The Republican journal., 1918-01-31

Mrs. Charles M. Craig and Miss Annie L.
Barr will be the story-tellers.
| Roberto. Coombs, purser on the Belfast
of the Eastern Steamship line, arrived
home Saturday night from Camden where
he left her She returned to Boston Mon
day and expects to haul up until she can
reach the up-river towns without danger
from the ice.
Morris L. Slugg has been appointed To-
cal agent of the United States public ser
vice to enroll men for work in shipyards.
Any person desiring information regard
ing positions or labor in this line may ap-
ply to him The appointment came from
State Chairman Charles S. Hichborn of
Augusta.
The second Garfield Monday was OBJ
served even more implicitly than the
first The streets presented a Sunday
appearance with even fewer people down
town. All the business places, excepting
those with special permits, were closed.
A Hoover" food sale will be held in
the vestry of the Peoples Methodist
Church next Saturday afternoon at 8
o'clock The food on sale will conf orm
strictly to the requirements for food con-
servation in the matter of ingredients.
The foods offered include war bread,
! baked beans, .hermits, molasses and karo
doughnuts, fruit cake and oatmeal cook
les.
On several occasions recently Mr..
Frank r. Woodcock had lost pints of
milk left at his ell door on Court street.
He had kept watch but failed to dis
cover who was taking it. The family
physician was calling at the Woodcock
home Tuesday and his driver saw dog
at the door after his milk He had been
!! calling regularly and carrying off the
bottle by the neck.
Thomas H. Marshall Circle, Ladies of
the G. A. R., observed Mckinley day at
their meeting Tuesday afternoon. Papers
on Mckinley were read by Mrs. Julia G.
, Ferguson, Mrs Mary R. Russ and Mrs.
Dora J. Bridges. An original poem, The
Dead Year of 1917 written by Mrs. Mary
R. Tarbox, was read by Mrs. Alice Gan
non; poem, The knitters, by Mrs. Nettle
M. White; poem, the Heroes at the Rear,
was read by Mrs. Bridges at the suggeS-
ton of Mrs Charles B. Eaton who s i'll
at home. The meeting next Tuesday will
be held at the home of Mrs. Russ on Bell
street and that of Feb. 18th will be held
at the Post room in Memorial building.
The tug Pejepscot of the Sagadahoc
Towing Company, under the direction of
Capt. C. B. SWEET has been doing most /
effective work in keeping open the chan !
mel in the harbor and in clearing ice from |
the wharves. Morris l.. Slugg, chairman
of the special committee from the Bel |
fast Board of Trade, wishes The journal
to make public acknowledgment of Capt |
Swett's valuable assistance at this time |
The Pejepscot with light barge in tow
left Thursday for Camden for repairs to
injuries received here in ice cutting. If
weather conditions do not materially i'm
prove she will 60 to New York for the re-
mainder of the winter
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Beginning
next Saturday and ending Saturday, Feb.
9th, there will be one cent sale of Rex
Ill az ho A
this sale you can buy two articles at the
price of one, plus one cent. See list of
values offered. Try an Electric Heating
pad, which brings relief to many all
ments. For sale by Penobscot Bay Elec-
trio Coz. See abstract of annual state
ment of the Union Mutual Life Insur-
ance Co....See appointments of E. H.
Boyington, eyesight specialist .....N Nellie
R. Lincoln, Frederick H. and j. Willard
Strattard publish card of thanks. 81 Fred
D. Jones will have a special sale next
| ...Anyone interested in sheep raising is
invited to attend the Maine sheep show
in Portland Feb. 9th and 7th. Admission
free.
! POOR'S MILLS. The Ladies' Sewing
/ Circle met this week with Mrs. j. F.
/ Sheldon. :. Cornelius Wood and two chill
dren of Lawrence, Mass, were here last
week looking after his property and visit
ing his brothers and sister,. James Went
worth of Burnham came last Saturday to
see his father, who has had another i'll
! turn and is gradually falling. Mrs. W.
S. Wentworth was called to Buffalo, N.
Y, recently on account of her daughters
health, also of her little grandson, who
+! has had an operation for trouble caused
! from blood poison. Nell Robertson has
, arrived in California all right. He went
in company with his sister, Mrs. Davis
of Lynn, Mass, who went for her health.
! IN. o. Wilson has sold his pine timber
and they are cutting and hauling it to
| mill Quite number of the wells here
are dry and people have to haul water
for he; c+ook ic oaffipr fo he ul,ifa