The Republican journal., 1911-06-22

There will be meeting of the Humane So
ciety Friday evening, June 23rd at Memorial
Hall.
There will be food sale in the Universaist
vestry tomorrow, Friday, afternoon at 8
o'clock
Another circus is coming. Sparks triple
circus and double menagerie will show in Bel
fast July 18th.
There will be band concert on schoolhouse
common this, Thursday, evening, at 73O
o'clock, weather permitting.
The dancing season will be opened at Tenn
pie Heights tomorrow, Friday, evening, in
the auditorium, with music by Reyes orches-
ira.
The Masonic field day to be given by Phoe-
nix and Timothy Chase Lodges and Primrose
Chapter, 0. E. S, at the park has been post
poned to fall
We are obliged to defer until next week
report of the Grand Army encampment, and
of the meetings of allied organizations, in Au-
gusta last week.
The W. C. T. U. will meet this, Thursday,
afternoon with Mrs. G. W. Madden, 95 Con-
gress street, and the L. T. L. will meet next
Tuesday afternoon in the Methodist vestry
Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens and Miss Anna Cor
don of the National Womans Christian Tenn
perance Union will be in Belfast Sunday,
July 3D. and address public meeting The
particulars will be given in our next issue.
The Daniel Ryan Co. which played in the
Belfast Opera House last Tuesday night was
such fine company that Manager Clifford i'm
mediateiy engaged them for return date
Thursday, June goth, when Mr. Ryan will be
seen in a new play
i fish weir has been constructed at City
point 1t is owned by Levi Clay and operated
by Ralph Wording. A limited supply of ale
wives is taken daily and are for sale at the
weir Eels are plentiful, and shad pollock and
enormous skate have also tried the new trap.
1t is to be fitted for sardines later.
| Walter ]. Clifford, manager of the Opera
House, has very generously offered to give a
four reel picture show July 9Th under the aus
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receive half of the proceeds, which will be
added to the subscription fund for improve
ments at the CHUCK"
| There will be an excursion to Rockland next
MONDAY, leaving this city at 7.30 a. m. on the
steamer Castine, to see the battleship Utah,
the largest in the American navy, in her trial
runs. The steamer will land at Rockland in
season for dinner and few hours stay in that
CITY, The big ship must make 2Oa knots to
meet her contract and will make twenty trial
runs off Rockland. For information, ask Mr..
Dlckey.
Miss June X. Hills, formerly of Belfast, saws
OF the first performance of Pepita: 1.-THE
operetta was full of tuneful melody, richly
harmonized and of kind that places it we'll
ABOVE mediocrity. The finale of the first act
was worked up to a climax hardly excelled by
IKE works of our best known light opera
WRITER'S. The opera will be given in Belfast
sometime in July by our best local talent.
The will of the late Mary E., widow of DIR
John u. Brooks, has been probated. There
are no public requests. The Brooks house,
corner of Church and Spring streets, goes to
the Bragdon family, nephews and nieces of
Or. Brooks 1t is for sale, and is in the hands
OF the executor, Clement W. Wescott of the
City National Bank, who will dispose of it
when buyer presents himself The house will
remain open until sold, in charge of Miss EVE
L. Holmes, who had been with Mrs. Brooks
Tor many years. 1t is hoped some one may
buy the property for boarding house, for
which it is well adapted by location and other
| wise.
! The following members of the Belfast Gun
Club have entered the contest for the "Read
Trophy: Raymond R. Sherman, E. R. Esta-
brooks, W. A. Blodgett, M. A. Sanborn, John
Dow, c. R. Coombs, Fred Sylvester Charles
Brown, Everett Hamilton, E. l.. Harding, H.
| R. Howes, E. B. Glchrest, c. E. Read, H. C.
! Buzzell, Virgil L. Hall, VIM. H. Hall. The
club extends an invitation to any who NAV
wish to enter the contest The first
shoot was held June 18th, with the following
| record of total points, those falling below
| total Of 16 not scoring: c. R. Coombs, 5; c. E.
Read, 4; V. L. Hall, 8; W. A. Blodgett, 2; E. R.
Estabrooks, Fred Sylvester, Charles Brown, E.
l.. Harding and H. C. Buzzell, each. The
second shoot in the series will be held tomor-
| row, Friday, afternoonat o'clock