The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-10-26
The News of Belfast.

The Hospital Aid sewing circle will meet at
the hospital tomorrow, Friday. at 2 p. m.
| party of government engineers has been
surveying in the harbor the past week.
The Improvement Society will meet at R, F.
Dunton's office Monday, Oct. Both, at 2.3O p. m.
Ten thousand small salmon from the Cam
den fish hatchery have been put into Chicka-
waukie Pond and 5000 into Rocky Pond
Castle North, K. o. K. A., will meet in the
North Church vestry tomorrow, Friday, even
ing at o'clock. A full attendance is re-
quested.
Arthur Ritchie, Esq, succeeds Capt. John w.
Jones, who resigned last week as treasurer of
the Waldo county agricultural society Orrin
]. Dickey continues as secretary
Fred V. Cottrell, whose serious illness has
been reported was gaining at last accounts
which is good news to his many friends.
During the storm last Sunday night the
electric wires became crossed and set fire to
tree opposite the residence of DR.. D. P.
Flanders. Some of the limbs were burned off
and fell to the ground.
Harvey S. Gray, who for the past year or
two has managed the Revere House on Spring
street, has closed the house and opened q lunch
room in the store Main street formerly oc-
cupied by Jesse Staples.
City Marshal M. R. Knowlton and "Admiral"
Don Robbins returned last Tuesday from a
tour of the fairs, having been as far south as
Richmond, Va. Mr. Knowlton was called
home by business requiring his attention.
The entertainment given by the senior class
at the E. M. c. seminary in Emery hall, Bucks
port, last Thursday evening, was fairly we'll
attended. The parts were all well taken and
the students, under the direction of Miss Hazel
Leavitt, won great praise.
The masons have completed plastering the
new hotel at Temple Heights and Arthur
Blackington is at work on the inside finish.
The building has been painted and it is ex-
pected that it will be finished and ready for the
furniture by the 10th of November.
Last Thursday a shot was fired through the
passenger car of the afternoon train on the
up trip, and lady passenger was showered
with broken glass. The train was near Brooks
at the time. 1t was an accident of course, but
might be termed criminal carelessness,
The bridge at Citypoint, which for several
years has been considered unsafe, has been
thoroughly repaired, the new foundation made
secure, and new railing built which not only
adds to the safety of the bridge but restores
oh of H..
the tumble down condition of the bridge to its
old time attractiveness.
A gentleman of this city has about sixty
volumes of Harper's Magazine, bound in cloth,
from Vol. l, published in 1850 There are two
volumes missing, Vol. 26, November, 1862, to and
including April, 1863, and Vol. 80, November,
1865, to and including April 1866 Any person
having old magazines of these dates stored
away, unbound, wishing to dispose of them
will kindly notify this office, as it is the own
ers purpose to present the set,when complete
to the Belfast Free Library,
The next meeting of Seaside Chautauqua
Circle will be with Mrs. Lewis Cannon, Con-
gress street, Monday afternoon, October 30th.
The subject of study will be chapters five and
six of the C. L. S. c. book, THE Goth Century
American and from the Chautauquan Maga-
zine, the discovery and Conquest of South
America" The program will include paper
on South American Races; story, What the Ex-
plorers Found in Bolivia; sketch of Sebastian
Cabot; reading an article on Women's Occupa-
tions. Roll call, American and English Jokes.
All interested in C. L. S. C. work are invited.