The Republican journal., 1918-03-07
The News of Belfast.

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House last Thursday afternoon to revise
the fee list to conform with those of 9TH
er counties in the State.
The Belfast Board of Registration will
be In session today, Thursday, and to-
morrow, Friday, from to and from 3
to and Thursday evening from to g.
They will also be in session election day,
Monday, March 11th
There were nearly 40 children present
at the Story Hour in the Peirce school
last Saturday afternoon. Miss Elizabeth
A. Kelley told them of Epaminondas and
His Aunt and Miss Louise Hazeltine read
them the Seven Swan story and told an
original story of dog at Camp Green
leaf, that has been keeping watch on
night duty with Henry Mudgett,a Belfast
man in training there. Mrs. Arthur E..
Wilson and Miss Grace A. Lord will en-
tertain the children next Saturday after
noon.
The D. Whiting & Sons Creamery Co.
are building an ice house, 2Ox40 feet, on
the vacant lot near the creamery at the
foot of Main street. They are filling it
from the T. S. Thompson ice pond and
from the Penobscot Bay Electric Com
pany's pond in East Belfast. Some of
the cakes are 81 inches thick and weigh
about 1, 100 pounds, requiring six men to
handle and store it. This Company is at
present paying the highest prices for
milk products in their experience and
have a large supply source
Mrs. Lizzie Gray Ellingwood of this
city was before Judge M. w. Lord of the
Municipal Court last Thursday to answer
! to three warrants for raising checks given
her for labor by the local Sardine Com
pany. The checks were cashed at the
Waldo Trust Company and the alleged
raising was discovered when they were
cancelled and returned. A check of ST. rs
is said to have been raised $40, one of
S792 and S5.41 were raised $40 EACH
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bakery Mrs. Ellingwood plead not guilty
and disclaim ed any knowledge of the
raising of these amounts. She was held
by Judge Lord under $500 bonds for the
April term of the Supreme Judicial Court
on each of the two charges for which she
was tried. Mr.. and Mrs. George w.
| bor for for bar
appearance before the Grand Jury.
Dexter 7. Clements is in charge of the
repairs and of the rebuilding of the second
story of the Coliseum building owned by
Charles w. Lancaster of Belfast and
Ralph L. Pitcher of Caribou. The i'm
provements in the Ward bowling alley
will include hard wood floor. A new
front will be placed in the store occupied
by the Home Furnishing Company and a
new steel ceiling will be added. The
Home Furnishing Company will occupy
the second story which is 16 feet high in
! the front and 10 feet in the rear and runs
the full length of the first floor This
will give the Company excellent display
space and storage room. The Home
| Furnishing Co. state they will be in a
customers wants within a week or ten
days. They have released their former
store and in addition will occupy the
entire second floor, part of which was
! H.
When their entire repairs have been
made they will have one of the most up
to-date house furnishing stores in the
State of Maine. Goods are arriving every
day from the foremost carpet and furni-
ture factories which they visited last
winter, and everything that will be shown
on their floors this spring will be the
very latest and most up-to- date. Their
grand opening date will be announced
! later.
Albert Gray of Brooksville lost his
Ford car last Thursday noon while re-
turning home with friend after making
the trip to Sunset, Deer Isle. They we're
off the Beaver lodges on the eastern shore
of Islesboro, when MIR. Gray attempted to
jump his car over a seam in the ice,
which he did but landed it on ice about an
inch thick. The car settled slowly being
at least ten minutes sinking. This gave
the men time to make fast rope to the
car, which finally sank in about 20 feet of
water. Friday volunteer crew assisted
Mr.. Gray in raising his car. Last Thurs
day Daniel M. Maher of Orono was here
to take negatives for moving pictures
of scenes on the ice on Belfast Bay,
which manager George C. Thompson will
arrange to have at the Colonial as soon
as they are on the market The pictures
were taken near the monument and bell
buoy and some of them will be at least
amusing. The ice boats were out, auto
lists and bicyclists, skaters and pedes-
trians were in evidence everywhere
Some were "prep red to pose," while
Others were out for sport only. The ice
breaker Favorite was in the lower bay
Monday coming up in the ice as far as
Temple Heights, but she gave up there
and went back down the bay She found