The Republican journal., 1916-04-06


Emma White Bark er Tent, D. of ", sewing
circle met Friday with Mrs. G, Parker Cook,
Main street. The afternoon was spent with
sewing, reading patriotic selections. and
special feature was the exchange of tried re-
cipes The next meeting will be tomorrow.
Friday, afternoon with Mrs. Walter B. Dutch,
Congress street.
At special meeting of the general COM
mittee for the monument fund March Both
Ralph l. Morse and A. T. Gay Of the enter
| tainment committee were instructed to Sc
cure ushers for the entertainment and floor
director and aids for the military ball. Walter
]. Clifford and C. L. Wright of the advertising
committee were instructed to have large bills
printed and to advert ise the fair in all its de-
tails.
The masquerade ball at Seaside Grange hall
last Thursday evening did not materalze
only two couples were masked and in cos
tunes, but a very pleasant and social dance
was enjoyed. Home made candy was served
during the evening and ice cream and cake at
| intermission. McKeen's orchestra, with Mrs.
Bessie Keyes at the piano, rendered good
music. The committee in charge were Roy E.
Sholes, A. B. Smalley. J. E. Braley, Mrs. Ell
mira McKeen, Misses Mertie Sholes and
| Marian Hayes.
| Mrs George Bracket was in Portland for
several days the past week on business in con-
nection with the Girls Home. There now
twenty girls in the home and five were re-
Gently placed in homes and one taken into the
| Home from Houlton. Everything possible Is
done to make the real home spirit reality
among the girls, including special observance
of their birthdays. March 26th was the birth
day of five of them-Bessie Allen, Georgia
knight, Harriet Towne, Florence MacNeil and
Fern Newfoundland a special dinner was
served and all were made happy with gifts, etc.
A SUCCESSFUL COOKING SCHOOL. The cook
| ing school held in the Universaist vestry
| March 18th, goth and Both, under the auspices
of the Belfast Woman's Club, with Misses
Catharine N. Platts and her assistant, Marian
Estabrooke, of the University of Maine in
charge, was succe ssfu lin every way. There was
an average attendance of 35 at the six sessions
with about SO present at the last session,
Thursday afternoon. This was the tenth
school these ladies have held the past season,
and their efficiency and willingness tie explain
every detail of the work made attendance
pleasure as we'll profit. The school was
not as benefit TO the Belfast Woman's Club,
but benefit to the individual members and to
all who cared to attend. The sociability of
the gatherings was worth the clubs output,
to say nothing of the benefits derived from in
structions, demonstrations and the recipes
given the students. Misses Platts and Esta-
brooke, with others. were entertained at tea
Thursday by Mrs. Charles S. Bickford and
were also guests of Mrs. James s. Hartman at
the Woman's Club.
ACCIDENTS. Hiram Ellis, aged nearly 80
years, met with very serious accident March
29th at his home on the Swanville road in
North Belfast, where he lives alone. He was
never married. For several years he has been
obliged to use cane about the house as his
feet and legs swell badly. He had been
standing in the open door of his home and
! LurQeu 10 go lutO Tile Ol0lUk room WQeu ne
slipped and fell under the table, fracturing his
left thigh, and laid there helpless until neigh
bors found him. Doctors Kilgore and Wilson
were called, and his only neaf relative, Edward
Ellis of Conway. N. H., nephew, was notified
by telephone and arrived last Thursday to
care for him. The fracture was reduced
Thursday afternoon. {. Francis, the four
years old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Roberts
of North Belfast, was injured Friday while at
play in the dooryard. He was running with a
stick when he fell, the point of the stick
puncturing his soft palate and entering the
back of the throat. He was taken to the Wal
do County hospital. where his attending sur
geon, Dr. 0. S. Vickery, dressed the wound,
which required three stitches. Mrs. William
K. Keene met with an accident last Thursday
evening at the home of Mrs. Eugene Cook
She slipped on rug newly polished floor
end fractured the bones of her right wrist AS
she is naturally left handed the accident to her
right wrist is not so inconvenient as in most
| cases.