The Republican journal., 1916-09-14
Mrs. John c. Pilsbury is bookkeeping in
the Western Union Telegraph office.

ventlon in Lewiston.
W. A. Macomber Is building two cradles, So
and 60 feet, for the power boats of Mr.. Drex-
ell and DIR. Biddle They will be towed to
1slesboro, where the boats will be hauled out
for the winter
Mr.. Edward Sibley will leave Saturday to
spend few days with his daughter, Mrs
Henry H. Hilton and family of Chicago, at the
Hilton homestead in Tewksbury, Mass, where
they have spent the summer.
A Stockton Springs subscriber writes: II
could not get along without the visits from
the good old Journal. l hope you may live
many years to edit it and keep it paper that
can be put in the hands of children. read it
when child in Belfast"
A five-p part Metro picture featuring the
dramatic stars and stage favorites, Lionel
Barrymore and Irene Hawley'in A Yellow
Streak, will be shown at the Colonial theater
this. Thursday, afternoon and evening. This
picture is full of romance and thrills and is of
supreme human interest.
The Masonic Temple Association is having
new and up-to-date heating plants installed
by Goodhue & Co. There are to be two boilers,
and one or both may be used. The old Chin
ney is inadequate for the new plant and
large outside chimney is in course of construc-
ton in the rear of the H. H. Coombs store.
| The cost of these improvements will be some
| thing over $4,000.
The general committee of twenty members
for the G. A. R. monument fund have divided
the city into twenty sections and will draw
lots for their territory. Ralph |. Morse is
chairman of the committee and those who have
not drawn their territory may apply to him.
! Cash gifts will be solicited. 1t is hoped to
raise about $1,000 $500 of which has been
netted by the fairs, etc.
H. L.. Woodcock has gone to Waterville in
his car to be the guest of Hon. W, I, Haines
for short time before going to his camp
at Chase Pond for few days fishing. Early
! next week Mr.. Woodcock will be joined by
Mrs. Woodcock and Mrs. D. Faunce Woodcock,
and they will motor through the White Noun
tains, returning here before Mr.. Woodcock
goes to Nassau, N. P, for the winter
ADVERTISED LETTERS The following let
. ters remained unclaimed in the Belfast post
office for the week ending Sept. 18th: Ladies'
| Miss Beattie. Mrs. Elizabeth Gray, Mrs C. L,
| Hepburn, Mrs. c. Hunter. Miss Helen L.
Johnson, Mrs. W. E. Marcus, Mrs w. S.
Mitchell, Miss c. G. Roberts, Alice Senecoue.
| Mrs. Lillian G. Smith, Belle Sprague, Miss
/ Alma Thomas, Mrs. Effie Wing, Miss Ella
Winr worth, Mrs. C. E. Young. Gentlemen
George Dickey, Earnest Essey, Chas. H.
Horne, Frank McGlenchy, C. B. Roberts. M.
w. Sanborn, Cawline White.
There was good attendance at the regular
meeting Tuesday afternoon of Thomas H.
! Marshall Circle, and ten-cent lunch served
| Capt. A. Perry Coombs has invited the Post
! and Circle to make trip to Castine tomor-
| row, Friday in the steamer Golden Rod, leav-
| ing the Eastern 5. S, wharf at 9 q. m. If not
pleasant tomorrow the trip will be made Sat-
urday. The program for the next regular
meeting of the Circle will be on The Star
| Spangled Banner. The Post is cordially in
vited
| There will be a conference of the members
of experimenting school committees and su-
| perintendents of schools in the Municipal
court room. city building, to-day, Thursday,
from 10 to IL a. m. and from 2 to 43O .. m.
The topics for general discussion will be as fol-
lows: Better buildings and surroundings, the
conveyance of pupils to the common and sec
ondsry schools, consolidation of schools, at
tendance and truancy, the teacher, the admin
istraton of schools, the function and opportu-
nifty of the school committee, etc.
| HER Goth BIRTHDAY. Mrs. Sarah D. Durgin
was genuinely surprised last Saturday, at her
home. No. 20 Pearl street, when from early
morning until late at night her relatives,
neighbors and friends at home and away be-
gan to send reminders OF her birthday-the
nnetieth-as she had thought by not men,
| tioning it herself 'others might forget it,
Her daughter, Mrs. Charles H. Crosby, who
| lives with her mother, with Mr.. Crosby, were
let into the secret and were ready with cake
and fruit punch, which Mrs. Durgin served
! her callers, who came to offer congratulate ons
and best wishes and leave reminders of fruit,
confectionery, flowers, etc. Mrs. Durgin also
received a purse of money and many postals,
and a number of gifts from ort-of-town
friends. She enjoys the best of health, is
bright and alert to all the affairs of the day
| and carries herself with the grace and dignity
of many at least quarter of century
/ younger. She never wants to grow old in
spirit, and all who know her realize that she
/ never will.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. The Ralph D. South
| worth Co., IL Main street, have the correct
new hats for fall in all the popular grades and
colors. {. {. Cameo pin lost. Finder will be re-
warded on leaving with Mrs. G. B. Marsano.
See change of schedule on the Bangor line
of the Eastern Steamship corporation. The
steamers are now making six round trips per
week between Bangor and Boston. Fifty
cents buys the best silk stockings in town.
They are made by the celebrated Holeproof
Hosiery Co., and are called the hose OF Luxite.
Sold only at The Dinsmore Store. A 6,horse
power gasoline engine. with saw and frame.
and one threshing machine will be sold at par
gain by E. o. Pendeton. R. F. D. ST.. Did you
ever realize how many steps an electric Hat
iron would save you? 1t stays hot until the
ironing is finished. Let the Penobscot Bay
Electric Co. show you. Two tenements IN
village house. Belfast, to let; also farming land
and some tools. Address Journal office. -.