The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-04-18

The Hospital Aid sewing circle will meet
with Mrs. E. A. Wilson, Franklin street, Fri
day, April 10th, at 2 p. m.
Miss Marion Hazeltine has been substituting
in the North Primary school this week for Miss
Grace E. Walton, who was detained at home
by the illness of her mother.
WHAT HAPPENED TO JONES. "What Hap
pened to Jones" will be presented at the Colo
NAL theater Wednesday evening, April Oath,
by the Colby Dramatic Club, under the local
management of Orrin J. Dickey. The play was
presented through Aroostook county the past
week with great success. The cast is good
one and all the characters are exceedingly
we'll taken. Seats will be on sale at the store
of Pitcher & Adams next Monday morning
GLOWING the play there will be dance at
Odd Fellows hall
| STEAMER NOTES. The steamer Belfast made
her first appearance in port Friday, leaving on
the return run to Boston, Saturday afternoon
She respondent with her new white paint,
and was gayly bedecked with flags as she came
up to her berth. She was given a warm greet
ing all along the river. Capt. Curtis is in
command. The Eastern Steamship Corpora
ton has issued its schedule for sailings on the
eastern division, which will be in effect for
while. Between Belfast and Boston there is
four trip week service. boats leaving Bel
fast for Boston at 230 p. M, on Monday, We'd
nesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week.
80. The Belfast made quick trip down river
last Saturday. Leaving Bangor at the usual
hour she was at her wharf at this port at Els
| p. m. She the route rather sooner
than expected and painters were at work in
the upper saloons.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Capt Frank Brown of the
big turbiner Camden of the Boston-Bangor
run, has just returned from Washin gton,
where he appeared before a congressional
committee in relation to the matter of placing
lightship off Monhegan island, which is con-
sidered by steamboat captains and seafaring
men to be one of the most dangerous points on
the Maine coast. For the past three years an
attempt has been made to get the government
to install lightship at Monhegan, which is
very poorly protected at the present time, and
the steamboat men are in hopes that some
thing will be done this year e. The only ship
ping in the port of Bangor last Saturday was
the barge Portsmouth, dischargng coal, and
the schooner John B. Darlington at wharf on
the Brewer side. .. The schooner Annie
Mitchell, Capt. E. S. Mcdonald, with coal for
| Frankfort, arrived at Fort Point last Friday,
Sch. Willis & Guy arrived at this port April
18th from Boston with fertilizer for Jackson &
Hall, -, Sch. Puritan is in port to go on Gill
chrests marine railway for repairs Il. The
schooner James Slater, owned by George A.
Gichrest and Capt. A. C. Batchelder, which
has been laid up at this port for some months,
will be taken out on the railway to have her
bottom cleaned and painted. She is for sale,
| The HOSPITAL WHIST PARTY. The whist
party in Memorial Hall last Thursday evening
under the auspices of the Ladies' Auxiliary of
the Waldo County Hospital was social and
| financial success. The net proceeds were
about $40 The ladies assisting in furnishing
cake, doughnuts and coffee were Mrs. S. w.
johnson, Mrs. Adelbert Millett, Mrs. o. S..
Vickery, Mrs. Martha johnson, Mrs. Joseph
Tyler, Mrs. S. A. Parker. Mrs. W. K. Keene,
Mrs. ]. C. Pillsbury, Mrs. E. A. Wadsworth,
Mrs. E. p earle, Mrs. C. H. Walden Mrs C.
H. Crosby, Mrs. H. W. Crosby, Mrs. H. c. Mar
den. Mrs. R. c. Logan, Mrs. C. S. Bickford,
Mrs. H. H. Carter, Misses Annie V. Field, Nell
lie H. Hopkins, Sue; M. Partridge, Grace A.
Lord, Bertha A. Wiley, Cora S. Morrison,
Frances Howes and Ida Spencer. The winners
of the ladies' prizes, all bouquets of flowers,
were Mrs. H. W. Crosby, Mrs. D. P. Palmer
and Mrs. W. H. Booker. R. P. Rotche won
the beer stein, F. H. Mayo the box of candy
and Harold French a bouquet The young
people remained for hop, Miss Gladys Pitch
er presiding at the piano. The committee in
charge wish to thank the merchants for their
generosity and also those who gave the diff
] ferent prizes