The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-05-08
The News of Belfast.

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Capt. Shubael C. Rich has exchanged his
| ketch Actaeon for the schooner Monamoy OF
| Mt. Desert Ferry. The Monamoy is "a tons
| net and was built at Somerset, Mass. in 1929.
| Fred D. Jones and several men returned
from Bangor Sunday with five Ford cars to fill
| orders earle & Jones have sold Is cars since
Jan. LIST. and have delivered Ford runabouts
to Dr. Elmer Small, and Allen Knowlton, both
of this city.
, About 1000 pounds of pollock and lot of
herring were taken in the Mason weir on the
east side near the mouth of Goose river one
night last week The pollock were sold to the
! Frencboro Land & Fisheries Co.
| Leroy A. W ebber went to Boston Tuesday
to buy new stock of boots and Shoes The
store is to be remodeled but Mr.. Weber will
continue business while the alterations are
made. He closed out the Swift stock last Sat-
urday night, having very successful sale.
| The Belfast High school base ball team play
ed Freedom Academy last Saturday on the
| Congress street grounds, the visitors winning
an eight-inning game by score of 9 to l. A
return game will be played in Freedom next
| Saturday.
Andrew f. Clark Camp, S of V has received
special orders from headquarters relative to
| the erection of memorial to the late Frank
P. Merrill, the first commander-in in chief of
the order The local camps are to raise
money for this purpose.
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| last Saturday from trip to Boston, Brookhne,
and New York, and MIR. Bowman left on his
regular business trip Tuesday. Winthrop
| Lewis of New York. assistant supervisor of
the General Electric Co., was their guest over
Sunday.
| The Patterson lunch car on High street was
entered last Thursday night, pie taken and
other food destroyed by throwing it out of the
rear window. Entrance was effected by cut
| ting out section of the sash of the cook room
| window, making an opening about II by 16
inches. 1t was evidently the work of boys
Mr.. R. C. Patterson, the proprietor, notified
| the police department.
| Sheriff F. A. Cushman seized barrel con-
tanning 100 pints of New England rum on the
pier of the Eastern Steamship corporation
| last Friday morning. 1t was consigned to a
party in Verona to be re-shipped, but the
sheriff thought he had better take charge of it.
| Under the Webb law the sheriff has authority
| to seize liquor he believes is intended for sale
| anywhere he can find it.
The alarm from box % at 745 last Thursday
| night was for a chimney fire in the house of
Wilbur o. Colby, Market street. The hose
company quickly responded and had the hose
stretched, but did not turn on the water as it
was not needed. The engine got astray and
/ came up Church street with the horses at a
gallop after the big crowd that had gathered
heard the words "all out
The annual convention of the Waldo County
Woman's Christian Temperance Union will be
held in Monroe June 18th. Mrs. Deborah Knox
Livingston, who was SO much liked last year,
will again be the speaker. All dues must be
paid before the conventional least a week
before-so that the county treasurer can close
her accounts. All secretaries should send
blanks at once, if not already sent, to Mrs E.
B. Smith, Thorndke
KEEP OFF THE GRASS Cutting across
lots on public and private property is prac
tice that cannot be too strongly condemned.
Places are thus disfgured on which time and
money have been expended to make them at
tractive. A conspicuous example of this may
be seen on the lawn between the courthouse
and the Memorial building A path has been
ada from tho eO11thuasf Of no ~,
building on Church street diagonally across
the lawn to High street, and recently man
seeing this we'll defined walk started to drive
his horse over it. M. A. Colson, the janitor
at the courthouse, has raked off the lawn, SOW
ed grass seed on the bare spots, including this
disfgr ring pathway, and put up fence from
one building to the other, about midway be-
tween the streets, that effectually stops pass
ing that way. The lawn would of course look
much better without the fence, and it ought
not to be necessary, but evidently is.
MUNICIPAL COURT. Frank Choate of Mont
vile was before Judge Knowlton of the Mu-
nicipal Court last Saturday afternoon charged
with intoxicaton and disturbing the peace.
He acknowledged sending to Boston for gall
lon of whiskey and a gallon of alcohol He
drank the whiskey, but some one stole the
alcohol Judge Knowlton found probable cause
and he was sentenced to pay a fine and costs
of $2022. He was unable to pay and was COM
mitted. Monday morning Judge knowlton
heard a civil case. Charles l.. Elwell sold
Arthur Blackwell of Northport an ice cream
outfit for $35, and Blackwell claims that he
was cheated. Judge Knowlton heard the evil
dence in the case and reserved his decision
until the regular meeting of the Court, Mon
day, May 18th.
The PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Superintendent VIM.
B. Woodbury. has completed the school census
of Belfast with the following totals: Boys be-
tween and 81 years. 578; girls of the same
ages SIT; total 1875; loss of Y from the total
of 1887 in 1912. The following statistics from
Mr. Woodbury's report to the State Department
are of interest: There are 634 pupils in the
common grades, 452 in the city proper and 1872
in outlying districts. Eighty-one have been
transported by school teams. The average
daily attendance has been 551.63. Eighty-one
pupils failed in the years work-46 boys and
IS Rirls-and were obliged to do the work over;
1888 pupils have had their eyes and ears ex-
amined, and 81 we're reported defective as to
their vision and 80 as to their hearing. The