Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-13
BELFAST.
No $4,000 School Building Will
Be Built in This City
Other Plans Are
Made
INTERESTING MEETING OF
THE BOARD OF TRADE

Belfast, Me-, July 12.-(SpeciaD.-l
Having found out that it will be il
legal to build the proposed school
building on the Church property, the
prospect of such building has been
abandoned Belfast will not get her
$4,000 school building that has been
a dream for so long. 1t is not as bad
as it seems, though. for plans are on
foot for building two Primary build
ings and subsequently a Grammar and
High school building. This morning
a deal was put through by orlondo
E. Frost, Ralph L. Cooper and Elmer
A. Sherman three philosophical citi-
zens, whereby they acquired the
homestead and four acres of land
owned by the heirs Of the late Hon.
William H. Mcclellan on upper High
street. 1t is proposed to sell this prop
erty to the city next spring at the
purchase price. when the house will
be remodeled into a six-room school
building for the North Primary the
first six grades. Athletic fields will
also be laid out there. On the other
hand it is proposed to build on the
South primary lot, on lower Church
street. where the old academy now
stands, a building to take care of the
first six grades in the South end. This
will be built, 1t is proposed. with the
$4,000 now on deposit from the be-
quest of the late Lena Pierce Fred
erick, and a conference will be held
today with Charles w. Frederick to
this end
This will leave Grades VII, VIII and
TX and the High school to be looked
after and the committee is looking
now for a suitable lot. 1t will not be
built on the city lot in Church street.
If the schoolhouses on the Common
are taken away, when new ones are
provided elsewhere, this will make an
ideal park in the very heart of the
city and one which is badly needed.
1t is already wei laid out, surrounded
with beautiful trees and bordered by
four streets. 1t would take very little
expenditure.
Orren J. Dickey and Walter ]. Cliff
ford have leased the fair grounds Of
the Waldo County Agricultural So
ciety and will manage and direct a
big fair here on Aug. Is, 10 and 20,
the usual time of the annual fair. 1t
has been a great disappointment to
many to think that there would not
be fair and it will be good news to
hear that the project will not be given
up Mr.. Dickey knows to fair bust
ness from to z, having for years
been a most efficient secretary, IN
til two years ago when he resigned
Mr. Clifford as manager of the Bel
fast Opera house, knows his business
and the two are sure to make a big
success. They will make a point of
the price 1t will be a 25-cent fair,
and all ticket holders will be sure of
getting 25 cents worth of fair out Of
It, Good racing vaudeville and an es-
pecial exhibit of poultry will be
among the features. The young men
will without doubt be given every en-
enlargement and a large patronage.
News was received yesterday of the
death in New Haven, CT, OF Frank
A. Busse of New York and Idaho, af-
ter a critical operation on the brain.
He passed away at private hospi-
tai on Thursday night. Mr.. Busse was
the husband of Miss Maude Ellis of
this city and was married to her