The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-01-03

NUAhY ., 1918.
| The annual meeting of the Universalisl
Social Aid was called for last Thursday
at the home of Mrs. Eugene L. Cook.
On account of the very cold weather only
a few were present and all business was
deferred to a later meeting.
ADVERTISED LETTERS. The following
letters remained uncalled for in the Bel
fast post office for the week ending Jan.
] l, 1918. Ladies-Miss Luella Parsons,
Miss Ida B. Wentworth. Gentlemen
A. E. Geer, Paris & Mari.
Letters have begun to arrive from the
| Christmas Red Cross bags sent to the
boys in their country's service. One lady
who made an extra effort to send what
would naturally please man has receiv-
ed an eight page letter from Camp Taylor
in Kentucky from young man in the u.
S. Regulars. She intends to reply and
send box of the articles he referred to
with evident gratitude.
! Miss Isabel M. Towle left Monday to
| resume her duties in the Barnum school
at Bridgeport, Conn. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
l.. Towle gave dinner party during her
visit. Covers were laid for seven and
the time spent socially and with music
The guests were Mrs. Edith Shelton Snow,
Miss Edith L. Strout, Miss Towle, Messrs
Edward Shelton and Maurice D. Towle.
Orland Orcnard, a fourteen year-old
Boy Scout, was injured recently while
sliding on the crust in the George E.
White field in East Belfast. He lost con-
| troll of his sled which dashed over the
banking and precipitated the boy on the
rocks of the beach. He was fortunate to
escape with fracture of the right arm
and dislocation of the wrist. DR.. Elmer
Small was called to reduce the fracture.
The city schools opened Monday with
a small attendance in all the grades At
the Kelley school in one room only four
reported and about the same number in
the Mcclellan and Peirce first grades Miss
Grace E. Walton, principal of the Nc
Lellan school, is again in charge since
undergoing very serious surgical opera
tion last summer and was given pleas
ant greeting. Mrs. Sarah j. Knight who
| had been substituting for her was placed
-, -ob IF 0,ra3c
for the day, as the latter was given the
day to reach here from her home in Pc
nobscot Mrs. Everett A. Banks, teach
er of the commercial department of the
High school, is in the Peter Bent Brig
ham Hospital in Boston and Mrs. Stephen
S. L. Shute is substituting for her. It
was found almost impossible to heat the
school buildings Monday and the schools
were all adjourned to next Monday, Jan.
7th.
| ENTERTAINING LETTERS FROM MEX
Ico. The Woman's Alliance of the First
Parish, (Unitarian) church, with several
guests, met last Thursday with Mrs.
Thomas B. Dinsmore. The president,
Miss Charlotte W. Colburn, presided and
the records were read by Miss Caroline
| E. White. The paper of the afternoon
was by Mrs. Dinsmore and was consider
ed the best of the series written for the
Mexico. 1t was in form of letters to
! friend at home, gracefully written, with
/ attention to the minor details, as well as
vivid descriptions of the quaint build
ings, the beautiful plazas, the cathedrals,
temples, etc. Her description of the
modern sections of Mexico City were
equally entertaining. She also exhibited
several curios and pictures to illustrate
! conditions and scenes in that historic
country.
/ We make the following interesting ex-
tracts from letter written by Mrs.
Charles A. Pilsbury to friend in this
city,.
Sidney Mines,
Cape Breton, Dec. 18, 1917.
| No one in this part of the country is
doing much for Christmas. All is going
| for the war and to help dear old Halifax
which has been so sadly stricken. It was
only Gods providence that prevented me
from being in the midst of it. My dear
sister who was confined to her bed was
removed in safety, but died the following
Sunday from the shock. A cousin of
mine who lives at the other end of the
town, about two miles away from the
explosion, wrote me that she had no
means of cooking anything. The water
was cut off, there was neither gas nor
electricity. All of the glass was blown
out of the windows and terrible gale
and snow storm prevailed. She had taken
in family of three to care for who had
been living for three days in hallway
with two inches of snow in other parts
of the house. This gives but glimpse
of the general conditions in thousands of
cases. l do not see how anyone who
has passed through such experiences can
ever be quite the same as before. The
Presbyterian church which we attend
here has a vested choir and splendid
organ which was the gift of Mr.. Carne-
gle. The music is worth going miles to
hear