The Republican journal., 1918-10-24

Miss Frances H. Macomber, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar L. Macomber, has
entered the employ of the Belfast Saw
ings Bank as stenographer.
Sheriff Thayer of Bangor was in Bel
fast last Friday for young man of IT
wears, who gave his name as Fred C.
Smith of Vinalhaven. He was wanted
in Bangor for the larceny of horse and
carriage, belonging to H. P. Blaisdell.
He called at the stable of Fred &. Gray
to sell a carriage robe, and MIR. Gray
recognized the team as that wanted in
Bangor and notified Sheriff Frank A.
Cushman, who with Deputy Sheriff j. A.
G. Beach overlook the youth in Lincoln
vile and detained him here for Sheriff
Thayer. He did not seem to realize what
he had done, but said he wanted to get
out of Bangor, where he came from
Grindstone, where he said he had been
employed. He saw the team alone in
the street and simply took it and left
town. He said he had never been guilty
of like offence before.
Capt. Orrin J. Dickey, Waldo County
Chairman of the United War Work Cam
paien, has been called to Boston for the
conference Wednesday. of the New Eng
land United War Workers. 1t is expect
ed that this drive, which follows the
Liberty Loan, will be one of the largest
because it will be combined drive of all
the different societies who are working
for the welfare of the soldier. Accord
ing to the plans in Washington, the
American army will remain on foreign
soil for several years after the war has
| closed. With the fighting over, should
the war close, there will be all the more
reason why the soldier should have more
comforts, for their minds and attention
must be taken up with other things.
The allotment has not been made for
Waldo county, but it is expected that our
people will be ready when the call comes
to meet the emergency as they have done
in the drives of the past. The campaign
work in this section will be under the d.
rection of Orlando E. Frost.
Company F, of the Third Maine Regi-
ment of this city, has received the past
week one hundred Russian ''Three Line
rifles which will be used at the Armory.
These new rifles are overall four feet and
1875 inches. With the bayonet they are
five feet and nine inches. The rifles
weigh nine pounds and II and Ia pounds.
! The length of the barrel is 81 t-2 inches.
The powder pressure in the chamber with
149 grain bullet, Russian factory loads
means pressure 49, 100 pounds per square
inch. This rifle is made up of 81 COM
ponent parts. It is of the bolt type, the
bolt working parts of which sixty are not
duplicates, over a horizontal magazine
from which cartridges are fed upward by
spring actuated follower and in the
breech mechanism there is nothing very
complicated. It is said to be an excellent
weapon for bayonet fighting, principally
because of its great length A bayonet
is supplied with each rifle, but it is car
ried on the rifle as there is no bay9net
scabbard. The puzzle velocity with lag
grain bullet Russian factory loads is 1904
foot seconds; with I'll grain bullet Rus
sian factory load 2Ol3 foot seconds. The
drill work with the new rifles in the Bel
| fast Company is expected to begin in =
few days and will then be carried along
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