The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-05-31

| - 10 oApoCIou 'hdI MIS-. "A. "A. Blair, II
able, will leave next Monday for Man.
chester N. H., where she will spend the
summer
Mrs. Florence Libbey Keene, assisted
by Miss Inez G. Chaples, entertained the
Young Ladies' Sewing Club last Thurs
day evening in honor of Louise A. Den
nett, member whose marriage to Harry
Pierce of Halls Corner will take place
early In the summer The bride-to- be
was the recipient of wheelbarrow load
OF useful and dainty gifts brought in and
distributed by little Clyde Pease, a cousin
Of the hostess. The evening was spent
socially. Ice cream and cake were served.
The pupils of the Brick school observed
Arbor day last Friday by planting gar
dens on their play ground under the d.
rection of their teachers, Miss Ethel S.
Slavery and Mrs Arthur Hamilton. An
attractive rockery was made of the loose
rocks which the pupils picked up after
the ground was plowed This will be de-
voted to flowers and the remainder of
the common was planted with beans, DO
tatoes, etc. The pupils are very enthu-
siastic over their work and have pledged
their assistance in pulling weeds and cul-
| tivating.
A general fire alarm was rung in from
box 20 last Thursday at 1915 p. m. for
fire in the grocery store of Prescott D. H.
| Carter So Main street The fire depart
ment responded at once and in few min
utes had the fire under control The orr
| gin of the fire was in the cellar of the
rear of the store. The building is owned
by Mrs. Spencer W. Mathews and was
damaged about $500, which is covered by
insurance. The damage to the Carter
stock was estimated at about $500. The
Dutch Brothers grocery store and Fred
Timm's shoe stocks were also injured to
the extent of several hundred dollars,
mostly by smoke and water.
| j. W. Blaisdell of Bangor and North
port has bought the Edward Sibley house
on High street, one of the most beautiful
of Belfast's many old Colonial residences.
They have given up their apartments in
the Bangor house at Bangor and will
make this their permanent home. They
will renovate the house and beautify the
grounds which are very extensive. The
porch will be broadened and the pillars re-
| of Additions will ba h,,iI+ hot -
of the house and the dining room mater
tally enlarged. New servant quarters
will be added with private bath rooms
etc. Mr.. and Mrs, Blaisdell spent the
summer season at their attractive cottage
at Bayside and are prominent members
of the Country Club. Mr.. Blasdell furn-
ished the club DINING room last season.
The past winter they spent in New York,
where Mr. Blaisdell has business interests
! The work of tearing down the build
ngs on the Pejepscot Paper Co.'S. lot
near the foot of Main street has been
| completed for the present and the debris
| is nearly all cleared away. The con-
struction work is in charge of j. A.
Greenleaf of Auburn, with Messrs. Frank
Bell and A. T. Achorn, foreman and assist
ant foreman. The derricks are in posi-
ton for handling the trestle work, "a feet
| wide, that will run from the Cooper wharf
to the company's wharf to accommodate
|: the extension of the railroad track. The
hard pine timbers for the massive con-
veyors will be set into their wharf and
run to the tracks The tug boat recently
bought by the company and which was
being towed from Eastport to Rockland
to be repaired, previous to being used by
the company at it's branch plant at Har-
rington, was sunk off Petit Manan Point
recently The cause of the accident was
the parting of the hawser, due to the
heavy seas caused by rough weather off
the Point. Capt John Hewitt, who was
to have assumed command of the tug
boat after she had been repaired, was
rescued from her but lost all of his per-
sonal effects. The tug was partially in
sured. The company will buy another
tug boat to take the place of the one
which was lost.