The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-05-02

for appendicitis last Tuesday at tn
Waldo County Hospital by Dr. Carl H
Stevens assisted by Drs. Adelbert Millet
and S. L. Fairchild.
Scout Master Dickey and twenty o
his boys hiked to the Battery last Satur
day on their first outing of the season
Games were enjoyed and several of tn,
boys took their regular tests. At moor
they had a clam bake on the shore.
Walter C. Shaw, formerly superintend.
ent of the Leonard & Barrows shoe fac.
tory, was down town in his car last Sat.
urday the first time in the past six
months, when he has been confined to
his home by illness. His many friends
were glad to learn of his improvement.
| Robert P. Chase, one of Belfast's best
! known composers, has sent his new
march to Frank j. Rigby, leader of the
U. S. band at Fort Williams in Portland
. Harbor 1t has been dedicated to this
fort. Messrs. Rigby and Chase were for
several years associate members of the
Belfast Band.
Mrs. George w. Lewis and daughter,
Mrs. F. A. Schubert, who have been liv-
ing in Boston for some time will occupy
their home on Waldo avenue during the
summer Mr.. and Mrs. Roy E. Sholes,
who have been occupying the house,
have moved to the Mrs. Julia G. Fergu-
son house on upper High street.
A private dancing party, to which 80
couples have been invited, will be given
in Odd Fellows Hall May 18th. This is
the first dress party of the season and is
eagerly looked forward to. Refreshments
will be served at intermissiOn. Mrs. Will
liam H. Hall is making the arrangements,
and the affair promises to be most enjoy
able.
The steamer Islesboro of the Bucksport
and Camden line, which was built for
that route and for the past year has been
hauled up at the pier in Camden, has been
sold by j. w. Ingraham to the Rockland-
Jonesport Steamship Co., and she will be
placed on that route This boat was
formerly in command of Capt. w. d.
Bennett of the Belfast, Islesboro and
Camden route.
Mrs Roderick NJ Edgett of Thomas
ton has received a letter from her hus-
band, who is in the Norfolk war hospital
in England, where he is recoveringfrom
shrapnel wound which he received in the
fighting line in France a few weeks ago.
He was former resident of Belfast, the
son of Rev. G. G. Edgett, former pas
tor of the Methodist church here. NRod'
as he is we'll remembered here, was at
one time employed in the Read garage.
Allen NJ, only son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph H. Howes of this city, who left
Belfast about the middle of March as an
enlisted chauffeur at the San Antonio,
Texas, service camps, re-enllsted soon
after arriving there in the aviation corps.
He was first assigned to Kelley Field No.
2, where he passed all the tests and has
been sent to Field No. /. Here he is with
the service flying squad from a. m. I'M
til noon. The rest of the day is spent in
the study of construction, etc. Several
of his friends have received cards des-
criptive of the machines, etc, and OF his
intense interest in the work. He is
natural machinist, thinks quickly and
has the good supply of courage this ser
vice calls for.
At the annual meeting of the Travel
lers Club, held on April 23d at the nome
of Mrs. C. M. Craig, the following reso-
lutions were passed:
Whereas. our friend and fellow member
of the Travellers Club, Mrs George Z;
Bracket, having completed her allotted
time of service here, has gone to ION the
company of friends who, before her, nm
ished the journey home. Therefore, De i,
Resolved, That by her death our CLUB
has suffered loss in all that concerns us
interests and activities; and that we grate-
fully appreciate her long and faltnfui ser
vice, not only as a club member put also
as it's conscientious and efficient Secre-
| tary and Treasurer from the time OF Its
organization. ,;.;o.
We recognize, too, those rare QUALITIES
of mind and heart that endeared her 10
her friends, and ENABLED her to perform
successfully, though often handicapped
by ill-health and sorrow, her many iabors
of love and duty in her home, IN her
| friendships, in the. community at large
and more especially in that Statewide
work for the Girls Home as an institu-
ton. and for the many children whose
| lives it has blessed.
Resolved, That in token OF our recoeni-
tion and appreciation of Mrs. Brackets
character, her work, and her friendships,
these resolutions be placed on the RECORDS
of this Club, and published in 1.-The Ne
publican Journal" in The henneDee
Journal and in the next issue OF ne
Girls Home" and that, as an expression
of our sympathy, copy be sent TO MIS-
Brackets only sister, Mrs. Emily browne
Powell of Alameda, California.
Respectfully submitted, in behal1 o.
the Travellers Club of Belfast, Name.
CAROLINE F. DuNToN, COMM tee
HESTER p BROWN, on.