The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-03-01

The main belt in the engine room at the
Leonard & Barrows shoe factory broke about
1 %. m. Monday and the shop was shut down
for repairs for the remainder of the afternoon.
ADVERTISED LETTERS The following let
tiers remained unclaimed in the Belfast post
office for the week ending Feb. 9th Ladies'
Miss l., H. Chs pman, Miss Sadie Hall, Mre.
yerna Rich. Mrs. Annie Webster Lizzi Web.
ster.
Miss Marian Hamblin of Augusta, who re.
Gently returned from Red Cross work in
France. has taken a position as assistant en-
perintendent in the Knox County hospital.
Rockland where she had previously served
Miss Hamblit was at time superinten lent
at the Waldo County hospital.
Ralph L. Flanders. manager of the New
England Conservatory of Music. Boston, has
bought of Ira NJ Cobe the cottage on the
South Shore Northport, known as Bohemia.
and for number of years occupied by Mr.,
and Mrs. Cobe as summer residence. 1t was
closed when the CODES moved to their big
house on the HILL but for the last two seasons
was leased by Mr. Flanders, who occupied it
with his family.
S. s L. Shute and family returned late Sun
day afternoon from a snow-shoeing tramp and
built fire in the fireplace of their living room.
The chimney is built on the outside of the
house and is flue-lined. making it fire proof.
The scot in the chimney caught fire and the
flames were streaming in the air fifteen feet
or more when some young men rang the door
bell and told the chief Of the fire department
that his chimney needed attention, which it
Immediately got with thanks to the young
men.
DR.. Elmer Small recently dressed two pecul-
lar accident injuries, when the slightest devia-
ton would have meant death to the men re-
ceiving them. Fred Belts of Northport was
ASST ting in raising ladder at a fire when it
slipped, and the ladder hook caught in his
throat very near the carotic artery, making an
ugly flesh wound Fred Young of Line oil n
vile with his brother was making a camp in
the woods where they were cutting wood
The brother was swinging an axe at full
force when it slipped, striking Fred on the
end of the nose just below the bone, making
severe cut
George, the young of Mr.. and Mrs G. E.
Evans of Stamford, Conn.,, had a recent expert
ence that tested his metal. He was skating on
pond alone when four large boys came and
wanted to try his racing skates. Naturally
George refused to give them up Then two of
the boys held him while the others went
through his pockets taking his watch a solid
chain and other trinkets. He got away from
them and with his skates still on ran to house
and teIephoned for the police Two detectives
came in auto and caught the boys One
by is ia the Stamford hospital, the result of
resisting the officers and the others were sent
to the Reform school
HER 9lsr BIRTHDAY. Mrs. Sarah E. Stew
art, Belfast's oldest woman, celebrated her 9lst
birthday at her home, No 1873 Main street.
FRIDAY, Feb. 23rd. her daughters. Mrs Mary
. " hltmore and Mrs. Lilly S Jones, assisting
IN receiving guests and in serving tea, BIRTH
day cake and cookies. Between callers Mrs.
Stewart was busy with the embroidery of a
dolls bedspread for her great granddaught e r.
little Miss Doris Margery Macdonald of OF
tawa. Others OF the four generations of Mrs
Stewards family are Mrs. Eta S. Mitchell,
who spends the summers here and the win
tiers in Medford Mass, and Canada, and Mrs.
Mltcheil's daughter, Margaret, now Mrs. Harry
Douglass Macdonald. Mrs Stewart was the
recipient of many dainty gifts, cards, book
lets, ETC., from near and far She has grown
| old so gracefully that the many years have
touched her lightly. impairing none of her
faculties nor dulling her interest in her home,
church and the community. She is one of
the teachers in the Methodist Sunday school
and constant attendant at chu Gu servic es.
1t Is delight to listen to her descriptions of
methods of living in the days of her mother
and grandmother and IF her early childhood!
10 know Mrs. Stewart is to love her for her
quiet. dignifed and sympathetic manner, and
her many friends are hoping she may reach
the century milestone, with each year tran
quill and happy. Her daughter, Mrs. Mary S.
Whltmore. observed her birthday, Feb 22nd.
by lmpersonating Martha Washington at the
Methodist chain party last Thursday evening
at the home of Miss Annie E Going.