The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-02-05
EAST BELFAST.

Miss Lucy Leavett, who 10 i'll with acute
rheumatism. il reported ~ little better at this
writing. DR.. Elmer Small 10 attending her.
Louis de Lemos has moved from his home off
the Robbins road to the circuit house ON
Green street which he has re :ently bought.
and will sell Or let his home place.
Mrs. E. W. Curtis of Camden arrived Mon
day on account Of the illness Of her brother.E E.
s. Achorn, who 10 convalescing from an opera
ton in DR.. Tapley's hospital.
Murray White is substituting for Richard
Brown on the leatherboard mills team ~ Mr..
Brown is threatened with pneumonia and is
reported not a. we'll at this writing, Feb. End.
The Hiramdale Gun Club. organized in East
Belfast few weeks sgo with five members.
now has %. and is growing The officers are
William Leary. president; Murray White. vice
president; Raphnel Leavitt, secretary and
treasurer. The club has been meeting Tuesday
nights In shop owned by Mr.. Leary, but have
been given building owned by Elmer Sher-
man and will move it to a lot of land given by
Mr.. Leary, and convert it into a clubhouse.
The generosity of both Mr.. Sherman and Mr..
Leary is greatly appreciated. The meetings
are purely social and as there are several mu-
sicians in the club music is feature. They
have shoots every Saturday afternoon at
Hramdale Falls and are soon to put up a
silver cup as a trophy to 60 to the one maxi
ing the best record.
The following clipping is from the Boston
Post of Jan. 18th:
MARLBORO, Jan. To- Determined to pay his
election bet, even at the risk of contracting
pneumonia, Albert Place, an attendant at the
Westboro Hospital. dressed in midsummer at
tire today walked distance of five miles
from the hospital to Marlboro.
Place was a Kenny man. While spreading
himself in an oratorical outburst on the merits
of his favorite for mayor of Boston last week.
he was challenged to a bet by Melvin Knowl-
ton of Boston, fellow worker at the institu-
ton.
Knowlton framed the wager and said he
would walk in midsummer dress from the
hospital to Marlboro. two days after the Bos-
ton city election,if Curley were defeated. Not
to be outdone in enthusiasm for his candidate,
Place accepted the terms of the wager.
This morning, citizens about the street were
amazed to see strangely-gowned man SILVER
ing through the main thoroughfare of the city.
Bent over and COMPRISING himself as much as
he could, that he might present as little bulk
to the cold. penetrating wind, the man stalked
into the city and down the main street. Places
face was purplish, his lips were blue, mis- teeth
chartered, and even his tongue could not linn
Der up to give voice to an expression of the
why's and wherefores of his condition and re-
markable performance.
He was not attired even in the warme It sum-
mer garments. The torrid zone clothes he had
donned had seen better or worse days and had
evidently been reclaimed from the discard.
His head was bedecked in battered straw hat
that had served its time and been discarded A
thin pink shirt, a pleasing sight to summer
eyes, lay on his back and offered no resistance
to the frigld atmosphere.
His wager paid. Place returned to the hospi-
tai. drank some piping hot soup and thawed
out.
When Place started out on his wager Knowl-
ton telephoned to another institution that one
of their patients had escaped, and giving the
description of Place told them to capture him
and hold him until they could send for him
When Place was opposite the institution nurses
etc., rushed out to get him, and the ''patient'
was somewhat surprised although he did not
put up fight on account of the zero weather
He was held until Knowton was sent from
Westboro to "get the patient, while Place
was calmly waiting for-what? When Knowl.
ton walked in Places mind was somewhat re.
lieved? Although he had paid the wager ht
| returned with knowlton voWing never to MAKE
another bet.