The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-06-18
The News of Belfast.

The Seaside Spiritual Association will hold
services at Temple Heights June 21st. Loca
mediums will speak.
Booker T. Washington will speak in the
Colonial theater, Sunday evening, July 5th, at
7.3O o'clock. He will be accompanied by State
Supt. of Schools Payson Smith, who will be
one of the speakers of the evening. Rev, Ar
thur A. Blair of the Universalist church has
charge of the details of the program.
Mildred, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. M. F.
Pease, celebrated her ninth birthday Monday
afternoon at the home of her parents on Main
street. The afternoon was pleasantly spent
with games, and the little hostess served re-
freshments. The following little ones were
present. Viola Richards. Adelaide Howard,
Gretchen Fletcher, Doris Wilson and Doris
Collins.
Invitations were issued Monday by Mr.. and
Mrs. Elbridge Simmons Pitcher for the wedding
and reception of their daughter, Miss Gladys,
and Prof. James Taylor Sleeper of Beloit. Wis.
The wedding is to take place on Tuesday even
ing, June 80. at 7.30 o'clock, followed by recep-
tion at 8 at the Pitcher home, l Northport
avenue. Only the most intimate friends will
be present at the wedding. but the reception
will be large.
The cemetery trustees met June 10th and
cemetery, James F. Fernald; Head of the Tide,
George Davis; Citypoint, B. S. Staples; West
Belfast, H. L. Gray: South Belfast, Nelson
Wight; East Belfast, E. o. Pendleton; Fred A.
Griffin place, Fred M. Philbrook. This is not a
city cemetery, but the city was left fund for
perpetual care of the lot, and so appointed a
superintendent to look after it.
During the coming weeks the Develop
Maine Movement will be pushed in Waldo
County and it is hoped that ten per cent of
the population of each town may be secured
in order that the $4,000 membership may be
attained. The work in Waldo County will be
under the direction of Orrin J. Dickey of this
city and solicitors will be appointed in each
town. Belfast has SO members. The move-
| ment is for the purpose of securing an in
crease in Industrial industry in Maine.
The annual convention of the Waldo County
Woman's Christian Temperance Union will be
held in Winterport June 26th, not the 25th as
first announced. Mrs. Althea G. Quimby,
State vice president and acting State presi-
dent, will be present in the afternoon and
speak in the evening. Every union should be
represented, and every county superintendent
should be receiving her reports from the
locals ready to present in one concise report.
Each member should pay her dues. that the
treasurer may have correct report to give.-
E.F.M.
Herbert T. Andrews, the young man who
was freed May 18th from the prison at Deer
Isle, Boston, to which he had been sentenced
for forging checks, was at one time resident
of Belfast and pupil of the B. H. s. He
was also employed for short time in the
Waldo Trust Company, and was always an ex-
emplary youth. His father moved here at the
time of the Duplex Roller Bushing Company's
activity and occupied the C. h. Mitchell house
on Cedar street. He was freed by the con-
fession of Earle Barnes Of New York, and his
conviction was q case of mistaken indentity.
He had protested his innocence from the time
of his arrest to the very minute judgment
was rendered. He has wife and one child.
Stanley Wallssky, 12-years old Russian
boy. was before the Municipal Court last SAT-
urday charged with the larceny Of IL meal
bags. was found guilty and sentenced to the
State School for Boys in South Portland. City
Marshal Edgecomb took him to South Portland
Tuesday. The boy complained Of i'll treatment
which caused him to leave his home on Bridge