The Republican journal., 1914-01-01

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/ an Church by Rev. n. 4. Hopkins q
Oldtown; Rev. DR.. Paifty u1iciated as
Chaplain, and the Declaration was read
by Mr.. William o. Pocr. There was :
public dinner in the grove. known for
merly as McFarland's Grove, and dis
play of fireworks in the evening near the
Academy. !.
President Taylor died on the 9th; intel
ligence of the event feached here about
eight o'clock in the morning Of the next
| day. At noon thirty minute guns were
fred on the Common, the bells of the
several churches were tolled, and flags
were displayed at half-mast on the ship
ping in the harbor and at various places
in the village. The event was noticed at
several of our churches on the Sabbath
following by appropriate discourses and
religious services.
There was Circus here on the 9th;
its only distinguishing feature was the
Appollonicon; wilderness of pipes
which generated various sounds called
music in the bills; it must have been Of
the kind referred to as having ''charms
to soothe the savage breast; it certain
ly had no peculiarly soothing influence
on our good people.
At the annual fall meeting, September
9th, the votes for Governor were for
Crosby, Wing. 1863, for Hubbard, Demo.
3O2, for Talbot, Free Soil, II, Joseph S.
Moves. Demo-, was elected Representa-
tive to the legislature.
In the evening of the fourth of Octo-
Der, George w. Carey, about twenty
years of age, who was here on business
for a mercantile house in Boston. was
found dead in his room at the American
House, having committed suicide by cut
ting his throat with razor.
The annual Fair of the agricultural So
ciety was held on the ninth and tenth.
On the evening of the 9th an address
was delivered before the Society at the
Unitarian Church by Rev. William A.
Drew of Augusta.
The annual meeting of the SchoolCom-
mittee was held at the Courthouse on
the 23d and Rev. Edward Freeman of
Camden was elected member of the Board
of Education for this county. The
Teachers Institute commenced its annu-
al session on the 22d and closed on the
I'd of November. Messrs. Dexter A.
Hawkins and William H. Seavy COM
posed the board of Instruction. The
session was held in City Hall; it was the
first time the hall was occupied for any
public purpose.
| A Panorama Of the Kennebec river
was on exhibition at the same place in
the month of November.
Mr.. Martin Cross having relinquished
the Phoenix House for wider field of
operations-the Aihambra-Mr. Josiah
N. White became its proprietor, and
having thoroughly repaired and refur-
nished it opened it to The public under
the name of the Belfast Hotel.
The brick block at the intersection of
Main and Church streets, in which the
office of the Belfast Savings Bank is now
kept, was built this year by the late
] ohm Haraden and Daniel Haraden. The
first occupants of the stores were John
Haraden and son and the late Charles
ID. Field; the first occupant in the Sec
ond story was the late Phineas P. Quinn
| by. Mr.. McClintock also built his block
at the intersection of Main and High
streets. The first occupant of the cor
ner store, now occupied by Richard H.
Moody, was the late Samuel Haynes,
druggist and apothecary. The store
ext below it was occupied as restaur-
ant by Isaac Clark Jr Messrs. William
T. Colburn and Isaac Allard were the
first occupants of the premises they still
occupy. 1t is doubtful whether Mac
fully realizes the blessing they have
been to him. In the second story was
the Office of Solyman Heath, ESQ.,, the
news-room of The Republican Journal,
and Hoyt's shaving and hairdressing sa-
loon. The whole of the third story was
coupled by The Republican Journal.
The fourth story was finished as hall, to
w hich the name of City Hall was given;
it was great advance on any of the
public halls we had ever had and the en-
terprise of its protector and proprietor
was duly appreciated. 1t was painted
in fresco the next year and large tele-
scope was placed in the cupola.
The number of deaths in town this
year was forty-two. =
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