The Republican journal., 1910-12-15

The stores will be open evenings during
Christmas week.
Unclaimed letters remaining in the Belfast
post Office for the week ending December 18TH
Lewis Bryant, Gershom L. Burgess, H. M. Cur
It's, c. M. Freeman, Frank Johnson, E. D. Rob-
| erts, F. R. Smith, Louis S. Stevens, G. W.
| Townsend.
To THE JOURNAL: We wish to extend
| thanks to the Coe- Mortimer Co. for their
D., honorable dealings. with US the past summer,
in moving our buildings, and for other kind
| ness and interest shown. May they ever be
successful and prosperous.
Mr.. and Mrs c. R. Stevens.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. o. Frisbee
"Frances Raymond's Investment" is the
title Of the story to be read next Sunday even
| ing at 7S0 p. m. by Mrs. S. A. Parker at union
service to be held under the auspices of the
w. c. 7. U. in the Methodist church. The
music is in charge of Miss Edith Burgess and
songs will be given at intervals during the
| reading. The story was written by Mrs s. NJ.
Henry. one of the earlier W. C. T. U. work
ers, author of various books and hymns, and is
extremely interesting.
| The next meeting of Seaside Chautauqua
Circle will be with Mrs. C. A. Hubbard, No. 4
Park street. Monday afternoon. December
18th. The lesson will be a study of chapters
one. two and three OF the c. L. S. C. book, $50
cial Ideals in English Letters and the maya
zine topic, Democratic England No. Ill
Program: Book review, Looking Backward
| paper, "How the Stuarts came to the English
Throne character sketch, Wycliffe; compare
Son, Langand and Dante; paper, The Com
monwealth; reading from Gulliver's Travels
Roll-call events in the reign of Charles l.
THE PENoBsCoT CLOSED. The Penobscot
river at Bangor was practically sealed up tight
by ice last Sunday night, which makes the date
of the closing for 1910, December 11th The
average date of closing since 1916 has been
December 10th. That was the exact date in
1908. In 1909 the closing date was December
23rd. In 1907 the river remained open during
December, and it was not until January 4th
that the final sealing BY ice came. OF course
there is a probability that a soft spell, and the
much needed rain, may open the river, but it
would be but temporary. Monday morning
the river was sealed from Bangor to the Mar
rows. Sunday the schooners Ida B. Gibson,
Izetta and George E. Walcott were towed out,
passing down through two or three inches of
ice. The Walcott arrived with coal for the
Orono Pulp Paper Co.. Saturday, and made
close to record time in discharging. The Glib
son is bound for Norwalk, Conn.,, and the
Izetta for Boston. The schooner James Young,
the only craft left in port, was taking on a
deck load at Stems mill and the tug boat Wal
ter Ross was busy keeping channel open to
tow her out Tuesday. Many young people
were skating on the river and Kenduskeag
stream Sunday afternoon and all along the
water front there was every sign that winter
had at last brought to Bangor the annual ice
bound port.
A SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL. The musicale and So
cial given last Friday evening at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Achorn in East Belfast
was attended by fully $50 people. The house
was attractively decorated for the occasion
with flags, bunting, Christmas bells and ever
. greens and in the living room there was an
arch Of green over the mantel with the words
Brewer Circle in white letters. musical
program was given, consisting of vocal selec.
tons by Miss Katherine Chase Quimby, selec.
tions by the boys trio, Harry Coombs, first
tenor. Roy Macomber. second tenor. and
George Langill base, and Miss Anne M. Kit
tredge read two selections, Just Fore Christ
Z mas by Eugene Field, and an excerpt from tn.
Real Diary Of Real Boy by Judge Shute
All the numbers were we'll received and thu
boys sang for an hour after the entertainment
proper. Mrs. Cleora Haney Read was accom-
PIANIST. Ice cream and cake was sold, and ,
huge cake was divided between Victor LARA
bee and Richard Brown, who made the sam,
guess (412) a. to the number of beans in I
bottle. The cake was frosted and bore tn,
words Brewer Circle in white letters. Tn,
Belfast party made the trip by automobile
and people were there from the entire coun
tryside. The sum Of so was Melted for tn,
Masons Mills chapel fund.