The Republican journal., 1917-02-01

| e~SA~SS ~ 0SAAoI8 Ol the Met00Ql4
church went to Bucksport Monday to assis
Rev. David M. Angel. pastor Of the Franklir
street Methodist church, in a series of reyiva
meetings. He will return home tomorrow
Friday. noon.
The Dickey- Knowlton Real Estate Co., last
week sold the John W. Dahl cottage on the
South Shore. Northport. to Ralph F. Thurston
OF Watervile. This was the former summer
home of the late Frank Gikey of this city.
The company have rented the Hog house on
Bay View street to G. H. Cove; the Stephen
son house on Park street to William Newbert.
and second rent in the Frye Block on Court
street to Miss Edith Marden of Bangor, whose
family are to move to this city.
The Waldo County Veteran association will
hold their February meeting in Belfast today.
and will be guests of Thomas H. Marshall Post
and Circle. A joint committee from these two
organizations has prepared the following in
teresting program: Assembly. Award Craig;
singing. America; prayer; Address Of welcome;
response; cornet solo. Award Craig; vocal
solo. George White; defamation. Stanley Eaton;
vocal duet, Max and Doris Collirs; reading,
Miss Alice Simmons; vocal solo. Miss Katherine
Brier; tableau. The Blue and the Gray; violin
solo, Miss Hazel Doak; singing, Marching
Through Georgia; speeches by the comrades
The regular business meeting of the associa-
ton will be held in the forenoon. followed by
dinner at II 80. The afternoon meeting will
begin at one o'clock
THE SCHOOLS. The changes occasioned by
the semi annual promotion of pupils who had
acquired high percentage in their studies
were made last Monday under the direction of
Supt, VIM B. Woodbury.. In the PIERCE school
only two grades were affected. and 15 were
Gent from s to 6. There were At promotions
in the Mcclellan school: from the sub-pri
mary to grade |; 4 from to 2; from to g. 7
from 8 to 4: 9 from to {; IL from TO g. J
from to z The last three leave the building
for the school on the common. Twenty five
were promoted from grade to 8: % from to
9. There were 10 promotions from grade to
the High school. but they will remain in the
room of grade and take extra work under
Ptincpa D. Hartshorn in Algebra and Cen
eral Science, there is no room for them in
the High school At the present time there
are "a pupils in grades and g. Mrs. William
F. Faulkner, the extra teacher engaged for the
remainder of the school year in the High
school, began her duties last Monday as gem
eral assistant. The Union school was re-
opened NJ onday, having been closed for sew
eral weeks on account of illness among the
pupils, and is in charge of Mrs. Mabel Averill
of Swanviile, who succeeds Miss Ethel Saveiy,
recently transferred to the Brick school.
NEW DvERFIsEMENTs. Read & Hills, pro
pIierors of Toe City Drug Store. announce
their third onecept sale to hegia Saturday
Feh. sd and end Saturday Feb. 10Th. During
that week they will take slap at the high
cost of living and 81 will do the work of 81,
Briefly stated the method of this sale is as
follows: Whatever the selling price of an arti-
Gle one cent additional will give the customer
two articles. For example, take a Turkish
bath towel that sells for 81; for $l01 you get
two towels The sale includes full lines of the
popular ReXall goods. Perhaps you do not
know that you could enjoy electric lights and
all the tin e-savng and labor. saving electric
utensils that help to make home brighter. If
not, call on the Penobscot Bay E ectric Com.
pany and let them show you The Ralph d.
Southworth Co., IL Main street, will have a
mid-winter sale of real genuine bargains in
boys and young mems clothing, to begin to-
day, Feb LIST, and close Saturday, Feb 10TH
See prices quoted in the advt, but there are
great many other bargains not enumerated
in small lots and broken sizes. ....... Twen-
ty-hve per cent discount for Merchants
| Week on pocketbooks and handbags at d. P
Palmer's Masonc Temple. Coffee at 10
cents pound makes quite cut i'll the high
cost of living. See the special offer of A A.
Howes & Co, for next Saturday, from to .
M. Harry W Clark & Co., the hlain Street
Clothiers, are making some special offers,
which include winter oyercoats at 25 per cent
| off from their value, the same discount on
boys overcoats and mgckinaws, ard three
special lots of mems SUITS in the famous Kun.
penheimer make. .Ingraham block, recently
occupied by Jones & Snow. is for rent, Apply
to the City National Bank, Belfast Don'f
| forget the ten per cent discount that the
Dinsmore Store is Offering on every shoe and
rubber in their store for sevenSdays onlv be-
ginning Saturday, Feb. 3rd, and continuing ny
to and including Saturday, Feb, 10th. With
the present high price Of leather this is a re-
markabe offering. earle & Jones, as usual
come to the front with big bargains for Mer-
chants Week. Special prices on all me1 chan
disc. Three big specials in the dry goods de-
partment-on crepe de chene, black taff-ta
silk and 40 inch sheeting. B. 0 Norton will
return from Boston the last of this week with
q load of medium and heavy weight draft
horses. -. See abstract of the 67th annual re-.
port of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany of Portland, Maine on the 9th page.
Charles =" Ryder, manager, Brooks, Maine.