The Republican journal., 1912-01-18

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Lincoln Castle,K O. K. A., will hold its regu-
lar meeting in the Universalist vestry next
Saturday evening at o'clock. A full attend
ance is desired.
All members of the A. E. Clark Camp, S. of
", are requested to attend the meeting next
Monday evening. A banquet will follow the
meeting. with the ladies' of the Auxiliary as
guests
The Belfast Polymnian Quartette will go to
Stockton Springs this, Thursday, evening to
take part in the installation of the officers of
Bethany Chapter, o. E. S. Mrs. E. P. Frost
Mrs. C. W. Wescott, Miss Emma Skay and
Mrs. E. S. Pitcher comprise the quartette.
The Board of Trade banquet will be given in
the Windsor Hotel Friday evening. Jan. 18th,
at o'clock. The committee has made can
vass of the city and if any one has been over
looked it is unintentional and tickets can be
had from any member of the committee, which
consists of S. A. Parker, ]. H. Howes and W.
L. West
Tea and cakes will be served every Wednes-
day and Saturday afternoon in the Arts and
Crafts room, High street, with Mrs. c. M.
Craig in charge. Parties for one or more
tables may be more deliberately served if Mrs.
Craig is given sufficient notice. Mrs. Craig
also has charge of the food department and
orders may be placed with her.
The next meeting of Seaside Chautauqua
Circle will be with Mrs. C. A. Hubbard, No.
Park street, Monday afternoon, January 22nd.
The lesson will be from the c. L. c. book,
the Esprit of Acknowledgement chapters
ten, eleven and twelve The program will be
the same as arranged for January 18th. Roll
call, quotations on Government
FROM SUBSCRIBERS. A Stamford, Conn.,,
subscriber in renting says: II consider it lit
tie enough for the amount of pleasure l am
getting through The Journal l can hardly
wait until get it. With sincerest wishes to
you and your staff, for prosperous New
Year, believe me- etc. "A Brewer subscriber
writes: could not get along without The
Journal. 1t is like the face of an old friend"
We take the liberty of publishing the fol-
lowing extracts from a personal letter from
Alden j. Blethen, editor-in-chief of the Seat
tie, Wash Times: 81 twenty years of age
when l left Waldo county, my home having
been mostly in Unity, although for short
time my mother lived just over the edge in
Freedom. AS a boy on the farm l remember
hauling apples and potatoes to Belfast and
exchanging them into flour and groceries for
the benefit of the farm. The distance was
eighteen miles each way, and it made a good
days work for the old horse, but an interest
ing day for me. Among the men l used to
meet was Mitchell, the old tavern keeper, who
ran in those days stages from Belfast to Au
gusta through Freedom; Lawyers Abbott and
Dickinson; Reuben Sibley, the West India
merchant; Judge johnson; my old schoolmate,
"Bill' Thompson, and good many others,
whose names could recall if were to give
some thought to the subject; and, indeed,
old war horses, who went to Kansas City when
was living there in the early eighties"
SHIPPING ITEMS. The 55-year- old two-mast-
ed schooner Empress. Capt. Arey. of Rockland,
Me-, bound light from Boston for her home
port, was wrecked Jan. 9th on sand bar just
outside Richmond's Island breakwater, at the
extreme end of Cape Elizabeth. The Empress
was built at Prospect, Maine, in 1856, and regis
tered 120 gross tonnage. The schooner was
owned by Miss Lucy Farnsworth of Rockland.
The little schooner Fancy which has been
owned at this port for some time, with several
Carter, was recently reported wrecked at Isles
boro and was supposed to be total loss. The
Camden Herald of Jan. 18th says: 1.-THE schoon-
er Fancy, once owned by ]. w. Manchester of
this place, was towed over here from Dark Har-
Dor this week to be hauled out for repairs
She was lowed over in a sunken condition and
has since been laying in the inner harbor in
shoal water. 80. The schooners Inez, George w.
Collins, Calvin P. Harris and Louisa Francis
are hauled up at Rockland for the winter.
South American lumber freight are pretty
good at present. The ship Erne, commanded
by Capt Temple Pickett of Bangor, has just
chartered at Boston for Buenos Ayres at $40
per thousand. As she carries about one and a
half million feet her freight money will amount
to quite tidy sum. The two lime-laden
Rockland schooners Nile and Catawamteak
which have been anchored for some weeks off
Portland breakwater,a after making several fu-
tile starts for Boston, have apparently given up
the attempt and tied up for an indefinite per-
iod at Union wharf. While anchored close to-
gether off the b1eakwater they collided sever
al times, but no damage resulted. ). Walter
Cloves of Portland bought the Rockland two
masted schooner Empress as she lies on the
sand beach on the western end of Cape Eliza
beth, and has begun the work of stripping the
hulk of sails, masts, rigging, chains and anchors,
booms and gaffs, ETC.. Sch. Edward Stewart
loaded fertilizer last week at the Coe. Morti-
mer plant for st. Andrews. N. B., and was
towed to sea Monday -. Sch. Herman s. Kim
ball arrived from Boston Saturday with fertil-
izer for jackson & Hall.