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

q hog which weighed. dressed. 62S pounds. He
sold it to B. O. Norton.
Miss E. Frances Abbott is substituting for
Miss Julia M. Leary in Grade II. City building.
Miss Leary is i'll at home with throat trouble
The Woman's Hospital Aid will meet social
ly tomorrow, Friday. afternoon at O'Clock
with Mrs Ev erard A. Wilson, Upper High
street.
The Saturday Auction Club, which had an
enjoyable meeting with Miss Gladys Pitcher
last week. will meet next Saturday with Miss
Clara Heating.
Mrs Fred O. Horne, who has been in the
Waldo County Hospital for a serious surgical
operation. is rapidly improving and expects to
return home tomorrow. Friday.
Aurora Rebekah Lodge, No 10. l. 0. O. F.,
will give public card party in Odd Fellows
hall Wednesday evening. Feb. 4th, at 7So
O'Clock, Refreshments will be served.
A class of the Belfast High school sopho-
mores have substituted garment drafting for
Geometry ana take the work under Miss Mel
vina v. Parker. meeting at 2 o'clock p. m.
The Guild of the North Congregational
church will meet next Monday evening with
Miss Amy E. Stoddard. Members are request
ed to bring the patterns spoken Of at the last
meeting, in preparation for the spring fair.
The masked dancing party to have been
given last Saturday evening by Miss Mar
ian Lambert at the close of her first term
of dancing school was postponed for two
weeks on account of illness among the children
ADVERTISED LETTERS. The following letters
remained uncalled for in the Belfast postofhce
for the week ending Jan. 9th: Ladles-Mrs
Rose T. Blethen, Mrs. L. E. Clifford. Mrs. Lucy
Robbins, Mrs Julia Tenney. Gentlemen
BENJAMIN Mfg Co., B. A. Boynton A. G. Craig,
Robert Emery. John B. Gage, Roy Mitchell,
William Smith, Leo True e letters).
LYNN, Mass, has business boom under the
dire ction of the Merchants Association ana
Chamber of Commerce, and Harry H. Carter,
formerly of Belfast. is chairman of the enter
tainment committee and also member of the
Retail Trade Bureau committee. The social
side of the movement is presenting many
novel features.
The regular meeting OF the D. A. R. will be
held in the Arts and Crafts room next Monday
evening with the Misses Isabel and ENERGY
CHM as hostesses. The program will include
paper on Industrial Independence by Mrs
F, r. Woodcock; reading of America by sub
stitute for Mrs. H. H. Johnson, who is out OF
town. and Territorial Expansion by Mrs Amos
Clement.
class of eleven from Grade passed the
mid-year examinations and entered Monday
upon the work of the Freshman, year of the
High school If the class is able to make up
outside of their regular work that of the first
half of this year they will graduate in three
and one-half years, but otherwise will remain
in the High school four and one half years.
In connection with the extension school to
be conducted at Equity Grange hall, Jan. 10Th,
3Oth and 31st, baked bean dinner will be
served daily by the ladies of the Grange. This
school will be in session daily from to IL and
l to and many interesting things will be
demonstrated including animal industry, mix
ing the feed and feeding. Each person at
tending the school will please take quart OF
feed he is using to be used in demonstrating.
The following petition for Civic Righteous
ness is being circulated in the city: ave, as
citizens of Belfast, wish to go on record as CO.
operating with the Christian Civic League OF
Maine in behalf of Rev. W. F. Berry, D. D., in
the suit of libel brought against him by Judge
Haley. We agree with many of the best citi-
zens of our State that this is most important
he for fOf
funds The amount therefore against our
name is our f1eewil offering in said case"
/ ANY person desiring to contribute toward this
fund please send or hand the same to Mrs.
Annie W. Frost, chairman, sometime during
the present week. No offering is too small to
be appreciated by the Civic League.
THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. At the January
! meeting of the school committee, held Monday
evening, it was voted that Supt. W B. Wood
bury appear before the city government in re-
| gard to the increase of insurance on certain
school buildings which the committee deem
insufficiently insured to cover possible loss. 1t
was voted to pay Mrs. Bertha N. Armstrong,
| living on the Paul road, for transporting her
children to the Pitcher schoo!house in the win
ter, as in former seasons. Voted to give the
High School Athletic Association $25 to be ex-
pended under a committee from the school
board. to be appointed by Giles G. Abbott, who
named Orrin j. Dickey, Renworth R. Rogers
and Willis D. Hasetine. Voted to grant the
request of Mrs. William P. Casey to allow her
son Ralph to attend the Brick Grammar school
in East Belfast while his behavior is satisfac-
tory to the teacher and committee.