The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-06-01
Ben D. Fields new auto delivery t-',ck will
90 into commission this morning

i Den ~ rlelus new auto oenvefT t-'ck Will
go into commission this morning.
The shoe factory is to close at noon Satur-
day during the months of June, July and Au-
gust.
The w. c. T. U. will meet with Mrs. O. E.
Clay at Citypoint tomorrow Friday, after
noon.
Interest in grange work in this city is on the
increase, and Seaside Grange is comforting
work on five candidates.
Primrose Chapter, o. E. S., will have an
entertainment at their regular meeting to-
morrow, Friday, evening and refreshments
will be served.
The steamer Castin will run an excursion
to Bangor June 9th, the day Ringing Brothers
circus is to exhibit there. Time of departure
etc , will be announced next week
The annual meeting of the Waldo County w.
| e. I. u. will be held in Belfast, June 18TH
There will be picnic dinner and supper and
entertainment over night will be provided.
Freeman Harvey of East Belfast fell while
at play Monday evening and broke his left col
lar bone. He was brought to the office of DR..
Wood, who reduced the fracture.
Mr.. James F. Fernald has procured for use
at burials in Grove Genet cry an oil cloth with
white ground on which are green ferns It
conceals the earth on the sides of the open
graves and takes the place of the evergreen
boughs formerly used.
| Charles r. Coombs sold large number of
carnation pinks from Znns, Bosto H. for dec
grafton Memorial day. The flowers of the
best quality and the price moderate. Mr..
Coombs began ordering first for his personal
use and that has led to his receiving many Or
ders from others
WEST BELFAST. All the farmers in this vi
entity are planting for the new canning
factory -. Mrs. Lizzie Cunningham is spend
ing the week with her daughter, Mrs. Mary
Wood. 80. Mr. Fred l.. Toothaker has bought
new Maxwell runabout :. Mr. Beach of North
port while at work on Eugene Woods barn
last week fell and seriously injured his elbow
Ralph D. Southworth installed his new coun-
tiers, cases and fixtures yesterday, Wednesday,
all from the Williams Show Case Company of
Portland. They all of the same style
ing. The hat case is 10 feet long by Il high
with plate glass mirror A. by q feet at the
side. There are two counters 2 by feet one 10
and another s feet long; a 10 foot combination
counter, glove case feet square and tie
case feet square, The bundle counter is a
convenient and tine-saving contrivance.
There several combination wall racks of
fancy design and clothing cabinet. In its
fixtures and fittings the store is up-to-
date in every particular.
THE WALDO TRUST COMPANY. Last Satur-
day Messrs. William H. Quimby and Horace
| Chenery bought the controlling interest in the
Waldo Trust Company held by Maynard S.
Bird & CO. of Rockland, and will continue it as
local institution, to be conducted in the inter-
est of Belfast and Waldo County. Mr. Quimby,
has had many years experience in the banking
business; first in the Belfast National bank.
then as assistant treasurer of the Belfast Saw
ings bank with his father, the late John H.
Quimby, succeeding him as treasurer. Latter
ly he has been engaged in the brokerage bust
ness in Boston, but has severed all connections
there to resume his residence in Belfast. There
will be no change in the directors, or in the
conservative management which has character
lied the Waldo Trust company from the first.
AT a meeting of the directors held at the bank
ing rooms yesterday James H. Howes resigned
as president and William H. Quimby was elect
ed to that position. Horace Chenery and VIM.
H. Quimby were elected directors in place of
Messrs. Bird and McDougall of RocRland, re-
signed.
MAY WEATHER Sunday, May 2Sth, was the
hottest day in May for several years. Mr..
George E. Bracket has furnished US with the
following record of the temperature on that
day: At p. M, 70; 10 a. NJ, 80; noon, &c. 1890
p. M, SO; p. M, S5; p. NJ, go. Mr.. Bracket
says his records have been kept for nearly so
years and have been verified several times,
and that there is probably no other record in
Belfast. He gives the following records, which
show that the hottest May day was in 1896,
when the mercury mounted to co.