The Republican journal., 1913-06-26
July preceding, tcok place here on the
10th of Augusta. A procession formed


were fired and the bell was tolled The
stores and all places of business were
closed and the flags on the shipping IN
! the harbor were at halfmast; the in
terror of tie church was draped with
! black. The exercises consisted of a
dirge, prayer by Rev. Mr.. rockingham,
an original Ode written for the occasion,
and Eulogy pronounced by Hon. Alfred
johnson, Jr.
The brig Monticello of about 200 tons
+ burthen, owned by Joel Hills and Co.,
was launched on the eth of October; her
first voyage was to the Sabine river.
The schooner Experiment, owned by
John H. Conner and Annis Campbell,
both residing here, went ashore at Mon
hogan on the 2Sth of November. She
was stripped and abandoned by the
crew, but after they left she was got
off and lowed into port by the islanders.
At the annual Spring meeting Bohan
P. Field, Robert Patterson % and John
Palmer were chosen Selectmen, Nathan
lei H. Bradbury, Clerk, and Thomas
Marshall, Treasurer. AT a meeting held
the week following for the election of a
Register of Deeds for Hancock county
the whole number of votes thrown was
253; no choice was effected At the
annual Fall meeting another trial was
had and the number of votes thrown was
230; on the Congressional ticket 2S9 were
thrown. Ralph c. Johnson, Esq. was
elected Representative to the Legisla-
ture.
A school census taken this year shows
that there were 1888 in town between
the ages of four and twentyone. The
disease which had prevailed and had
been so fatal during the preceding sum-
mers had not entirely disappeared; the
number of deaths during the year was
about fifty.
The year 1927 opened with war of
the elem ents and declaration of war by
the staid pedestrians or our streets
against the boys and their hand-sleds.
A violent snow-storm followed by rain,
a high gale, an unusually high tide and
severely cold weather, covered our
wharves, from which large quantities of
lumber had been swept, and our streets,
with a coating of ice, affording the boys
the best ''coasting" they had enjoyed
for several years. 1t was high tide with
them in that branch of business, when
''the Selectmen and 100 others" declared
war against them through the Gazette
and handbills, announcing that they had
associated themselves for mutual protec
ton and pledging themselves TO indem
nifty and hold harmless any person who
should 'sdemolish the sled or other vehi-
Gle" belonging to or in the possession of
''any boy found coasting in the streets
or highways" There are no statistics
showing the number of ''sleds or other
vehicles" destroyed, but the fact is well
authenticated that the boys abandoned
coasting when the ground was dry
enough for them to play ball.
With the commencement OF the year
Arnold and Whittier began running trl-
weekly mail stage between Augusta and
this place con the new road called the
Eastman road" so named in honor Of
Thomas Eastman, Esq, who was one of
its originators, who was quite a promi-
nent man II the county. one of the Asso-
ciate Justices of the Court of Sessions,
and who kept 2 tavern for many years
in Palermo in the vicinity OF Eastman S
corner. That corner viii be remembered
by some Of our elderly people. probably,
as being in the vicinity Of the field where
the ancient ''Perlarmo Musters" We're
held.
On the 18th Of February the act incor-
porating the County of Waldo, constitut-
ing Belfast its shire town, was approved
by the Governor -Enoch Lincoln. At a
town meeting held on the 10Th a commit
tee consisting of William Crosby, Will
liam Avery, Alfred johnson. Jr., Thomas
Bartlett and George W. Webster was
unanimously chosen ito carry into effect
vote passed at a meeting held Septem-
Der II, 1926 relative to finishing the
Town House for the reception of the
Courts for the County of Waldo" vote
was also passed "to raise the sum of six
hundred dollars to defray the expenses
of finishing said House.
| The vote of September 18th referred
to was, in substance, that if the Legis-
lature should establish the county the
town would, at its own expense, and
without charge to the county, suitably
finish and prepare the Town House for
the use and occupation of the Courts
and that the same might be used gratui-
tously so long as the Courts should be
held there. The second story was &C
cordingy finished for court and jury
rooms. The first term of the Court of
Common Pleas was held there on the
fourth Tuesday of July then next, Judges
Perham and Smith presiding; the last
term of the court held there was on the
first Tuesday Of October 1858, Judge
Appleton presiding; the next term, in
January 1854, Judge Rice presiding, was