The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-11-14

ternoon with Miss Eda Woodbury., High
street.
Mrs. Stella A. Young, Great Pocahon.
tas Of the Great Council, Degree of Poca-
hontas, left on the Wednesday morning
train for Portland to preside over the
treat Council held in that city Nov. 18th.
She was accompanied by the Degree
Staff of Osceola Council No. At, who
will exemphfy the work for the Great
Council on the evening of Nov. 18th.
George l. Heating, clerk of courts, has
received the rescript from the Law Court
IN the case of Rhodnah L. Haskell VS.. C.
L. Walker, Admir-; Philbrook, Justice:
The affidavit provided for in r. S. Chap.
", Sec. 127, is not admissible in evidence
in case when the defendant is admins
traitor or executor. Nonsuit is properly
ordered when on unquestioned facts the
action cannot be sustained. Exceptions
overruled.
Mr.. w. S. Marden of Belfast has re-
Gently returned from Saskatchewan,
Canada, where he has been employed on
large farm. MIR. Marden brought to
The Journal office some fine specm ems
of vegetables grown in the great Cana
dian northwest. These were all raised
without the use of fertilizer. One speci-
men. ruta baga turnip, was smooth and
symmetrical in appearance, was % inches
in circumference and weighed almost 8
pounds.
The teachers of the city schools met
Tuesday evening and organized the Bel
fast Teachers Association with the fol-
lowing officers: President, z. d. Harris
horn; vice president, John A. David; sec
rotary and treasurer, Alberta Wadsworth;
executive committee, Mr.. David, Misses
Wadsworth and Helen Brown; entertain
ment committee, Miss Florence Keene,
Mrs. Annie Adams, Mrs. Annie Black,
Mrs. Maude Townsend, Miss Florence
Cross and Miss Wadsworth. The object
of the association is to promote closer
fellowship among the teachers and work
out ways and means of enlisting the CO.
operation of parents and friends in the
great work of education.
Mrs. George Carey of Boston, repre-
sentative of the women's branch Of the
seven-sided war work drive of Nov. 18th
to 18th, was in Belfast last Wednesday in
the interest of the work. In the after
noon she was the guest of the Belfast
Travellers Club at the North Church
parlors, when other club members and
war work committees were present. Mrs.
John r. Dunton presided and introduced
Mrs. Carey, one of the most charming
and best informed speakers heard in this
city in years. Her husband is in Y. M
C. A. work and she is also vitality inter-
ested in W. Y. c. A. activities and very
close observer of the wonderful good the
other allied societies have accomplished.
Added to these essentials she has d.
rect and conservative manner of express
sion and a pleasing personality In the
afternoon her remarks were more on the
work in this country. In the evening
she spoke in the Municipal Court room to
the drive committees and was introduced
by Mrs. S. A. Parker. Her remarks were
confined to woman's work for women in
muni1ion plants, Red Cross, clerical, tele-
phone, telegraph and signal service over
seas Her remarks were most entertain
ing.
POOR'S MILLS. There will be ser
vices at the hall next Sunday. The hall
has been closed during the epidemic. The
Sunday school will close next Sunday.
MI and Mrs M. o. Wilson went to the
city last week. Their friends will miss
them here, but wish them much Joy in
their new home. -. Mrs. James Dillan and
little son who have been visiting her
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Wentworth,
went to Stockton Springs to visit her
sister, Mrs John Merrithew, before going
to her home in Buffalo, N. Y...... Mrs.
George Dow visited with Mrs. Maurice
Wood one day last week.. Charles Nc
Kinley spent Sunday with his sister,
Mrs. Jane Cole. Mrs. Geneva Went
worth has been. visiting Mrs. Annabel
Underwood 80. Vesta and Clayton Hig-
gins and Lloyd Wentworth of the Boys
and Girls Agricultural Club, received
prizes on their canned goods, gardens
and pigs. Howard Wilson was brought
home last Sunday from the Waldo Coun-
ty Hospital, where he has been for an
operation. Mrs. Ernest Marsh is sick
with pneumonia. Mrs. Ella Brown came
home last week. She has been in Tapley's
hospital for an operation but has been
out some time visiting her children in
the city,. Harry carter came home
from Chelsea, Mass, where he has been
employed.
The Women's Alliance of the First Par
ish Unitarian) Church held their first
meeting of the season last Thursday af-
ternoon at the home of Mrs. William B.
Swan. There was large attendance of
members and invited guests. Miss Char
lotte W. Colburn, the president, presided
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