The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-11-15

operation for appendicitis at the Tapley
hospital.
Avarp Craig has resigned as clerk in
the B L. Davis store and Mervyn Perry
taken his position.
Basketball will be played in the Opera
House this, Thursday, evening between
two girls and two boys teams.
Miss Ethel S. Slavery, principal of the
Brick school, so-called, in East Belfast
has organized a School Improvement
League to be known as the Kelley League.
Dora Flanders was elected president;
katherine Wood, secretary, and George
Brown, treasurer The League now has
16 members and they will give an oper-
eta on Thanksgiving to start their school
fund
The North Church Guild gave supper
at their church vestry last Monday even
ing in honor of Mrs. Elon B. Gilchrest,
one of their most efficient members, who
will leave in few weeks to make her
home in Portland A delicious supper
was served from daintily appointed small
tables seating four. At the close of the
supper Mrs. Fred R. Poor, president, in
behalf of the Guild, presented Mrs. Gil
chrest with a seal skin handbag. She
mentioned the Guilds appreciation of
Mrs. Gilchrest's faithful work and unus-
ual interest as their last years president,
their regret at her removal, etc. Mrs.
Gilchrest responded, expressing her sur
prise and appreciation of their thought
full gift and kind words.
This is Y. M C. A. week when at least
$35, 900, 600 must be raised to carry on the
work of the Association which is looking
after the welfare of our men in the ser
vice. Some idea of the work may be had
from the following letters from men at
the front One soldier writes home, 'It
rains lot. Say, the Y. M. C. A. hut is
a Godsendi You find it everywhere you
60" Another writes, 'Why, the first
question fellow asks when he goes into
town is, Where is the Y?' They send
us hot soup up the line. l tell you it's
good when you have been standing in one
place for two hours, chilled to the bone.
Then you say, Thank God for the Y. M.
C. A.p" The Waldo County work is I'M
der the direction of the Public Safety
Committee See the advertisement on
eighth page.
The u. S. Director of the Bureau o
Mines has appointed George /. Heating,
clerk of courts, as licensing officer in
with the enforcement of the
new Federal Explosive Regulation Act in
Waldo county. The law goes into effect
November 18th, and provides that all
persons having use for explosives must
first obtain from the licensing officer in
his county license, stating the manner
in which the explosives are to be used
and assuring the officer that the explo-
sives will be properly accounted for. No
licenses will be issued to aliens who are
accredited to countries that are unfriend-
ly to the United States 1t is hoped in
this manner to account strictly for the
disposition of all explosives and to pre-
vent them from falling into the hands of
evilly disposed persons. The entire po-
lice force of the country has been asked
to aid in the enforcement of this law
The penalty for the violation of the law
is a fine of SIS, 900 or year in the peni-
tertiary or both.
The costume sociable at the Baptist
church last Friday evening proved very
successful and pleasing affair. There
was large crowd in attendance and
many quaint old-fasioned costumes and
other fanciful dresses in more modern
style were worn. Some of the ladies
wore hoop skirts, which they managed
very gracefully, one gentleman appeared
entirely shrouded in black crepe and an
other gentleman was striking figure in
full costume of the French revolution.
After the grand march the names of
those masked were guessed and a fine
entertainment was given, in charge of
Mrs. C. E. Read and Miss Isabel CHM, in
which many of the young people of the
church took part. Some of the features
of the program were: a violin solo by
Miss Ethel Dexter; an amusing farce In
which Mrs Read appeared as the mother
of six talented daughters, all of whom
had had their heads turned, and who en-
tertained the audience by a display of
their talents; a defamation by Alton
Braley; song by Earl Talbot; reading by
Mrs. Irene Mckinney; lullaby song by
several young ladies. The last thing on
the program was very pleasingly done by
a number of the young ladies, who repre-
sented the allied nations with songs and
flags, closing with all singing "The Star
Spangled Banner" with Miss Beulah
Young dressed as Red Cross nurse and
carrying a large American flag. About