The Republican journal., 1910-07-21

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expected to have a speaker from Augusta. All
the old members and those who intend to be-
come members should be present.
Fifteen Waldo county patients who had been
CHARTERED in the insane hospital in Augusta
were transferred last Friday to the insane hos
pital in Bangor. All the patients were women.
1t is the intention of the trustees to have all
Waldo county patients hereafter quartered in
the hospital at Bangor.
Miss Emma Lawrence, who has held the po-
sition of pianist for something like 81 weeks
at the Belfast Opera House severed her con-
nection last Saturday night and Miss Hazel
Erskine now presides at the piano, and with
Miss Bryant and Mr.. Ross Hammons soloists,
you are assured of big moneys worth.
The patrons of the picture shows OF our city
were greatly pleased to see the faces OF many
of the people who made the hiograph pictures
SO popular in the new Independent pictures
now being shown in the Opera House. Miss
Florence Lawrence, 1.-THE Original Biograph
Girl" the greatest exponent of the silent
drama, is seen in the Gimp" productions She
has lost none of her vivaciousness in the year
that she has been absent from our screens, and
1t certainly seems good to see her back again.
The many compliments paid Mr.. Clifford on
the excellence of his programs at once places
the pictures in the front rank.
The following subcommittee have been ap-
pointed for the lawn party, August 18th, at
the Home for Aged Women: Food table, Mrs.
E. P. Frost, Mrs R. F. Dunton, Misses Emily
P. rockingham and Hattie P. White; candy,
Misses Maude M. Mathews, Cora S. Mort
son, katherine c. and Elizabeth A. Quinn
by; ice cream, Misses Lena Sanborn, lsa-
bel CHM, Mrs. Phoebe d. Crawford and Miss
Edna Crawford; decorating and lighting, MIR.
and Mrs. E. R. Pierce, Mr.. and Mrs. A. G..
Hopkins; finance, DR. Elmer Small and Mr.. r..
F. Dunton; house, Mrs. R. F. Dunton and Miss
rockingham; flower, Misses Frances Howes'
Helen Doak and Marian Hazeltine; concert,
Miss Amy E. Stoddard, Mrs. Elon B. Gilchrest
and Ralph l. Morse; fancy work, Mrs. G. E.
Bracket, Mrs. c. H. Crosby Misses Maude E.
Barker and Amy L. Wilson
| A DELIGHTFUL OUTING. Mr.. Fred D. Jones
entertained the force of the two earle G.
Jones stores at his home in West Brooksville
last Sunday. They went over on the regular
( trip of the Golden Rod leaving Belfast at a.
m. and We're met at the wharf by buckboards
and driven to the Congregational church,
where they attended the services. They had
dinner at the Jones homestead and the afternoon
was spent in resting and strolling about the
grounds. Immediately after supper the buck
boards took the party to the wharf and the
Golden Rod brought them to Belfast by spe-
cal trip, arriving here at 1890 p. m. 1t was a
beautiful evening and the sail home was a
happy ending of delightful and restful day,
made so by the thoughtfulness of Mr. Jones
and the gracious, pleasing hospitality of his
sisters the Misses Laura, Lucy and Grace
Jones.
| NORTH BELFAST. The annual fair given
under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society
will be held in the church next Wednesday
evening, July 9th. Useful articles will be on
sale and ice cream will be sold as usual. A
pleasing program for entertainment will be
furnished, and it will be the endeavor of the
society to make the event as satisfactory in
every way as in former years. Admission, &c
cents. "A band of drunken gipsies passed
through our village last Wednesday, just al
night and went into camp near the home Of
Charles Russ. They created such disturb
ance that the City Marshal was notified, who
promptly dispatched officers to the scene. The
band was ordered to leave town, which they
did at eleven O'Clock at night. Mrs. R. S.
Brier of Winter Hill, Somerville, Mass, Mr.
D..
and Madge, Marie and Brier Gay of Brooklyn,
N. Y, arrived last week to spend the summer
vacation at the Brier homestead =. Mr.. George
A. Collins, who recently sold his farm, has
bought the DR.. Clark stand and has taken pos
session. =. Mrs Willard Randolph and son of
Knoxville, N. Y, who have been visiting her
father, Francis Gilbreth, returned home Tues
day
TELEGRAPHIC TIPS. The past week was an
eventful one in the photographic circles" of
Belfast. Miss Velma Mitchell, manager of
the Western Union office at Waldoboro, arriv-
ed last Thursday to spend week at her home,
and supplies as assistant in the Belfast office
during the forenoon. Miss Cecile Littlefeld
assistant operator in the Belfast Office, is in
Waldoboro for the week as substitute for Miss
Mitchell. Miss Clarabel Marsh, manager of
the Skowhegan office, has been given a position
as bookkeeper for the summer in Pittsfeld
Mass, with a good increase in salary, and
writes that she is delighted with the position
The Office at Skowhegan is supplied by Basil
H. Newell of Citypoint, and his mother, Mrs
o. E. Clay, is with him there. Miss R. T
Newell, manager of the Belfast Office has re-
ceived considerable increase in salary, on &C.
count of the heavy business and the increas-
ing responsibilities of her position. Linemen
have been at work installing telegraph instru-
ments in the Western Union Office and running
wires for the Dark Harbor line, as the Waldo
Telephone and Western Union Telegraph Cos
propose to handle business from that point by
telegraph instead of by telephone as formerly
thus relieving the telephone line between Bel
fast and Dark Harbor so that the town sub
scribers may not so often be met by the vexa-
tious cline busy" when asking for the Western
Union. Last but not least, Master Perley
Tibbetts, who has been connected with the
Western Union office for several years as mes
senper has invested in bicycle and is doing