select
ed Barred Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island
Reds; also a limited number of newly Matched
chicks >. Garlic & Jones leave tomorrow, Fri
day, for market to buy their spring and sum-
mer line of suits, skirts, shirt waists novelties,
ETC., and will also make arrangements with a
New York house for coat and suit opening,
the date to be announced later. James b.
McTaggart, wife and family of Brooks publish
a card of thanks Hallett & Davis pianos at
Lords, High street j. W. Price, Is Pearl
street. Belfast, offers for sale at bargain for
cash his store and cottage at Northport camp
ground with all the furnishings and fixtures.
.... See advt. for proposals to furnish fuel,
ETC., for the Federal building in this city,.
Sam Wah has opened Chinese laundry at 81
Main street and guarantees to do as good work
and at as low prices at it can be done else
where James II. Howes, Odd Fellows
block, is receiving the new spring goods,
especially wash materials, every day. Call
and see them. The City Drug Store has a
full assortment of fresh herbs roots and banks
their own spring medicine.
AMERICAN COMPOSERS. The Parlor Musical
Society members and large number of friends
gathered in the Unitarian parlors Tuesday
evening for American Composers Night. The
paper of the evening was very fine one, and
was given by Mrs. Adolph Rossbach. Mrs.
Rossbach said that the beginnings of American
music We're in the improbable field of Puritan
psalm singing, and spoke of VIM. Billings as
the father of American music. The work of
Edward Mcdowell and Arthur Foote was men
toned, and Chadwick was especially spoken of,
as his name had place on the program, as be-
ing successful as an organist, a teacher, a con-
ductor and composer. In the operate field
F. S. Converse was spoken of as particularly
successful, and Dudley Buck, R. De koven,
whose "Oh Promise Me- is so well known, the
poetic Ethelbert Nevin, Clayton Johns, and
Mason, the pioneer American piano composer,
were all spoken of most interestingly. A
quartette composed of Mrs. c. W. Wescott,
Mrs. E. S. Pitcher, Mr.. Emory White and Mr..
f. S. Pitcher sang Chadwick's Prayer" and
were obliged to respond to an encore. Miss A.
Louise bennett played Valse Caprice by New
land, most enjoyably, and Mrs. c. w. Wescott's
two vocal solos by Chadwick were sung charm
ingly. Mrs. Wescott's encore ended the pro-
gram, after which the "Iolanthe" rehearsal
was held. The program was in charge of Mrs.
E. S. Pitcher. There will be chorus rehearsal
Monday evening.
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