The Republican journal., 1916-04-27


Leslie and John Dodge of Clinton, the for
mer II and the latter Is years of age, were
brought from Burnham Wednesday to answer
to charge before Judge Lord of the Municipal
Court of entering the cottage of Otis Drink
water in Northport last Saturday and taxing
therefrom rifle and shot gun. They had
tramped from Northport to Winnecook. They
admitted to Sheriff Cushman that they were
guilty and said they had thrown the gun and
rife away near Martins Blacks house in
Northport
FIRE AT THE FAIR GROUNDS. The stables on
the Waldo County fair grounds, built about
ten years ago by Horace Chenery and used by
him when working out his string of racers on
the track, were totally destroyed by fire about
8 80 o'clock last Monday morning. The build
ings were. well built. containing not only a
nu mber of box stalls. but having rooms for the
trainer and his helpers, and were valued at
about SIS ,OOO They were owned by George L.
Boulter farm of Mr.. Chenery some two years
ago and also bought these stables. They have
been used since only during the racing season
and were unoccupied at other times. The
cause of the fire is unknown, but it is said that
men were seen about the place Sunday. and
they may have been tramps who sought shell
ter from the storm and accidently set fire to
the buildings. The buildings were insured.
Mr. Slipp was out of town at the time of the
fire.
Took "FRENCH Leave AND A POCKET
BOOK. Frank Meservey, who served term
in the State prison at Thomaston some years
ago for larceny, and who had been living in
the family of Walter Flagg of Belfast. near
the Belmont town line. left early Patriots
day before the family were up and took with
him Mr. Flaggs pocketbook containing about
$40. Sheriff Cushman was notified, telephOned
to the neighboring cities and towns, and Thurs
day he received word from sheriff Irish OF
Knox county that Meservey had appeared in
Camden early Thursday morning, had bought
suit of clothes and taken the trolley to Rock
land He was arrested at Rockland by the
city marshal as he was about to board the boat
for Boston, The officer took him to Camden,
where he was met by Deputy Sheriff J. A. H.
Beach and brought to Belfast to answer to an
Indictment that had been found against him
Thursday by the grand jury.
AN EASTER BREAKFAST. Mrs. N. Houston
Small and Mrs. Thomas E. Bowker served an
Easter breakfast at 10 a. m. last Friday at the
lilies were used in the general decorations, and
breakfast was served from small tables in the
front parlor and den. The table decorations
were bud vases with single jonquils. At each
plate was an Easter chick and the place cards
in yellow and purple dainty Easter bon
nets surmountlng tiny band-boxes bearing the
name of each guest. The menu was grape
fruit cocktails, assorted sandwiches, dough-
nuts, cakes and coffee. After breakfast the
game of auction was in order. Mrs. Harry l..
Kilgore won the first prize, tatting dolly,
Miss ENERGY CHM the second, hand-em-
broidered guest towel, and the consolation, a
deformed chicken, went to Miss Bertha A.
Wiley, Other guests were Mrs Maine Hills,
Mrs. E, B. Gilchrest Mrs. c. W. Proctor, Mrs.
Leon Beckwith, Mrs. F. R, Poor, Miss Amy E.
Stoddard, Miss Lena Nye, Mrs. Colby A. Rack
life, Mrs N, A. Read. Mrs. Leslie c. Follett.
Mrs. c. E. Read, Mrs J. c. PilIsbury, Mrs.
Leroy A. Weber, Miss Anne M. Kittredge.
SHIPPING ITEMS, The Bangor Commercial
of April 21st reported: although the river
has been open 10 days, schooner traffic in the
port of Bangor IS very light indeed. Only one
small schooner. Emily Bell, Brooksville to Ban
por, q tons, has favored the port with the
sight of sails this year. Other craft in port
have been barges and steamers. The Boston
steamer Seaconnet, which has been fast in the
ice at Archangel, Russia all winter, has left
there for London with cargo of lumber At
the British port she will load a full cargo of
block chalk for Boston. This is the steamer
Capt. Alzo M. Carter commanded for some
time in the coastwise coal trade, and in which
he made one trip to ''the other side." He
then left her for other employment. - The
three-masted schooner L. T. Whitmore, built
at Rockland in 1874. has been sold to Capt. E,
S. Roberts of Boston, who will command her,
to engage in lumber carrying between Stock
ton Springs, Me-, and Boston. She loaded her
first cargo at Stockton Springs last week. The
price paid for the vessel was $4,000. The
long overdue American steamer Frederick
which left New York Jan. 4th for Archangel,
Russia, has just arrived at Kola Bay, Russia.
Practically all hope for her safety had been
abandoned. The Frederick was formerly own
ed by the Merchants and Miners Line, but was
bought some time ago by Charles w. Morse of
New York. She was loaded with automobiles
for the Russian Government. Sch. George E.
Klinck, Capt. George Thomas, discharged q
cargo Of fertilizer from Baltimore at Mack's
Point last week and sailed for Long Cove to
load stone for New York or Philadelphia. {.
Recent sales: the two-masted schooner Nine
ola to Capt Merritt of Winterport for use in
the Maine coast trade; the two-masted schoon-
er Pochasset. built at Mystic, Conn.,, in 1874,
to A. F. GoldinR of Nova Scotia. She has been
chartered to carry coal from New York to
Fredericton, N. B. at $s75 per tom. Steel
merchant vessels building or under contract to
be built in private American shipyards on the
first of this month numbered 800, with a gross
tonnage of 1.067, 1856, according to builders' re-
turns supplied to the Bureau of Navigation OF
the Department of Commerce. ). Capt. J. O
Hayes, commanding the schooner Rachael W
Stevens. is on his way from Norfolk to Per.