The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-06-04

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gress street.
The hearing on the estate of the late Franz
4 NJ. Patterson, announced for today. Thursday
has beer indefinitely postponed.
The Ladies of the G. A. R. wish to extend
vote of thanks to Mrs. Susan c. Mathews for
the tulips donated for Memorial Day.
The Ladies of the G. A. R. extend an invita-.
ton to the Ladies' of the Auxiliary to meet
with them in Memorial Hall at D. M. Friday.
June 18th. Ice cream and cake will be served
The excursion last Sunday to Camden and
Crescent Beach on steamer Golden Rod was
we'll patronized and very enjoyable Next Sum-
day the Golden Rod makes an excursion to
Bangor. leaving Lewis wharf a. $50 a. m.
What's at the Opera House this coming week:
Saturday reels. including ''Our Mutual Grip
Series No. 10. and Lowers Orchestra. The
Tuesday.
The program for the graduating exercises of
the Belfast High school in the Opera House
this, Thursday, evening is an unusually inter-
esting one. The exercises will be fully re-
ported in the next issue of The Journal.
Allen H. Patterson, who recently bought out
the harness business of E. B. Lunt, has bought
the business of L. F. Mcdonald and will soon
take possession. After disposing of some of
the stock and making repairs he will CONSOLE
date the two stores.
The officers of the Waldo County Agricul-
tural Society met the Board of Trade Monday
evening to discuss matters in regard to con-
tinuing the Belfast fairs. The mortgage held
by the Waldo Trust Co. does not mature until
November, and it is hoped to raise funds to
cancel the company's indebtedness by that
time.
The following query from J. H. Sullivan Of
Searsport appeared last week in the Peoples
Column of the Boston Globe Perhaps read
er of The Journal may be able to answer it:
Can any reader of The Globe inform me
where and when the American ship Astoria
was built and what became of her? She was
commanded in 1910 by Capt. Phineas Pendleton
of Searsport, Me.
Some of the Special Features coming to
Belfast Opera House: Through South America
with Roosevelt; James Cruze and Flo LaBadie
in robin Hood" Maud Fealey in Moths and
"Frou Frou;" Mae Marsh and Robert Harron
in "rbe Great Leap" In this film Miss Marsh
and Mr.. Harron make a leap from sheer
cliff, rs feet high, on horseback.
Mrs Thomas l.. Shea, who is at Wildwood,
N J.. writes a Belfast friend that Mr.. Shea
has signed with the Broadway Moving Picture
Co. to produce his own composition "Ihe Man
% Warsman," which he wrote during the
Spanish war and has lately rewritten for the
Mexican situation He has named the leading
adv in honor of their Belfast friend.
THE Rock CRUsHER PLANT BURNED. The
city rock crushing plant on Congress street
was destroyed by fire Thursday morning, May
End, and is practically total loss. The plant
consisted of rock crusher, engine and boiler,
the shed in which they were housed and
quantity of old plank sidewalk used for fuel.
Delay in sounding the alarm allowed the fire
to gain such Roadway that when the firemen
and engine arrived little could be done. A
high wind was blowing directly toward the
residence of Roy E. Young, which caught sew
eral times. Street commissioner Post and his
assistant at the time, Mr.. Douglass, had been
irving the boiler and banked the fire with wet
ashes and thought it safe to leave, when the
flames burst out of the door, caught in some
kindling and that set fire to the building. The
plant was insured for s., 200 with the agency of
R. W. Rogers.
BOARD OF TRADE BANQUET. The banquet of
the Belfast Board of Trade, for which great
preparat ons have been made. will take place
tomorrow, Friday, evening in the Opera House
and in addition to the appetizing repast to be
furnished by the Universalist society, and the
eloquent speeches, music will lend it's charms
to the occasion. 1t is expected that the over
ture given recently in the Belfast Band min
strels will be given by the local musicians who
took part in that entertainment. This lasts
some 10 minutes and very cleverly introduces
many popular and catchy songs. The musical
program will also include numbers by the
ladies' quartet, male quartet, and solos and
duets. With the banquet served at small
tables, seating four each, the affair should be
one of great enjoyment as well as profit and ii
is hoped that many from other parts of the
county will attend for the object is to develop
and boom the county.
WALDO STATION BURNED The Maine Cen.
trail passenger station at Waldo and three
freight cars with their contents were burned last
Tuesday afternoon, entailing loss of about
$4,000. The fire started on the station plat.
form about m. and with the strong vino
blowing at the time was soon under fierce
Roadway. There were no means for fighting
fire and the flames spread to three freight cart
on the siding, which were burned to the trucks
One car was loaded with potatoes, shipped by
A. E. Carpenter; another was partially filled
with fertilizer consigned to ". l.. Eastman
and the third was loaded with pulpwooi
shipped by Mrs. Lena Gerrish. to the Interna
tional Paper Co.'s mill at Riley. Several fla
cars we're moved to safety and the fire did mo-
reach the freight shed. The fire delayed thu
train leaving Belfast at 2.20 p. M for severa
hours and the evening train was half an hou
late in arriving here. The origin of the fire il
unknown.
FROM SUBSCRIBERS. A Milwaukee, Wis.
subscriber writes: 1--WE feel, as notice man,
other subscribers do, that The Journal is