The Republican journal., 1918-09-05

The W. C. T. U. will meet Friday af-
ternoon with Mrs Annie NJ Frost for a
porch party. A picnic lunch will be
served.
The September meeting of the Wom-
ans Club will be held at the home of the
president, Mrs. James S. Hartman,
Monday evening at T. 80 o'clock.
Mrs Charles Bradbury, chairman of
the Waldo County Woman's Liberty
Loan committee, has called meeting of
the town chairmen and their publicity
charmen to be held in the Municipal
, Court room in the city building tomor-
row, Friday. Mrs. Grace A Wing of
Auburn, the State executive chairman,
will be present to give instruction in re-
gard to the work of the coming cam
paign. She is in Rockland, today,
Thursday Mrs. Bradbury also plans to
have party present to give financial
outline of what will be required of the
committee.
The 44th annual convention of the
Maine Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will be held in Rockland Oct. g.
II in Pratt Memorial M. E. church.
Miss Gordon, president of the National
w. C. T. u, will be present and speak
one evening. VIM. Jennings Bryan,
president of the Dry Federation of
America, will speak Friday evening.
Chairman of entertainment committee
is Mrs Beulah S. OXton. Voting men,
bers of conventions are State general
officers county presidents, State Supts.
and secretaries of Y. P. B. and L. I. L.;
secretary and treasurer of county unions,
editor of "Star in the East" the presi-
dent of each local union and one dele
gate at large, with one delegate for each
% paying members Of the local uni ons,
also one delegate for each so paying
members of the L. T. LIE. F. NJ
Mrs. Ella F. Mowry and daughter, Mrs.
". L
from Portland They were with Mrs. M.
F. Peavey and Miss Evelyn L. Peavey
when the latter's car was completely
wrecked while on their way home from
few days visit in Harpswell. Miss
Peavey was driving, after the rain last
Thursday, without chains on the State
road about miles this side of Portland
when her car turned turtle and pinned all
four under it. Mrs. Mowry's face was
cut and her teeth injured. Mrs. Pattee's
arm and shoulder were strained and Mrs.
Peavey was bruised, but not otherwise
injured. Ralph A. Peavey who went to
Portland on receipt of the news tele-
phoned Tuesday that his sisters back
was injured and that she was not able to
leave the Maine General Hospital and
that he and his mother would remain
with her until she was able to return to
their East Belfast home. Mr.. Peavey
says they were all very fortunate not to
have met with more serious injuries as
the accident was very bad enc.
FIRES. The. buildings of Edward Little
field, formerly the Andrew A. Drury
place, on the Robbins road near Belmont
avenue, were totally destroyed by fire
last Saturday afternoon. The fire caught
in the barn and the roof was ablaze when
discovered Most of their furniture, sup
ply of wood in the yard and hen pens not
connected with the barn were saved. A
call for the fire chief-two blasts-was
sounded at 2.40 p. m. and "a number of
firemen at once responded. Both hose
carriages and the steamer started, but
were stopped at the Trotting Park as it
was found useless to have them 60 farther.
The farm buildings of Herbert Clark, just
| across the street from the Littlefield
residence, caught but was easily handled
by the firemen. The buildings burned
were fine set and in good repair, having
been recently painted. They were in
sured but not to their full value. Mr.
Littlefield and family are at present living
with Mr.. Fred Clark. An alarm was
rung in at a. m. Wednesday, from box
Is for fire in the double tenement house
at the corner of High and Pearl streets
owned by the estate of the late Lewis A
Knowlton and Sylvanus G. Cottrell. Mr.
Cottrell was occupying his tenement ant
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Nash the other
The fire started in the ell of the Cottrel
side and destroyed the house and barn t.
the extent of 1900 or $1,000. All tn
furniture in both sides were saved.