The Republican journal., 1911-04-06

evening. n
Waldo county is entitled to name member
of the Governors council for the years 1884.
File your claims now.
Boston reported that last Sunday was the
coolest April End since 1871. It was not par
! ticularly sultry here.
| Gov. Plaisted has nominated Clifford ]. Pat
tee of Belfast and H. w. Elwell of Northport
| as justices of the peace.
The regular monthly business meeting of
the Women's Hospital Aid will be held at the
hospital Friday, April 7th. at 2S0 p. m.
Unclaimed letters remaining in the Belfast
post Office for the week ending April LIST: Mrs.
John Taylor, Bert Keller Amos Russell
The Womens Alliance of the First Parish
| (Unitarian) church will meet at the home of
Mrs. James S. Hartman. Pearl street, thie.
Thursday. afternoon at 2.3O o'clock. The sub.
ject Of the paper will be Socialism.
Parties who went out to Pitchers pond Mon
day report the finest ice-boating of the season.
The ice was smooth and brisk breeze, almost
| gale. sent the boats along at lively rate.
The same conditions prevailed Tuesday.
MIR Osgood Woodbury., an aged citizen Of
Northport. met with serious accident at his
home last Monday afternoon. He was saving
wood by power when large stick slipped,
striking his right leg and crushing the bones
in two places below the knee. DIR. II. A. Wood
was called to reduce the fractures.
The annual Easter sale and supper under
the auspices of the Universalist Ladies' Circle
and Social Aid will be held in the church vestry
on Thursday afternoon and evening, April 18th
The sale will! begin at $50 p m. Aprons, sun
| bonnets, fancy articles and home candy
will be for sale, and there will also be fancy
and flower table in charge of the Junior Aid
Supper tickets, IS cents.
Nv. Miller opened his fur and millinery par
lors in the Howes block, corner of Main and
High Streets last Saturday. 1t was the first
millinery opening of the season. Many of the
hats were advertised by Mr. Miller as "My
Own Creations so that Belfast enjoys the
distinction of having a man milliner Next
Saturday the other sex will have their innings.
The M. M. M. C. Girls will hold an all days
fair and sale at the Methodist church Satur-
day, April sth, beginning at ga m. Lunches
will be served during the day and food and
! candy will be sold The public are cordially
invited to call and patronze the 81 lie. In the
evening short entertainment. entitled 1.-The
Business Meeting of the Club will be given.
Lancaster & Wight shipped Il 900 bushels of
potatoes last month, for which they paid 80
cents bhshel-two cents more than was paid
at shipping points on the railway. The report
published in local paper that Belfast buyers
were paying only rs cents bushel while out
side buyers were paying 80 cents wide
of the truth as most statements from the same
source.
E. L MacoInber is building large dory for
his own use as tender to his auxiliary sloop
Bogie and for freighting between Belfast and
Islesboro He will leave soon for Ryders Cove
to begin his seasons work on the Drexel fleet
of power boats. Two handy and comfortable
launches are nearly completed at the Macom-
Der shop on Front street and are for sale.
They are good boats for use on bay or pond
and should find ready sale.
SHOE WORKERS ELECT OFFICERS. At the
meeting of the Belfast Boot and Shoe Work
ers' Union, held at their rooms Thursday even
ing, March 3Oth, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: W. F. Sprague,
president; George H. Darby, vice president; R.
G. Latham, recording secretary; l. 7. Clough,
financial secretary; H. Michaels, treasurer; H.
A. Brown, Jesse Weber, F. X Pendleton, au-
ditng committee; Roscoe Black, trustee for
three years; C. W. Rogers, R. Ellis. Charles
Buckley, R. G. Latham, B. J. Benner, w. A.
Decrow, Frank Luce, H. Burgess, M O. Dickey
executive board. There was an opposition
ticket, but the foregoing were elected by
large majority. The Union has subscribed
$500 to the shoe factory fund, and may in
crease the amount to $1,000.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Repairs to the lake steam
er Kennebec, which stranded on Pasque island,
Vineyard sound, early in January while on
passage from Baltimore to Boston, have been
completed at New York and she has sailed for
Newport News to load coal for Searsport
Capt. c. F. Smith, formerly commander of the
steamer Orion, and recently in the ]. O. Eli
son, mas Deen engaged as collIHshoei VI 'he
Kennebec Captain Smith lives in Everett,
Mass, and is one of the best known navigators
in New England. -. The Oliver Ames, the
largest two-masted schooner afoat, which has
been hauled up at Portland the past winter,
will shortly go into commission. Capt Lewis
Buchanan of Calais will command her.
! Sch. J. Manchester Haynes is IS days out from
Brunswick, Ca, for Boston with a cargo
of yellow pine, and naturally there is some
uneasiness concerning her. The Haynes was
built at Waldoboro in 1886 and was named
after the late j. Manchester Haynes of Au-
gusta. The managing owners are Rogers q
Webb of Boston . Sch. Grace Davis is load
ing paving at Somes' Sound for New York. and
sch Charlotte T. Sibley is loading paving at
Frankfort for New York. -. Sch. N 4. aver,
Mazrall sailed from Sullivan. March 3lst, with
stone for New York. :. Sch. Alice b. Philips,
Brunswick, Ga, for New Haven mot Annie b.
Mitchell, as first reported), was run into morn
ing of March 9th in the vicinity of Winter
Quarter lightship by steamer City of Sayan-
| nah She received but slight damage Sch
Franconia sailed from this port April LIST for
| Sullivan and New York. The schooner had
| been hauled up here during the winter Sen;
Pendleton Sisters, Capt. Jere Hayes, arrived
at Sabina Pass, Texas, March 18th Capt. W.