The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-10-15
The County Commissioners held short SEES
sion at the Courthouse last Tuesday.

The County Commissioners held a short ses-
sion at the Courthouse last Tuesday.
Tickets for the Entertainment Course to be
given in the Baptist church are for sale at
Pitchers Music store.
The Quantabacook salmon, caught last sum
mer by Mrs Maine Hills, has been mounted by
"a taxidermist, and is on exhibition at the
City Drug Store.
Frank Whiting and Franklin Warren have
moved from the Moore house on Bridge street
to the tenement vacated by Mrs. Charles
Chamberlain on Spring street.
Miss Isabel CHM will leave today for Ban
gor and after brief visit there will go to Bos-
ton to spend vacation from her duties as
bookkeeper for the c. F. Thompson Co.
There will be no regular meeting of Thoma
H. Marshall Circle next Tuesday, but special
meeting will be held Wednesday afternoon,
Oct. 21st, at o'clock. for the annual lnspec-
ton by Department President Mrs. Mertie
Perkins and Past Department President, Mrs
Wallace R. Tarbox. A light lunch will be
served after the inspection. good attend
ance is desired.
Of the pictures. "Neptune's Daughter" to
be shown at the Colonial Theater October
18th and Goth, Mr.. R. P. Chase, who saw them
in Boston, said to Manager Bray that they
were the finest pictures he had ever seen.
There will be matinees each day.
Mr. John lines of Searsport has taken the
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recently vacated by Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. W.
Lower, who have moved to the kimball house
on Cedar street. Mr.. lines has two daughters
the city schools, junior in the B. H. S.
nd the other in Grade TX.
The ladies' of the North church parish will
block at 10 a. m, today, the sale to continue
day and evening and closing Saturday night
There will be a great variety of articles for
sale in which everybody may find something
to fill a long felt want, and bargain hunters
will find this a veritable bonanza. mo trouble
to show goods"
Mrs. Albea E. Hutchins underwent very
serious abdominal operation in Portland sew
eral months ago and returned home, but was
obliged to go again to the Maine General Hos
pital for additional work. Letters from her
attendants and from her daughter, Mrs. Geo
Harcourt of Porta nd, give encouraging re-
ports of speedy recovery. Mrs. Hutchins
has been semi-invalid for several years.
BOARD OF TRADE. Ralph D. Southworth
read interesting paper on 'Advertisiog"
before the Bel FAST Board of Trade last Friday
evening at their regular meeting. 1t was
voted to hold special meeting this, Thursday.
evening to discuss the question of a "Food
Fair for the coming winter. This seems to
be the only method by which the Board of
Trade IAN secure funds for promoting the diff
ferent enterprises, but there has developed a
feeling among some of the merchants against
the Food Fair program and they will be invit-
ed to this meeting to state their reasons WY
the fair should not be held. The first Food
Fair held here netted the Board of Trade about
$500 and that of last year. while success,
showed smaller receipts. due to the extreme
cold weather . Belfast is to have its first
municipal Christmas tree this year under the
auspices of the Board of Trade, Morris L..
Slugg, president, and the arrangements will
be under the direction of a committee of Is.
comprising representatives from each ward,
each church, the schools. the professional and
business men, in fact every walk in life will
be represented in the general committee.
This will be divided into sub working commit
tees, each to perform a given portion of the
arrangements. While the plans are necessari-
ly incomplete at this day, it is proposed to
have the tree set up in the square in front of
the post office, to have music by the band.
singing by big choir and the audience and
speeches by prominent citizens. The follow
ing is the committee: Rev. A A. Blair. Rev. W.
F. Sturtevant. Rev. H. S. Pearl. Rev. H. B.
Sellers. Rev. William Vaughan, Hon: Robert F.
Dunton, Miss Anne M, Kittredge, Mrs. Amos
Clement, Mrs Elbridge S. Pitcher. Messrs. o
J. Dickey, C. W. Wescott, c. R. Coombs, W: G
Hatch, Roscoe Black, 5. A. Parker, b b. Gil
chrest. O. E. Frost, Mrs. Charles Bradbury,
Mrs James C. Durham. Mrs Edward A. Wads-
worth, Mr. James H. Howes, MIR. W. b. Wood
bury, DR.. Carl H. Stevens. Mr.. Wilson Ellis.
Mr.. NJ L, Slugg. The general committee will
meet in the near future to organize and ar
range the various sub committees necessar y
for the successful carrying out of this pro-