The Republican journal., 1916-09-28

Lee Robinson went to Newport Friday tt
substitute for John E. Folsom of the American
Express Co, who is i'll. Harry Brown is assist.
ing in the local office
| DR.. Foster c. Small has fitted his residence
on Upper High street for a maternity hospi.
tai and will also take the overflow cases from
the Tapley hospital. DIR. SmalPs parents Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Small of Swanville are with
him.
| The S. of V. Auxiliary will have a whist
party at the home of Mrs. Eva Gordon, Cedar
street, Friday evening, Sept. goth, and {
o'clock supper at Memorial hall Monday, Oct
End, for the members and Sons of Veterans
Admission, 10 cents.
Mrs. Lewis Jerome johnson of Boston
chairman of the Massachusetts Congressiona
Committee of the National American Won
ans Suffrage League, and one of the best
speakers on the suffrage question in New Eng
| land, will speak before the Belfast Woman s
Suffrage League October 18th and cordia
invitation is given to the public to attend.
been local and county president and State
superintendent, has been appointed Field
Worker for the State W. C. T. u, and will be
in Waldo county the first two weeks in Octo.
Der. 1t is hoped the local unions and ,unor-
ganized places will make plans for her coming
Arrang ements can be made with Miss Emily
F. Miller, Belfast, Me.
Miss Adelaide Percy of Bath has resigned
as superintendent of the Waldo County hos
pital and will go to Bath this week to visit
her aunt Mrs, Charles Mason, and about the
middle of October will leave for Los Angeles,
Calf, to take a post graduate course at the
Los Angeles hospital. Miss Nina Valentine
graduate of the hospital, will take Miss
Percy's place as superin tendent.
The October number of the Ladies' Home
Journal has full page illustrating "Some
Christmas baskets you make yourself f"
The designs for this page were all by Mrs. C..
G. Ferguson of New Bedford, Mass, who was
formerly Miss Martha Hall of this city, daugh-
ter of Mrs. c. j. Hall. Before going to
New Bedford with her husband she was a
active while there in the Arts and Crafts
Club
Miss Carrie E. Gilmore entertained last Fri
day afternoon at the Howes cottage, nazel
Bank, North Shore. The afternoon was spent
with duplicate auction and sewing. At T.
m. corn boil and picnic lunch was served,
The guests were Mrs A. W. and Mrs. George l.
Heating. Mrs. George F. Kent, Mrs. Jennie M.
Mudgett, Mrs. W. J. Dorman, Mrs. H. W
Clark, Mrs. Charles Bradbury. Mrs. Ira M
Cobe, Mrs. S. H. Lord. Mrs. S. A. Parker, Mrs
Ben Hazeltne, Mrs, Eugene r. Conner. Misses
Grace A. Lord, Louise H. Ferguson and Mel
vina V. Parker
The first meeting of the season of John
Cochran Chapter. D. A. R, will be held at the
Battery next Monday, with Mrs. E. S. Pitcher
and Mrs. F. H. Mayo, hostesses picnic
lunch will be served at p. m, The roll call
will be responded to by quotations on Patriotic
American Women and the program will in
clude reading der Oak and Der Vine," by
Mrs. Eta P, Savery;paper on "Woman's Rights
Movement" by Mrs. Cora ]. Bowker; reading,
"Meranda and Why Women Can't Vote" by
Alice E. Simmons
ADVERTISED LETTERS. The following let
ters remained uncalled for in the Belfast post
office for the week ending Sept 26th: Ladies'
Mrs. Alice E. Cook. Mrs. James M. Mathews,
Mrs. Charlotte Meservey, Mrs, Ellen McDon-
aid. Mrs. Lillian Morrill,, Mrs. Chas. Russell,
Mrs. Mary E. Spear. Gentlemen-John Can
Farm e letters). M. A. johnson, Morse &
Cook, Sam Rogers, Luie j. Robertson. Morris
Rosenblan, Mr.. B. A. Shuman.
special meeting of the Women's Alliance
of the First Parish, Unitarian, will be held at
the parsonage at o'clock Wednesday after
noon, October 4th. Mrs. Robert H. Davis of
Wayne, Pa. corresponding secretary of the
National Alliance, will give an address. Mrs.
Davis has been active in Alliance work for
many years. and cannot fail to interest her
hearers and inspire them with enthusiasm. A
cordial invitation is extended to all the women
of the parish to attend this meeting. Mem
bers of the Lincolnville Alliance branch are
expected, and it is hoped that there will be a
large attendance.
STEAMER NOTES. The steamers of the
Vinalhaven & Rockland Steamboat Co. went on
the fall schedule Sept. Goth. The Bodwell
leaves Vinalhaven at and l o'clock, and Rock.
land (Tillson wharf) at $50 and 80 daily ex.
cept Sunday. The Vinalhaven of the Swan
Island and Rockland line leaves Rockland daily
at 100 for North Haven, Isle au Haul Stonine.
ton and Swans Island. Leaves Swans Islant
al SIS a. MIA confusion of signals nearl,
resulted in a collision last Friday morning il
the dense fog between the steamer Belfast
bound up Boston harbor from Bangor, and tt,
Marrow Gauge ferryboat Ashburnham. crossin,
from East Boston with a big crowd of peopl,
coming to work in town. The mist was tt,
heaviest in months. and the ferry pilot wa
using the utmost caution as the boat crept to
ward her slip at Rowe's wharf. The whistl
was sounded at frequent intervals, and those o
other harbor craft nearby were also going
Suddenly cut of the mist the Belfast loome,
up, so near that the passengers on deck coul