The Republican journal., 1917-07-19

Az Inc Speclal meeting OF the Woman'i
Hospital Aid last Friday afternoon, it wa.
voted to give SO to the Red Cross.
Col. French of Boston will give trave
lecture in the Auditorium at Bayside
every night next week. He will talk on
his travels in all parts of the world and
cannot fail to be of great interest.
UNCLAIMED LETTERS. The following
letters remained unclaimed in the Belfast
post office for the week ending July 18th:
Ladles-Miss Erver Coner, Mrs. Myrtle N.
nayford. Gentlemen-Emery Brown,
II. E. Howard & Son, Mr.. Wyman Ladd.
PRESCOTT FAMILY REUNION. The
annual Prescott family union will be held
at the home of Mr.. C. C. Randall, South
Montville, Aug. 18th. All descendants
OF the family of Prescotts are cordially
invited to attend and help make this one
OF the best yet. A picnic dinner will be
served.-Oren w. Ripley, Secretary.
The regular July meeting of the Bel
fast Board of Trade will be held tomor-
row, Friday, evening. The subject under
consideration will be the change of the
train and mail service. 1t is desired on
the part of the citizens to have a train
leaving Belfast later in the day and all
members of the Board of Trade and the
citizens interested are requested to be
present.
The Pejepscot Pulp & Paper Co. have
sold to Charles E. Bicknell & Co. of
Rockland, the building known as the
Dana factory. The company needs the
land for storing purposes. Robert C.
Bicknell, the junior member of the firm,
arrived Saturday with crew to begin
the razing, which will take five or six
weeks. Bicknell & Co. have a power
lighter and will take the material to their
lumber yard in Rockland.
ACCIDENTS. Capt C. o. SWEET, local
manager of the Pejepscot Paper Co., met
with peculiar accident last Saturday
morning. He stepped on plank about
20 inches from the ground and did not
notice that man was standing on the
other end of it. When the other party
stepped off Capt SWEET came down on
the ground, bending his right leg under
him. He was taken to the Tapley hos
pital, where temporary splint was put
on. He was advised to 60 at once to
Bangor for an X-ray diagnosis, when it
was found that igament had been torn
from the knee. He will be obliged to wear a
cast for two weeks, but was at his place
of business Tuesday on crutches. Wal
ter S. Darby, carpenter, while at work
on the Blaisdell house on High street last
Saturday, cut tendon on his right thumb,
when saw slipped from board he was
saving. He was taken to the Wal 10
County Hospital for treatment and the
attending surgeon thinks he will be con
fined to his home about three weeks.
COLONIAL THEATRE. Never have
Harold Lockwood and May Allison p
peared to better advantage than in the
five-reel Metro Wonderfully, "Mist er
"A" offered to-day, matinee and evening g.
The following attractive features are CT
fered matinee and evening at and 10
cents: Friday, George Beban in splen-
did characterization, 'The Roadside Inn
presario," Saturday, Nine. Olga Petrova
in a splendid play, ''The Black Butter
fly" Monday, House Peter in ''The Heir
of the Ages" Tuesday, Brady-Interna-
tional feature, "The Golden Lotus" with
Badet in the lead. Wednesday, we offer
Sarah Bernhard in her greatest triumph,
Mothers of France" stirring message
from the Mothers of France to the Moth
ers of America For this play, the gen.
eral admission will be Is cents, children
10 cents The New York Tribune says
the following: ''The great, throbbing,
bleeding heart of France was laid bare at
the Rialto Theatre in Nine Sarah Bern
hardt's wonderful picture, Mothers of
France. Every man forgot that
he was in the theatre. The ap-
plause became so thunderous that the
music was drowned and people stood up
and waved their programs. - 1t is
hard to tell just why this war picture had
such great appeal to the heart and to
patriotism; but the fact remains that
there was on the screen that which
brought men to their feet and was bound
to give the most careless observer pause. "
The board of State Assessors, C. S.
Stetson of Greene,J j. Dearborn of New
burg, w. F. Dresser of Portland with
their clerk F. H. Sterling of Augusta,
were in Belfast Tuesday comforting with
the local assessors. They will spend the
week in Waldo county. In an interview
the assessors made the following state
ments:
We presume it is a fact that much of
the property in every county in the State
is undervalued or entirely escaping the
assessors, and the problem confronting all
assessors, both local and State, is to So
equalize valu es that ali property not ex-
empt by law shall bear its Just and full
share of the public burden. We feel that
the preliminary step toward correct So
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