The Republican journal., 1918-05-30

| Unclaimed letters for week ending May
18th: Ladies, Mrs. Augustus Morton.
Gentlemen, George Blake, George Cas-
| well, A. G. Crosby, H. j. Perry, Arthur
Whitney.
A Belfast lady interested in Red Cross
work has been making button holes IN
pajamas and Tuesday reported that she
had made a thousand and intended to
continue in this special line in which she
is really an expert.
The Republican State Committee has
employed the editor of The Journal to
take charge of headquarters in Augusta
during the campaign, and he will enter
upon his duties there next Monday. He
will continue to write the editorials for
this paper.
Tomorrow, Friday, at 2.30 p. "a, there
will be meeting in Memorial Hall, under
the auspices of the Home Service section
of the Red Cross. Mrs. R. w, Husband,
supervisor of the Home Service section
at Boston, will be the speaker. 1t is
hoped there will be large attendance at
lhis meeting.
Thomas H. Marshall Circle, Ladies of
the G. A. R., at their meeting Tuesday
afternoon, enjoyed the following appro-
pirate readings: The Silent G. A. R., Mrs.
Luie P. Nichols; In the Pines, Mrs. Nettie
M. White; The Army of Our Dead, Mrs.
Rose Fairbrother; The Little Green Tents,
Mrs Mary R. Russ; extracts from the
Bugle Call by Mrs. Alice W. Cannon and
Mrs Julia G. Ferguson
Oscar R. Wish, postmaster at Portland
and chief registrar for non-urban areas of
Maine, requests The Journal to publish
the following: Registration of German
alien females will begin Monday, June II,
1918, and continue on each day thereaf-
ter, excluding Sunday, June 23rd, up to
and inclu ding Wednesday, June Goth.
German alien females residing in munich
palities which had population of 200
or over, according to the United States
census of 1910, should present themselves
to the chief of police or other head of
the police department for registration,
and those residing in non-urban areas of
less population should present themselves
to the postmaster of the office from which
they receive the ir mail.
THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. The May
meeting of the school committee was held
at the superintendent office Monday
evening The following were elected
teachers for the year ending June, 1919:
Louis j. West at ST, 500; Harry L. Horne
at 81, 900; Miss Melvina V. Parker, Mrs.
E. A. Banks, Misses Alice E. Lawry and
Helen Brown, $3.50 eac''; z. D. Hartshorn,
ST, 100; Miss Grace A. Lord, $3.50; Misses
Esther F. Evans, Grace E. Walton, Flor
ence E. Cross, Alberta Wadsworth and
Mrs. E. S. Pitcher, $3.50 each; Mrs. Sarah
j. Knight, Mrs. Mildred C. Neal, Mrs.
Amy Sprague, Misses Frances A. Sargent,
Florence M. Kimball, Julia Leary, Flor
ence Keene, Mrs. Annie C. Black, Mrs.
Annie X. Adams, Mrs. Maud F. Towns
end, Miss Florence Blaisdell, Mrs. Ella
Hamilton, Miss Mary Woodbury., Miss
Mabel Averill, Mrs. Zylphia Clements,
Mrs. Vireie B. Wentworth, Mrs. Marjorie
Hayford, Mrs. Myrtle N. Simmons, Miss
Mary A. Houston, $500 each. Miss E
Frances Abbott at the Pitcher school and
Miss Eva Wentworth at the Head of the
Tide have resigned and were succeeded
by Mrs. Hayford and Mrs. Wentworth.
1t was voted to instruct Supt. E. E. Rod
erick to fill any vacancy that may occur
| in the school, to attend to all necessary
! repairs on the High school building, and
to renew the insurance on the Mcclellan
ard High school buildings.