The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-04-26
The News of Belfast.

There will be May dance at Silver Harvest
orange hall. Waldo, next Tuesday evening.
The Universalist Social Aid will meet this,
Thursday. afternoon with Mrs. B. L. Tuttle,
postponed from last week
Owing to financial reasons the High school
have decided not to join the county base ball
league. but will play with other nearby teams.
The first fish, 400 bushels. were received at
the sardine factory Wednesday from Turtle
Head. The factory was rea dy to pack them.
Tent. D. of v. will be Wednesday evening,
May End, when full attendance is requested
as there is to be business of Importance
Tonight at the Opera House, dancing with
moving pictures. The feature photoplay will
be the fve-reel Art Drama, "God of Little
Children Admission 10 cents; dancing Is
cents extra.
The Board of Trade will meet Friday even
ing, May 4th. when Prof. G. W. Stephens of
the Economics department Of the U. of M.
will address the Board, and any others who
may care to attend,
E. r. Spear will give an illustrated lecture
on 1.-The Telephone and its Uses'' in the High
school building next Tuesday evening. No
admission will be asked and the public are cor
daily invited to attend
J. Earl Braley. who has been employed in
James H. howes store for several years, has
resigned and left Monday for Rockland. where
he plans to locate. Winfield Mariner has
taken his place at the Howes store.
NORTH BELFAST. Mrs. Nellie Beckwith
went to Stonington last Monday to spend the
summer with her sisters. MIR. and Mrs An
drew Richards have returned from Massachu-
sets, where they have been employed in a
hospital the past year, and Mr.. Richards will
work in the Hatch Bros cooper shop.
last Thursday by fall from a ladder in his
barn. He was on the ladder when three rounds
broke letting him down a lower round from
which he fell striking on his side and back. He
is confined to the house, and DIR. E. Small. the
attending phsyician, says he has strained the
muscles of his spine.
The Saturday Auction Club will have its 10th
and last meeting of the season next Saturday
at the home of Mrs. William H. Hall. Congress
street. The winners of the season were Mrs.
John c. Pillsbury, first; Mrs. Hall, second; Miss
Florence Dunton, third, and Miss Clara Keat-
some time this week by the losers, Mrs Nor
ris l.. Slugg, Mrs. Elon B. Gilchrest. Mrs. Ray
mond Sherman and Mrs. Clyde b. Holmes.
At the meeting of Thomas H. Marshall Cir
Gle last Tuesday. committee of five was ap-
pointed to assist the Red Cross committee in
sewing on Thursday afternoons. At their
meeting next Tuesday they will have May
lunch, when each will provide basket con-
tanning lunch of sandwiches, cookies and
doughnuts for two. The baskets of lunch will
| be 10 cents each. Coffee will also be served.
All members are requested to be present and
members of the Post are specially invited.
| The Belfast Board of Trade at the meeting
last Tuesday discussed the matter of shipbuld-
| President Slugg and the members OF the New
Industries Committee were made a general
committee to confer with parties in regard to
building ship in this city. The most favor
able report seemed to be that George H. Wilbur
of Bangor, the contractor who is building the
Islesboro Inn at Dar Harbor who seemed quite
interested in taking hold of the situation here,
providing that more than one vessel could be
built. The Committee have secured an option
on the Cottrell yard, which Mr.. Cottre,l has
agreed to lease at very low figure.
COLONIAL THEATER. Today, lat three shows,
at 2.3O. and $50, there is offered the greatest
morality photoplay of the age, "The Little
Girl Next DOOR," in six acts, based on the
actual vice expose of a senate investigating
committee. By special arrangement, this play
! which has been shown everywhere at 25-
cent price, will be offered here at Is cents
No children admitted. Friday, matinee and
evening, the popular Sessue Hayakawa is
featured in wonderful adaptation of Robert
Louis Stevenson's. "The Bottle Imp" Satur-
day, matinee and evening, Lionel Barrymore
is offered in 1.-The GUTTER" Metro FIVE part
feature. also on the same program will be a
Metro Travelogue and Sidney Drew comedy.
Monday, matinee and evening. the feature at
traction is George Beban in 1.-The Bond Be-
tween" Tuesday, matinee and evening, Ethel
Clayton in "A Woman's Way" Wednesday
matinee and evening. Gail Kane in "The Red
Woman"
| The executive committee of the Waldo
County Public Safety committee, at meet
ing last Thursday, voted to ask Gov. Milliken
for permission to close the public schools some
time between May 1st and 10th and continue
| the vacation until the first Of October, that
the school children may plant. care for and
| harvest gardens of their own. The gradual
ing exercises would be the same as if the
schools closed in June. 1t also favored the day
light saving plan which will be taken up with
the county and State committees. The execu.
tive committee met Mondayand discussed ways
and means of interesting the school children
and Boy Scouts of the city in gardening, and
they will take active measures to find out how
! much land Can be obtained for the use of the
children. They will also make a canvass to
see how much was raised last year in the city
| and county by the Agricultural Clubs. Mr..
Grassland of the U. of NJ. Ext ension Depart
ment was in Belfast Tuesday in the interest
of Club work. Twenty of the twenty six
towns have organized Clubs and the work of
organization will soon be completed in the en-