The Republican journal., 1912-02-08

should be large attendance. as there are sew
eral matters to be planned for.
| The next meeting of Seaside Chautauqua
Circle will be with Mrs. A. L. McKeen. No. 16
Church street, Monday afternoon, February
1 18th. The lesson will be from the c. L. S. c.
book, Materials and Methods of Fiction" the
/ introduction and chapter one. Roll-call, cur
| rent events.
/ A special train that left about o'clock last
| Thursday night took about 100 Belfast people
! to Brooks to attend the Knights of Pythias
ball. There was large attendance, and two
halls and two orchestras were required to &C
commodate the dancers. The special train re-
turned to Belfast about 8 a. M Friday.
| Thomas H. Marshall Post and Circle will
observe Tuesday afternoon, Feb 18th, as Lin
coin day. All members are requested to at
tend and be prepared to take some part in the
exercises. Refreshments will be served after
the program and confectionery, fruits and nuts
are solicited from the members.
! A Democratic caucus will be held at the
Court House next Monday evening to nomi-
nate E. F. Hanson for mayor for one year and
| H. S. Cunningham for street commissioner for
two years. Wards l, and 8 will hold their
caucuses at the same place Immediately after
the general caucus. Wards and will hold
their caucuses Tuesday night at their respec-
i've ward rooms.
WEST BELFAST. Mrs. Alice Newcomb is at
| DR.. E. D. Tapley's hospital where she had a
very critical operation performed last Friday.
She is doing finely. Mrs. Elsie Patterson is
very low at this writing. She is at the home
of her daughter. Mrs. Frank Toothaker. =. Mr..
and Mrs. Eugene Wood spent Sunday in Sears
mont Mrs lisa Cunningham visited Mrs.
Laura Dckey in Morrill, last week Mr.. and
Mrs. Leslie Miller spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs Orrin Wade u. Miss Hattie Newcomb is
having a two weeks vacation from the store
of Garlic & Jones.
SHIPPING ITEMS. The good schooner Polly.
the oldest vessel afoat in the American mer-
chant marine, has left these waters and is now
owned in Massachusetts,; but we still have the
schooner Hiram, hailing from Calais and now
laid up on the St. Croix river, nine miles be-
low that city She is only II years younger than
the Polly, was built in Biddeford in 1919, and
was originally rugged as topsail schooner, as
were most of the vessels Of her tonnage (57
nett built at that time and for some years
later Of course she has undergone many re-
pairs, but the original bottom and keel remain
and are said to be in good state of preserva-
ton. The two-masted schooner Ned P.
Walker of SO tons, built at Jonesport in 1881
and haing from ucksport, has been bought
by concern calling itself the Boston Wreck
ing Company, and equipped with wrecking ap
paratus to search for sunken treasures on the
Spanish Main. For many years the Walker
has been engaged in the stone carrying trade
and she was named for the late Hon. E. p
Walker who was largely engaged in his day in
| the granite business.
A LECTURE ON SOUTH AMERICA. Wednesday
evening, February 18th, the lecture course
committee will furnish its patrons with an
illustrated lecture by Charles Wellington Fur
long on South America. Mr.. Furlong has lived
among the people he describes and studied
both land and people from the view point of
an explorer, scientist, painter and humanist.
The lecture will be superbly illustrated with
more than one hundred remarkable lantern
slides from photographs taken by Mr.. Furlong
personally. When desirable the slides are
accurately colored. The wonderful cities of
that great continent will to some extent be
shown, as well as the vast agricultural re-
sources. the impressive scenery of the Andes,
and the Giant Patagonians. In fact, very COM
prehensive survey of the territory and people
of "this great, dormant, continental chrysalis,
now awake and spreading its wings of oppor-
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ty." The G. A. R. will furnish SO more seats
for this Furlong lecture than were provided
for the Blattner lecture Japan. They will
also arrange Memorial hall so that an excellent
circulation of air will be secured for the entire
evening. The evening tickets will be so cents
for those not holding course tickets. The lee
ture will begin at o'clock, sharp.
HOME MISSIONARY WORK. Rev. James E.
Norcross of Boston, New England District
Secretary of The American Baptist Home Mis-
sionary Society, spoke in the Baptist church
last Thursday evening to a large and deeply
interested audience. His subject was
"Evangelizing the Foreigners in our Coun-
try" and he spoke from full knowledge
of existing conditions. Of the foreigners
numbers he said that many of them are am
bilious and eager to learn and in twenty-five
: years will be holding places of trust in the
, American nation, and every effort should be
made to christianize them. He touched upon
the liquor question, the menace of non church
attendance and the evils of race suicide. In
, this connection he told of one of the large
} tenement houses near Harvard College where
he lived with thirty-two families, and his was
the only one with children. When the men
> left for their work they would wave good -bye
to poodle dogs, angora cats and canary birds.
, These had their place, but could not be substi-
tuted for children. At the close of the lecture
the ladies OF the local missionary society serv-
: ed cake and cocoa and social hour followed
f MIR Norcross was the guest of Mrs S. H. Mat
thews while in Belfast
THE JAPANESE HOME AND ITS MISTRESS.
: The second lecture under the ,au spices of the
Improvement Society was given last Wednes-
day evening by Mrs. E. j. Battner and daugh-
{ ter of ST. Louis. Mrs Blattner spoke to large
and appreciative audience on the subject
"Ihe Japanese Home and its Mistress" Fol-
, lowing the lecture Miss Blattner demonstrated