The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-11-03
A. A. Howes & Co. have a window display of

A. A. Howes Co. have window display of
Town Talk flour, advertised in The Journal
The granolithic walk around the Belfast Saw
lngs bank has been completed and work on the
interior of the building is progressing. new
pole has been set at the corner for the tee.
phone wires.
meeting of the board of managers of the
Women's Hospital Aid will be held in connec-
ton with the regular monthly business meet
ing, Friday, Novemt er 4th, at 23o D. M. at the
hospital.
Last week Mr.. George F. Black was taken to
the Waldo County hospital with what proved
to be case Of typhoid fever. day or two
later, his sister, Mrs Frank G. Mixer, was
taken to the hospital afflicted with the same
disease. At last reports both patients were
doing well. Mrs. Charles F. Black is seriously
ill at her home, 4s High street.
Boston daily recently published half
tone of the Washington Allston school Getty
Government" officers elect. They were chosen
at an election held before and after school hours
and in the recess, to succeed government
then theoretically in power The list includes
a mayor and full set of officers. When the
new officers are installed Headmaster William
A. Crawford acts as chief justice and admins
tiers the oath of office and the mayor gives his
inaugural address before the citizens of the
school assembled in the hall, and advises the
officers to the lines upon which his admins
tration will be carried out. 1t is designed to
instruct the pupils in their future civic duties
and is an example that should be generally fol-
lowed. The idea originated with Headmaster
| Crawford.
At a meeting of the trustees of the Waldo
County Agricultural Society Thursday even
ing, October 9th, it was voted to sell the score
cards for another year to Linwood S. Jones'
Secretary Dickey reported having contracted
with c. u Russ of Stonngton for the merry
go-round privilege for the coming year. Supt.
Babcock reported that he had completed the
repairs on the buildings, reset the poultry
house, which was overturned hung the shut
tiers on the grand stand, and that all the build
ings had been closed for the winter months
John A. Fogg, Superintendent of Poultry, was
made committee to settle some unpaid pre-
NUNS which were in error through entries,
and he was also made committee with the
privilege of selecting the remaining two to re-
wise the poultry book for another year. 1t
was voted to lease the land on the in side of the
track to Mr.. Nevins reserving the week of the
fair, he to keep the bushes cut and grass now
ed.
SHIPPING ITEMS. The schooner Pendleton
Brothers, Capt. Jerry Hayes, while working
out of the cove at North Islesboro, Wednesday
noon, October 26th, mis- stayed, and drifted
onto a ledge. She remained hard and fast
until the night tide, when she was pulled off
by the tug Walter Ross. She was not dam
aged, The schooner Ruth E. Merrill has COW
cred the distance between Portland and Nor
folk twice in % days, which is thought to be a
record few vessels have equaled :. Sch. Helen
Thomas, Bangor for Port Tampa, in ballast, re-
ported last week as 50 days out, arrived at des-
tination October 2Sth. All hands were we'll
The schooner encountered the hurricane on
October 18th and was driven 1873 miles off her
course losing headsails, fore and mainsails and
fore and mizzen topsails. Schooner Harold
c. Beecher, at this port, is having new ever
sails made at Lords. In addition to repairs on
the hull she has had new maintopraast, main
gait and spanker boom. She will GO into COM
mission as soon ready in command of Capt
Ralph w. Pattersha]l. =. Sch. Fortuna of the
Pendleton fleet, which had been laid up at this
port for some time, was towed to Rockland
last week for caulking and painting. She is
chartered to take cargo of coal to the West
Indies. Sch James Slater, owned by George
A. Gilchrest and laid up at this port, is for SALE
She has been painted and is ready for business
80. The schooner Carrie A. Buchanan has clear
ed from Mosquito Mountain dock with a cargo
of paving blocks and the schooner John Brace
well from Mt. Waldo with cargo of cut stone,
both for New York city. Sch. Joanna Dur
gin has discharged at the railroad wharf car
go of pulp wood from North Brooksville for
shipment by rail to & pulp mill up country.
Banks John s. Emery and Mamie Swan have
been chartered to carry general cargo to Porto
Rico on private terms. The schooner Nat
Aver, which went ashore last week on Deer
Island, Boston Harbor, with cargo of lumber
from Bangor for bingham, may be saved, as her
cargo has been lightened and she has been fill
ed with oil barrels preparatory to an attempt
to pull her off.