The Republican journal., 1917-03-29
The News of Belfast.

The Ladies' Aid of East belfast will meet
with Mrs Peter Oleson To- morrow, Friday, af-
ternoon.
| The supper in the Methodist church last Fri
DAY evening was well attended and over $25
were netted by the Ladies' Aid Society,
Award Craig had entered the employ of City
Clerk Orrin J. Dickey for the summer months
and will be employed afternoons until the
school vacation.
The chiefs call-two bas.s-at 135 D. m
Monday was for what was supposed to be fire
In the Knights of Pythias block, but it proved
to be only smoke from the heating plant.
Roland G. Lamson. who has been very Ill for
the past three weeks with typhoid fever, is
now as comfortable as can be expected. DR.,
Foster c. Small is the attending physician.
ADVERTISED LETTERS. The following let
ters remained uncalled for in the Belfast post
Office for the week ending March 9th: Ladies
Miss Margaret Milliken. Miss Eleanor Stand
ley Gentlemen-Merrill Printing Co.
The Belfast Woman's Club room will be
open every Saturday afternoon for the sale of
cooked food, beginning Saturday, April 7th.
Mrs. Charles E Rhoades will be in charge, and
later will be assisted by other members of the
committee.
| We have an unusual number of new advts.
in this weeks paper, to which the attention of
our readers Is directed, having found 1t i'm
possible to get in type the usual notices. We
shall endeavor to make amends for this
! omission in future issues.
The Masonic Club have been renovating and
improving their in Masonic Temple.
The partition between the card and billiard
rooms has been removed. making one large
room, and new pool and billiard tables added
The club is growing in membership.
Z. M. Brown, sales manager for the Portland
Sales Co.. who handle the Ex- Ell Polish, was in
this city Tuesday making arrangements for
his crew of demonstrators to work in this
city and vicinity. He reports exceedingly
large sales during his seven weeks in Bangor
The Junior Alliance Camp Fire girls will en-
tertain the Mlnnetoska Club this, Thursday.
afternoon; first at the Opera House to see the
picture, "20, GOO Leagues Under the Sea-" then
at the home of Mrs. T. B. Dinsmore for a social
hour and tea.
Last Sunday Rev. A. E. Wilson, in the
course of his sermon at the Unitarian church
on "Who is my neighbour" made the startling
assertion that all the war relief sent from our
country to the suffering victims did not amount
to cent per week for each week of the
wsr, for each member of the Evangelical Prot
estant churches in this country. He appealed
for a liberal contribution to the Belgian Chill
dren's Fund and so far has received $40, If
anyone who reads this item of any church or
no church. feels the call to give to this worthy
cause and knows not through what channel to
send it, Mr.. Wilson would be glad to add it to
what he already has. which will be sent to the
fund the Literary Digest is collecting,
Boy SCOUTS: The program for the meeting,
today, of Boy Scouts will be an interesting one,
and Scoutmaster Dickey will tell the boys
something of his trip to Washington. The
program is as follows: "What Scout Mus t
Do to Obtain Cooking Merit Badge" by
Kenneth Colcord; How the President, Vice
President, Senators and Congressman are
elected, and their terms of office, by Tolford
Durham; How to choose camp site and how to
prepare it, by Orland Orchard; How to turn in
an alarm for fire and what to do by Walter
Omar; Some Historic Places in Belfast. by
Edwin Morse; Stories by Charles Robbins,
Ralph McCabe, Murray Keene, Tnom as Knight
and Donald Knowlton; debate, Resolved That
Belfast should have electric cars Rudolph
Cassens and Kenneth Coicord in the atrma-
tive and Frank Downes and Wallace Pendleton
In the negative.
THE UNITARIAN ALLIANCE. The annual
business meeting of the Women's Alliance
of the Unitarian church was held Thursday
afternoon, March 22nd, at the home of Miss
Frances Chase, Church street. and was largely
attended The following officers and commit.
tees were elected for the ensuing year: Miss
Charlotte W. Colburn, president; Mrs Arthur
E. Wilson and Mrs. Bancroft H. Conant, vice
presidents; Mrs. Wilmer J. Dorman, recording
secretary: Miss Caroline E. White, correspond
| ing secretary; Miss Melvena v. Parker, treas
urer. Committees: Post office mission, Mrs
| "a s"Ot A' ''iiooh' PAo6io", nAiS. al
Ritchie. Mrs. James C. Durham, Mrs George
R. Williamson, Mrs. Arthur E Wilson, MIS-.
Albert c. Burgess, Mrs. Elmer A. Sherman,
Mrs. Frank R. Woodcock. Mrs, S. A. Parker;
social. Mrs. James S. Hartman, Mrs. George R.
Doak, Mrs. Elbridge S. Pitcher Mrs. George l.
Keating. Mrs. Harry W. Clark, Mrs Thomas B.
Dinsmore, Mrs. Wilmer J. Dorman, Mrs. Ban
croft H. Conant. Mrs. Irving T, Dinsmore; dec
Grating for Easter. Mrs. Eugene l. Stevens;
May. Mrs. William B. Swan; June. Mrs. James
Hartman; July, Mrs. James H. Howes;
sept. Mrs. Elmer A. Sherman; Oct, Mrs
George F. Ryan; Christmas, Mrs. Irving T.
Dinsmore and MIS-. Bancroft H. Conant; Hos
pitality, Miss E. Maude Barker, Mrs. James H.
Howes, Mrs. VIM. B. Swan, Mrs. Eugene L.
Stevens, Mrs. Albert M. Carter; benevolence,
Mrs. William B. Swan, Mrs. Ben Hazeltine,
Mrs. J. H. Howes. Mrs. Ira M. Cohe Mrs Jos.
! Tyler, Mrs. E. A. Sherman, Mrs. H. McDon-
aid, Mrs. H. J. Morton; Sunday school, Mrs
Clement W. Wescott, Mrs. Dorman, Mrs. James
| II. Howes, Mrs. George r. Doak, Mrs. Ben.
Hazeltine; Mrs. Fred A. johnson, Mrs Stephen
s. l.. Shute; parsonage REPAIRS Mrs. Albert
M. Carter, Mrs. swan, Miss Chase Miss White
had served the Alliance for eleven years as re-
cordlng and corresponding secretary and posi-
lively declined to continue as rec ording secre-