The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-10-04

Skowhegan last Monday to accompany
Mrs. Myrtle C. Moore who was sentenced
to the Woman's Reformatory of Maine
for setting fire to the stable at the trot-
ting park.
Mr.. Roscoe Whitcomb of Waldo en-
tertained family party of q last Sunday
including Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph o. Whit
comb and little son David of Syracuse,
N. T., MIR. and Mrs. Frank E. Howard
and little daughter Ruth of Belfast.
Mr.. L. D. Hartshorn, principal of the
Grammar grades, has taken the j. w.
Jones house on High street and will board
Mr.. Louis j. West, principal of the Bel
fast High school. They are living at Mr..
Hartshorn's farm in Swanville at the
present time.
ADVERTISED LETTERS. The following
letters remained uncalled for in the Bel
fast post office for the week ending Oct.
Ind: Ladies-Miss Catherine Burke, Mrs
Alice A. Perkins. Conference.-The. o. E.
Blackeler, Mr.. w. L. Maddocks, Milton
l.. Robinson, Mr.. E. F. Thompson, Capt
Wallace Weed, Thomas S. Williams
Oscar H. Emery of Camden, Judge of
the knox County Probate Court, will
preside at the next meeting of the Waldo
County Probate Court Oct. 9th. Gov
ernor Carl E. Milliken will not appoint
successor to the late Judge Harry F.
Bangs until after that session of the
court
Fuller c. Wentworth, formerly of
Freedom, who has been employed for sew
eral years in The City National Bank of
Belfast, has been elected assistant treas
urer of the Belfast Savings Bank to sue
coed Elon B. Gilchrest who has resigned
to accept position with the Travellers
Insurance Company.
Drs. John C. Ham and Harry L. Kill
gore of Belfast and C. w. Kingdom of
Searsmont returned Saturday from Fort
Preble, where they took the examina
tons for commissions in the medical of
Ulcers training camp. The result of the
examination will be learned through the
surgeon-general's office in few weeks
The executive committee of the Red
Cross Society met at the City National
Bank last Friday and appointed two new
committees, an administrative commit
tee with Rev, Arthur E. Wilson, chair
man, Mr.. James H. Howes, Mr.. Ralph |.
Morse, Mrs. Thomas B. Dinsmore and
Mrs. S. A. Parker; the civilian relief COM
mittee, Rev. Walter t. Hawthorne, chair
man, Mrs. Charles M. Craig, Miss Char
lotte w. Colburn, Dr. Carl H. Stevens,
Ralph D. Southworth and the selectmen
of every town in the county. The work
of the latter com mittee deals with the
families of the men who have gone to
the front. Mrs. Georgia H. Butman, No.
SO Cedar street, is collecting old silver
thimbles and silver articles to be sold for
the Red Cross fund.
Perley Blake of Skowhegan, employed
in the construction crew of the New Eng
land Telephone Company on the new
Belfast-Rockland circuit, near Pitchers
Pond, was burned last Thursday about
the face, arms and breast by upsetting
kettle of hot tar over him as he fell back
ward into a small hole in the ground
Fortunately his eyes were not injured.
He is now doing well in the Waldo Coun-
Small who is using the Paresine treat
ment on him. This was also used by DR..
Small on Lewis Edney, the colored man
who was terribly burned while employed
by the Penobscot Bay Electric Co., with
wonderful results, Young Edney is at
present employed in the mess room in the
Marine Hospital at Chelsea, Mass, and
writes friends here that he is feeling as
we'll as usual
There was a large attendance at the
regular meeting of the Boy Scouts last
Thursday evening presided over by Per-
rim Arnold. The program arranged for
this, Thursday, evening will consist of
story telling by Scouts Wyville Vose,
Thomas Knights, Orland Orchard, Charles
Swift and Herbert Snow. There will be
a debate on Resolved, That there should
be swimming pool in every High
school," The affirmative will be dis
cussed by Leroy Bradford and Walter
Omar and the negative by Kenneth Col
cord and George Randall. The Scouts
will have their first field day of the fall
season Saturday, Oct. 9th, when they
plan to make hike to Pitchers Pond.
A letter was read from Harry Rumney
of Portland, until recently member OF
the local Troop, who is now connected
with the signal corps of Co. c, 43d Regi-
ment United States Boy Scouts of Port
and. Scoutmaster Dickey has offered
special awards to the patrol leaders who
have the best department for their pa
trolls for the next three months; best at
tendance at meetings; best equipped pa
troll: highest ranked patrol, so that from
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