The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-09-10

| Miss Gladys A. Bowden returned to Hol-
brook, Mass. last Sunday from visit with
her mother. Mrs. Anna Bowden. A social
gathering was recently held At the home Of
Miss Cora Lord in honor Of Miss Bowden. A
very enjoyable evening was spent and de-
licious refreshments served. Miss Bowden
will enter the Burdett Business college in Bos-
ton the coming term.
WEST BELFAST. Geo. Kimball arrived last
week from Providence, R L., to visit his
uncle,> Herbert Kimball The officers of the
Farmers Union held meeting at Equity
Grange hall Monday evening" A meeting OF
the stockholders will be called at an early date.
-. The Whltmore hill is being repaired. The
funds are from the automobile fund and the
work is done by Leslie F. Miller and crew..
| Eugene Wood returned last week from Great
Works, where he has had employment. Mrs.
Geo. B. Dyer spent Saturday and Sunday in
Pittsfeld Marjorie Chase of Newport. Me-,
visited at the Hayford farm last week. Mr..
and Mrs. ]. H. Films attended the meeting of
Waldo Pomona Grange with Tranquility Grange
Llncolnville, Sept. LIST. Mrs. Eugene Wood
and Mrs. Leslie Miller also attended the meet
ing. -. Carrie Newcomb went to Providence,
R. l.. Aug. Both, whereshe has employment in
the Butler hospital. Mrs. Cora ingalls, re-
turned to Boston Aug. Both, having visited her
brother, Leslie F. Miller, through the month of
August.
FROM THE LAW COURT. The following Wal
do county rescript has been handed down from
the Maine Law court:
State VS. Alvin S. Gray. Rescript, Per
Curiam.
The respondent was tried and found guilty
of keeping liquor nuisance. Thereupon he
filed motion in arrest of judgment which
was overruled and he now comes before the
Law court seeking to have that ruling reversed.
But he has presented to this court no bill of
exceptions of any kind as required by statute,
and therefore his case is not properly before
the Law court. and cannot be considered by it
No exceptions can be considered by the Law
court unless they are presented by bill of ex-
ceptions signed by the aggrieved party or his
! counsel. and allowed and signed by the justice
whose ruling is the subject of the exceptions,
and in case such justice refuses or neglects to
allow the exceptions, their truth may be
otherwise established on petition to the Law
court provided by the statute and rule of
court.
The entry in this case must therefore be
Dismissed from the law docket.
HELD FOR MURDER At a hearing in the
municipal court before Judge Knowlton last
Saturday, Lewis Burgess of Burnham was held
without bail for the grand jury on the charge
of murder in causing the death of his son-in-
law Louis Romeo, a French farm hand, ct the
house of the respondent in Durham, near the
Troy line. on the night of Monday, Aug. 81.
ho o,la Tn hi hny,,
after John Romeo, his son-in-law, had been
shot to death last Monday night, testified at
the hearing. There were no witnesses to the
shooting. Burgess admitted that he and Romeo
had been drinking alcohol through the day. but
claimed that the latter shot by the acct
dental discharge of gun during scuffle for
its possession after Romeo had broken into the
house. County Attorney Littlefeld conducted
the case for the State. Fl. c. Buzzell was
counsel for the respondent,who entered a plea
of not guilty.
HoMEWARD BOUND. The Journal has re-
ceived the following letter from Mrs. Emily
Harris Hyams, under date of Hotel Cecil,
London, Aug. 9th: lowing to the war which
has involved all of Europe we were unable to
get to Berlin. We were in Austria when war
was declared, fortunately getting out of Aus
tria in time, as later on trains were used for
the transportation of troops solely. We spent
three weeks in Munich, leaving there by a
special train for the convenience of Americans.
furnished by the courtesy of the Bavarian
government, through the American consul,
Mr.. Gaffney. We had dining and sleeping cars;
meals good and plentiful at reasonable price.
We went to the Hague, where we hoped to
find passage for home but were unable to do
so, therefore came to London. All lines from
England are running, the only ones discontin-
ued are the German ones. the being either in
Bremen or Hamburg or in the United States.
We have our baggage, and countries through
which we passed made only superficial examin-
atiuns thereof; many however, especially |
from Switzerland, were not SO fortunate, los
ing every thing except what they wore We
are returning by way of Canada, that being
the best we could do. People seem to be
afraid to postpone departure, fearing ships
NAV be requisioned for use of troops, which I
come first / have not seen Journal since
that of July 16, no mai! of any kind coming
into or leaving Germany, nor were kilograms
sent or received there".. Mrs EVE Carter
Burke of Redlands, Calf, who is spending the
summer in Belfast, received cablegram
Thursday from her sister, Miss Zadie B. Carter,
who has been in Germany several weeks, dated
at London, saying that she would sail Septem-
her ath on steamer Finland fer New York.
POLITICAL MEETINGS The first real Repub-
lican rally of the campaign was held in the
Opera House Thursday evening, Sept Sd. and
was addressed by ex-Vice President Fairbanks
of Indiana and Congressman John A. Peters.
BEFORE the meeting the Belfast band gave
concert in post office square and also furnished
excellent music during the meeting. H. C.
Ruzzell. ESQ, chairman of the Republican city
committee, presided and before introducing
the speakers made some telling remarks He
his hearers that Maine is the politi-
cal barometer OF the country and the eyes of
the nation are on it. He was very confident
of Republican victory on Sept. 14th. Mr..
Fairbanks is very pleasing and effective
sneaker. and held the close attention of his
audience and was literally applauded. He
smoke mainly on national issues, and in re-
ferring to the charges of bossism in the Re-
publican party made it clear that there had
heen no such bossism as exists at the National
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