The Republican journal., 1917-10-18
THE REPUBLICAN JOURNAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER IS. 1e17

! Last Friday was Columbus Day, but
there was no observance of it as holi-
day. The schools were in session and
business in the stores and factories went
on as usual
Mrs. Elmer Keen is employed as clerk
IN the rooms of the Public Safety Com
mittee in the Poor block on High street.
kempton B. Craig left recently FOR
Cambridge, N. S., to bring home his
young son Tom, who has been spending
the summer there with relatives. Tom
was shot several weeks ago in the right
arm while on camping trip with another
boy. The bullet was not extracted and
he has had several hemorrhages from the
wound. Recently he was assisting in
running gasoline engine when it caught
his left hand decorating it so as to re-
quire several stitches to close the wound.
The Twenty-first Company Maine
Coast Artillery, which has been at Aver,
Mass, for some time, was transferred
last week to Watertown, Mass, to guard
the arsenal. Edmund Walker, son of
Hon. and Mrs. w. A. Walker of Castine,
is sergeant of the company and last Fri
day Dana B., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
D. Southworth of this city received his
commission as corporal from Washing
ton, D. c., and three other Belfast boys,
Henry B. Cunningham, Carl F. Darby
and Harold Newcomb are also in this
company.
MISS BRIDGHAMS NEW PLAY. Miss
Gladys Ruth Brigham of Somerville,
Mass, so well and favorably known in
Belfast, has returned home after a few
weeks visit with Belfast relatives. She
was accompanied by her mother, Mrs.
Lydia Wentworth Brigham. While here
Miss Brigham received word that her
first professional effort at play writing
had been accepted by William Harris, Jr.,
at the Hudson Theater in New York and
that her services will be required there
several weeks during its rehearsals this
season. She has called the play, ''The
House by the Side of the Road" and
took her thoughts for it from Sam Wal
ter Foss' poem, "Let me live in the house
by the side of the road and be friend to
man." The text comprises 200 sheets of
| typewriter matter. There are about q
dozen characters. The leading part is
that of the country doctor, who lives in
the house by the side of the road and has
every opportunity to be a friend to all in
the village. The first act is laid in Bos-
ton and the other three in a village in
Maine, which Miss Brigham has called
Ellington. She has written 80 very sue
cesSful amateur plays for Professor Baker
of Harvard, the Penn Publishing Company
of Philadelphia and the Eldridge Enter
tainment House of Franklin, O.. Miss
Brigham has coached many of them and
has taken the leading part in practically
all. Five of them have been presented
in Belfast, sally Lunn," "The Girl from
Upper Sever" "The Sign of the Shoot
ing STAR" "The Girl Upstairs and
''Three of Kind" The first two are in
their third edition and the third is in it's
second She receives royalty on all
after their first edition. In her busy
season she has 80 pupils in 'elocution and
fancy dancing and is always very popular
with them. Miss Brigham graduated
from the Somerville, Mass, High school,
and soon after began private lessons with
Mrs. Amelia Lewis of Cambridge, a re-
tired actress. Since then she has studied
privately the new methods as they be-
came popular.