The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-07-06

Louis F, Cannon and sons. Louis, Eugene
and Alfred, were in town Su nday from Albion.
Miss Ruth Coombs is enjoying a vacation
from the Waldo County hospital training
school, where she is training
MIR. and Mrs, Zenas Hartshorn and daughter
Martha are on a three weeks trip TO Milll-
nocket, Kingman and Lincoln.
The regular meeting of the city government
was postponed from Monday evening to this,
Thursday, evening at 730 o'clock.
Sherman G. Swift of Waterville was at home
for the weekend and holiday. His son,
Charles Augustus, who had been with him the
past week, has returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert P. Coombs are to en-
terrain today in honor of the goth birthday of
their daughter, Miss Gertrude Estele Din
ner will be served at o'clock.
Mrs. H. C. Pitcher entertained Hon. and
Mrs c. O. Poor, Mrs. Walter Poor and Miss
Julia Perry Monday afternoon at five o'clock
tea and later at the picture theater.
ADVERTISED LETTERS. The following let
tiers remained uncalled tor in the Belfast post
office for the week ending July Sd: DR.. j. F..
Burgess, Everett Herst, Percival Willard
Keene.
Ralph Elmer Strout, son of Mr.. and M rs.
Frank B. Strout of East Belfast, who has been
employed for several years in Lawrence,
Mass. left for the border June 28th with Bat
terry of that city, of which he had been
member for several years. Saturday his par
ents received a card from him mailed at Utica,
NY.
Prof. H. L. Stevens Of the New England
Conservatory of Music arrived by auto last
Sunday afternoon and will occupy Mrs. Louise
S. Shales cottage at the Battery for the sea-
when he received a telegram from Boston
stating that his residence had been broken into
and returned there for short time. making
the trip here an unusually hard one.
Many Belfast parties motored to Waterville
last Friday, and to Bangor Saturday, to attend
the Barnum & Bailey circus. In Watervile
the circus people had great difficulty in getting
their teams the grounds, the wagons linking
to the hubs and the elephants had to be pressed
into service. The big tent was crowded after
noon and evening, and that was the case in
Bangor the next day. Those who attended re.
ported good show with some new features.
SHIPPING ITEMS. The shipbuilding plant of
Was hburn Brothers at Thomaston, Me-, has
been leased by the Atlantic Coast Co. of Bos-
ton and work will begin as soon as possible on
a four-masted schooner, 200 feet on the keel,
and with a carrying capacity of 2,400 tons.
The Washburn yard has been idle for Is years.
90. The three masted schooner Horace M.
Bickford has been chartered to load general
cargo at New York for ports on the West
Coast of Africa for $32. 900. OF this amount
1924, 900 is to be paid as soon as the schooner is
loaded The owners recently refused al offer
of 1000 for the craft. The Bickford was
built at Phippsburg, Me, in 1907, and is own
ed by the H. M. Bickferd Co, and others of
Boston. :. June 28th workmen in the Texas
Co. yard began stretching the keel plates for
the big steamer to be built by the concern in
Bath. The yard is being wired for electric
lights and the extensive system indicates that
work will be in two shifts if necessary to get
out the work quickly. Over 200 men are en-
ployed in the yard now. 4. :. The sale of two
more three-masted schooners at Boston is re-
ported. One of them, the George E. Dudley
387 tons. and 26 years old, was sold to Norwe-
gian parties for $4,000 while the other, the
Sarah and Lucy, was bought by Mobile parties
to he used in tho On lf trade Tho four.mas at cd
sch Stanley M. Seaman has chartered to load
case oil at New York for Lisbon at IS cent per
case, returning from Portugal with full car
go of lockwood at $1,000 lump sum- . The
! Shawmut Steamship Co. has sold the steamers
F. j. Lisman. M. E. Harper and Penobscot, all
lake-built vessels, to the Oriental Navigation
Company. for s2,287. 500 cash, to be delivered
ment is supplying the money. The steamers
cost $500 900 each, $462, 500 less than they solo
for. The Shawmut Company now has undel
construction at Chester. Penn, three genera
cargo steamers, one with capacity of 7.5Ol
tons and the other two of $500 tons each
They will be fitted with turbine engines ant
have guaranteed speed of IL knots. Anothe
Boston steamer. the Edison Light, bought b,
c. N. Sprague & Son from the Boston & Vir
ginia Transportation Company for abou
$500 900, has also been sold to the Orienta
Navigation Company for $762, 500. .. 1t is re-
ported that four large vessels-two passenger
ships of 1900 tons and two freight ships Of
6.000-are to be built for the New York &
Cuba Mail Steamship Company. These pas
senger steamers, it is understood, will cos
about $2.000,O00 each. and will reduce thu
time between New York and Havana by TWEEN
ty.four hours.