The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-10-27

The Improvement Society will meet with
Mrs. Fred W. Pote next Monday afternoon at
$50 o'clock.
A report of the meeting of Waldo Pomona
Grange, some county correspondence and
other matter of interest is unavoidably de-
ferred.
The telephone scored again in the fire at
Morrill, last week. By its aid people were
summoned from miles around and but for this
outside aid the village would have sustained
more serious loss.
New ADVERTISEMENTS, Read the letter
from Thomas A. Edison to earle & Jones con-
corning their engagement of one of the Phono-
graph wagons for extending free trial in
houses in and about Belfast of the New I'm
proved Photograph. The wagon started on it's
rounds last week. 1t will be free trial with
conditions of any kind ATTACHED to it -.
The only store in town where you will find the
Holeproof stockings is The Dinsmore Store
-. Cream Puffs, with other good things, at the
City Bakery. Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Hatch of
Morrill, and Mrs Josie Mears Markle publish
cards of thanks. earle & Jones call your at
tention to the special sale-gloves and petit
coats-for all day and evening, Saturday, Oc-
tober 29th. -. Young women wanted to train
for professional nurses at the Hanscom Hos
pital in Rockland. Competent girl wanted
for general homework in a family of two
ladies' >. Regal shoes for women at The Dins-
more Store; latest custom styles in quarter
sizes "A A. Howes & Co. will have special
sale of cereals next Saturday, October 18th w
Two pairs of riding boots for sale. Apply to
Mrs. S. S. L. Shute, 81 Church street.
SHIPPING ITEMS. The three-masted schooner
William E. Litchfield, built for Boston con-
Germ and named for Boston man, was launch
ed October 18th at Phippsburg She was ready
for sea and will be commanded by Capt. S. H.
Hutchinson of Little Deer Isle, late of schooner
Brina P Pendleton. The new craft was chris
tened by Miss Cordelia A. Litchfeld of Boston.
The vessel registers 1874 feet long, BAT feet
beam, 141 depth of hold and 542 gross tonnage
go. The old schooner Loduskia, sold at Bangor
last week at U. S. Marshas sale, was knocked
\ uOWil W lile SedTSpoIH NdIloIldl DdHh LOT Sl40.
49, The little 93-foot motorboat Seafarer, own
ed by San Francisco millionaire, that left
Boston last April for the Pacific via the Suez
Canal with the owner, his wife and Miss Helen
Wylde, relative of John Wyde, the steam
ship man of Boston, aboard, has been heard
from as about entering the China sea on the
last lap of the voyage before starting across
tho Poetic Tho 500 faror vuoc byi1t of Poo+b
bay. -. The schooner Puritan was taken out or
Gilchrest's marine railway last week for mino,
repairs. The Puritan is ITO tons net and was
built at this port in 1886 to bring stone from
the Hall quarry, Somes' Sound, to the granite
works of c. ]. Hall, who was then occupying
what is now the Duplex Roller Bushing Co...
building, and carrying on large business
Though not built for speed, but for carrying
capacity, the Puritan proved remarkably
good sailer, whether light or loaded. -. Capt
Ralph w. Pattershall, who was in command Of
sch. Brina P. Pendleton for trip, is to resume
Command of sch. Harold c. Beecher, and
is having new sails made for her at Lords
Sch. Theresa Wolff has been rebuilt by Capt.
E. Archibald at Port Clyde at cost of abou
P4o,ooo, lHCluOlIS lAS LSIdlidtlOu u d SdSOleNS
hosting engine, and is nearly ready for sea
..... The bark Penobscot arrived at Buenos
Ayres October End, after a run of rs days
from Boston, with lumber. The new schoone,
Mary Baxter, Capt M. G. Dow, off the
Florida coast in the recent hurricane, ano
some anxiety was felt by his friends, but he
arrived safely at Tampa. The new steamship
Honolulan, built at Sparrow's Point, Md, for
the American Hawaiian Steamship Company
arrived at New York, October 18th, to take on
fuel oil, after which she will leave again for
Baltimore, to load coal before starting for San
Francisco via Cape Horn. This vessel has ac-
commodations for so first-class passengers and
will run between San Francisco and Honolulu.
She is 43O feet long, and as she will carry much
tropical fruit on her regular route, is provided
with large refrigerating rooms. -. The loss Of
the schooner Hollswood of the Pendleton Bros
fleet is reported in another column. She was
1854 tons net, was built at Boston in 1893 and
was originally bark. The Pendletons bought
her after she had been dismasted on the Pacific
coast, gave her a schooner rig, brought hel
around the Horn and employed her in the gen
eral coasting trade. .. Sch. Mary ]. Elliott, al
one time owned here by Capt. W. w. Turner
has ended her days at Machiasport. She arriv
ed there from Portland with cargo of sal
and went alongside a dock to discharge, bu
filled when grounding and became wreck
and has been stripped. The Elliott was SO tom
net and was built at Essex, Mass, in 1s49. -.
The four masted schooner Helen Thomas o
Thomasten, Captain William J. Lermond, sail
ed from Bangor, September Sd, light, TO
Tampa, Florida, and was last reported off Al
ligator Reef, Fla. "a days out and only 40
miles from her destination. She is now 81 day
out.