The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-05-24
The News of Belfast.

The D. of V. Afternoon Club will meet
tomorrow, Friday, with Mrs. Altana E.
Dutch A picnic supper will be served.
The band was out last Monday evening
for practice and was followed by a crowd
OF children and number of autos and
teams.
Charles S. Bickford has retired from
active service in the Swan -Whitten-
Bickford Company and is at his home on
Cedar street.
Principal VIM, T. Faulkner and Evan
F. Wilson of the Belfast High school ac-
companied Howard E. Wilson to Orono
last Friday to attend the State Contest at
the U. of M.
Augustine Colburn, Belfast's most en-
thusiastic fisherman, spent May goth at
Swan Lake and returned with five small
salmon. Percy E. Greer also landed sew
eral small ones. Others from Belfast
were not so fortunate
NAASS Sloio NJ oICWdIu, WHO mas Deen
spending few days with her mother,
Mrs P. G. Hurd of Northport, on account
of sickness, returned to her duties in the
Whitten's store last Monday. Miss
ENERGY CHM substituted during her abb
sence.
The Belfast post office will be close
Wednesday, May 30th, Memorial Day.
The general delivery will be open one
hour after. arrival of each train mail.
The rural carriers will be excused for the
day and the city carriers at IL, noon.
Austin w. Heating, P NJ
Prof Wilmot Mitchell, the head of the
English department of Bowdoin College,
has been engaged to give the address Fri
day evening, June 18th, at the graduating
exercises of the Belfast High school.
Rev. Arthur A. Blair will deliver the bac-
calaureate sermon to the class at the
Universalist church Sunday morning,
June 10TH
Emma White Barker Tent, D. of w.,
observed Peace Day at their regular meet
ing Wednesday evening, May 10Th, with
the following program: The Dawn of
Peace, Mrs. Myra S. Dutch The Arsenal
at Springfield, Miss Ruth kimbaIl; The
| Carnegie Peace Palace, Miss Alice E.
Simmons; song, Sweet Peace the Gift of
Gods Love, Mrs Emma R. Brown; The
Christ of the Andes, Mrs. Eta P Savery;
A Song of Peace, Miss Simmons.
Howard E. Wilson, Senior of the Bel
fast High school, won the University of
Maine four-years scholarship in the State
contest for public speaking, held in As
sembly hall at Orono last Friday even
ing. Profs. Stevens and Lekberg of the
U. of NJ, and Mr.. Cranston of the M C
A., were the judges. The subject under
discussion was The High Cost of Living,
and the contestants were limited to ten
minute discussions. Under the direction
of Miss Leonia j. Achorn, the English
teacher of the Belfast High, Master Will
son has won the city, county and Con-
gressional district contests. He is II
years of age and the son of Mr.. and Mrs
| Lester A. Wilson of Poor's Mills.
| At the meeting of Thomas H. Marshall
| Circle last Tuesday afternoon, j. f.
| Wentworth of Freeman McGilvery Post,
Searsport, was obligated as a member
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presented: Song, Nearer My God To
Thee, audience; prayer, chaplain; address,
To the Memory of Our Fallen Heroes,
Dora Bridges; solo, Tenting Tonight,
Goldie Carter; reading, The Boys in Blue,
Lulie Nichols; address, The Declaration
of independence and Memorial Day, Mr..
L. C. Putnam; solo, Abide With Me,
Alice Simmons; reading, Flowers for the
Fallen Heroes, Nettie Merrithew; read
ing, Honor to Memorial Day, Augusta
Fletcher; reading, Stars and Stripes,
Susan Patterson; song, Star Spangled
Banner The ladies' of the Circle will
meet at 1.30 p. m. next Tuesday to make
wreaths for Memorial Day in place of the
regular meeting.
There was a good attendance at the
regular meeting of the Boy Scouts last
Thursday evening. The program con-
sisted of story telling, with Toford Dur
ham in the chair The meeting this,
! Thursday, evening will also be devoted
! to story telling, when each member will
be called upon Last Saturday. Is Scouts
hiked to Mt. Percival, Temple Heights
and Saturday Cove and returned by a
trip of one of the cars of the Maine Trans
portation Co. Next Saturday, the princi-
pal hike of the season will be trip to
Camden. The Scouts who make this
trip will leave the Windsor Hotel at 8
o'clock in two cars of the Maine Trans
/ portation Co., and on their arrival at
| Camden they will climb to the top of Mt.
Battle. During the day they will visit
the lime rock quarries of Rockport, the
shipbuilding yards of Camden, the Cam
den Y M. c. A., and other points of in
tereSt.
BASE BALL. The Belfast High played
the Searsport High base ball team on the
Congress street grounds last Saturday