The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-03-09

n. rr,,v.-..l;.t social Aid will meet with
Mrs. F. G. Mixer this, Thursday. afternoon 1t
o'clock.
| Fred d Jones of earle & Jones has bought
Ford and taken the agency for that we'll
known and popular car Look for his advt.
| next week.
Patrons of the Opera House are enthusiastic
in their praise of the pictures Manager Cliff
ford is throwing on the screen They are up
to-date in every respect and are drawing good
houses.
Mr.. Hamlin E. Jenkins of Monroe. deputy
sheriff under Sheriff Edwin Jenkins has re-
signed and will move to Brooks, where with
Edward Colson he has bought and will operate
the Peavey saw mill.
A bankruptcy petition has been filed with
the clerk of the U. S. district court by Frank A.
Smith, farmer, of Winterport. His secured
debts are $1,000; value of securities, $780, I'M
secured debts, s1Oee 40, Mayo & Snare, Bangor,
attorneys.
The people of East Northport wish to ex-
tend thanks to Mr.. Charles R. Coombs, who
kindly gave Victor Talking Machine concert
in tie chapel last Tuesday evening for the
benefit of the church. A party accompanied
Mr. Coombs and all present enjoyed the music
and the social time that followed.
Mr.. Frank L. Field has bought of Mr. E. A.
Banks the farm known as the Henry Jackson
place on the Morrill, road in Waldo, about four
miles from Belfast. He will repair and reno
vate the building as soon as possible. Mr.. and
Mrs. Field expect to move to their new home
about the middle of April
The Waldo Telephone Company is now estab-
lished in its new offices in the Savings Bank
block, Custom House square, having accom-
plished the moving Saturday night and Sunday.
Service was given except between the hours
of $50 Saturday evening and o'clock Sunday
morning, and everything is now running very
smoothly. The new quarters are very CON-
modious and up-to date in every way, and are
as fine as any offices of the kind in the State.
The business Office is now on the ground floor.
"OLp FOLKS" CONCERT AND DANCE. The
old folks concert and dance given in Seaside
Grange hall last Friday night was decided
success, despite the counter attraction of "Hi-
awatha" at the Opera House. The concert in
cluded selections by Keyes' orchestra; piano
duet, Polish dance, by Misses A. Louise Den
nett and Miss Frances Abbott; baritone solo
by John Parker; a vocal duet Absent, by Mr..
and Mrs E. S. Pitcher; contralto solo, Bartlett's
Dream, Mrs. Pitcher; bass solo, Pm off for
Philadelphia in the Mornin', Mr.. Pitcher. A
dance followed the concert, for which Keyes
orchestra furnished the music, and among the
numbers enjoyed were Spanish and Hop, Lady
of the Lake. Fishers Hornpipe, Hulps Victory,
Boston Fancy, Virginia Reel and others. At IL
O'Clock an oyster stew was served.
city wrote to the Boston Globe to enquire
where chess was first played. The Globe re-
piled as follows:
Although the origin of chess is enshrouded
In considerable mystery, there is but little
doubt that its birthplace was in India and that
it is an offspring of game called chaturanga,
which is mentioned in oriental literature as in
use fully 1000 years before the Christian era
From India chess spread into Persia, and
thence into Arabia, and ultimately the Arabs
! took it to Spain and the rest of western Europe
The game was, in all probability, invented for
the purpose of illustrating the art of war. The
Arab legend upon this point is that it was de-
vised for the instruction of young despot by
his father, learned Bramin, to teach him that
king, Notwithstanding his power, was de-
pendent for safety upon his subjects. The
Greek historians credit the invention of the
game to Palamedes, who, they claim, devised
it to beguile the tedium of the siege OF Troy
during the Trojan war.