The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-03-07
NUMBER 10
PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Cooper are receiving
congratulations on the birth, Feb 2sth, of a
daughter.
Mrs. Essie P. Carle left last Friday for New
York to buy goods for the dry goods depart
ment of Carle & Jones.
John F. Tilton of Portland, former pastor
of the Belfast Baptist church, was in Belfast
several days the past week.
Senator Obadiah Gardner is making plans for
opening. his campaign in Maine. and will be at
the State convention at Augusta, March 49,
Daniel A. Gould, master in the Parental
School at West Roxbury Mass, is spending
weeks vacation at the home of Mr.. Giles G.
Abbott
John Oscar Olson, u of NJ is, won third
place in the shot-put at the annual indoor in.
terclass meet at the University of Maine
last Saturday.
Mrs. Florence Gilmore Mutchler of Boston
arrived last Saturday to attend the marriage
of her niece Miss Frances l.. Jones of Morrill,.
She returned home last Monday.
Mrs. A. H. Pierce of Monroe was among the
out of town guests to attend the Craig-Ha-
thorne wedding, being sister of the bride,
and is visiting for few days with friends and
relatives in this clty.-Bangor Commercial.
Mrs. Laura E. Webster and little son Clar-
ence left last Monday to spend two months in
Highlands, N Y. Mrs. Webster was accom-
panied far as Boston by her mother, Mrs
Emma D. Elms.
The many friends in this city of Mrs Carrie
c. Pendleton, who has been seriously i'll at
Asbville, N. c., will be glad to know that she
is recovering and with her sister Mrs. Mary C.
Fessenden expects soon to be able to leave
Ashville
1t is announced that Bucklin's orchestra of
Rockland, which for the past few years has
only. taken summer eng agements is now open
for engagements at all times. DR.. F. E. Follett,
formerly of Belfast, plays the cornet in thie
orchestra.
Fred A. johnson arrived home last Saturday
morning from Corey Hill hospital Rrookline,
Mass, and it will be good news to his friends
to learn that he is able to walk, although the
knee Gently operated on is not very strong,
but is rapidly gaining.
Mrs. Clarence E. McIntire of Frenchboro
was the guest of Mrs. Edward Sibley last
Thursday and Friday She attended the Mill
tary Whist party given in Memorial Hal,
Thursday evening by the Unitarian society
Mr.. McIntire accompanied his wife to Belfast
and called on friends here.
H. F. Hatch, who for years sold Kennedy's
biscuits in Maine, and later was the Eastern
Maine representative of the National Biscuit
Co., has gone over with the Boston commits
sion house of L. c. Fisher & Co., handling a
fine line of fruit, produce, canned goods etc.
He hits the larger Maine towns every week
and is extremely popular all over the State
Portland Board of Trade journal.
Thomas E. Shea and company began a weeks
engagement at the jefferson theater, Portland,
Monday, March 4th, and will present three
| plays, two of which have a worldwide reputa-
tion-Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde and The Bells
while his latest production, Man and His
Wife, play from the pen of Samuel Shipman,
should prove equally as strong.
Among those present at the U. of NJ. Bos,
ton Alumni Association meeting, held at the
American House last Saturday night, were
Hon. W. 7. Haines, '76, of Waterville, Prof. R.
]. Sprague, formerly of Frankfort, now at Mas
sachusetts Agricultural College; Francis S.
Brick, 'sS, formerly superintendent of the Bel
fast schools Sidney NJ. Bird, 'O7, and R ].
Bird, 10, of Rockand.
Capt. ]. O. Hayes, who has been at St.
Georges for several weeks looking after the
bark Matanzas, sailed Feb. 10th in the Oceania
for New York. Before leaving Capt. Hayes
visited the shipping firms and thanked them
for the courteses they had extended to him
during his stay in st. Georges. He also held
an inpromptu reception on the Market Square
at which he stated that all his life, previous to
his arrival al st. Georges, had been spent in
trying to avoid Bermuda, but the balance of it
would be devoted to trying to get back to it
again.-The Royal Gazette, Bermuda.
Capt A. B. c., otherwise Arthur B. Connor
of the steamer 81. L. Luckenbach,' is spend
ing brief vacation at his home in Searsport,
Me. Captain Connor was frozen in at Alaska
last year. 1t was rather hard shedding with
him as on his arrival here from San Francis co.
he had to transfer his baggage to another of
4 the ships of the line and start a return voy-
age to the Pacific coast, giving him less than
"a hours to breathe the exhilarating ozone of
South street. Capt. A. B. c. is noted for his
double barreIled lung power.-The Nautical
| Gazette.
Hon. Charles E. Lttleield of Maine and NJ W
York has just been awarded a 1at Zee OF SZo,-
600 by the Supreme court of the United States,
This is in part payment of his services as a
referee in the suit between the States of Vir-.
gnia and West Virginia for the adjustment of
their debts. growing out of the fact that West
Virginia seeded from Virginia during the Civil
war and became a separate commonwealth.
The case was very important one, involving
hundreds of thousands of dollars, and Mr..
Littlefeld was selected by the court itself to
conduct the taking of testimony.
Capt. Thomas J. Woodward, who for fifteen
years has served in the capacity of commo-
dore of the river fleet that escorts Rex up the
Mississippi at the Mardi Gras celebration in
New Orleans, again held that office this year
and was on the bridge of the royal yacht.
Capt. Woodward has always been active in
getting the navy department to detail as many
vessels as possible to add to the interest of
this pageant, and this year successful in
having the revenue cutter Window added to
the fieet-The Marine Journal, New York.
The Journal is indebted to Capt. Woodward
for copy of the New Orleans Times Demo-
crat of Feb. Goth containing an illustrated re-
port of the carnival. The Times says:
Immense crowds lined the streets yesterday
afternoon and evening to see the two parades,
The royal yacht the Stranger, was accompa-