The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-11-04

Fl SCOTT 6 BOVINE, 400 Pearl ST.. New York
MILITARY WHIST. The military whist party
for the benefit of the Home for Aged Womer
will be given in Memorial Hall Thursday even.
ing, December 9th. 1t is planned to have 81
tables, 10 less than last year; thus giving ample
room for the changes and serving of refresh
ments. Chicken salad, sandwiches, cake anG
coffee will be served. The proceeds will be
used for placing telephone in the Home
which is greatly needed, particularly in the
/ winter season.
The Womens Alliance of the First Parish
/ tUnltarian) church have organized for the
year 'O9-10 with the following officers and
committees: President, Miss Charlotte W. Col
burn; vice presidents, Mrs. B. H. Conant and
Mrs. G. A. Gilchrest; secretary, Miss Caroline
E. White; treasurer. Miss Inez Z. Crawford
The chairmen of the committees are as follows:
program committee. Mrs. Adolph Rossbach;
social, Mrs. Bancroft H. Conant; hospitality,
Mrs. George A. Quimby; benevolent, Mrs.
1 Ralph H. Howes: decorating, Mrs. G. F. Ryan.
The first meeting will be with the president,
Miss Charlotte ". Colburn, at her home on
Church street cordial invitation is extend
ed to all the women in the parish to be present
and join this organization.
! THE FERTILIZER PLANT. 1t takes about a
dozen blue prints to show the details of the
+ overhead carrier now in course of construction
at the Coe Mortimer works under the direction
of Fred V. Cottrel On cement piers either
side of the railway track towers will be built
to support bridge over the track forty feet
long. At the outer end of the wharf will be a
/ tower so feet high supporting the hosting
gear, which is similar to that used at coal
/ plants, and which will be run by electricity to
be furnished by the Penobscot Bay Electric
company. This derrick works automatically,
dischargng into car on the track which runs
into and around the building. The contract
calls for the completion of this carrier by De-
cember LIST. Work the main building is pro-
crossing favorably; the frame is completed and
/ boarding begun, and it will soon be ready for
installing the machinery.
/ STEAMER NOTES. The steamer Governor
/ Cobb, of the Eastern S. S. Co. has been charter
ed by the Atlantic coast line to run between
Knights Key, Fla, and Havana, Cuba, during
the coming winter. The steamer Belfast will
take the place of the Gov Cobb in the winter
( service between Boston and Portland, running
with the Gov. Dingley. The steamer Castine
went on the Belfast and Castine route last
Monday in place of the Golden Rod, which is
Oh the marine railway at Camden for general
overhauling preparatory for the winter service.
1.-THE steamer James T. Morse will be with
drawn from the Bar Harbor route Nov Sth,
and will go into winter quarters at Camden.
Her place will be taken by the steel steamer
Boothbay. Her schedule will take in North
Haven and Stonington, and the reach landings
will be taken care of by The Bluehill steamer
Catherine. -. The Eastern Steamship Cos. Bel
fast to Boston rates were changed to the win
ter arrangement last Monday. The fare is
1925, and the staterooms 81 and S1.5O. -. Her
bert Black of Searsport has the contract for
piling for the extension to be built to the
Eastern Steamship Co.'S wharf at this port,
and some of the other material will be brought
here this fall that the work may begin early in
the spring. 1t is said that the wharf will be
extended about $50 feet south. This will make
berth for the Bar Harbor boat if it is decided
/ to make this the place of transfer. This has
been talked of for a long time, but the wharf
accommodations have been insufficient
SHIPPING ITEMS. Crowell & Thurlow of Bos-
| ton have bought on private terms from Wash
burn Brothers of Thomaston the four masted
schooner R. W. Hopkins and will place her in
/ the trade between U. S. ports, the West Indies
and Porto Rico. Capt. Fred B. Balano will re-
tain command of the vessel. -. The three-mast-
ed schooner Frank M. Low was launched from
the yard of E. L. Bean, Camden, October 9th.
The launching party included guests from Port
! land and Massachusetts,. She was christened
with champagne by Miss Lena Nelson of Lyn-
don, Mass, whose father, Capt. William Nelson,
is one of the principal owners. The schooner
has gross tonnage of 542 and the length of
her keel is 140 feet. The cost was approx
mately 5000. A full description of the YES
sci has been published in The journal Two
of Capt. T. M. Nicholson's fishing feet-the
schooners Hiram Lowell, Captain Charles A.
Stewart, and the William Matheson, Capt. Al
bert W. Gott-cleared from Bucksport October
| AoIu 1oI CuC Day u lSldiiuS dlLeT SAT- herring.
During September of this year only South
ern ports along the Atlantic and the Gulf
showed gain in exports of breadstuffs. These
were Norfolk, Mobile, Portsmouth and New
Orleans. All North Atlantic ports showed a
falling off The gains were made in the face
of nearly 100000 decline in breadstuffs ex-
ported. The only port on the Atlantic or the
Gulf showing gain over the same nine months
of last year was Mobile. ... The dismasted
schooner VIM. ]. Lermond lays alongside the
schooner Harold C. Beecher and having listed
in last Saturday she caught under the Beech.
er's rail and when the tide rose carried some
of it away. Sch. Star of the Sea loaded part
of cargo of ice at Boothbay last week anG
will finish loading at Portland for Demerara
$50. N. S. Lord & Co. have the contract fol
making suit of sails for the Pendleton schoon-
er VIM. J. Lermond, which has been at this port
for some months. She had lost her masts anc
new sticks have been received from Oregon
coming all the way by rail =. Sch. Anna B
Mitchell Capt. E. S. Mcdonald, was at Bath
last week having repairs made to her windlass
She is now loading paving at Sullivan fol
Philadelphia. Capt. John Ryder, the mate
came home from Bath, sick. Sch. Willis AMI
Guy, Capt. Pattershall, which had been in por
for some time, sailed last Friday for Sargent
vile to load lumber for New York.