The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-01-13

IoLANrHE. This well known Gilbert and
Sullivan opera will be presented by local talent
in the Belfast Opera House Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, January 18th and goth,
with fine costumes and scenic effects. The cast
has been published and needs no further COM
mendation.
Thomas Bowker, son of Mr.. and Mrs Edwin
S. Bowker, who has been employed in the shoe
factory of Leonard & Barrows, left Tuesday
for Lynn, Mass, where he will take course at
the General Electrical school. Mr.. Bowker
graduated from the Belfast High school, class
! of 1909, and will now study to fit himself for
an electrical engineer
The number of fishing tents on the Passa-
gassawaukeag is slowly increasing and the ice
is gaining thickness and becoming less treach-
erous and unsafe with each added day Of zero
weather. Surely Mantou is kind to the fire.
quenters of this favored spot, else we should
now and then be called upon to chronicle some
sad event. We learn that prominent citizen
of the town some two weeks since took
plunge into the icy waters, but by excepting
cool" and striking the which he carried
into the firm ice within his reach he managed
to pull himself out of the water. The "keep-
! ing cool" may not have been difficult, but the
use of the certainly showed rare presence
of mind We are glad to know that he has
suffered no ill effects from his plunge.
! THE G. A. r. A joint installation of the
officers of Thomas H. Marshall Post and the
Ladies Circle took place Tuesday afternoon,
January 4th, in Memorial hall. The officers of
the Post follows: Commander, A. D.
Smalley; senior vice commander, Captain J. W.
Ferguson; junior vice commander John Thomp-
son; quartermaster, E. R. Thomas; chaplain,
A. E. Clark; officer of the day, James Dunton;
officer of the guard, T. D. Guptill; delegates,
James Harding and Adelbert Knight; alter
mates, J. W. Nash and John Thompson The
newly installed officers of the Circle are as fol-
lows: President, Mrs. Alma Ryder; senior vice
president, Mrs! Abbie Putnam; junior vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Carrie Cunningham; chaplain, Mrs.
H. N. Carter; treasurer, Mrs. Julia A. McKeen;
conductor, Mrs. Hattie Riggs; guardian, Mrs.
Emma Croker; counsellor, Mrs. Mary Russ.
After the ceremonies the Post and Circle par
took of an excellent clam stew prepared by the
veteran stew-maker, Charles Thomas.
Thomas H. Marshall Post has adopted the fol-
lowing resolutions:
Resolved, by Thomas H. Marshal Post, No
az, that while we bow with humble submission
to the will of the Most High we do not the less
mourn for our comrade who has been taken
from us.
Resolved, That in the death of Francis A.
Shaw this Post laments the loss of comrade
who was ever ready to proffer the hand of aid
and the voice of sympathy to needy and dis
tressed comrade,
Resolved, That the heartfelt sympathy of
this Post be extended to his family in their af-
Fiction and order that our charter be draped in
mourning for thirty days in memory of him.
Resolved, That these resolutions be spread
upon the records of this Post and copy there
of be transmitted to the family of our deceased
comrade and to each of the newspapers of Bel
fast
JOHN THOMPSON,
/ l. A. CONANT, Committee
| JAMES DUNToN. '
SHIPPING ITEMS. The gravest fears were
felt last week for the safety of a number of
big schooners, which sailed from eastern ports
before the blizzard and had not since been
heard from. Among them were the Henry W..
Tramp, which sailed from Boston December
1t 18th for Newport News; Lewiston, Boston, De-
cember 18th for Baltimore; Grace A. Martin,
December oath for Newport News, and the new
six-master, Wyoming, which sailed from Bath
December 21st for Norfolk on her maiden trip
The Henry w. Cramp was reported by cable
January 9th in San Juan, P. R., harbor in need
of sails, having been driven about thousand
miles beyond her destination. She was driven
out of her course by series of gales, which
carried away her foresail, mizzensail and
spanker. New sails will be shipped to her.
Thursday the Wyoming was reported as spoken
IA miles south of Winter Quarter Shoals light
ship. The Winter Quarter lightship is about
so miles from Cape Henry. The Lewiston was
reported January 7th as anchored 10 miles S
of Egmont Key, having been blown off. All
well. The Grace A. Martin has arrived safely
at her destination, and the S. P. Blackburn,
another overdue schooner, has arrived at
|, Brunswick, Ca. The ship Elwell, 1856 tons
net, built at Damariscotta mot Belfast) in
, 1875, went under the hammer at Seattle last
week and was sold for $4,000 to satisfy the
demands of the captain and crew for back
wages. She will now be engaged in the Alaska
salmon trade. :. Sch. Pendleton Brothers sail
ed from Jacksonville, Fla, January 9Th for
, Portland with railroad ties for the Grand
Trunk Cobb, Butler & Co. of Rockland ex-
pect to have the hull of the new towboat for
{ the Central Wharf Towboat Company of Port
land ready for launching at the end of this
month or early in February. Machinery for
this craft is being built by the Portland Com.
pany, which sublet the contract for the hull to
8 the Rockland builders. Ship A. J. Fuller
1878 tons net, built at Bath in 1881, has beer
sold at San Francisco by the California Ship
ping Co. to the Northwestern Fisheries Co.
< terms, private. Sch. Maud Seward, of Deel
Isle, which went ashore at Cedar Tree Neck
Vineyard Sound, recently, has been condemned
J, and is being stripped. portion of her cargo
e of coal will probably be saved. The Seward is
8 ! 1876 tons net and was built at Little Choptank
n Md, in 1876. The barge which has been dis.
L charging at the Coe-Mortimer works left
Tuesday. Two schooners are now on the way
here with fertilizer material. The Pendle.
: ton schooner Etna, which has been laid up al
, Lewis wharf, has chartered to load lumber al
Cape Jellison for New York. Sch. Charlotte
, T. Sibley has been laid up at Bridgeport, Conn.,.
| for the winter sFfsef ~