The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-01-10

Mrs. Albert M. Carter has been ill the
past week at her home on Church street,
but is rapidly improving.
! Mr.. H. H. Stevens of Gardiner arriv-
ed recently to substitute as superintend-
ent at the Leonard & Barrows shoe fac
tory, while Walter C. Shaw is confined to
! his home by illness.
| A basket ball game was played last
Monday evening at Castine by the Sham
rocks of Belfast and the Castine team.
The Shamrocks were defeated, IS to 80.
/. A return game will be played here next
! week.
| Miss Angie Stevens of East Northport
! who was operated on Christmas for stran-
gulated hernia by DR.. Eugene D. Tapley,
! assisted by DR.. Foster C. Small, is gain
! ing rapidly. Miss Stevens is about 80
years of age and her recovery is remark
| able.
! Harry L. Horne of Foxcroft, the new
sub-master of the Belfast High school,
has taken a room at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas E. Bowker, Miller street.
! His wife and little child will remain in
! Foxcroft indefinitely. Mr.. Horne plans
| to spend Sunday with his family occa-
sionally until he can find a furnished
| rent.
There is absolutely no truth in the cur
rent report that the Colonial Theatre will
| be closed for fuel conservation purposes.
! Their two tenants, the office of the Bel
| fast Water Company and the dental par
lors of DR.. Ansel M. Lothrop, will be
| heated. Their heating plant is in the
rear of the building and necessarily
passes through and heats the theatre on
the way to these offices.
Charles B. Norton returned home
Thursday from fine trip to ST Johns,
N. B., on the steam tug Pejepscot as the
guest of Capt. Hackett. They were de-
tanned for five days in St. John on &C
count of the ice and on her arrival in the
Belfast bay was obliged to cut her way to
! the wharf, destroying about $500 worth of
copper plate on the job But for this tug
Belfast would have found the ice condi-
tons very serious question.
| The January meeting of John Cochran
Chapter D. A. R., was held last Monday
evening at the home of Past Regent,
/ Miss Amy E. Stoddard, who was assisted
by Mrs Clara H. Seekins. The roll-call
was answered by New Year resolutions.
! The paper on Legends of Castine, writ
| ten by Mrs. Evelyn c. Frost, was read
by Mrs. Cora j. Bowker. The Baron's
/ Letter, written by Louise Wheeler Bart
lett, was read by Miss Alice E. Simmons.
The Regent, Miss ENERGY CHM, read two
letters from soldiers at Fort Williams
thanking the Chapter for their gift of
knitted articles. Miss Stoddard and Mrs.
Hazel S. Bowker played on separate
pianos The Angels Serenade, by Ludo-
vic. A social hour followed with knit
ting, when the hostesses served assorted
sandwiches and Russian tea.
/ A CAUTION NEEDED EVERYWHERE.
An Associated Press despatch from Bos-
| ton is applicable in Belfast:
Women are asked not to talk about the
war in public, in a statement issued by
the Massachusetts, woman's committee OF
the Council of National Defense Jan. 4th
It is natural, the statement says, for
woman to tell friend of news her son OF
brother has written back from the front
or from camp. Strangers, both men and
women. have been observed making notes
of these conversations, it is said, and IN
/, this way often learn the date of the sail
ing of some transport or some prospective
troop movement. The committee recon-
mends these three rules for women tc
follow:
''Never indulge in war talk of any kline
outside your own home.
"Never leave about carelessly letters
from men in service, which tell of posi-.
BILE movements or camp conditions. Reae
and destroy.
"Never indulge in telephone converse
tons upon these subjects; even wire
sometimes leak"