The Republican journal., 1916-05-18

LIZ. AoeipeEt MlHett was Called TO Brooks
last, Thursday to visit DR.. N. r. Cook. who !.
ill with pneumonia.
| George A. Leavitt was able to walk last Fri.
day without cane for the first time since he
cut his foot several weeks ago.
Fred W. wight of Rockland has been ap-
pointed trustee in bankruptcy in the affairs
of the Littlefeld-Mills Co., of Vinalhaven.
Irwin L. Perry has sold his Indian motor
cycle to street commissioner George We,-
mouth, who will use it in his work about
town.
Nine bathrooms and other plumbing in pro-
portion constitute one of the specifications of
the Mitchell cottage that the W. H. Glover Co.
is building at Dark Harbor.
Maine Braden. three-year- old colt, brother
of Direct Brsden, the well-known racer, has
been bought from the M. B. Smith stables by
Daniel Macleod of Condor street.
John A.Fogg has sold Oracle Direct, one of the
horses from Pearl Brook Farm bought by him
last week, to William G. Preston and she will
be driven by his daughter. Miss Sarah Preston.
already been pledged to the local factory of
the Saco Valley Canning Co.-more than double
the amount Of last season. and with good corn
weather a large pack is assured. Conditions
have been unfavorable for the past three sea-
sons, and change for the better is in order.
The Dickey -Knowlton Real Estate Co. have
rented for A. S. Woodman the estate in North
port known as Shore Acres to Mrs. ]. M,
Brodeaux and party of Jacksonville Florida,
for the summer season. The party will spend
a long season here and are expected to be
the first of summer coonv from Florida.
A special meeting of the School Committee
was neld last Friday evening, Charles S. Bick-
ford pres iding in the absence of chairman A.
A. Blair. The report of the committee on
finance was read and accepted, and it was
voted to submit the estimates for the coming
year at the special meeting of the City Gov
eminent Monday evening.
Among the recently elected members of the
Belfast Board of Trade are the following:
Messrs. Fred T. Chase, Thomas B. Dinsmore,
Herbert T. Field, Fred w. Pote, Melville C.
Hill, Edward Evans, Arthur W. Leonard, W.
c. Shaw, e. R. Pierce. James C, Durham,
Charles E. Sherman, I. Frank Parker, Frank
A. Cushman and Leroy A. Weber,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. M. Bennett, who lived the
past winter in the home of P. D. H. Carter.
No. 6 Miller street, have taken the first floor
flat IN the Arthur l. Brown house, No. rs Mil
Ter street, and their granddaughter, Miss
Gladys M. Carter, will make her home with
them. Mrs. Eben F. Lttefeld, who had been
living in the Brown house has joined her hus-
band in Augusta and they have taken cot
tage for the summer at Keyes Landing, Lake
Cobossecontee.
County Commissioners Peter Harmon of
Thorndike, Volney Thompson of Montville and
Frank l. Mortand of Searsport went to North
port Thursday to investigate complaint made
concerning the highway from Little River to
Browns Corner. This section is to be the State
road the coming season and the town had been
waiting on this account The commissioners
went down in the Mortland car and had not gone
stuck and had to be hauled out. They also
found c. o. Dickey stuck with load of hay.
They ordered temporary repairs pending the
State work.
The Belfast Camden Auto Service of the
Maine Transportation Company will open the
route to Camden Monday, May goth. This
year the company will have two twelve-pas
senger cars, and will be able not only to handle
all the service the route but take care of
such other business as may develop The
schedule will be the same as last year, leaving
Belfast at a. M, 2:I5 and 500 p M, return
ing from Camden at $50 a. Ill., 1870 and 4:3O
p m. c. j. Varney of Augusta. will drive the
first on the route to Camden and will ar
rive here with the cars next Sunday William
B. williamson, general manager of the Maine
Transportation Company, has turned the man
agement of the Belfast Camden line over to
Orrin J. Dickey of this city. An extra twelve
passenger car will be in this city all the time
for a reserve and extra car in case of charters
THE PACIFIC ISLANDS The Minnetoska Club
met last Friday afternoon after school at the
home of Mrs. Charles M. Craig, leader, and en-
joyed very delightful hour. The subject for
the day was the Pacific Islands, and the hostess
had. to show them. great many interesting
curos brought from the Far East. Then mum. |
bered slips of paper were given out, on which |
were questions to be answered by correspond |
lngly numbered articles placed about the room |
and for which there interesting hunt. |
map also helped to impress the lesson on the |
minds of the young members and they will find |
much more interest hereafter when studying !
this section of geography. Refreshments were |
served and the girls finished packing pox of
dolls to be sent to the children of the emigrants
at Ellis Island. in New York Harbor They |
will now work on Christmas gifts to be sent to |
the missionaries in the Far East for such a box
will have to be sent this summer to be on hand |
for the holidays
FIRE ON COURT STREET. The alarm last
Friday at 11.25 a. m. was for fire in the Am
brose ]. Morrison house corner of Court and
Grove streets. Mrs Morrison was about the
house as usual and did not know that the prem.
ises were on fire until notified by a grocery
man, who rang in an alarm. She was in the barn
an hour or so before and did not smell smoke.
The fire started in the barn and extended to
the L before the firemen by hard work got it
under control and saved the main house. With
the wind hlOWinp Gale the conditions 1,aro