The Republican journal., 1916-06-01

both out for mar ching practice last week.
John B. Stickney is i'll with typhoid fever at
the home of his stepmother, Mrs. Caro- B.
Stickney, SO Miller street. He is attended by
DR.. Elmer Small.
The cemetery trustees have elected Victor
E. Merriam Supe rintendent of the cemetery
at the Head of the Tide to succeed George
Davis, who declined to serve longer.
Charles E. Sherman, assistant to Undertaken
Charles R. Coombs, returned to his duties last
week after an illness which had confined him
to his home on High street for several weeks
The regular monthly business meeting Of
the Woman's Club will be held in the club
room at 8 p. M, Monday. June 9th. Members
are reminded that payment of annual dues is
now in order.
City Clerk Carleton Doak was at the city
building last Thursday for the first time since
his marriage May 18th. Mr.. and Mrs. Doak
have been spen ding their honeymoon at their
new home at the Head of the Tide, where Mr..
Doak plans to do little farming this summer.
Last Friday bad place developed in the
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to the frost coming out The frost had come
out for some distance and the surface became
hardened, but it still held in the clay subsoil
and when that gave way the road broke up. 1t
is an unusual occurrence.
At the meeting of the Hospital Club last
week Miss Margaret L. Keene, Mrs. Carl II.
Stevens and Miss Leona J. Achorn were ap-
pointe by the president to serve as nomi-
mating committee to select list of officers for
the coming year, to be reported at the next
meeting Plans for the midsummer sale,
which the Hospital Aid is to hold, were dis
cussed. the club to assist by having several
booths. The following chairmen were ap-
pointed: Cretonne booth, Mrs. Maine Hills;
candy, Mrs. Robert P. Coombs; punch, Mrs NJ
Houston Small; m stery table. Miss Keene.
Larger postal savings deposits will now be
accepted at the postoffice under a recent
amendment to the Postal Savings Act. For
merly $500 was the maximum amount depos-
itor could have to his or her credit. Now in
terest will be paid on accounts amounting to
$1,000. Under the old law only $10O could be
deposited IN a calenQeI nOnCD. Inc amend
ment abolishes this restriction. More than
half million depositors now have over eighty
million dollars standing to their credit, and as
result of this new legislation an increase in
the number of depositors and total of deposits
will follow.
Mrs. Joseph W. Blaisdell of Bangor, sum-
mer resident of Northport, recently presented
each of the 20 children in the Girls Home on
Northport avenue, and the matron, Mrs W. X.
Mcneil, with handsomely trimmed summer
hats She had previously called at the Home
and obtained list of the names of the girls,
with notes as to eyes, hair, contour of face,
ETC., that the hats might be becoming to their
wearers. The hats and trimmings were bought
in New York and trimmed by Mrs. Blaisdell
and no two were alike and all were pretty and
becoming. The delight of their recipients is
better imagined han described and the thanks
of the recipients. and of all interested in this
deserving institution. are heartily given Mrs
Blaisdel.
A still alarm at 11.3O p. m. May 25th was for
a fire in the Melvin C. Clark house in East
Belfast. Hose No. and the engine company
responded, but delay in sounding the alarm and
lack of water crippled their efforts and the
building was total loss. The loss is estimat-
ed at 1000 for the buildings and 500 for the
contents, which is covered by insurance. Mr..
Clark was using oil lamp while waiting on
his wife, VI no is an invalid. He left the lamp
in the chamber and had just reached his wife,
who was the first floor, when he heard the
explosion of the lamp, which caused the fire
small house nearby owned by Charles ABB
bolt, was also q total loss. 1t was valued at
$780,
band of gypsies. travelli ng in five carts,
arrived in Belfast last Thursday afternoon
from Bangor, where the authorities had hu-
namely killed one of their horses, and then
sent them this way. In Stockton Springs the
stores were closed during their brief visit,
and in Searsport they were urged to move on.
There were 81 women and children in the
party. They we're met here by City Marshal
Frisbee, who ordered them to move and out
of town. They demonstrated, but the mar
shall insisted and they departed down High
street, Officer Fred Sanborn escorting them
down Northport avenue to that they went
over Little River bridge. The town authori-
ties of Northport were notified of their COM
ing.
New ADVERTISEMENTS. The announcements
of our local coal dealers, the Belfast Fuel &
Hay Co. and the Consumers Fuel Co. will in
terest every body, and give warning that now
is the time to prepare for next winter-at
least so far as fuel is concerned. The prices
gwen can be guaranteed only until further
notice, as freight conditions and an expected
shortage of coal this fall make the future mar
ket prices uncertain. {. :. Read what the Home
Furnishing Co, has to say about reading tables,
with bookshelves and drawers, useful and at
tractive piece of furniture. They also carry
the convenient Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet. :.
Owing to the large advance in all materials
that enter into the construction of the Ground
Gripper shoes, the makers of these famous
shoes, Messrs. E. w. Burt & Co., have Motif.
The Dinsmore Store that on and after June
LIST the price of their shoes will be advanced
See prices quoted in the advt.. Wanted to
buy an old ia ,hioned sofa =. Annual meeting
of the Belfast & Moosehead Lake K R in Bel
fast at 10 o'clock a. m. July 9th. Lost on
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