The Republican journal., 1912-10-10

The Portland Press reports that coots are
flying, and the members OF the Coot Club are
getting ready for their annual foray
W. Quimby left last Monday for Minne-
apolis, Mimi. to look after his business inter-
ests in that CITY, The Quimby Mfg. Co., in
which he is largely Interested IS about to
move into larger factory and is doing an in
creasing and prosperous business.
Among the telephones recently installed by
the Waldo TELEPHONE Co. are the following:
Mrs. A. A. Small. Miller street. 1884, George
A. Sweetland. 253-3 Mrs. Ada Kimball. 209 IL;
and Peter Gallagher, successor to the Belfast
Livery, 40.
The Ladies' AID Society of the First Metho-
dist Episcopal church invite their friends and
members to unite in picnic parish supper to-
morrow. Friday. night The ladies are asked
to be on hand about o'clock to arrange the
tables, etc. Supper will be served about $50
o'clock The sum of Is cents will be collected
at the tables to add little to the treasury.
THE MAINE REGISTER. Mr.. H. " Starrett
of Warren was in Belfast last week delivering
year. book of valuable information is looked
for each year by business and professional
men all over Maine. AS desk-book it is al
most invaluable. 1t is safe to say that no book
in the average Maine business mans library is
more thumbed than the Maine Register. The
book is compiled and published by Grenville
| M. Donham, of 800 Congress street, Portland.
The Journal had call last Thursday from
! Mr.. B. F. Stantial of Brooks, who was return
| ing from one of his regular trips to Boston to
buy stock for his dry and fancy goods store.
MIR. Stantial had with him sample of cam
paign neckwear now sale in the cities,
four in hand black tie, bearing the names of
the candidates of the three parties for pres-
dent and vice president with appropriate en-
blems-an elephant with Taft and Sherman,
jackass with Wilson ani Marshall and moose
head with Roosevelt and johnson. The ties
sell at rs cents.
Calvin Lane of Portland was in Belfast last
week to confer with Superintendent Wood
bury and the school committee in regard to
| the prospective building on sci dollhouse COM
mon. Mr.. Lane is consulting engineer of the
Boston School Commission, has built many of
the modern school buildings in New England
and is at present employed on a school build
ing at White River Junction. After thorough
examination of the two buildings on the COM
mon Mr. Lane estimated their value at Sc. 400.
Practically all the brick be used again.
Both easements can be utilized and the space
between them excavated. Later Mr.. Lane
will submit three modern plans
SHIPPING ITEMS. Capt. Peter H. Crowell of
the Boston shipping firm of Crowell & Thur
low, was in Bath recently to look over the
schooners Jacob NJ Haskell and Edward H.
Cole, owned by his firm, and which are at Deer
| ings's yard for repairs. An iron steamer of
5000 tons is now being built at Newport News,
to be launched Nov 18th, which has been
named the Peter H. Crowell. The owning
firm will then be changed to the Thurlow
| Steamship Co... Schs. Harold c.. Beecher
Della Carleton and W. D. Hilton have charter
ed to load coal at New York for Rockand.
Sch. Helvetia has chartered to load lumber at
Nova Scotia port for New York at SIS per NJ
Sch. Emma S. Lord has chartered to load phos-
turn with lumber. Schs. Hugh de Payens and
Metinic have chartered to load lumber at Matt
land, N. S. for New York. at $3.50 per NJ Sch.
Caroline Gray has chartered to load coal at
New York for Stonington.. Sch. Louisa
Frances arrived last week with a cargo of
cement for Cooper & Co., and discharged at
Marshalls wharf Sch Annie P Chase ar
rived last week from Pc, tn Amboy with a
cargo of anthracite coal for the Consumers
Fuel Co Sch. James Slater discharged
cargo of coal from Port Reading at Camden
last week and Capt. Batcheder is now at his
home in this city,. Sch Harold C, Beecher.
Capt; Ralph M. Pattershall, arrived at Rock
land Oct. LIST with cargo of coal from Port
Reading. The steam brig Barracuda owned
by the Holy Ghost and Us society, is on the
railway at Rockland for repairs. and their
schooner Coronet is undergoing repairs at the
same place. The Lighthouse board gives
notice that Hewes Ledge Southwest End
Buoy, 2, spar, was replaced Sept %, 1872 hav-
ing been heretofore reported not watching
properly. Sch William Matheson, Capt, ].
II. Devereaux. one of Capt. T. NJ. Nicholson's
fleet, arrived at Bucksport Sunday afternoon
from the Grand Banks with cargo of 1.4OO
qulntals of Goldfish. She made the home trim
IN hve days, and is the first of Capt. Nichol
sons fleet to arrive from the banks this season