The Republican journal., 1917-09-13

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ed from Bangor and Boston, where she
attended the fall openings and selected
new and up to-date millinery.
"a farewell party was given Thursday
afternoon in the Baptist church in honor
OF Miss Adelia Cook, daughter of Mr.. and
MIS- william L. Cook, who left Monday
10 enter the academy at Mortified,
MASS, and Miss Arlene Curtis, daushter
OF Mrs. T. d. H. Carter, who goes to
providence for the winter where she w;l,
attend school. Games, music and re-
1reshments made up pleasing program
ana the members of the G. G. class under
whose auspices it was given. each invited
one or more guests.
The tlrst meeting of the Boy Scouts
for the fall and winter months will he
heio at the Police court rooms this.
Thursday, evening. There have been no
meetings during the summer months as
most of the boys have been emploved in
one way and another and there has per-
haps been little lack of interest as re-
suit, but it is expected that with the ar
rival of the fall and winter months that
the interest will be revived and Scout
master Dickey has some interesting plans
tor the coming season for boys.
kED CROSS. Mr.. F. W. Briggs of
Skowhegan, the new Field Representa-
tive for the A. r. c.. in Maine, recently
visited Belfast for the purpose of chang
ing the Belfast Red Cross Auxiliary into
chapter to be known as the Waldo
County Chapter with jurisdiction over
the county, Other auxiliaries at large
become automatically branches of this
chapter and those towns not already Or
| gained will make application to Belfast
for organization papers instead of to Bos-
ton as heretofore This arrangement is
made partly to relieve the pressure of
work on the Boston office. A business
meeting will be held at the rooms on
Main street on Thursday, Sept. 18th, at
4.30 p. m. in order to make this change.
/ DIR Foster Small and Rev. Walter Haw-
| thorne spoke at Maple Grove Campground
/ on the Red Cross and its work before a
large and interested audience. Two new
members were obtained and S29 contrib
uted for the work of the Red Cross. A
contribution of S. was received this
week from Miss Flora Burgess of Waltham.
Miss Mabel R. Matthews was the hos
tess last Thursday afternoon for the Mis-
sionary auxiliary of the North Congrega-
tional church, There was good attend
ance and twenty Were engaged in Red
/ Cross knitting during the program. The
devotional exercises were led by Miss
| Frances j Dyer of Boston. Miss Dyer
| last summer became a member of the
! Belfast missionary society and on her oc-
/ casional visits home is always welcome
visitor. In her devotional exercises Miss
! Dyer took for her thought, The Kingdom
of Heaven, reading various scriptures
and intersperslng them with remarks
which were very interesting. Miss Mar
garet NJ. Craig, Nj. Holyoke, IS, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs Charles M. Craig,
was sent from her college to the I.
W C. A. conference at Silver Bay, this
summer, her special work being athletics
in which she has excelled, as well as in
scholarship. Miss Craig gave most in
teresting description of Silver Bay, its
scenic beauties, its facilities for caring
for the thousands of visitors who meet
there each summer for conference, and
of the work, the recreation, the pleasures
and the profits of the conference. Miss
Grace H Hall gave a description of her
visit to colored mission school IN Day
tona, Fla, where she spent the past win
gress Of school for the negroes, which
had its origin in Chicago, when poor
dresSmaker gave 500 for the education
of little coored girl. The girl grew to
womanhood and is the founder and heac
of fourlshing school for her people.
The Campfire Girls and the Blue Birds
party on Thomas B. Dinsmores grounds
, last Saturday afternoon. The weather
was fine, the place was ideal for the
presentation of the out-of-door play.
which were the attractions, and the &C
tresses did their parts in a very credit
able manner. First was given a fair,
play by the Blue Birds, entitled ''Littl,
Folk in Green" based on the legend tina
children dressed in green are liable to b,
caught by the fairies The mother wa
Dorothy Spear, her daughter caught b.
the fairies was Alice Brown, the fairie
were Elena Shute, Mary Spear and Ell
frida Hawthorne, the witches who toll
the mother how to capture a fairy TO
ransom were Clara Hammons and Heller
Burgess. A very pretty tableau the,
made against the green foliage, and tn
audience heartily enjoyed the little folk
in their rendition and their own aprar
ent enjoyment. "Everygirl' was of tn
nature of the old Morality plays and be
sides giving pleasure left a lesson tina
every girl should learn, that wit, wealth
mirth, knowledge, idleness, beauty an