The Republican journal., 1912-06-13
The meetings of the Hospital Aid sewing

The meetings of the Hospital Aid sewing
circle have been suspended until September.
BASE BALL. Manager Mudgett OF the Bel
fast Baseball association, has secured the SER
vices of Frank James, the well known Colby
college pitcher who will spend the summer in
this city and pitch ball for the local team.
In the longest college game ever played IN
Maine, Is innings, Bowdoin defeated Bates
last FRIDAY. to A. 1t was the annual Ivy day
game between the two colleges. Both teams
played fine ball after the first few innings
when they were rather ragged......The Bel
fast Athletic Association will play their first
game of the season on the Congress street
grounds next Saturday at 2.30 p. m. with the
| Camden Locals. The visiting team will be
headed by George Frohock, an ex-Brown Uni
| versity player
| The White Elephant party held by the ladies
| of the Congregational society a short time
| since was such success that they have been
| requested to have another in the evening, SO
| that the gentleman may attend and also many
| others who are unable to 60 in the afternoon.
| So it has been decided to have another in the
church parlors Friday, June 21st, at 73O p. m
| All are invited. Every one is to bring some
] article which they have considered white
| Elephant" Every article is to be neatly
wrapped in package and 10 cents is the adj
| mission. Don't miss the fun there will be
when the packages containing the "White
! Elephants" are opened. Ice cream and cake
| will be on sale.
| BOARD OF TRADE. A special meeting of the
| Belfast Board of Trade was held last Monday
| evening, Elon B. Gilchrest acting as secretary
| in the absence of Dr. West. President Frost
said that the object of the meeting was to con-
slider the plans for celebrating July 4th, but he
| would first take up some other matters 81 Last
| year representative Of the American Can
| Co. came to Belfast and looked the ground
! over with view to establishing branch fac
| tory here, and recently report was circulated
i that this company had decided to locate in
Rockland Mr.. Frost wrote to the company
and was assured that this report was I'M
| founded and that Belfast would be again WIS.,
tied before decision was made. In this con-
nection Mr.. Frost read letter from B. M.
! Pike of the Lubec Sardine Co., who is inter-
ested in having the can company locate here,
and who said that if they did not he should en-
gage in making cans. He said further that
his Belfast plant was ready for business and
would begin operations as soon as the fish
were more plentiful. Mr.. Frost read from a
voluminous correspondence with President
| Cram of the B. & A., relative to the extension
of that road from Searsport to Belfast, from
which it appeared that there is no intention OF
building this road and that further effort in
| this direction would be useless. Mr.. Frost
! thought that if the people of Belfast made a
united effort in behalf of an electric road from
Hampden one might be secured, and he was au-
| thorized to appoint committee of three to
confer with power companies::who might take
| up proposition of this kind. The Waldo
Street Railway company has a charter for ar
electric road from Hampden to Camden. The
sentiment of the members seemed strongly r
| favor of an electric road. Mr.. W. H. Qumby
said that unless President Mellen changed his
mind meanwhile the Maine Central will builo
| from Camden to Belfast in 1913 or 1914 con-
| Meeting with the road here at Citypoint Mr.
| Quimby reported for the committee July
18th that he had conferred with Mr.. Dickey and
| it was decided that it would be necessary tt
raise S785. This would provide for three
bands, in addition to the Belfast band, fol
balloon ascensions in the morning and after
noon, entertaining the bands and officers Of
the u S. ship, and for fireworks at the park il
the evening. The city has appropriated $20t
| for this purpose, the Board of Trade 500, ane
| the remainder must be raised by subscription
Various features of the celebration were dis
| cussed. Mr. Dickey's idea was that the parade
| should be representative of the industries anG
business concerns, and it was voted that thu
Board of Trade should be represented by 1
float He proposed to have free ball game
| on the Congress street grounds, and thought
/ arrangements could be made to have two nine,
from the u S. ship. When it was known wha
ship was coming here he would arrange the
matter by correspondence. Despite reports tt
the contrary he had assurance from the Navy
Department that ship would be sent to Bel
fast. W. H. Quimby was appointed one OF
committee of three, the others to be from th'
city government and the citizens committee
to handle the finance and audit the bills TO
the celebration. A proposition from Jo
Mitchell Chapple relative to advertising Bel
fast in the Maine number of The Natlona
Magazine was refer ed to the committee OF
advertising. Mr.. Chapple suggested that Bel
fast should take two pages at $500 page