The Republican journal., 1911-11-23
The News of Belfast.

| AAS ANSVS Vi DClloSk.
Mrs 5. A. Parker was the hostess Wednes-
day afternoon in the first of series of whist
parties given under the auspices of the La
dies Hospital Aid. There were six tables of
progressive bridge, and light refreshments
were served.
/ Miss Alice Aborn and Mrs. E. S. Bowker
went to Brooks last Saturday with line of
new coats and dresses from Carle & Jones, and
held an opening there They met with cor
dial welcome from the people of Brooks and
had most successful sale.
! At the Pathological Society fruit exhibition
In Augusta last week Harry W. Lttlefield of
Brooks got first premium for an individual
exhibit, and IN the county collection premiums
were awarded as follows: ]. R. Littlefield.
Brooks. 1st: H. W. Littlefed, Brooks, I'd.
This seems to be year of plenty, season
of big apples and big vegetables. Last week
F. {. Woods of Northport brought some vege-
tables to Chas. F. Swift's which included a
table beet weighing pounds and two carrots
weighing 4 and 1-2 pounds, respectively.
The kennebec Journal has reproduced photo
graph of four squashes raised by E. ]. Hatch of
Augusta from one seed. and said of them:
They are OF unplaced variety, in color light
cream, and handsome. The largest weighs 291
pounds, the others 20i, l63 and IA For the
product of single vine it is indeed splendid
showing
Y, The family of the late Jacob G. Cook have
presented his portrait to be hung in the regis
try OF deeds, where he held the office of Regis
ter for the y years following his election in
1882 1t is good likeness and is framed in oak
and gilt The Democratic ticket of 1882 was
j. R. Tabor and VIM. NJ. Rust senators; Ansel
Wadsworth, sheriff; William Berry, Clerk of
courts; George E. Wallace, county attorney;
Jacob &. Cook, register of deeds; l. B. Thomp-
son and II. p. Farrow, county commissioners
and George r. Sleeper, county treasurer Only
two are living, H. P. Farrow, the present regis
ter of deeds, and j. R. Tarbor, postmaster at
Unity.
! STEAMER NoTEs. The Bull Steamship Co. is
to put on second steamer, between Stockton
Springs and New York to accommodate the
present heavy freight traffic. The company is
at present operating the steamshipMilnocket,
which makes one round trip per week. Last
week she carried so carloads of paper from
the Great Northern Paper Co.'S mills at Milli-
nocket, four cars of canned corn. a carload of
sardines and several cars of potatoes. There
are 10000 tons of paper at Cape Jelllson now
awaiting Shipment and the potato shipments
are at their height. The new steamer will be
continued until the present freight rush is
over. The steamer Rockland of the Bangor
and Brooksville run will make her last trip on
Nov. 25th. -. The last steamer between the
kennebec and Boston for this season has sail
ed, and Nov. 18th the boats of the Boothbay
Division went on the winter schedule making
one trip daily each way. Despite the gales on
the eoast-one reported as 60 miles an hour
the steamers of the Eastern Steamship Co. not
only did not miss trip last week, but arrived
and departed on schedule time 1t would have
( been hard stunt for the old sidewheelers.
The winter schedule of the Eastern Steamship
Co., two round trips per week between Bangor
and Boston or Winterport will go into effect
Dec. 4th. A steamer will leave Bangor at II
a. M, on Mondays and Thursdays, arriving
from Boston Wednesdays and SATURDAYS. 1t
is not known here whether the Belfast or the
Camden will remain on the route When the
river closes the steamers will make their east
ern terminus at Winterport. They will leave
I there at 1890 a. m
/ SUGGESTIVE SERMON. Civic Improvement
was the theme of Rev. D. L. Wilson's sermon
at the North church last S,pJ,v ,,,orn;,ox 49,
it both suggestive and inspiring. He
spoke of the many signs of increasing business
in Belfast and thought there should be efforts
for moral as well as material advancement. Of
/ the churches he said that while the time had
not yet come for such a consolidation he
thought that two or three churches would be
able to do more and better work than the
seven or eight we have. Of the schools
/ ne spoke right out in meeting" referring
to the unsanitary buildings in which they are
held and the need for light to which public at
tention was recently called by the offer of the
I High school students to contribute S25 to the
cost of the lights necessary TO enable them to
pursue their studies. Mr. Wilson said he had
been informed that no meeting of the school
committee had been held since last April and
that we believe is correct. The fact is, the
school committee has been made part of the
mayors political machine and meets only
when he wants to remove janitor or super
intendent, to make place for one of his fol-
lowers. Up to the advent of the present may
or. from the time it began its meetings in 1894,
politics had not entered into the deliberations
of the school committee or influenced its ac-
ton. In making nominations for this COM
niittee it was sought to select those who had
children in the schools or were interested in
their welfare. This policy was continued until
Belfast was called upon to endure one-man
city government, conducted solely for the per-
sonal gain and aggrandizement of single
individual.
IN MEMORIAM.
Mrs, Lizzie IothrOp Pote