The Republican journal., 1913-11-27
The News of Belfast.

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Mr. and Mrs Elijah Richie will take thei,
first Thanksgiving dinner in their new home
on Upper High street. having moved in sever
al days ago.
The Universalist Sunday school have been
| invited to take charge of the Christmas tree at
the Girls Home, and the question will be voted
on next Sunday.
The regular meeting Of the d, A. R. Will be
held in the Arts and Crafts room next Monday
evening. with Mrs H. H. Johnson and Mrs.
Frank R. Woodcock hostesses. The pro-
gram will be as follows: opening chorus, Star
Spangled Banner; reading, Constitution and
Guerriere,' Mrs. Henry Hills; paper, "The
Navy in War Of 1872" Mrs. Ben Hazeltine
re aiding, "Perrys Victory on Lake Erie" Mrs
Morris L. Slugg.
A Boston capitalist was in Belfast recently
and with several local men obtained the option
of a tract of land Upper High street on
W hich they ropose to build twenty six seven
room houses with all modern conveniences
Their names are not made public at present as
the papers have not been completed. The
houses will be sold the instalment plan on
the basis of 6 per cent interest on the invest
ment. The work will be begun in the coming
spring.
On the End page will be found the advertise
ment OF the Merchants Credit Co. of Portland
and next week we shall publish some particu-
la RS of the local organization and the methods
employed for collecting accounts. Unlike the
commercial agencies people are not rated by
the amount of capital or property they possess,
but on their payment of bills, and the poor
man who pays his bills when due is rated
higher than the rich man who is diiatory in
his payments.
Miss PIPER AT HOME. On the 7th page is a
report of the disappearance from her home
Monday night, Nov. 18th. of Lois M. Piper,
daughter of MIR. and Mrs. Kingsbury B. Piper
of Fairfield, and are glad now to report
her safe return to her home and parents. Her
dis appearance was a mystery and it was fear
ed that she had beer murdered, and the object
Of those who drugged and carried her away is
still mystery. She attended moving pic
o
APP pearance and ate some candy given her by
we'll dressed woman who sat beside her. and
w bich must have been drugged. when she left
the t eater the woman followed her, and out
side was a car in which two well dressed
men. She was assisted into the car and has
but an indistinct memory of what occurred
other than of being in Portland and of a rail-
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in a room in Boston. She remembers some
one in an adjoining room saying; ats getting
too hot for us!' and of then being liberated by
the two men and the woman who had held her.
She is unable to describe any of them Acting
urder the instructions of her captors she made
her way to RoWes wharf and took passage on
the.steamer Gov. Dingley for Portland, giving
a fictitious name to the purser and keeping in
her stateroom the way down. The boat
arrived in Portland at 4.30 a. m. Tuesday and
Miss Piper came ashore at o'clock and in
quired of policeman the way to Union sta
ton, The policeman asked her name which
she gave him and he took her to the police
station and at once communicated with her
father, who had just returned from an unsuc
cessful search in Boston and they had an af-
fecting meeting. At 10 a. m. the father ard
daughter left by train for Fairfield. Miss
Piper is a niece of Mrs Joseph G. Patterson Of
this city and when in Boston Mr.. Piper re-
ceived letter from her in which she told of a
visit to a carvoyant Lois, she said, was con-
fined in stone building, either in Boston or
Portland. The girls story is one of the most
sensational told in New England in years and
bears out fully the superstition that she might
have been a victim of white slavers. The
boldness with which they operated is astound-
ing however. ard it seems difficult to believe
that such diabolical experience could have
happened to Maine young woman.