The Republican journal., 1909-11-18

Capt NJ L. Pendleton has the keel in posi-
ton on the cradle on which he is to build a 80
foot auxiliary, and the stem and stern post are
on. AS the keel consists of tons of iron and
at least tons of wood it was quite job to
handle it.
The Belfast High school basket ball team
played the Searsport High in Union Hall
Searsport, last Friday evening, and won by a
score of 60 TO 20 Herbert Dickey is Captain
of the Belfast team. A dance followed the
game and was attended by a number of the
young people from this city.
The Women's Alliance of the First Parish
(Unitarian) church will meet in the church
parlor this, Thursday, afternoon at half past
two o'clock. The usual business meeting will
be followed by paper on Hymns of our
Faith" and these hymns will be sung by a
quartette.
Miss Harriet c. Weber, the well-known
Psychic of Dorchester, Mass, will lecture at
the Seaside spiritual church Sunday, Novem-
Der 21st at 2.30 and 7.30 p M, and follow each
lecture with spirit messages. There will be
silver collection at the door. The public are
very cordially invited.
The next meeting of Seaside Chautauqua
Circle will be with Mrs. M. w. Rich, No. 1877
Main street, Monday afternoon, November
22nd. Study topic from magazine, "Alexan-
dria and Cairo from Greek View of Life
page IS to end of chapter, ''Homeric Stories y
book seventeen to twenty three Roll-call,
selected quotations.
The annual Christmas sale, supper and enter
tainment by the ladies of the Universalist
parish will be held in the church vestry on
Thursday and Friday, December End and Bird,
afternoon and evening. The sale will open at
2 o'clock p. M Friday evening supper will be
served at o'clock to be followed by the very
entertaining drama "How the Story Grew.
Supper and entertainment, IS cents.
AS the result of the lively comment over the
action of the city government in abating the
taxes on the plant of the Waldo County Herald
Publishing Co., a member of the company has
paid to the collector the taxes, amounting to
STA. The fact that the two aldermen, Dyer
and Rogers, who voted for the abatement, to-
gether with the mayor, were all stockholders
of the plant, caused a feellng OF dlssatisIac-
tion-Alderman Dickey in the Bangor Com
mercial.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Recent charters: sch. Liz
zie B. Wiley, Brunswick to New York, dry
cypress. o. t. Sch Mollie Rhodes, Stockton to
New York lumber, p. t. Sch. Herbert May,
Frankfort to New York, cut stone, p. t. Sch.
VIM. Bisbee, Halls Quarry to Boston, stone, p.
t. Sch Mary E. Lynch, Stonington to do, stone
o. Sch. E. S. Wilson sailed last Friday for
Stonington with a general cargo. The
schooner Lillian Estelle was taken out on Gil
chrest's marine railway last week for calking
and general repairs, which included & new
stern, new timbers and new planking. The
schooner is u tons net, was built at Lynn,
Mass, in 1867 and halls from Deer Isle. Sch.
Herbert May is loading cut stone at the Mt.
Waldo Granite Works for the Manhattan
bridge, New York city.
The Young Ladies' Social Union of the Bap-
fist church enjoyed a blackboard ride last
Friday evening and met with Miss Myrtle
Nash. who is teaching school in the Hayford
district Thirteen appeared at the appointed
hour. at the home of Mrs. A G. Roberts, includ-
ing four new members, but Friday and thirteen
had no terrors for the party and they set out
for their regular meeting. Apples and home
made candy were served by the hostess.
About O'Clock it began to rain and hurried
preparations were made for the return trip.
Miss Nash accompanied the party home. Two
umbrellas taken by the wise ones furnished
slight protection for IA girls. All voted it a
good time. They will meet next Friday night
with Miss Ella Smalley at her home on Union
street.
REPAIRING DAMAGES. A crew of Maine
Central section men have recently repaired
the damage done during the heavy fall rains
to the carriage road over the bluff in the City
point woods washout occurred during the
rains and several tons of earth and rocks slid
down upon the railroad track in the "cut' be-
low, and were cleared away with shovels by
the section men. This landslide left the struc-
ture of railroad ties upon which the carriage
road is built resting upon no very visible sup
port: and as these railroad ties had been in use
o~>iA VI iSSA'
decayed, a person looking up at them from the
railroad beneath might well wonder if the road
at this point were quite safe for the heavily
loaded teams and automobiles which were con-
tinually passing over it. Now, however, the
old railroad ties have been replaced by new
ones, new earth has been filled in, and the road
has been made perfectly safe and secure again.
This washout reminded us of one black and
stormy spring night some twenty-five years
ago. when the late Salathiel Otis, after call
upon his mother at Citypoint, was walking
home through this cut with lantern, short
time before the night train was due, and at
this same place came upon large rock which
had fallen upon the track, and which would
certainly have caused bad train wreck had it
remained undiscovered By prompt action he
was in time to have the train stopped at City
point, while section men from Belfast removed
the obstruction from the track.