The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-07-18


"Going up" says the elevator man
"Going Up says every other man. Ye
shoes at One Dollar pair at the Dins
more Store today
A telephone yesterday from Dean Mer.
rill of the University of Maine held W
the sale of gar in several of the Belfast
stores, then selling only in two pound
lots. He said about eight hundred stores
in Maine would not be able to handle
sugar in any form until the release order
/; was received from headquarters.
! George H. Robertson has resigned as
clerk in the Owen Clothing store and has
opened job printing plant in Hayford
/ block next the Central Market and OPP
posite the Locke store. This is simply
! charging the plant he has been conduct
/ ing for several years at his home. He
| will also continue his picture post card
! business and has fine dark room fitted
up with every convenience. He will do
| developing for amateur photographers.
/ Maine has been called upon to complete
| the entrainment for Boston of 255 men
! who have had at least a Grammar school
education or its equivalent and who have
some aptitude for mechanical work, to
report to commanding officers at Went
worth Institute on August 18th for in
oh oil IN
mechanics &blacksmiths, carpenters, cleo
tricjans, gas engine men and gunsmiths. J"
No instruction has been received in regard
to city or county
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Howes of this
city received letter Monday from their
son, Allen Moody Howes, who enlisted
four months ago in the aviation service,
saying that he had been commissioned
Sergeant, and is in the balloon section of
the service under Col. Hersey, now at
Fort Omaha, Neb. This branch of the
service is the most interesting, and in his
recent commission young Howes has
sixty men in his command. He is deeply
interested in the work and is anxious to
60 to France.
NORTH BELFAST. The epidemic of
humps and measles is somewhat subsid-
ing. The family of Mr.. Winifred Lufkin
has been confined with both diseases, but
most of the children are now out. There
are few other cases at present.. Mrs.
Relief Brier and family are again occu-
plying their summer homes here.... Mrs.
Arthur Coombs has been on the sick list
but is recovering.....So far it has been
impossible to hold but one evening ser
vice on account of the storms which
evening it was again necessary to post
pone the Travel Talk, "The Smallest
Among the Allies" to next Sunday even
ing. Since the church is only open for a
short time during the summer, should it
not be for the pleasure and profit of all,
to stand by those services thus helping
enthusiasm by numbers.
POOR'S MILLS. Some of the. farmers
began haying in this vicinity this week.
.Joseph Hall of Natick, Mass, has been
a recent guest of his sister, Mrs. M. o.
Wilson. :. Mrs. Arthur johnson and son of
Brockton, Mass, are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Stillman Flood. Il Mrs. Luella Brown,
who is recovering from typhoid fever,
wishes to thank her neighbors and friends
for the postcard shower sent her, also
for flowers and dainties. ..... Miss Marian
Brown of Massachusetts,, nurse in train
ing, has returned to her duties after caring
for her mother the past three weeks.
Mr., and Mrs. Maurice Wood have moved
into j. F. Sheldon's house for the sum =
mer. IN. o. Wilson has sold his farm to
party in Clinton. They will remain on
the place until fall. Mr.. and Mrs Volney
Thompson and son of Montville were
callers at Mrs. Luella Browns one day
last week.. Newton Strong of Boston,
Mass, is at Henry Wentworth's for the
summer.