The Republican journal., 1917-03-22

/ uOt Uo u0io tQlD WICK % Inc Oul0l0R Ii not
heated during the vacation.
Leroy A. Weber. who recently Injured an
ankle by falling at his store on Main street. is
able to walk about his home and expects to
come up town the last Of this week.
I As the result of an accident in the Francis
Cobb Co.. shipyard in Rockland, three work.
men fell from staging. One of them. Forrest
E. Cottrell formerly of this city, was badly
| bruised but not seriously injured.
| The Sons of Veterans Auxiliary will hold
their annual fair supper and dance at Memo
rial Hall. Thursday. March 10Th. The fair
will open at 2 o'clock and supper will be serv-
ed at 6 The public are cordially invited.
Supper 25 cents.
Albert E. Andrews of Pennington. repre-
senting the Chaplin Farm Agency, was in Bel
fast last Monday and Tuesday and will be in
Brooks today, Thursday. and tomorrow, Fri.
! day. Mr.. Andrews is listing farms and other
real estate that may be for sale. There is no
charge for listing and no withdrawal fee. He
will probably locate in Belfast.
Miss Hazel Doak entertained the Knitting
Club of which she is a member at her home
last Monday afternoon. Tea and light re-
freshments were served. Those present were
Misses Marguerite H. Owen. Florence Shaw,
Grace Mitchell. Geneva Stephenson. katherine
Kittredge. Emma Slipp, Lillian Dexter and
Bernice Holt. All are making sweaters for
! summer wear.
The Busy Bees, class of girls in the Metho-
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day night by Miss lone Judkins at the Colonial
House. Games were played and refreshments
served. 1t a most delightful evening.
The members of this club are Mildred Thomas,
Marian Thurston, Dorothy Chamberlain, Annie
Omar, Louise Gray, Della Stephenson and lone
Judkins. The guests were Marian Thomas, lila
Brown and Charles Gray.
Miss Adelia Cook entertained the Glad Club
| last night at her home in Cedar street. Games,
music and sewing and other needlework were
IN order and sandwiches. cake, pineapple whip
and hot chocolate were served by William, the
| young brother of the hostess. The members
of this club. who also members of the Bap-
fist Sunday school, are Hazel Perkins, Vivian
Howard, Ethel Dexter, Virginia Dutch, Ada
Curtis, Georgia Knight, Emma Weber, Myrtle
Simpson and Adelia Cook.
Miss Marion Evelyn Starks, dramatic read
er, entertained large audience at the Metho.
dist church last Friday evening with varied
program that showed her versatility in the
portrayal of characters She was to have
| Saturday, but it given up on account Of
the storm. AT the Sunday evening service in
Belfast she read Kiplngs THE Last Voyage"
1.-THE Wild White Rose" and selection from
the Bible, the story of David and Goliath,
Charles Getchell sang tenor solo, 80 Make
me Clean" Miss Starks was the guest while
in Belfast of Rev. and Mrs. H. B. Sellers.
HELD FOR THE April TERM OF THE S. j.
COURT. Leroy A. Carter before Judge
Lord of the Municipal Court las. Saturday on
complaint of Edwin P. Frost for having had in
his possession Mrs. Frost's watch, which had
been taken with numerous other articles from
their cottage in East Belfast. Carter testified
that he got the watch from Joseph Robinson
and had given it back to him. Robinson denied
that he ever had it. Carter called Fannie
Wilson, who lives ia the Carter home, to cor
TODOTate Ills statements, anu from D6r CeSLI-
mony it appeared that somebody had lied -
Judge Lord thought it might be Carter and
held him under $500 bonds for appearance at
the April term of the Supreme Judicial Court.
His father, George H. Carter, and Fred A.
Robbins are his sureties. Judge Lord also
| held Robinson as material witness under
500 bonds and he was committed.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Capt. H. A. Gregory of
Searsport. who was formerly with the Rockland
& Rockport Lime Cos feet, is to command
barge Northern No. Z. just launched from
| Kelley. Spears yard in Bath The barge has
a coal carrying capacity of 3000 tons. E. The
steamer W. C. 7. u, has been sold by the
Lawrence Canning Company of Maine to the
Gorton Pew Fisheries and will be used in
bringing fish from Cape Cod to the canneries
at Boston and Gloucester. Because of delay
in receiving material and lumber the ,unching
of the three masted schooner Frank A. Morey,
i building at Rockland for Rogers & Webb of
Boston, will not take place until the middle of
April. She will be 145 feet long, IS feet beam,
IA feet depth of hold, with carrying capacity
| of 900 tons. 1t is reported that the five
masted schooner Singleton Palmer, built at
| Waldoboro in 1904, and one of the first of the
big Palmer fleet placed in commission. has
BEN sold to New York parties. and will be
placed in the foreign trade. o wing to the
submarine peril the six-masted Portland
schooner, Edward B. Winslow, Capt. New
combe, has Cancelled charter to load cargo
Of corkwood at Lisbon for Philadeha and is
now on her way to Newport News in ballast.
80. The snapper fishery is over for the season
and the old schooner Flora Condor, which ar
rived at Brunswick, Ga, March 18th on her
way south. is expected TO arrive in Florida in
time to engage in this fishery next fall. Th g
tug Cumberland and barge 767 we're wrecked
on the south point of Green Island at the en-
trance to Carver's harbor March 18th. Capt.
Ralph Curtis and his crew of three men of the
tug leaped into the breakers and scrambled
ashore. The barge crew escaped in their boat
Both vessels piled up on the rocks after the
tow line parted during heavy gale and rough
sea. The barge was owned by the Lehigh Val
ley Transportation Co.. and was valued at
$4,000 The Cumberland was owned by the
Snow Marine Co. of Rockland and was not in
sured y. The Ellsworth schooner Harry W.
| Havnes WAS ahapdonad at sea off Ca sDas han KS