The Republican journal., 1915-08-05


The Thompson Mfg. Company viii fclose
their factory next Saturday for the annual
weeks vacation.
Band concert this, Thursday. evening ct
| Low O'Clock sharp. with chorus singing and
solo BY Charles 81. Hammons.
/ It was the wettest July in A years. the
weather observers report, and August has
apparently starred in to beat another record.
The installation Of the newly elected officers
OF Tarratine Tribe of Red Men. which was to
have taken place last week, was postponed to
August eth.
! Mrs. E. r. PIERCE recently sent to the Oak
Tree tea house, Hope, some of her choicest
water colors and some very artistic baskets,
| and later will have an exhibition of her work
there.
| The interior of H. E. McDonald's furniture
store, 10 Main street, has undergone COM
plete renovation. The walls have been given
| light yellow tint, woodwork and ceiling
! white
| Judge George E. johnson and Charles P.
AAoNSieiHCS COumlSblOn6TS vi ehS ulSputeQ
! claims in the Charles E. Lane estate. will re-
serve their decision on the hearing last Friday
until the August term of the Probate Court. :
Misses Laverne and Bertha Written,
Lena and Winifred Sanborn and Carrie Green
law left yesterday in the Written automobile
for two weeks vacation trip, going first to
Union, where the Misses Written formerly
lived, and will have their headquarters at the
hotel there, making side trips when the wea-
Their is favorable
AT the meeting Tuesday evening of the
directors of the Home for Aged Women, Mrs.
Robert F, Dunton, chairman of the committee
on the lawn party to be held August 18th, re-
ported the following subcommittee: Fancy
work, Mrs. Elmer Small; food, Mrs. Charles
E Owen; candy, Mrs. ]. G. Aborn; entertain
| ment, Elbrdge S. Pitcher; decorations, Chas.
E. Sherman.
! Mrs Morris L. Slugg entertained at lunch at
| her home on Church street Tuesday afternoon
in honor of Miss Cora S. Morison's approach
| ing marriage. Auction was played during the
afternoon, Mrs. Grace c. Piisbury winning the
| iAiot PAiAoJ SAFel hdt piLo.- 1uS guests were
| Mrs. c. c. Pineo, Mrs. Elon B. Gilchrest, Mrs.
! Clyde B. Holmes, Mrs Marshall R. Martin. Mrs.
/ Grace c. Pillsbury, Mrs. James T. Sleeper, Mrs.
VIM. L., Hall, Misses Katherine C. Ouimbv
Margaret o. White, Marian Hazeltine, Dorothy
Frank Clara B. Heating
| Miss Margaret 0. White entertained Mon
! day in honor of Mrs. c. C. Pineo and Miss
| katherine G. Quimby. Lunch was served at
/ l O'Clock. Auction was played during after
noon. Mrs Helen Doak Marshall won the
prize, book, and Miss Clara B. Heating the
consolation, souvenir. The guests of honor
! were presented with souvenirs, Mrs Pineo
/ work bag and Miss Qumby a travellers mani
cure set. The other guests were Mrs. Eon
B. Gilchrest, Mrs. Clyde B. Holiness Mrs. Nor
ris l.. Slugg. Mrs. Marshall r. Martin, Mrs.
Grace G. Pillsbury, Mrs. James T. Sleeper,
Mrs, William H. and Mrs. Virgil L. Hall, Mrs.
Faunce D. Woodcock, Miss Dorothy Frank.
STEAMER NOTES. A new arrangement of
the fog whistle on the steamers of the East
ern Steamship corporation, devised by General
Manager F. A: Jones,was tried out last week.
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forward mast, and it is figured that while this
whistle will convey its message to other craft,
the passengers will be bothered less by its
noise The usual whistle on the smokesracks
will be maintained as we'll until the worth of
the new device has been proven. :. The SER
vice between Boston, Hawkesbury and Char
lettetoWn, which was recently abandoned by
the Plant Line because of dull business ia to
be resumed at once. The schedule will be
taken up the same as before it was dropped
three weeks ago. The steamer Halifax will
be placed on the route and make one trip each
week.
| When Dustin Farnum. who is summering at
Bucksport as usual, brought his new speed boat
to the Penobscot it was expected she would
show her stern to the fieetest gasolene craft in
these waters. But if her owner shared in
| these expectations he was dsabused last week,
| The Farnum boat was coming from Islesboro
and headed for Fort Point when strange craft
Was seen coming up astern like streak of
creased lightning. Farnum let out his engine
| to full speed but the stranger came up rapidly
| and began making circles about the Bucksport
boat. 1t later developed that the mysterious
| marine comet was the property of George W.
C. Drexel, who has summer home at North
Islesboro. But what grated upon Mr.. Farnum
is the fact that it is last years boat. Mr.
! Drexel has a new one this season which is
even faster.
We understand that the steamer Daniel
Webster is to be put on the Boston and Ken
nebec route to run in opposition to the Eastern
Queen. as the latter is entirely too slow to &C.
commodate the travelling publc.-Portland
Advertiser July 81, 1865.
The steamer Daniel Webster. when new.ar-
rived at Belfast. April 81, 1893, on her first
trip. and ran between this city and Portland,
making three trips week. Her first COM
mander was Capt. Joseph Farwell of Rockland,
and Edward Cushing of Camden was clerk. A
life-sized portrait of Webster, presented by
Boston friends of the late statesman, adorned
her upper saloon. In November, 1861, the
Webster was chartered by the government
but returned to Maine in October, 1862. In
November of that year she was sold to Boston
parties for SAC, 600 and left the route. and in
1874. under the name of the Saguenay, she
was running on the St. Lawrence river. The
arrival of the Webster here in 1858 was a
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