The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-02-20

from 1000 to g. 500 pairs OF shoes DAY.
The Ladies' Aid of the Methodist church
will have parish supper in the church vestry
tomorrow Friday. The ladies are requested
to be present at 5 O'Clock to arrange the tables.
The steam pipes in the basement of the
HIGH school bulding became frozen and burst
last Thursday morning and the school had to
be adjourned. as it was impossible to have any
fire nnt;, the damage could be repaired
Here it is Lent and the clam flats are frozen
so that there are none of those blvalves in the
market, and fresh fish, other than founders,
are scarce article. The smelt fishermen on
the passagassswaukeaga are having poor luck
but founders are plentiful
ADVERTISED LETTERS List of letters re-
naming uncalled for in the Belfast postcfficc
for the week ending Feb. 18th. Ladies-Mrs
Jane " Alline Mrs. Sylvia Conant, Miss
Georgia Mathews, Florence Nickerson. Gentle
men-Thos. o. Cornell, johnson & Chapman.
l. r. Johnson. Kimball Bros. Co., Francis
Patterson.
The Parents Association for the benefit of
the city schools met last Monday evening and
elected the following officers: President, s. A.
Parker; vice president, Charles Rhoades; secre-
tary and treasurer, Mrs. J. c. Durham; execu-
tive committee the foregoing officers, ex of
ficio. and DR.. Jsnness, Mrs Lewis Cannon, Mrs.
O. E. Frost and Mrs S A. Parker.
News comes from Jacksonville, Fla, of re-
cent thefts of jewelry in that city in which the
house of Hon. and Mrs. J. P. Taliaferro was
rifled of diamonds and other jewelry and ar
ticles of value to the amount of So 1885, From
home on the same street some S2l00 of gems
and siIverware was taken the day before A
Young white man is held for the first robbery
and is thought to be connected with the sec
opd The Taliaferros are well known summer
residents. and their many friends he re- hope
thew may succeed in regaining their stolen
property.
The journal is indebted to MIR. C. G. Fergu-
son of Houlton for late issue of the Aroos-
took Pioneer containing an article on the
Fifth Week of the Strike" 1t says the mail
and passenger trains most unsatisfactory
for the business men of the county, and that
Houlton merchants are being hit hard In con-
clusion The Pioneer says:
Farmers are holding their potatoes as the
price remains at one dollar. There are thou
sands of barrels in the county that should be
moved but the road cannot furnish cars. If
me trouble continues until April there is fear
that considerable of the stock will begin to
sweat
FIRE INQUEsTs At d Special meeting of the
city government last Monday evening lnquests
were held on two recent fires. The fire at the
Swan Written Bickford Co.'S. was caused by
an overheated furnace. Damage S25, covered
by insurance. The fire at the Leland Robbins
place on the Head of the Tide road was caused
by an overheated stove. Value of house re-
ported as 81 900; contents. $500; house insured
for $500 Mr.. Robbins also lost 1000 feet of
hard wood boards in the cellar. w. H. Bur-
CESS Of Portland, insurance adjustor, was in
Belfast Tuesday and with Mr.. Clifford j. Pat
tee visited Mr.. Robbins and settled the loss.
SEARCH AND SEIZURE. Last Monday after
noon Sheriff F. A. Cushman and Deputy Sher-
iff Arthur A J. Beach searched the house 46
Union street owned and occupied by AndrewL.
Knowlton's mother. Mrs. Eliza J. Knowton and
her daughter, Mrs. William Rogers. The Of
ticers found four bottles of lager beer and so
bottles of whskey. Knowlton, who keeps a
saloon Main street, and was before the
municipal court Feb. 9Th a search and seiz-
ure case, found guilty and given the usual
sentence, was before Judge Knowlton again
last Tuesday morning this later case; was
found guilty and sentenced to pay fine of
500 and costs and 80 days in Jail and in de-
fault of payment 60 days additional. He APP
peaed to the April term of the S. j. court with
Guy A Gray and Homer B. Carter as sureties.
CHAUTAuQUA. The meeting of Seaside Chau-
tauqua Circle will be held in the vestry of the
Baptist church Monday afternoon, Feb 24th
This meeting is known to all C. L. S. C.'s as
Founders Day" in honor of Chancellor Vim
cent and the late Lewis Miller, the founders
of the Chautauqua system Of study The pro-
gram is special C. L. S. C. program, as fol-
lows: Roll call, quotations from the tributes
sent to Chancellor Vincent on his eightieth
birthday; paper, "The Founders of the c. L. S
c.; symposium, What Chautauqua has Done
for Me; brief personal experiences singing,
Chautauqua song; address, The Chautauqua
Idea; reading, IAN Old Quilt" summary, The
Round World which Chancellor Vincent's in
Auence has reached; paper, Chautauqua as an
Institu lion; reading, the Meaning of Chautau-
qua; singing, c. L. S. c. song of the class of
1882; story, How J. H. Vincent was educated;
question. What is the most practicable thing
that Chautauquans can do for the betterment
of this community" talk, The Experience of a
Lone Reader; historical sketch of the c. L. S.
Y. of 1905; singing, "Chautauqua Feast" All
c. L. S. C.'s are requested to be present at
this meeting at the usual hour, p. m. Pic
mic supper at $50 p. m.
A RAILROAD STRIKE CASE. John Carlson
and John Decker. both of Searsport, for some
time engineers on the Bangor & Aroostook
Railroad, but who have been on strike since
Jan. 18th, were arraigned in the Municipal
Court, before Judge Wayland Knowlton Feb.
14th. charged with violating the State law
against threats, intimidation or inducing to
leave employment in time of strike The re-
spondents were represented by H. c. Buzzel
of Belfast and Benjamin W. Blanchard of
Bangor Robert F. Dunton of Belfast appear
ed for the State. The two cases were tried
together, by agreement of counsel Chris
topher 7 Everett of New York, now running