The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-04-13
The sardine canning season opens April 18th.

opening April 18th.
Brewer Circle of Mason's Mills enjoyed {
picnic supper and social at the home of Rich
ard Brown last Friday evening. Round games
took the place of the customary literary exer.
| cises.
A. A. Howes & Co had the first maple syruK
of the season last Saturday. 1t was from the
! Gay orchard in Montville and the real article
Now bring on your buckwheat cakes, nicely
Drowned and hot from the griddle.
Mr.. NH. Heck, of the United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey, is in Camden arranging head
quarters for the coming season. There are to
be % signals erected between Camden and Bel
fast. He is assisted by Mr.. George Olson.
The Maine Bean Pot sold by earle & Jones,
is coming into favor. 1t not only bakes beans
with minimum of trouble but is excellent for
pot roasts and smothers, retaining all the juices
of the meat and making the toughest tender.
The meeting of the North Church guild,
| which was to have been held last Monday even
! ing. was postponed until April Oath on account
| OF the Lenten services in the church. The
meeting will be held with Mrs. George E. and
Miss Anne M. Kittredge
In Somerville. April 7th, the wind blew off
the hat of William L. Bowman and in follow
ing it he stumbled and fell into brook and
was drowned. If Bowman had lived in Belfast
he would not have been drowned He could
buy hat SO cheaply here of our local dealers
that it would not have paid him to run after
the old one.
Belfast business man was seen on the
street Monday wearing a straw hat. The old
saying is that cone swallow does not make
summer" nor does one straw hat indicate that
spring has come. In fact the mercury Monday
morning was about the freezing point and the
ground was covered with the snowfall of the
day before.
The Swan & Sibley Co. had a car of grain
due, but on examining the contents of car
billed to them found it was not their car but
was intended for the Osceola Mills, Clearfield,
Pa. 1t was mixed car, containing corn, grain.
feed etc. and had been sent here through a
mistake. They notified the railway officials
and We're instructed to discharge the car here
and dispose OF us contents.
Crocuses and snowdrops have appeared in
several of the city gardens in spite of the fire.
quent snow storms. Mrs. ]. L. Sleeper has at
her home flower pot that is a mass of BIOS
SONS. Jerusalem cherry tree is filled with
flowers and tangle of coliseum ivy hangs over
the sides of the pot and is loaded with its deli
cate little blossoms. Twined among the
branches of the cherry is morning glory that
bore six white bells last Monday morning.
A HIGH SCHOOL MUSICALE. The pupils of
the High school, assisted by some of the
alumni, will give musical entertainment in
the Opera House, Friday evening May 5th.
The entertainment will consist of both vocal
and instrumental music, including several
choruses by the school. The main object is to
reimburse the Belfast Musical Society who
generously invited the entire school to the last
Chapman concert with the understanding that
the school should, at its convenience, refund a
certain amount to the society
In reply to an enquiry from subscriber we
would state that the Hayford, or Opera House,
block was built in 1868 the David PIERCE
house about 1873, and Dr.,D. P. Flanders has
occupied his office in the Opera House block
since 1866, the year in which that end of the
block was built An addition containing four
stores and what was then known as Hayfor
hall, now the Belfast Opera House, was built in
1868. When DR.. Flanders applied for the off
ces he now occupies he was told that Gov
Crosby had the refusal of them, and was
greatly disappointed. However, before the
time came to move in Gov. Crosby had a Sc
we're cold and gave up the idea of opening an
office. DR.. Lewis W. Pendleton took the offices
in the first story occupied by DR. Elmer
Small.
STEAMER NoTEs. The steamer Castine,
which has been hauled up here during the win
ter at the Maine Central wharf, went into com.
mission Friday when she carried cargo of
fertilizer from the Coe- Mortimer works in this
city to Vinalhaven. :. The steamer Millinocket
which has been plying between New York and
Stockton ever since she was built has been
sent to other waters clearing Saturday from
New York for San Juan and other Porto
AsiSnh poi Will Cdpl summons III command,
The steamship Carolyn, another of the A. H.
Bull d Co.'S fleet, cleared Saturday for Stock
ton. She is about 1000 tons smaller than the
Millinocket. The Carolyn, oddly enough, was
formerly the British tramp Park, the name of
the post-oftice. directly across the harbor from
the Cape Jellison piers.
SUNDAY SCHOOL SUPPER AND ENrERTA1N
MENT. One hundred and sixty members of the
Baptist Sunday school attended the picnic SUM-
per in the vestry last Friday evening The in
FAINT department was given the table of honor
on the platform, using the little chairs from
their class room. The older classes were seat
ed at class tables with the officers at a special
table, The following program was enioyed:
Piano Solo, Edith l.. Ruroess
Address, "The Happy Life
Mrs. May Robertson
song, Primary Department
remarks, Mrs. Chas E. Rhoades
Piano Solo, Miss MYRTLE Frost
Recltation, Miss Eva Morris
Remarks, Mr. Byron Greenjaw
hecl1ation, Eugere Parsons
Song, Male Quartette Wayland Knowlton.
N. E. Keene, +. L. Gay, L. C. Putnam
recitation, Miss Laura Morris
reading, Miss Bertha Royce
remarks, MIR. Chas. H. Twombly
Song, Ladies Quartette, Edna Hopkins, Goldie