The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-04-20
Phine.s G. Hurd h.. been appointed ro..

| commissioner for the town Of Northport.
! A question was raised last week Is to the
length of the lower bridge, and we can state
on the authority Of Mr.. Babbidge. the builder,
that it is something over 1900 feet in length,
! Mr.. J. L. Cunningham of Searsport was in
/ the city last Saturday and found the travelling
quite good between Belfast and Searsport. a
little sloppy in the morning. but no bad places.
Reports from other directions are less favor
able, but the general opinion is that the worst
is over and that the travelling will soon begi n
to improve.
E. F. Bramhal & Co. received censored
letter last week. 1t was from st. John. N. B.,
In reply to an enquiry as to the price of ale
wives. The envelope had been slit open
lengthwise at the top and a strip of paper
with Censored" in large black letters was
pasted on the front of the envelope and the
thus closing it.
At the story telling hour in the Peirce
school last Saturday afternoon Miss Melvina
v. Parker gave her own version of "The
House with the Sausage Roof" fairy tale,
and 1.-THE All-Father," myth. Miss Sue M :.
Partridge gave an original story on the but
terfy and moth; illustrating it with hand
painted charts and pressed specimens. Next
Saturday afternoon Rev. Arthur E. Wilson
will give story on the birds. initiating their
calls and songs. and describing the varieties
seen in this vicinity and Mrs. o. E. Frost will
tell some true stories.
Last Saturday number of friends of Mrs.
]. W. Burgess attempted to give her a sur
prise party to observe her birthday, but sue
ceeded only in surprising her with their gift.
sapphire and pearl ring. Mrs. Burgess, sus-
pecting something of the kind on foot
was ready with delicious supper including
fish chowder. mashed potatoes, cold meats,
salads, cake, fancy pies, doughnuts, coffee and
fruit punch. The evening was spent with
cards, etc The guests were Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph D. Shute, Mr.. and Mrs. George E. Hav-
ener, Mr.. and Mrs. Manley Hartman and
daughter Bernce, Mr.. and Mrs. Wm.W. Blazo'
Mrs. Belle L. Gates, Mr.. Clifton West, Mrs.
Retta Wescott, Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Ekqust,
Mrs Alvin Clark and son Edwin, Mr.. Henry
Burgess and wyatt CarroW.
The annual meeting of the Junior Alliance
of the Unitarian Parish was held Friday after
noon, April 18th, with Miss Margaret Chenery
at Crosby Place, with large attendance.
officers were elected as follows: President,
Miss Charlotte B. Wadsworth; vice president
Miss Alice Spear; secretary, Miss Hope Dor
man; treasurer, Miss Ava Burgess. The pro-
gram consisted of six original papers on fact
and fiction by Misses Ruth Dinsmore, Ava
Burgess, Katherine Frost, Betty Hanshue
Hope Dorman and Helen Wescott. The papers
were written without assistance with view
to bringing out the chi!dren's talents in this
work. At the close of the program Mrs. Hor-
ace Chenery entertained the children with a
display of curios from foreign countries, in
Guiding wonderful music box from Switzer-
land This box is delicate in its mechanism
that it could not be repaired at Tifanys in New
York and was returned to Switzerland for
slight repairs.
SHIPPING ITEMS. The schooner F. C. Pendle-
ton has been chartered to load stone at Ston-
ington for New York, and thence to Chckoho-
miny River, Va, to load oak lumber for R. L..
Bean of Camden =. The four masted schooner
Edwin R. Hunt has been sold to Archibald
Ostrom of New York for s65,OOO The Hunt
was built at Bath IL years ago. 1t is doubtful
if she would have brought half that sum year
ago. The vessel has been chartered at about
$50 per thousand feet to carry cargo of lum-
Der from Bridgewater, N. S. to Buenos Aires.
.Pendleton Bros, of New York have pur-
chased the Mcdonald shipyard at Mystic, Conn,
and will build two four masted schooners there.
1.-The Norwegian bark Formca has been
chartered at Philadelphia to load lumber for
Buenos Ayres at $50 thousand feet, including
full rate on the deck load. This vessel, two
years ago loaded similar cargo at St. John,
NJ B tor the same port at So thousand feet.
LIQUOR SEIZURE. Sheriff Frank A. Cushman
and Deputy ]. A. G. Beach were at Lewis
wharf last Friday afternoon when the steam er
Islesboro arrived from Camden and very
heavy trunk which came with strange wo-
man attracted their attention. The woman
went to the house ISL Main street, occupied
by Thomas Morrison, and the officers armed
! with a search warrant, visited the nous"
where they found the woman, who said she
was Mrs. James Maloney of Camden, and ad
mitted that her husband had been in the iiqu OIL
business. The trunk was opened and found to
contain SO pint bottles of whiskey. tray ard
a number of glasses. Morrison. who has beer
keeping restaurant in the Colonial Theate
building for sometime was arrested. He was ar
raigned in the Municipal court Saturday mo RI
;no IN a search and seizure warrant, foun
guilty and fined $500 and costs and 6o days II
Jail, with 60 days additional in default of pay
ment. He pleaded not guilty and appealed
furnishing bonds in the sum of 5000 with FREE
Curtis and John Cox as sureties.