The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-11-03

TOOIu WD6Te Inc meetings are nelQ. Next FIJI
day the monthly business meeting of the Aid
will take place in the class room and the circle
will not meet.
The Waldo County Medical Association met
in Brooks Saturday, Oct. goth. and after the
usual routine of business interesting papers
were read by Drs. N. R. Cook and E. A. Kill
gore. Several cases of infantile paralysis
were shown by the Brooks doctors to the mem
bers present and history of the cases given.
The annual meeting will be held in Belfast in
December, when papers will be presented by
Dr. O. S. Vickery of Belfast and Dr. c. B. Holt
of Liberty, and officers elected for the ensuing
year
Halloween was observed in the usual way
by the juveniles and by their elders. At the
Baptist church Monday night the Y. P. S. C. E.
gave unique program, and there were many
parties at private homes. Miss Katherine
Brier entertained party at Penobscot Lodge,
the invitations reading as follows:
Ye Witch of Halloween
Has promised to convene,
The shades of many notables
To meet you Monday cen.
We look for you, you know,
To help to make things go,
And incidently meet.
PooRs MILLS. Our school teacher, Miss
in Bangor last week. Leslie Payson is at
home for visit. {. Mrs. E. A. Merriam has re-
turned to Mr.. ]. F. Sheldon's, after a weeks
visit with friends in Stockton Springs. She
sprained her wrist while away. Is. Mr.. and
Mrs Fred Foss are stopping with MIR. and Mrs.
W. A. Monroe. Mrs. Olive Curtis is at her
parents. She has boy, born last Thursday.
80. George Daggett is having water brought
into his house from spring in his pasture. 80.
Alfred Jackson lost his pocket book last Mon
day. He had been to the city.
CAsT1NE ALUMNI REUNION. Alumni and
many former and present teachers of the Cas-
tine normal school attended the reunion in
Bangor last Thursday night between sessions
of the teachers convention. At a dinner serv-
ed in the Hammond-st. church vestry covers
were laid for 13l, representing classes as far
back as rs years. John L. Hooper of Auburn
presided. The chief speaker was A. F. Rich
ardson, principal of the school. The alumni
association elected these officers: AlonZo j..
Knowlton of Belfast, pres; George 7. Knowl-
ton of Vassalboro, vice pres; Miss Nellie Har-
vey of Castine, sec. and treas.
LIGHTNING FREAKS. Tuesday night, Octo-
Der 25th, about 11.30 o'clock, lightning struck
the Nathan Farrow place in Northport, doing
considerable damage to the buildings. but the
inmates happily escaped injury. They were
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Farrow his wife and five children. The light
ming tore off, shingles and clapboards took
splinters three feet long off the rafters, took
the pointing out of the cellar wall and tore out
the brick backing. In one room the door was
broken off stove. Down stairs but one door
was closed and that was blown open. The we'll
house across the road was also struck and one
corner torn out. Shingles from the house were
picked up four rods away and sods were torn
out from under the apple trees. 1t looked as
though the lightning had come up out of the
ground instead of from above. E j. Hatch,
insurance agent of Augusta, was in Northport
last week adjusting the loss.
STEAMER NOTES. Beginning Monday, Oct.
31st, the steamers of the Portland Division of
the Eastern Steamship Co. will depart from
and arrive at Central wharf (south side) Bos-
ton. No changes will be made in the present
terminals of the International and Kennebec
Divisions at Union Wharf. and the Bangor
| Division at Fosters Wharf. -. The steamer
| Castine, now at the railroad wharf, has re-
| ceived her new shaft and A. Perry Coombs,
the engineer, is giving the engine an over
hauling, painting, etc, to make 1t good for
another IA years. The Castine will take the
place of the Golden Rod on the Belfast and
Brooksville route when the latter hauls off to
prepare for the winter service, -. Reduced
winter fares on the Eastern Steamship Co. s
boats Belfast to Boston, $2.25.. The new
storehouse in course of erection on the north
side of the Eastern Steamship Co.'s pier is los
by 40 feet and will contain a room for storing
pershable freight in cold weather. With the
extension of the wharf fifty feet was added to
the main receiving house, and the landing is
now one of the best on the bay or river. :. The
fremont will make her last trip of the season
from Bangor to Manset Saturday, November
5th.
George Robinson of Belfast who was work
| ing with Lneman Dow's crew Thursday fore
noon was taken with severe kink in his back
| and had to be taken to his room at the Lindsey
House. He is subject to this annoyance, but
has always had the good fortune to be working
on the ground when they came on.-Rockland
Courier Gazette.