The Republican journal., 1911-03-16

ri. Hospit.l Aid Sewing Circle will meet at
the ho,pita, tomorrow, FRIDAY 1t 2p. m.
The first founders Of the season were retail
ed at the Bramhall market March 18th.
The I1niversalist Social Aid will meet with
Elizabeth A. Kelley this, Thursday, evening at
90 o'clock. All young ladies of the society
who are not members are cordially invited to
join.
Mr.. Chas. R. Coombs will give agraphophone
concert in the Brainard schooihouse Monday
March Goth, at 730 p. m for the benefit of the
cburcb admission 10 cents. Ice cream and
cake will be for sale.
Prof Donald B. Macmillan will lecture in
the Opera House April 4th under the auspices
Of the Junior Class of the Belfast High school,
His subject will be with Peary in the Arc
tic" Further particulars next week.
Mrs. J. W. Jones resigned as superintendent
of the ladies' department OF the Belfast fair
and President J. B. Darling appointed as
committee to take the place of the superin-
tendent Mrs. J. W. Jones, Mrs. G. G. Abbott
and Miss Edith M. Southworth.
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and Mrs. Redman will be pleased to learn that
thew are gaining after critical illnesses at their
homes on the Hunt road. Mr.. Alonzo Hart
has moved his household goods from Lawrence,
Mass. TO Belfast and will care for his mother,
Mrs Ware. who has been ill at her home on
Dog Island. j.. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Seekins
spent Sunday with relatives in Swanville. ;.
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to care for Mrs Benjamin J. Mosher, who re-
mains. about the same at the Hayford house.
PooR's MILLS. The members of the club
gave the play "Down in Maine at Mystic
grange hall last Saturday evening. Capt. O.
A. Wade left last Saturday morning by train
to join his barge in Hartford, Conn ... c. A.
Mckinley was at home Monday to vote :.
Mrs. Annabell Underwood passed Friday and
Saturday with friends in the city. !. Mrs.
Annie Griffin and Mrs. Blanche Breame spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Payson. :.
MIR. and Mrs Lester Wilson were called to
searsmont Tue day to attend the funeral of
Mr.. Wilson's father
The Journal is in receipt of post card invi-
tations to visit California from Fred W. Angler
at San Jose and Arson Pitcher at Los Angeles.
There are special low rates on the Southern
Pacific, beginning March 10th and in force
until April 10th, and the invitation reads: "No
| excuse now for not coming to see US and the
things we're proud Of" That is ali right in
most cases; and in our case the desire to visit
the Pacific coast is not wanting. but circum-
stances forbid We shall probably never get
nearer California than we did in 1853 when we
crossed the plains and got as far as the Rocky
Mountains
A JUNIOR WINS THE D. A. R. PRIZE John
Cochran Chapter, D. A. R., offered prize for
the best essay to be written by any member
of the Senior and Junior classes of the Bel
fast High school on any incident in the Amer-
can Revolution. Twenty-seven essays were
submitted by numbers, instead of by name.
The judges We're Mrs. George W. Stoddard, ap-
pointed by the D. A, R., Mr.. Charles S. Bick-
ford from the school committee and Rev.
Adolph Rossbach selected by the other two
judges. The prize essay was written by Anse,
Packard, Junior, and his subject was Lexing-
ton and Concord. The prize was two volumes
of Motley's History of the Rise of the Dutch
Republic, which was presented at the morning
session of the school last Tuesday Master
Packard is the son of Mrs. Della Wadsworth
Packard.