The Republican journal., 1911-01-19

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! The Improvement society will meet viii
Mrs. Fred W. Pote next Monday afternoon q
2.3O O'Clock.
Lewis S. Hogan has been appointed rura
letter carrier and Mile F. Hogan, substitute
at Thorndike.
The Calendar Club of the Baptist church
will have sociable tomorrow, Friday evening
IN the church vestry
Joseph, the little six-year-old son OF Adel-
bert Nickerson was operated on Tor appen'
dlcitis at the Waldo County Hospital tuesday
He stood the operation well and is improving
The census returns show that Belfast has
| the largest percentage of children born OF
American parents during the past year, OF any
city in the State. Biddeford has the largest
percentage of foreign parents.
| The women's Alliance of the First Parish
(Unitarian) church will meet at the home OF
Mrs. Asa A. Howes. Church street. Tuesday,
January oath, at $50 o'clock. Mrs. Ellis Peter
son of Jamaica Plain, Mass, will be present
and speak on the subject of Southern
Missionary Work. Mrs. Peterson is promi-
nent member OF the National Alliance; a
Director at Large for Massachusetts, and
Chairman of the Committee on Southern Mis-
sionary Work. Her address will be of great
interest and value to all Alliance members.
William l.. Brewer, elder in Collegiate Re-
formed church of New York, recently present.
ed Trinity Reformed church of East Belfast
with series of 29 pictures of the life of
Christ. They are reprints from original paint
ings and were ordered from Germany. Cole
man & Co., of New York are engaged in plac-
ing the pictures in stationary frames in the
auditorium. The church and society deeply
appreciate the generosity of their New York
friends.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION. F. W. Brown,
clerk of the Belfast post office, assisted by H.
H. Carter, carrier, gave the civil service ex-
animation to 10 candidates last Saturday. 1t
began at 9 o'clock a. m. in the city council
room, Memorial building, and closed about
p. M Those taking the examination were
Miss Bertha l. Bird of Belfast and Messrs. B.
l.. Davis, Roy Latham, Frank B. Luce, L. F.
Robbins, Thomas E. Bowker, Bert E. Dodge,
Wilmot Choate, Otis W. Ellis, F. G. Blake and
c. E. Morgan of Belfast, Lewis P. Philbrick of
Knox and Ernest Higgins of Searsmont. The
papers were sent directly to the department
for ranking
The Posi- OFFICE. Just think of the dis
comforts of the semi-annual house cleaning
and multiply them several fold and you will
have some idea of what the post Office force is
undergoing while the improvements are in
progress. With the best arrangem nts that
can be made they have to perform their work
under great disadvantages and the public they
serve should refrain from growing. Conditions
are likely to be worse instead of better, for a
time at least as all the boxes in front are to
be taken out and box holders must be provided
for temporarily. The new boxes, which will
all be on the corridor on the south side of the
building, have not been rec eived and it must
be some time before they can be put in place.
The new money order office in the northwest
corner of the building is nearly completed
and when that is done the work of the post
Office will be transferred to the extension to
enable a new floor to be laid and other i'm
provements made in the front office. As the
work is now all indoors it can be carried on
without regard to the weather.
THE FIREMEN's BALL. The following com
mittees have been appointed by Hose Co. No.
l to take charge of the annual ball to be given
on January 9th in the Belfast Opera House.
Standing committee, Capt. George Darby;
foreman, William Decrow; assistant foreman,
Francis X. Pendeton; clerk, Bert Hamlin; mu-
sic, Loren Colcord, Martin Weber; hall. M. o.
Dickey, Lee Robinson; printing, Ralph Darby,
Fred Patterson; refreshments, Henry Brown,
Scott Gray. Reyes orchestra has been engag-
ed to furnish music for the affair. concert
will be given from to 9, followed by the
grand march and general dancing. Reyes or
chestra of IL pieces will furnish music. The in
vited guests will be the chief engineer and his
assistants, the officers of Seaside Hose Co., Off
GERS of Hook & Ladder 1, and the officers of
the Brooks, Camden and Searsport fire depart
ments. Refreshments will be served continu-
ously during the evening. The advance sale
of tickets has been large, and the boys are
working hard to make this affair one of the
most successful ever held by the company.
JUNGLE JOE" ALL RIGHT. The mayor, JAN
9Th, made the announcement concerning Joseph
Perkins of Ellingwoods Corner, Winterp ort,
that letter received from his son-i law stat
ed that 1.-THE old gentleman was too feeble to
come to Belfast at this time;" and $50 the civil
suit must go over to April and of course if Mr..
Perkins could not come to Belfast the case be-
fore the grand jury must also be postponed"
As the condition of Mr.. Perkins health is a
matter of SO much Importance letter was ad-
dressed to neighbor making enquiry as to his
condition The reply was: "Uncle Joe is all
right; he has never looked better since he came
to the Corner. He is still up at Bert p but
wants to keep house by himself, but cannot
find rooms. He has asked Charles Porter to
get him out lumber for a camp" Now either
the mayors statement as to the feeble con-
dition Of Mr.. Perkins must have been like other
statements emanating from the affidavit fac
tory or the invalid has made wonderful re-
covery. "Too feeble to come to Belfast"
"never looked better since he came to the Cor
ner;" wants to go to housekeeping by himself
and proposes to have camp built Perhaps
he has been taking Nutriola.
A BEAUTIFUL GIFT Mr.. and Mrs. Tileston