The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-01-29
The News of Belfast.

! r Marsano has made arrangements Tor
,,sn;ne fruit store in Castine in the spring.
The city schools entered upon the winter
,.hedule yesterday of one and one-half hour
recess at noon.
Mrs Louis bennett Beckwith was operated
for appendicitis at the Tapley hospital last
Monday forenoon.
All members of A. E. Clark Camp, S. of w.,
are requested to be present next Monday even
ing to act on important business.
There will be public 25-cent supper in the
Jrniversalist vestry Wednesday. Feb. 4th, to
which the public is cordially invited.
Loren s., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Wayland Hall
was operated on for appendicitis at the Waldo
county Hospital last Tuesday morning.
The Belfast W. c. T. U. will meet tomorrow.
Friday. at 2 80 p. M, with Miss Lora Maxey,
Pearl street. Subject, Anti Narcotics.
Leonard & Barrows shoe factory closed at
% o'clock for the afternoon Monday on &C
,ount of an accident to the main drRing belt.
petition in bankruptcy has been filed in
the II. S. district court by Charles Sargent,
altman. of China, who owes $500 and has no
assets.
Fair Holmes was driving down Main street
Monday with a large load of wood when the
.,sd slowed in the direction of the Waldo
r-ust Company's window. Mr.. Holmes reaiz-
a that if unset the load would land on the
,,Iate glass and to avoid this he drove the
torses on to the sidewalk. the pole bringing
50, between the windows, doing no damage.
EDGAR Robertson of Swanville underwent
critical operation for mastoid abscess at the
Waldo County Hospital last Monday, mem
a.rs of the regular staff performing the work.
Thomas H. Marshall Circle, Ladies of the G.
A R.. will observe Mckinley day at their
meeting next Tuesday afternoon. The Com
rades of the Post are invited to be present and
lake part
The annual supper and ball OF Washington
Hose Co. will take place tomorrow, Friday,
light in the Opera House. Keyes orchestra
viii furnish music and good supper and
5ood time is assured to all who attend.
Miss Ruth W. Maffitt, who has been i'll for
The past two weeks at her home IN Northport.
WAS the recipient of beautiful bouquet OF
rirks and basket of fruit from her class
..ates of the Belfast High school.
Nessrs. William B. Swan, Albert c. Burgess
and Ben D. Field, Trustees of the Belfast q
Noosehead Lake R. R. Co., met Tuesday and
rev for payment $1,000 in bonds; one
..,lsand and 2 five hundred This reduces
cqe total Indebtedness to $4,000
MISS Arvilla Sylvester fell in her room at
.sr nome 35 Cedar street early Monday morn
.4g when opening the register in the floor and
a~oke a wrist The accident is doubly unfor-
innate as her sister. Mrs. Fannie e. Sylvester.
.., been i'll for some time.
The Women's Alliance of the First Parish
nitarian) church will meet at the home of
Mrs E. S. Pitcher, Northport avenue, Friday,
.anuary 3Oth, at 8 D. m. There will be must
cal program under the direction Of Mrs. E. S.
ptcher. Mrs. lph H. Howes and Miss Char
-otte W. Colburn. Please notice the change of
late
The next meeting of Seaside Chautauqua
lrce will be held Monday afternoon, Febru-
ary 2nd, with Mrs. Charles E. Rhoades, 20 High
=treet Rol-call, select quotations.; lesson,
chapters, twelve thirteen, fourteen and fifteen
Of the c. L. S. C. book, 1.-The Message of Greek
Art" All interested in C. L. S. C. studies are
invited.
The Boston Sunday Herald of Jan. 25th has
an article on the presentation, for a charity,
of the opera, The Hurdy Gurdy Girl by 80
of the young people of Somerville, Mass. Miss
Gladys Ruth BRIGHAM, niece OF Mrs. Will
lam TWom5ly of Belfast and frequent visit
here, wrote and coached the opera, and Rus
sell son of Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman r. Cook,
formerly of Belfast had one of the principal
parts.
In the write-up last week of the improve
.nents at the Waldo County General hospital
mention was made of the fact that "on the
vail of the upper hall portraits of Capt.
AlcGivery and DR.. S. W. johnson, uniformly
iramed' DR.. Johnson's portrait hung
here by the doctors connected with the hospi-
.al, without mis- knowledge, in recognition of
MS services in placing the hospital in its pres
mt excellent condition. He was one of the
iirst to move for the establishment of such an
institution and has been an uutiring worker
Tor it to the present day. By request of Mrs.
trittin, who gave $1,000 for a new operating
and sterlllzlng rooms as a memorial to her
father, the late John W. McGilvery, DR.. John
son had charge of the work, fully described in
he Journal last week. which has placed this
hospital in the front rank of like institutions