The Republican journal., 1915-04-29

Or. Carl II. Stevens, who is taking post
graduate course in surgery in the New York
Post Graduate and Medical Science school,
will finish his work there Saturday and re-
turn to Belfast to resume his practice
The SICK AND CoNvALESCENT. DR.. F. M
Adams is improving from very critical ILL
ness with gall stones. DR.. Elmer Small has
been confined to his home on Miller street the
past week ill with severe cold. Mrs. VIM. X.
MacNeil, who has been critically ill at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Nina Wentworth, in
Knox, is slowly improving. Mr.. Mac Neil,
who has been with her, expects to return home
in a few days. Mrs. Ralph H. Howes is
about her home after an attack of grip border
ing on pneumonia. There are fewer cases of
measles among the school children and the
grip colds are also less in evidence. . Herbert
S. Morey, who has been i'll for several weeks
from the effects of a very severe cold, went
to Bangor Monday for medical treatment. ..
Mrs. Levi M. Clay and Mrs. R. T. Newell of
Citypoint have been confined to their home
for several days with grip. Both are little
better
SHIPPING ITEMS. The Portland schooners
Mary E. Palmer and Singleton Palmer, which
left Norfolk March 9Th, coal laden, arrived at
Rio Janeiro April 21st. Remarkably even
sailing was made on the trip, the vessels start
ing out together and making port almost in
company, honors being even. The time made
43 days, compares very favorably with the
runs usually made between the two ports by
the square riggers." .. The schooner Martha
E. McLain landed Is barrels of large herring,
caught off shore. at Portland April 2lst, the
first brought in this season.. They were sold
for So barrel. Steamers F. ]. Lisman and
Seaconnet which have just been repaired at
the Bath Iron Works, have been chartered at
$4,000 month by a newly organized steam
ship concern known as the inter ocean Trans
portation Co. of America, with offices at New
York and Boston, which will charter steamers
to load at both ports. The Lisman will leave
Boston on May LIST for Rotterdam, the Seacon-
net on May 9Th for Havre, while the M. E..
Harper, which has also been chartered, will
leave Boston on May 18th for Swedish ports ....
The six-master Edward B. Winsow arrived at
Bath last Sunday, in tow, from New York and
will receive extensive repairs at the hands of
Percy & Small, having been badly stove in for
ward in recent collision with a battleship off
the Jersey coast.
The Junior Alliance met at the Unitarian
parsonage Friday afternoon with fourteen
members and six guests present After the
ooening devotional exercises and transaction
of business, the chairman of the days pro-
gram, Miss Charlotte Wadsworth, announced
the topic as "Robert Schumann, the Great
Composer" She read sketch of his life and
spoke of some OF the best known of his COM
positions Hope Dorman played "The Happy
Peasant, Grace Hazeltine "a Little Romance.
and Julia Littlefeld. "Traumerei." An explana-
ton of Heine's poem, 1.-THE Two Grenaders,'
followed, and Schumanns musical setting for it
was sung by Rev. A. E. Wilson. The program
closed with "Homage to Schumann", by Mos
kowski, on the player piano. The girls were
then handed slips of paper which babe them
look in various odd places in the house until
they found something bearing their names
After many trips upstairs and down each mem
Der found tissue paper package containing
her arm emblem, the mark of honors won by
keeping certain rules of the organization. These
emblems are to be worn for the first time at
the May Day sale this week, Saturday. in the
Unitarian church parlor, where home made
food and candy and useful articles will be for
the members.