The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-03-09

Dexter.
The Universalist Social Aid will meet this,
Thursday. afternoon with Mira. Eugene l..
Cook, Miller street.
Mrs. Eta P. Savcry. senior vice of the De-
partment of Maine, D. of w., has presented
the Fifth Grade of the Mcclellan school with a
beautifully framed sepia picture of Washing
ton.
Miss Martha Kuowlto an operator in the
local telephone exchange. left Monday for
Bangor, where she entered the Paine private
hospital for surgical operation. She was &C.
companied by her mother, Mrs. Edward H.
Knowlton.
Mrs o. S. Vickery entertained the Monday
Club at her home last onday afternoon. with
Mrs Ira M. Cobe and Mrs. Austin w. Heating
substitutes Auction was played. Mrs. Cobe
made the largest score and received pack of
ments were served.
Mrs. Herman H. Coombs and Miss Sarah E.
Wright went to Boston Monday to attend the
millinery openings and at the Parker
House. Miss Wright will 60 from Boston to
Bingham, Me-, where she has position as
milliner Mrs. Coombs will be Joined in Bos-
ton by her head miliner, Miss Leola Titcomb,
OF Lowell Mass. and both will come to Bel
fast tomorrow, Friday.
The public requests in the will of the late
Mrs. Aurila CARL Baker, widow of Capt.
Charles Baker. are as follows: 81, 900 to Bates
college for scholarship to be known as the
On aries Baker scholarship; $500 to the Chill
dren's Aid society of Maine for the Girls Home
in this city; $500 for the Belfast Home for Aged
Women, and $500 for the Waldo County Gen.
eral hospital.
A primary nomination petition has been filed
with the Secretary of State by Albert M.
Ames of Stockton Springs, Republican. a
member of the present Legislature. as can
didate for denomination. John A. Pendleton
of Islesboro heads the petition and IL others
! sign, from the towns of Islesboro. Winterport,
! Frankfort, Prospect and Stockton Springs.
Down in Maine" the song composed by
Rev. A. W. Barnlund, the evangelist who has
been holding services in the Methodist church,
was rendered March LIST by the High school
i chorus under the direction of E. S. Pitcher,
with the composer present. The song is.dedi-
Gated to the youth of Maine" and will be fire.
quently sung in the public schools here. Mr..
] Barnund makes poin of writing song for
each State he visits.
| Mrs. Lulu Carter Hills, who underwent two
very serious operations at the Tapley hospital,
is recovering rapidly. She returned to her
home in East Northport W Wednesday,. Mrs.
John Ames of Searsport is gaining after a
very serious operation. go. Miss Marian. john
quet, the leading lady of the Klark Urban Com
| psny recently underwent a serious operation
is gaining. -. Mrs. Elmer Fowles of Belfast,
surgical patient is doing WELL. Roy Tapley
| of Brooksville will enter the hospital this week
and there are several patients on the waiting
| list.
| Mrs. George R. Doak entertained the mem
bers of the Monday Club last week at her
home on High street. Dinner was served at
o'clock by candle light, the color scheme of
yellow, carried out by artistic arrangement
of jonquls. Covers were laid for eight, the
only guest outside the club being Mrs. Austin
| W. Heating, substituting for an absent men,
| Der. Following dinner auction was played,
Mrs. George l. Heating winning the first prize,
silver lemon fork, and Mrs. W. ]. Dorman,
the consolation, a pair of silver embroidery
scissors.
| The sale, su pper and dance under the au-
F., spices of the Sewing Circle of the Sons of
| Veterans Auxiliary last Monday afternoon and
evening in Memorial hall was we'll attended
( and very successful, netting about $50 The
! fancy work table was in charge of Mrs. G.
Parker Cook and Mrs. Charles M. Young; the
apron table, Mrs. Walter H. Juan and Mrs.
| Thomas Cannon; the mystery table. Mrs W.
j. Gordon and Mrs. W. S. York; the candy
table, Mrs. Alonzo Robbins and Mrs Annie
Durham. The supper in charge of Mrs.
Ethel S. Whiting, chairman of the general
committee. assisted by Mrs. Lillian F Parsons
and Mrs Goldie W. Curtis. The dance was
under the direction of Mrs. Whiting and Mrs.
Gertrude Roswell. Harrimans orchestra fur
nished music.
! BOSTON, March l. The loss of the steamer
| Crescent, which foundered in gale off Cape
Hatteras Sunday and whose crew of 1S were
rescued by the steamer Mexico and landed at
New York Monday, was read with interest in
| this city. Capt. Arthur Crowley of Boston
| bought her, intending to place her in the coal
carrying trade to this port, but before the re-
pairs at New York were completed the Cres-
cent was purchased by the Spanish American
Iron Co. She was on her first trip, bound
from Newport News. to Santiago. Capt. A
| N. Carter, her commander, is well known IN
this city.
Capt. Alzo M. Carter had been ia command
for some time of the steamer Seaconnet, nov
frozen in for the winter at Archangel, and the
similarity of names has led his friends here tt
wonder if he. rather than go on the foreign
voyage, had changed commands.