The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-12-05
The estimates for public buildings submitted
to Congress- include SIS, 900 for Camden.

The next meeting of Seaside Chautauqua
Circle will be with Mrs. Lewis Cannon, 48 Con-
gress street, Monday afternoon, Dec. 9th. The
lesson will be from the C. L. S. C. book, chap
tiers fifteen and sixteen of Social Progress in
Contemporary Europe" and from the maga-
zine, European Rulers" Roll-cal, quotations
from the writings of Milton.
S. A. Parker was painfully injured last Sat-
urday afternoon while cranking his Harvester
truck. The crank clicked and struck him in
the left arm. At first it was thought that the
arm was broken, but it began swelling so badly
that it has been impossible to tell. The arm
was bandaged and put into splints and MIR.
Parker is resting quietly at his home,
The Christmas sale by the Womens Alliance
of the First Parish (Unitarian) will take place
in the church parlor Thursday afternoon, Dec.
18th, at 230 o'clock. Attractive fancy articles
suitable for Christmas gifts and large va
riety of aprons will be offered for sale. The
home cooking will be an attractive feature and
| there will be tempting display of homemade
candy. The patronage of the public is So
licited.
WHERE THEY SPENT THANKSGIVING. Miss
Helen Dunn, superintendent nurse at the
Waldo county hospital, at her home in Au-
gusta. Mrs. E. M. Hall with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Getchell. in Pennington.
Miss Caroline N. Field with her brother, Her.
bert T. Field, in Portland. Howard Cheney,
drug clerk at A. A. Howes & Cos, with rela-
tives in Portland. Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin A.
Jones of the Windsor Hote! with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Achorn, in Camden. Mr..
and Mrs. Edgar L. Harding with his brother in
Waldo. Miss Emma Hichborn of the James
H. Howes dry goods store at her home in
Stockton. Miss Mildred Dodge at her home in
Islesboro with her parents, Capt. and Mrs. S.
Dodge. Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Richards and
daughter Evelyn in Lincolnville with Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Hardy, the latter their daughter,
formerly Miss Gladys Richards. Hon. and
Mrs. L. T. Shales with Dr. and Mrs. Porter
Hurd in Waterville Mr. and Mrs. Charles M.
/ Harmon and child and DR.. Bert Harmon of
| Philadelphia with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
/ l. H. Harmon, in Bangor. Miss Hazel Barnard
of the Belfast High school at her home in
Lewiston. Benz. A. Tuttle with his family in
Auburn.
THE ARTS AND CRAFTS ENTERTAIN. The
room of the Belfast Arts and Crafts society, &c
Church street, was the scene Wedne day of a
most delightful gathering, when the active
members entertained Mrs. Annie Caldwell
Mower, president, and Mrs.Elvira Caswell, chair
man of the Arts ard Crafts committee, of the
Waterville Woman's Club The guests arrived
on the morning train and went directly to the
society's room, where an informal reception
was held, various phases of the work of the
club discussed and the finished work examined.
At 1890 O'Clock lunch was served under the d.
rection of Mrs Annie S. Craig, chairman of
the domestic science committee. The menu
was clam bouil Ion, crackers, olives, hot rolls,
chicken sa lad, coffee, assorted cake, sailed al
monds, divinity fudge and minis. After So
cial hour the Watervile guests left on the
afternoon train and the associate members OF
the Belfast club and the local reporters, who
were also special guests, were invited to re-
main for auction bridge and other amuse-
ments The Waterville ladies present besides
those above mentioned were Mrs. jeanette
Meader, Mrs. Katherine Dawson, Mrs. Nellie
E. Owen, Mrs. Edith McCallum, Misses Leols
Adams and Elizabeth Dunbar.
WATER FRONT IMPROVEMENTS. The Coe
Mortimer building, which it is said will be
the second largest building of the kind in the
country when completed continues to grow
and as fast as the frames are up the sides are
boarded, the roof covered and the painter:
follow. The building is very solidly construct
ed and has many interested visitors The tive
spur railway tracks have been extended near
ly to Bridge street -. Another improvement
in this ne ighborhood is the transformation O.
the William Holt house, which stands between
the railway track and Water street. opposite
the sardine factory, now owned by an en-
ployee of the Lubec Sardine Co. Practical,
another story has been added, with vel
lighted basement and large L, and from ap
pearances it is intended as boarding place
for employees of the factory, for which it i:
well adapted. Capt. Hayes has sold two O
the old buildings in the Pendeton formerly
Dyer yard to Leroy Coombs, who is taking
them down and will utilize the best of The
anu AuS Se poii0ihS w al
the carpenter shop in connection with thu
Dyer marine railway, and later was occupied
by o. R. Webster as boat shop. He bull
one good sized sloop there The smaller build
ing was last occupied by J. Frank Burkett as
boat shop Both buildings were dilapidatet
and about ready to fall down and their re
moval will be an improvement to that neigh
borhood. Capt. Hayes has also sold the OF
barrels used in attempting to float the wreck
ed schooner on Coomb's ledge, which wer,
stored in large building on the upper side O
the yard.
THE ELoPEMENT OF ELLEN The societ,
drama, 1.-The Elopement of Ellen" was sue
cessfully presented at The Colonel Theate
last Friday evening by amateur cast, unde
the auspices of the North church Guild. TIL,
performance began with a candy selling act
with the following cast: Elon B. Gilchrist, al
Irishman; Clifford ]. Pattee, sport in whit,
suit and red necktie; Bert l.. Davis, Rube
and Thomas Bowker, colored girl. To music b.
Lakes orchestra they passed among the audi
ence selling boxes of home made candy at tel
cents box and their success made the efforts
of the professional candy butcher at circu
look like 80 cents. The only reason they di,