The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-01-05

The valuation of Waldo county in 1910 was
$40, 1874 ,e74, an increase over 1909 of $40, 141.
The valuation of Belfast in 1910 $685.
513, and in 1909 81, TIC, 343 an increase of $780,,
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Don't forget that the Chapman concert will
be given in the Belfast Opera House January
Goth. 1t will be the musical event of the sea-
son. There will be reduced rates the rail-
roads. Don't fail to secure your certificates at
once, as you will have two days in advance of
the general public to secure your reserved
seat without extra charge and avoid the rush
at the doors the night of the concert.
PooRs MILLS. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward H.
! Colby of Sunset were guests of Annabell In
derwood last week. They left for home Tues
day -. Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Monroe entertained
/ friends Christmas. =. Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Higgins had family gathering at their home
Christmas Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Marsh en-
tertained company Christmas Mr.. and Mrs
F. T. Wentworth entertained friends New
Years day. Mrs. Estelle Haley has been Wis
iting her brother, ". A. Banks. =. Herman
Wood of Montana was a guest of his sister,
Mrs. Arthur Higgins, last week.
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS. Among the Christ
mas cards which have reached US, bringing
words of greeting and good cheer, is one from
a dear friend in far away California, bearing
the words of old Quaker Health:
"Heres to thee and thy folks
From me and my folks
Sure there never was folks
Since folks was folks,
Ever loved any folks
| Half as much as and my folks
Love thee and thy folks"
What wonder that the quaint simple words
awoke an echo in our hearts. From the yacht
Alcedo, cat Sea in the Persian Gulf, Nov. 22,'
comes another remembrance telling of those
who in far distant lands have time for kindly
Christmas thought for their Belfast friends
THUS far we have steamed about ten thousand
miles, The distance gives one realizing
sense of the vastness of this journey and of
the miles to be spanned before next June
| finds the travellers safely back at Gripshom
R. 7. N.
In FRIDAY NIGHTS GALE. Sch. Harold c.
Beecher, Capt. Ralph W. Pattershall, whose
arrival at this port has been reported in the
daily papers every day or two for the past ten
days, really arrived last Sunday from Boston
with fertilizer for jackson & Hall, and berthed
at Lewis wharf She looked as though she
had come from the Arctic regions. Her hull
was cased in ice, was the forward house.
and there was at least inches of ice on her
deck. The fore rigging on the starboard side
was cased in ice above the side light. The
Beecher came out of Boothbay last Friday
night and experienced the gale that ragged that
night. Her forestaysail was carried away, and
wherever the seas struck they made ice. The
run to Searsport was made in 9 hours, and
some difficulty was experienced in getting the
anchors down, and after the vessel was
chored it took three hours to get the two jibs
down and slowed. Capt. Pattershall had two
fingers frozen. The Beecher came into port
Sunday under her own sail.
SHIPPING ITEMsS Mention was made last
week of an ocean race from Portland to Hamp-
ton Roads in which two six-masters and three
five-masters were engaged, and this week We
can report that the George W. Wells, Capt
Joe York, was the winner. He left after the
Dorothy B. Barrett and Baker Palmer, over
hauled and passed them and distanced the
others The J. W. Beardsley & Sons Co. of
PASSPORT have bought the schooner Flora Tenn
pie of 80 tons, formerly haing from Winter
port, equipped her with motor engine and
will employ her in their smoked fish business
....Capt L. E. Rice, who recently sold his
packet schooner, the Hattie Loring has bought
the sch. Kate L. Pray of Sc tons net built at
Eden in 1886, hailing port, Deer Isle, and will
continue in the packet business between Port
land and Washington county ports. Sch
Triton arrived Sunday from Addison with
granite for A. S. Heal and discharged at Swan
& Sibleys.. OF fleet of $50 sail coasting
vessels owned in Rockland and Rockport in
1900, most of them engaged in the lime carry
ing trade, not over fifty are now afoat, and
most of them are having very precarious ex-
. istence. The acknowledgment Lime COM
pany sounded the knell of the lime fleet by
building ten years ago half dozen steel
barges and an ocean going tug, and now prac-
tically controls the lime business, the few
schooners yet in the carrying trade being
owned by the company. Since 1900 there has
been a steady decrease in the Rockland fleet,
many being lost at sea, others sold away and
most of the few now afoat are engaged in
carrying lumber during the summer months
from Bangor and other eastern ports to Boston
and New York. :. Capt. Eben E. Wall. the
hero of the Holliswood wreck in the Gulf of
Mexico, the only man who chung to the vessel
after all the crew had departed, added New
Years joy to the home on Maple street, Hol-
lowell. Jan. LIST, by suddenly appearing there
coming rather unexpectedly from Galveston.