The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-06-05
The News of Belfast.

ia. Gammans returned to New York Satur-
day from q short visit with his father and sis.
ter, Mr.. Albert and Miss Maude Gammans.
Mr.. and Fred E. Smythe returned to Bos.
ton Monday after spending several days at
their Northport Avenue residence.
The Webber Shoe Store. No. 16 Main, street,
Leroy A. Webber. proprietor. was opened for
business Monday morning. June End and the
get through until Wednesday noon. Mr. Web
ber is assisted by Norman Littlefeld.
At meeting of the Improvement Society
June End the matter of holding public enter
tanment at the city park, voted at previous
meeting. was discussed but no definite plans
have been made. The shrubs at the park have
been cared for and the seats placed for the
summer.
The bearers at the funeral last week of Mrs.
, Caro- E., widow of the late Thomas Carter
were Messrs. Isarel w. Parker, ]. Granville
Paul. Charles II. Twombly and Charles N.
Black, old neighbors or members of the Bap-
tist church, with which she had been so long
| identified.
Rev. and Mrs. A. A. Blair, Mrs. Sarah E..
Pierce, Mrs. George W. Bartlett, Mrs George
". Frisbee, Mrs. Aubrey G. Spencer, Mrs.
Fred Rackliff, Mrs. Giles G. Abbott Mrs
c. C. Glover, Mrs. c. E. johnson and Miss
Edith M. Southworth went to Bangor Monday
to attend the dedication of the Bangor Univer-
salist Church, Rev Ashley A. Smith pastor,
and the sessions of the Universalist State
Convention.
Perhaps you do not know that cats are very
fond of asparagus and are grateful for the butt
ends of the stalks which their masters and mis-
| tresses find uneatable. When informed of this
fact Mr.. and Mrs. Charles F. Shaw sent liber-
al supply of this feline dainty to the cats at
No. Court street. for which Buster and Me-
hitable return thanks.
! Miss Avis M. Morrison, who had been in the
Pasadena hospital for six weeks suffering
from blood-poisoning, has sufficiently recover
ed to leave the hospital and is visiting Mrs
Evie Carter Burke in Redland. She will
arrive home the middle of June. Her aunt.
Mrs H. P. Adams with whom she had spent the
winter in California, will make trip to Alaska,
go though the Canadian Rockies and visit Yel-
lowstone Park, arriving in Belfast in July.
A Graphotype power machine, owned by the
Addressograph Company of Chicago, has been
rented by the City National Bank and was in
operation yesterday under the management of
Mrs. L. H. Southard of Northport It is the
only Graphotype in use in New England out
side of Boston. Both upper and lower case
type are used and the letters are impressed
upon aluminium cut cards. In place of key
board, letters, spaces, etc, extend across the
front of the machine; an index opers ted by a
side wheel indicates the letter or character
and small lever near the lower front center
punches it into the aluminium card. A ribbon
will soon take the place of the card and add
materially to the power of the machine. The
Addressograph is a separate machine and
stamps the envelopes from the card. The
banks mailing list of 5000 will be done by this
machine. An expert print 1,500 enve-
/ lopes an hour, and 1000 an hour is the general
average 1t is run by electric power and is
practically noiseess
AN INTERESTING ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey S. Cunningham have announced
the engagement of their daughter, Rena Elsie,
to George Stewart Dobson Of Boston, formerly
of Pittsfeld. The announcement was made
May 2Sth at a party given to Miss Renas init
mate girl friends at the Log Cabin on Beaver
Tail during the social hour which followed
dainty supper served by Mrs Cunningham.
Miss Cunningham is one of the famous Belfast
triplets, born about % years ago; two boys,
! Roy and Ralph and Miss Rena. They all bear
a strong family resemblance and are strong
mentally and physically. The groom is well
and favorabiy known in Belfast, where he
learned the plumbers trade with c. L. Wright
and later was employed by Goodhue & Co. He
now has fine position in Boston. The mar
riage will take place this month.
EMERY DANFoRTH's BODY FOUND. The body
of Emery Danforth came to the surface of the
water early Wednesday morning, June 4th,
near the shore on the east side below the lower
bridge. On the evening of March goth, after
killing his wife, Blanche Leighton Danforth
he drank iodine, then dressed himself and told
his little boys that he was going to drown him.
self. He left the house and had not been seen
since. Many thought he was in hiding or had
got away but others were firm in the belief
that he had committed suicide. The body was
discovered by Chester Robbins, who was in a
rowboat, and he went at once tc the Coe-
Mortimer plant and notified Coroner c. R.
Coombs by telephone. Then, with the assist
ance of Charles Robbins, the body was
| towed to the east shore just above the
bridge. The parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Austin
Dapforth, and the sister. Mrs Samuel
Hodgkinson, were notified and the two latter
went over and identified the remains. Mr..
Coombs was told by the father that the family
thought it best under the circumstances that
the remains should be taken directly to the
ce metery and inferred in the family lot, and
their wishes were complied v ith. The con-
dition of the body bore out the theory that in
his death struggles Danforth had grasped
some obstruction on the bottom, and until this
hold was loosened the body could not rise.
The finding of the body also established the
fact that Mr.. A. R. Leadbetter, who was on
police duty, heard Danforth when he jumped
overheard, as he reportel at the time.
WHEN SIG SAUTELLE'E CIRCUS
COMES TO TOWN.
There are parades and parades. Mankind's