The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-10-21

more years in the futile house on High street.
has taken the first floor rent in the E. L. Ma.
comber house on Bayview street.
More strawberries! Mrs. C. ], Clark of
Northport brought to The Journal Office last
Thursday ripe Strawberries on their stems
with partly ripe and half grown berries.
A Belfast party consisting of Mr.. and Mrs
Geo. F. Kent, formerly of Madison. Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM H. Hall. Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin T.
Dinsmore and Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Richie.
on their way to Quebec stopped over in Madi-
son Wednesday for a few hours visiting
Reconsideration Bulletin. Oct 14th.
Miss Charlotte M. Tibbetts writes from Pet.
aluma. Calf, that they "have had no rain
since May. Have enjoyed The Journal so
much and look forward to it as l do to nv
meals. Sorry to hear you have had such a
weepy season. The Exposition is lust grand.
would like to stay there all the time"
The Once in While Club had an al-day
picnic at Windanspray cottage on the Condor
shore October 18th. The dinner included beef
and pork steak. fried apples, baked sweet DO
tatoes, hot biscuit, pickles, apple pie. cake and
coffee The afternoon was spent around the
open fire in the living room and after supper
the party attended the moving pictures at the
Opera House.
Miss Blanche Jennys was hostess at recent
bridge party when the guests organized the
B. M. C., which plans to meet weekly at the
homes of the members. Music and bridge were
enjoyed. Miss Annette Holt receiving the
first prize. bouquet of roses; the second, a
box of fudge, goingAto Miss Lillian Knowltop.
The others present were Misses Lyle and
Mabel Townsend and Vema A. Mitchell.
The annual meeting of the Maine Associa-
ton of Fire Insurance Agents will be held in
Augusta Nov Sd. An interesting feature of
the meeting will be address by F Little
field of Belfast, chairman of the Industrial
Commission Of the State of Maine, on the sub
ject of the Workmen's Compensation. On &C.
count of the interest of insurance agents in
the new law which goes into effect Jan. LIST it
is expected that there will be an unusually
large attendance.
Mrs Leroy A. Weber entertained the Hos
pital Club last Thursday afternoon at her
home in honor of Mrs. Harold Hay who
with her husband. left the next morning for
Waverly, Mass. Mrs. Hayford has been an
active member of the club since its organiza-
ton and will be greatly missed. The after
noon was spent socially and with chorus sing
ing. Miss Lena Nye, accompanied, and Mrs.
Hazel Bowker rendered q soprano solo. Two
new mem bers, Mrs, Norman A. Read and Mrs.
Irving L. Cross, were present. Mrs. Maine
Hills assisted the hostess in serving tea and
waters.
A special feature of interest at the meeting
of the State Teachers Convention in city hall,
Bangor, at lois a. M. Oct. 2Sth, will be the
chorus of 2l0 High school pupils and their or
chestra of 40pupils. MIR. Elbridge S. Pitcher of
this city is chairman of the committee of ar
engagements and teacher of music in the Bel.
fast High, and will send 10 pupils for the chorus
and for the orchestra. Each High school is
allowed to send ten per cent of the pupils tax
ing music in the schools. They will give a
regular program, two orchestral numbers,
four choruses with orchestral accompani-
ments, a violin solo, vocal duet, q string trio
and clarinet soo-everyt thing by the pupils
THE NoRTHPoRT COUNTRY CLUB. The
certificate of the organization of the North
port Country Club was recorded in the Waldo
County Registry of Deeds October 18th. The
purposes of the organization are to maintain a
Club house. golf course, tennis court and
athletic field, to buy, sell. own. lease, use and
control all real estate and personal property
necessary or proper to be used for the pur-
poses aforesaid, and in general to do all things
properly pertaining to the maintenance and
management of Country Club. The amount
of capital stock is $4,000; all common stock;
par value of shares, $25. Ira M. Cobe of
Chicago, John R. Dunton and Ralph l. Morse
of Belfast have one share each of common
stock and are directors. Mr.. Cobe is presi-
dent and treasurer and Mr.. Morse clerk.
THE SUNDAY GAME LAW Last week the
topic most discussed on the streets and in the
stores was the law against Sunday cunning and
its enforcement, and while there were natur.
ally differences of opinion the preponderance
of sentiment seemed to favor the law and its
enforcement. Ignorance of law does not ex-
empt an offender, and for the benefit of those
who have not seen this Sunday law we re-
print it from the Public Laws of Maine:
Section so. Sunday is closed season on
which it is not lawful to hunt, kill or DESTROY
any wild animals or wild birds of any kind
Whoever hunts or kills, or destroys any wild
animal or wild bird on Sunday shall pay fine
of not less than ten dollars nor more than for
ty dollars and costs for each offense; provided
however. that if protected wild animals or
wild birds are hunted, killed, destroyed or had
in possession in violation of this section. the
penalty shall be the same as is now imposed
therefor during other closed season; but the
penalties imposed for the violation of the
Sunday laws of the statutes of this State are
not hereby repealed or diminished.
LOCAL NEWS. Having occasion to look over
the file of The Journal for the year 1870 we
we're surprised to find how little space was
given to the news of the city and county In
fact, there was no news from the county. In
one issue the locals occupied only third of
a column and about one-thrd of that SPACE
was devoted to advance notices of two enter
tainments. The railroad was completed in
1870, but there was no wrte-up of the event
and only brief mention in the locals of the
work as it progressed. Many years later the
local news rarely exceeded two columns, in
Guiding items from one or two of the county
towns. Nowadays the county news often &C.
cnries thc. space of full pape with from am