The Republican journal., 1918-02-28


saparilla and Peptiron.
Mr.. G. E. Curtis and family and Mr.. and
Mrs. M. E. Curtis and daughter Ethyl of
East Belfast.
In a personal letter from Bayamon,
Porto Rico, Mrs. Frank Dyer says: ''Peo-
pie here are just beginning to realize
what war means. We have fine fruit
crop, but it has been difficult to get it
shipped on account of the congested con-
ditions in transportation and so much
cold weather in the States. Many thou
sands of boxes have been a dead loss on
account of freezing and they could not
get it out of New York" She has about
1000 boxes of grapefruit and 800 crates of
pineapples, but can get only about 40 per
cent of them shipped. Farm labor there
is at present very serious question Mr..
and Mrs Carl Lamson are at present in
Porto Rico.
The PIERCE school entertainment in Odd
Fellows Lodge room last Friday afternoon
was greatly enjoyed from first to last.
The musical numbers were under the d.
rection of Mrs. Elbridge S. Pitcher, their
regular music teacher, with their day
teachers directing the program, etc. The
oh Ind he al
songs were remarkably we'll rendered
Coming Thro' the Rye was sung and
danced by Evelyn Knowlton, Agnes Pen
dleton, Elene Fernald, Annie Sanders
Lloyd Clement, Russell Knight, Edward
Poor and Charles Buzzell, all in costume.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic was
also we'll rendered by Florence MacNeil,
Julia Chalmers, Eva Pendleton and Har-
riet Towne. Elfreda, the seven-years old
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Walter T.
Hawthorne, a natural elocutionist and a
most attractive little miss, astonished
every one with her recitation on Truth
George or George Washington's Proposal
to Martha She was simply charming in
her response when she gave short poem
on the flag, using small silk one in her
gestures. Elfreda has been reading in
public since she was two years old. The
two vocal solos by Mrs. Clement w.
Wescott and Mrs. Thomas E. Bowker
with the short readings by Mrs. S. A.
Parker gave a pleasant variety to the
program. Mrs. Parker's rendering of
Dennis McCarthy's Tribute to the Flag
and the Washington Day toast to the U.
S. A., were unusually appropriate and
greatly enjoyed.
The Kelley League in East Belfast, I'M
der the direction of their leaoer, Miss
Ethel Slavery, enjoyed social in Robbins
hall last Friday evening preceded by fine
program by the members in connection
with the Community Sing. The enter
tainment was in two sections as follows:
Part Yankee Doodle, the League; Trib-
ute to Washington, Dora Flanders; song,
Mt. Vernon Bells, Velma Rogers and Eve
Ign Mank; How Betsey Made the Flag,
sung by Mona Burgess and illustrated by
Dora Flanders and Wesley Richards; Bos-
ton Tea Party, Minerva Freeman; Bet
sey's Battle Flag, katherine Wood; song
and minuet, In Grandma's Day, Velma
Rogers and Evelyn Mank; tableau, The
Thirteen Original States, showing thir-
teen pupils in costume, with Miss Column
bia in the background (Wilda Savery)-
Eben Mank read an introduction to the
tableau and Frank Lougee closing poem,
while Miss Columbia unfurled the flag;
reading, Independence Bell, Mrs. Ray
mond Mossman; America, the Beautiful,
sung by the League; recitation, Hurrah
for Washington, Newell Robbins. This
closed the Colonial period Part Ii
1917, Charles Colson; singing,
Battle Hymn of Republic, Miss Slavery;
The Flag, Leslie Curtis; A Prayer for Our
Soldiers and Sailors, Arnold Collins;
song, We're One for Uncle Sam, George
Brown, Wesley Richards, Wellington
Dunbar, Irving Ryan, Eleazer Dunbar
and Wesley Curtis. At o'clock the au-
dience united with others the country
over in the singing of America. The
Flag for Me was sung by Vida Slavery
and Katherine Wood and the program
closed with singing The Star Spangled
Banner.