The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-03-15

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Il next week.
II i"e executive committee of the Ladies of
'ne u. A. r.; have impor tant business to come
before the Circle next Tuesday, and hope for a
large attendance at that meeting.
martha Smalley. wife of Capt, W. W. Carter,
o'ec March 18th at the Bangor Insane hospital.
4, "nere she had been for treatment, The re-
mains arrived here yesterday and It this writ
ing the funeral arrangements are not COM
pleted,
! stili alarm last Tuesday morning was fo- a
chimney fire in the Lancaster building on lain
street. occupied by P. d. II. Carter. grocer,
ana by Walter Northrop as dwelling up.
stairs. Chief Shute soon had it extinpuished.
No damage.
| The Waldo Trust Company. through the
| courtesy of the American Banking Associa-
| ''oh' Will snow travel picture at the Colonial
theatre this, Thursday, afternoon and even
| ing. 1t features San Francisco and vicinity,
New York. Atlantic City and eastern cities
Roland G. Lamsop is ill at his home on High
street. Miss Mollie Chase, graduate nurse
| from the Eastern Maine General Hospital,
Bangor, arrived Tuesday morning to care for
him. and his mother. Mrs. Laura Lamson, ar
rived from Jonesport, Me-, Tuesday night.
Mrs. J. Wibor Richardson is recovering from
critical operation at Clifton Springs N. Y,
and is receiving treatment for her eyes, which
are troubling her. She expects to be able to
| be moved to Buffalo next Saturday, and her
many friends in Belfast hope to see her home
in the near future.
WALDO COUNTY HOSPITAL Mrs. Nettie
Young Of Burnham, an emergency case, was
operated on Monday night by Drs. Adelbert
! Millett and E. A. Wilson. She is in a critical
/ condition. The operating and sterilizing
rooms are UNDERGOING renovation and repairs;
| and later number of surgical patients on the
| waiting list will enter the hospital.
| Tuesday noon, with the wind blowing gale,
there was chimney fire in the L, W. Pearson
hou Sc at Citypoint and narrow escape from a
serious confagration. Twenty minutes later
! fire was discovered in the shingles on the roof
/ and only prompt action on the part of F. M.
| Bailey and Russell Beckwith, who reached the
! scene in time, and the later work of the North
| Belfast Chemical Co., saved the house and
| probably those on the opposite side of the
/ street, as there was practically no water supply
! in the neighborhood,
u THE CITY ELECTION. The municipal cam
: paisn ended last Saturday night with Re-
: publican meeting in the Colonial Theatre and
v a Hanson meeting in the Opera House.
]. Democrat who was present at the Colonial
t. said that the best speech there was by Mayor
& Keene, who made a plain, straight, honest
% statement Of conditions here. There only
4 one speaker at the Opera House, There was
/. more cutting of tickets than usual Monday
e and the day was quiet until after the closing
q of the polls, when noisy demonstration was
:. started that lasted we'll into the night. The
t mayor ELECT addressed his followers in post
:. office square and had the band out.
t. BURGLARY ON THE EAST SIDE, Thieves en-
g. tered the summer home of Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin
l. P. Frost on the Cottrell shore in East Belfast
last Sunday night and helped themselves to
the best things they could take away in sever
- al dress suit cases. 1t was man and WON an
according to tracks left in the snow. They
" used keys in entering the house and took the
. keys away with them. The articles taken in
cluded linen fancy work on which Mrs. Frost
had worked for years, her watch and rings
:, and her wedding presents, Mr.. Frost's hest
suit of clothes, the foreign coins they collect
!, ed on their trip abroad, sheets, pillow cases,
and in fact, what they could that was not
: fastened down. 1t is difficult to estimate the
II loss. No arr ssts have been made, but they
have suspicious as to the guilty parties.
re The Boy Scout benefit given at the Colonial
r Theater last Tuesday evening drew large
audience and there very pleasing pro-
gram. The pictures depicted Civil war story
- and were very good In the first intermission
Charles F. Hammons. the popular tenor. sang
, the latest hit in songs. 1.-THE Nephews and
Neces Of Uncle SAM" with piano accompani-
, ment. During the rendering of the song,
- there was tahleaux on the stage in which
" some thirty of the Boys Scouts appeared at
. salute in full uniform. In the front OF the
y company were Scouts George Randall with the
:, Scout Troop flag, Award Craig with bugle'
~ Kenneth Colcord with a drum and Donald
~ Knowlton with the American flag. In the
next in,ermisson, Scouts Orland Orchard and
Charles Swift appeared in flag signal exhibi-
ton on the Morse code, in these words. "Amer-
lea, the land OF the Free ana the Home OF the
Brave" This WAS followed by cornet solo,
"Columbia Polka. by Leroy Green. The przel
for the best sale of tickets were awarded as
follows: Leroy Bradford. first; Walter Omar
second; Wallace Pendleton, third, and for the
fourth Byron Greenlaw and MurrayKeene tied
A FRIENDSHIP TIDY Miss Mary H. Hilton
IN has an old tidy, once very popular and known
Of the friendship tidy. The foundation is color
ne ed linen canvas and there are small figures in
10 colored cross stitch of ,wers. people, animals
ut birds. fl igs, musical Instruments and conven
he tional designs. Among those who did the
t. work, aside from the border of black jacks
'g done by Miss Hilton, are Annie Abbott West
at late Of Belfast, Annbele Marshall Henderson
ID late of Washington. d. c., Fred Francis. late
ne of Belfast. Fannie Austin Bittenbender, late
n of Boston. Edward O. Thorndike, late of Bel.
tn fast. Evie carter Burke, late of Redands
OF Calf, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Dinsmore, Mr.
a. and Mrs. J. L. Sleeper, Mrs. Ella Dutton Harri.
W man. Miss Zadie B. Carter of Redlands, Calf.
e. Mrs Annie Frost Gilchrest of Thomaston, Mrs