The Republican journal., 1911-06-08
The filling in at the sardine plant was finish.

The filling in at the sardine plant was finish
ed last Thursday, although as the filling settles
about Of an inch day more gravel will have
to be hauled before the cement floor of the
| building can be laid. The concrete pillars were
up for the first story for three fourths the
length of the building Saturday and work had
begun on the second story.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Sch Emma F. Angel
which discharged hard pine at this port, was
| towed to Stonington last week to load stone
for New York Capt. Ralph W. Pattershal
| spent few days at his home in this city the
| past week while his vessel, schooner Harold
c. Beecher, was discharging coal in Camden
The Beecher is now loading stone at Hurricane
| Island for Philadelphia The latest advices
| from the wrecked schooner Edward 7. Stotes-
bury at Knights Key, Fla, bought by Pendle-
ton Bros, were that tug had been chartered
| to tow her to Jacksonville. The Stotesbury is
| l,2I7 tons net and was built at Verona, Me-, in
1900 in the yard in which the Peary steamer
| Roosevelt was built -. The barge Coadale ar
rived Sunday from Elizabethport with 1912
tons of stove and chestnut coal for the Swan &
! Sibley Co.
| A No-LICENSE MOVEMENT. A meeting OF
| those in favor of the retention of the prohibi-
tory amendment to the constitution was held
/ IN the Board of Trade rooms last Friday even
| ing. Portland has such an organization, which
| includes IN the membership men of all parties
| IN every county in the State and most of the
| counties have been organized for work along
this line. Waldo County is represented in this
| organization by M. j. Dow of Brooks, who has
| organized the county and begun speaking
campaign in which the clergymen have been
enlisted. At the meeting Friday evening par
| tlculars were given of this organization and OF
| It's plans for the campaign. Preliminary steps
were taken for the forming of the Belfast No
| License club and the meeting adjourned sub
| Ject to call. The movement is strictly non
partisan, and it is hoped to have the aid and CO.
operation of all friends of temperance.
| STEAMER NOTES. The Eastern Steamship
Company's turbine steamer Belfast was RAM
med by the ferry boat Newtown Wednesday
| dock at Boston. There was considerable ex-
element among the passengers on both crafts
| for few minutes but when the Newtown
| backed off at was seen that only few plates
on the port bow of the Belfast were stove in.
The Maine steamer made fast to her pier with
out further trouble and after some delay the
ferry boat proceeded to East Boston. The
| RelfaSt left that affarpoon of fbo ,,suo1 bour
for Bangor, but was delayed by fog and did not
arrive here until I p. m. Thursday. -. The
steamer Anna Belle, Capt. Ben Arey, is adver-
tised to leave Bangor every Sunday morning
at o'clock for Northport, until further notice
80. The Eastern Steamship Co. has sold the
| steamer Penobscot to New York concern
who will run her excursion boat between
| the Battery and Shelter Island. The Penob-
scot was built at Boston in 1882 for the Bos tor
and Bangor route and in her day was the queen
of the fleet, but since the advent of the tur-
bines had been used as spare boat. The Pc
nobscot made her first trip east from Boston
June 9, 1882, in command of Capt. w. R. Roix
George F. Wood was purser and A. H. Hanscom
! freight clerk. She had band and distin-
guished company on board on her first trip and
was given an enthusiastic reception at all the
landings.
THE CoBE ROAD HEARING. A hearing be-
fore the county commissioners in regard to the
change in the public highway asked for by Ira
M. Cobe of Chicago, summer resident OF
| Northport, was held May 31st at the CODE
garage in Northport George E. Bryant
chairman of the county commissioners presid-
ed. The petitioners were represented by
Charles o. Dickey of Northport and DIR. w. L.
West of Belfast, and the opponents by Arthur
Richie, ESQ.,, of Belfast. Col: A. S. Bangs Of
Augusta and Mr.. Clements, summer residents
at Temple Heights, who led the opposition at
the first hearing. were not present. The pc
! titioners claim that the proposed change will
! be general public convenience, that it is nee
essary, and that it is civic improvement
which the county will get at no cost whatever
that nine tenths of the tax payers are in favor
of it, and that nine-tenths of those who oppos
! ed 1t before are now in favor of it. Repre-
, sentatives from various sections of the town
/ were present and spoke in favor of the change
Among them were Herbert Banton of Bangor
a neighbor of Mr.. Cobe; Daniel B. Wing OF
Boston. property owner at Saturday Cove
and R. j. Hurd, chairman of the board of Sc
lectmen, who was one of the opposers at the
| first hearing. Giles G. Abbott, Mark Wadir
and Mason l. Stevens, large property owners
in the farming district of Northport, also
spoke in favor of the change. Philo c. Blais
dell of New York, large property owner and
summer resident, is also very much in favor Of
the change. The opposition claimed that thu
change in the road is unnecessary, and that il
will Inconvenience several, while benefittins
Mr.. Cobe. The matter was given a very fair
judicial and impartial hearing. The count,
commissioners reserved their decision
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