The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-07-13

The Universalist Social Aid will meet with
Miss Elizabeth Kelley this, Thursday, after
noon at 2.3O o'clock.
There will be food and apron sale in the
Baptist vestry tomorrow friday afternoon at
2. 80 o'clock. The public is cordially invited.
Listen! Do you hear the music? the music
from the Prohibition auto which comes this
way about July goth. Some fine speakers,
too!
Freedom Academy will reopen Tuesday,
September 5th with large entering class
already registered. For information apply to
Principal WIZ Holman or Am. Small, Freedom.
The Waldo county bar endorsed the candi-
dacy of Hon. J. H. Montgomery for appoint
ment to fill the vacancy on the bench of the
Supreme Court, but the plum went elsewhere.
The old hand tub, Hydrant No. 2, used here
in many fires since 1867, and of which Peter
WEIGH was captain, was tried out by the fire
department last Friday night and worked so
well that it was decided to have it repaired for
use.
Unclaimed letters remaining in the Belfast
post Office for the week ending July 18th: Mrs.
Greenau. Miss Luella Rainey, Mrs. c. H.
Woods, o. E. Duffie, Charles Hart, Raymond
Newton Hyde, E. F. Mahoney, B. F. Knowles.
H. H. Stiles, ]. H. Stevenson, Harry Whitney.
We have received very pretty post card
giving view of the Soldiers Home landing
at Minneapolis, on the Mississippi river, and
the sender, Mrs. S. A. Reed writes: "Just
greeting from old Belfaster, who is very
loyal to her old home, but who thinks Minne-
apolis is beautiful city,
| INTENSE HEAT. George E. Bracket says:
81 have looked over my record of temperature
for about so years and find the follow
ing data: July d, 1911, at p. m. 81 de-
grees; July Srd, SO degrees; July End, 80 de-
. grees. find only few nneties, viz; 1891, 81
degrees; 1892 and 1898, 90 degrees and in 1901,
SO degrees, which is the hottest l ever reco ID
ed on my thermometer Later. Wednesday
| July 18th, made the temperature a. M 10
degrees; 10 a. m. 80 degrees; noon 50 degrees;
+ and 2 p. m. 80 degrees.
The editor of The Journal has been absent
four days on an infrequent vacation-attend-
ing the Maine Press excursion to Moosehead
4 Lakeland finds on returning to his desk much
ii
Y have to be defe rred until another issue. Usu-
ally the accumulation of exchanges has been
gone through after similar trips, but that was
S found impossible because of the immediate
ir demand for "copy.
Members of the Eastern Star who went to
n Belfast last Friday evening to visit Primrose
=, Chapter of that place will not soon forget the
II bountiful hospitality extended by that Chap
Y. ter About 40 went from here, some going
by autos and others by steamer Castine, which
e also took the Vinalhaven members. A SPLEEN
o did supper, the menu affording everything de-
If licous, was served to the visitors. The work
was performed by Primrose Chapter and after
wards the floral degree was conferred by Mar
o guerite Chapter. 1t was very delightful time
for all who attended.--Camden Herald.
a Miss Cora S. Morrison gave delightful tea
- on the lawn at her home Court street, last
20 Friday afternoon, in honor of Miss Elizabeth
y A. Qumby, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George
q A. Quimby, whose marriage to Chapman S.
4 Pineo of Mayaguez. Porto Rico, will take
= place in August. There were fourteen guests.
:. Late in the afternoon Miss Qumby was pre-
A scented with an arts and crafts basket filled
,. with kitchen linen to be used in her new home
8 in Porto Rico.
Il Mrs. Horace Chenery gave an At Home last
IS Saturday afternoon at the Chenery summer
e home, Crosby Place. Mrs. Chenery and her
). mother. Mrs. Henry Lloyd of New York, re-
: ceived. Tea poured by Mrs. James F.
e Preston of Lowell, Mass, and Miss Louise
7. Hazeltine of Primrose Hill, and was served by
:. the Misses Catherine and Elizabeth Quimby,
r. Evelyn and Cora Morrison, and Margaret
If no ets odd
=, walk about the grounds which, with the gar
! den,w much admired.
a A merry party of young ladies enjoyed an
e automobile ride from Dexter to Belfast last
a Sunday and spent the day at the attractive
e home of Mrs. Geo. F. Ryan at the Upper
s. Bridge. delicious lunch was served in the
e cozy summer house, where the cool and re-
t. freshing salt water breeze won much admira-
d ton from the visitors. The party made
d up mostly of telephone operators, including
e Miss Marie d. Kelley, chief operator the
l. Misses Maude NJ. Kimball, Stella M. Young
II and Ethel M. Monahan, operators, Miss Alice
e NJ Thorndyke, clerk, and also manager of the
ii Western Union, and Miss Eta Monahan, a
5. popular miiner. During the afternoon they
}. were shown through the new telephone office
= here by MIR. Donald Spear, of Manager
d Spear. They also enjoyed ride through
1t some of the prettiest streets of the city be-
y fore returning home. Only of the girls
l. having ever visited Belfast it was a rare treat
y to the rest and one long to be remembered.
e Miss Thorndyke did not return with them, but
l. will enjoy three weeks vacation at her home
: in this CITY,
s.. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. You will find the
Ia choicest meats and the freshest vegetables at
John A. Fogg's market in the Howes' block,
- corner of Main and High streets. There are
two expert meat cutters to attend to your
wants. Telephone A. Mrs. Katherine F. Gray
continues the business at the Specially Suit
parlors in Masonic Temple, formerly conducted
by Gray & Hoffses. See her advt. of garments
appropriate for the season.: In going on your
vacation don't forget to take a box of the
Holeproof stockings, sold only at The Dins-