The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-11-25
The News of Belfast.

The News of Belfast.
The stores and Offices will be closed all day
Thanksgiving.
Maurice d. Towle and Chester Worthing are
on two weeks hunting trip in the vicinity of
Moosehead Lake.
Miss Amy Sh oles has been engaged as stem
ographer and typewriter in the Belfast Saw
ings bank and enter ed upon her duties last
Monday
Mrs. L. A. Knowlton and Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles P. Hazeltine will take their Thanks
giving dinner with Mrs. Georgia S. Pendleton
at The Wayside Tea House.
Willis Pattershall of this city, who enlisted
in the Navy last July and has since been at
Newport, R. l.. is spending two weeks vaca-
ton with the family of Byron M Rogers.
Messrs. Eugene and Ernest Nickerson of
Portland and Percy Nickerson of Bath have
bought the homestead of their father, the late
Hon. Alfred Emery Nickerson of Swanville,
and will keep it as summer home.
Eugene R. Spear. manager of the local tele-
phone exchange, has bought the home of the
late John W. Nash on upper Miller street and
will move there from the Bird house on Con-
gress street, where he has been living for
several years.
At the annual meeting of the State Board of
Veterinarian Examiners in Augusta November
22nd DR.. W. L. West of Belfast presided and
was elected secretary, Dr. W. H. Robinson of
Woodfords is president and DR.. W. H. Lynch
of Portland, treasurer.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy has been
filed with the clerk of the U. S. District court.
by Millard H Lane of Prospect, teamster. Liza
bilities. 81, 735; assets, 1868. Principal credi-
tors, Lemus E. White and Lewis E. White of
Winthrop, Attorney F. W. Brown. Prospect.
Mrs. I. L. Perry, who has subs tituted FREE
quently in the Hit or Miss Club and been their
special guest on several occasions, entertained
the Club last Thursday evening at her home
on Searsport avenue. Supper was served at
$50 at charmingly arranged table with big
bouquet of yellow and white chrysanthemums
for centerpiece and dropping from it small,
dark red NUNS. At each place a small
chrysanthemum with asparagus fern. The
menu was grape fruit with cherries, escaloped
oysters, roast pork, hot rolls, olives. celery,
spced pears. marshmallow pudding, assorted
cake, cocoa and mints. Auction was played
during the evening.
The BANK TAX The Board of State AS
SCISSORS has committed to the State treasurer
the assessments on financial institutions for
the period of five months following the close
of the last regular slx-month period The
Eive-month period is an odd period, due to the
passage of new law which set ahead the date
of commitment one month, thus making it
necessary to compile the assessments for
fve-month period in order to begin the OBJ
servance of the law passed by the last legisla-
ture. The assessments on Waldo county in
situations are as follows: Belfast Savings
bank, s5,02S 80; Searsport Savings bank, $685.
81; Stockton Springs Trust Co., 500 70; Waldo
Trust Co, $746.10; Belfast Loan & Building
association, Al.
FIRE EXTINGU1SHER EXHIBITION. E. w,
Hanks of Augusta was in Belfast Friday and
gave an exhibition of the Hanks patent fire
extinguisher in front of the fire department
on High street. Chief Shute and others of
the fire department. Mayor Coombs and mem
bers of the city government and school com.
mittee were present. with good sized crowd
of Interested citizens. Mr.. Hanks built sew
eral fires on the gravel, using dry goods boxes
and liberal amount of oil and allowing them
TO get we'll underway before he used the pow
der. 1t not only extinguished the flames but
formed a coating over the charred wood, which
is not readily ignited again. The powder is
contained in tubes of two sizes with hooks by
which they can be hung in accessible places in
the home or place of business. When the can
is pulled from the hook the cover comes off
and the powder is ready for use. The cost is
about one-fifth that of the ordinary fire ex.
tinguisher. The school committee has under
consideration the placing the Hanks extin-
guisher in che school buildings