The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-30
The News of Belfast.


The Penobscot Bay Electric Company have
bought Ford rupabout for use in their bust
ness.
See the dressed coll in the window of the
City Drug Store, to be given as prize at the
Guild baby show.
Chas E. Sherman has bought the OdeH
Safety Razor Sharpener recently exhibited in
the City Drug Store window and is prepared to
sharpen all safety razor blades See his advt.
The street sprinkler made its appearance on
the street last Saturday for the first time this
season, and would have been welcomed earlier.
The high northwest winds last week kept the
dust flying in clouds.
A. A. Howes & Co. received an order for
seeds last week from Woodhaven. N. Y, and
have had many calls for their seed catalogue.
They can supply all kinds of farm. field and
garden seeds in any quantity-fresh, pure
seeds.
The annual business meeting Of the D. A. R.
will be held in the Arts and Crafts room Mon
day evening, May 4th, with Mrs. Alfred M.
Ferguson and Miss Amy E. Stoddard as host
esses. The program will be as follows: roll
call, political anecdote; paper, Party Politics,
Miss Lucy Cochran; reading, "What Mr.. Rob-
inson Thinks" from Lowell's Bigelow papers,
Miss Alice E. Simmons
FOR THE BLIND. The Belfast Free Library
has received from Perkins Institution and
School for the Blind sets of embossed alpha
bets for blind reading. The material con-
sists of the alphabets of two systems OF the
Moon type and the American Braille and also
exercises for practice in reading. The library
of the Perkins Institution lends books to all
adult readers in the country, and will be glad
to be of assistance to any person in Belfast.
A KITCHEN SHOWER" Miss Hazel Rams
dell gave pretty party Wednesday night.
April 22nd, which terminated in shower" for
Miss Frances Sanborn, a summer BRIDE to-be.
Early in the evening Rummey was played,
Miss Irene Marks receiving the first prize, q
linen handkerchief, and Miss Sanborn the
BOBBY, a rubber doll After the game the
door bell rang and Miss Sanborn was called for
and given a basket containing package. On
D~SAASe SAAS
found it was but of many strung together
with yellow ribbon, and they were found to
contain many articles wi ich will be useful in
her kitchen in Haverhill, Mass, when she be-
comes Mrs. Ben Ellis, later in the summer.
The guests were then served in the dining
room, which was decorated with jonquils. one
of these flowers marking each place, together
with a tiny chicken. The menu included ice
cream, fancy cakes, and chocolate. The guests
in addition to those mentioned were Miss Tit
comb. Miss Alice Parker, Miss Gertrude Raj
eigh, Miss Mildred Dodge, Miss Isabel Smalley.
THE ANCIENT RITE OF HOUSE CLEANING. !
The house cleaning season is at hand, and the !
dealers are offering the necessary implements,
utensils and ingredients, and paper-hangers
and painters are in demand. The vacuum |
cleaner is great help now a-days and short !
ems the time of this household disturbance, !
when the man of the house has to go to the /
lunch car or restaurant for sustenance and the |
family cat takes refuge under the barn. Of |
this upheaval a writer in the Atlantic Monthly |
for May says:
touched; there are shadowy cobwebs swept |
away. 1t is fine sight to see. all down the
street, on the green lawns, rugs being beaten,
cushions shaken; windows are being washed;
are applied to the lintels of the
doorways with almost sacerdotal fervor. Out
on long lines hang many garments airing in
the sweet April sunshine; dusty things share
for time the life of fresh growing grass.
The carpet-beating man is in constant requisi-
ton; he knows himself the most important |
parsonage in town, and wears his brief glory
" tn not unkingly air. There is great
rivalry in regard to the scrub-woman, who
have inherited. if not all the Joyousness of
their dancing predecessors, singing in the
spring, at least some of their activity. The
painters are all too few, but busy on every
side; there green or brown smudges on
passing noses. Our suspense is deep in re-
gard to the color of paint in buckets into
which brushes are constantly dipped, for the
matter is of great moment. Heaven grant
that no mistaken blues, or sull hurous yellows,
Or unholy magenta shades emerge to buffet |
our spirits during the coming year Kalso-
miners with their palld pals go past in spot
ted white, like Pierrots suddenly awakened to i
a sense of the seriousness of life and its bur-
dens. Everywhere is stir, motion, life.