The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-03-26

Mrs Florence Wardwell of Castine has
bought and will occupy the Alexander Lind.
gren house on Cedar street.
Thomas H. Marshall Circle will serve five.
cent lunch at their regular meeting April LIST
and all members of the Post and Circle are
urged to attend.
Messrs. James H. and Ralph H. Howes. E.
R. Conner, Loren Cross and William H. Hall
went by blackboard last Friday to Pitchers
Pond to enjoy ice boating, for the first time
this season.
The meeting of the Reading Department OF
the Arts and Crafts that was to have been
held last Tuesday evening was postponed to
tomorrow, Friday, evening, when Miss Annie
L. Barr. librarian of the Belfast Free library
will read paper on 1.-The Resources of Our
Library"
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles B. Eaton, their daugh.
ter Margaret and little son Stanley, narrowly
escaped asphy xiation by gas from the furnace
at their home on Court street one night re-
W
night by the heavy breathing of one of the
children and was able to summon physician
but none too soon as Mrs. Eaton had tainted.
SPRING MOVING. Mr.. and Mrs. William c.
Mason have moved from the Woods house on
Cedar street to the Head of the Tide, where
Mr. Mason will continue his barber shop. -.
John H. McAuliffe has moved from the Lewis
house on Waldo avenue to the Woods house
on Cedar street. Mrs. McAuliffe is improving
rapidly at the Hebron Sanatarium and expects
to return home soon. :. Amos Partridge and
family have returned to the Woods house on
Cedar street after spending the winter in the
tenement over the Jellison restaurant on
Phoenix Row.
The Saturday Auction Club was entertained
last week by the Misses Morrison for Miss Avis
M. Morrison. A delicious luncheon was served
at small tables at o'clock, the hostesses being
assisted by Miss Katherine C. Quimby. After
the lunch, auction was enjoyed, Mrs. Morris l.
Slugg having the highest score. All the clut
members and Mrs. Fred A. johnson and Mrs
Carl H. Stevens were present. There will be
no meeting of the club this week, but Satur-
day, April 4.h. Miss Clara Heating will be the
hostess.
SAVED BY TELEPHONE. The house of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Glidden in Northport, about
mile and half from Browns Corner, mar
rowly escaped being burned last Saturday.
The Gliddens are elderly people and Mr.. Gid
den is ill. His wife smelled smoke and tele-
phoned to the Dickey home in Northport for
help. and Mr.. DIckey and his sons promptly
went to the house, and found the chimney full
of SCOT. burning furiousy. and the paper on
the walls in the upper rooms had become ig-
nited and the fire was almost ready to burst
through the roof. By prompt work they ex.
tingnished it, but it was thought that in few
minutes more the fire would have gotten be-
yond control The Gliddens had only had the
telephone installed last week and but for il
they would probably have lost their buildings
If not their lives.
The ENTERTAINMENT COURSE. The Baptist
church was crowded Wednesday evening. March
18th, Notwithstanding the bad storm, to listen
to the Dixie Quintette, the last number in the
Belfast Lyceum course. and it was an evening
of rare enjoyment. The company was made
up of four singers and banjoist and accom-.
PIANIST, and every number was encored. The
singing was fine and the sketches of an ante
bellum prayermeeting and an ante bellum min
strel show provoked continuous laughter ane
applause. An imitation of Barnum & Bailey
steam calliope, which closed the program
brought down the house. In behalf Of the
Belfast Board of Trade. S. A. Parker thanked
the management for the manner in which the
public course had been managed and expressed
his hope there would be another. Manager
O. E. Frost, through whose untirlng efforts
the course was possible, then announced thai
six entertainment course will be given nex
season and that he had already booked a num-
Der of unusual attractions. 1t is Of course wei
known that this was not money makinl
scheme, but simply that the public might have
such series of entertainments, and by the
church giving the free use of their building
lights etc.. profit Of about SIS was realized
which will be put into course next fall, max
ing it just that much better than the one We
have had.