The Republican journal., 1918-11-21
The News of Belfast

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Mrs. Nina D. Cook went to Rockland
yesterday to inspect Camp Anderson, S.
of ", Auxiliary. She was accompanied
by her husband, Miss Bessie Hubbard
and Harold Robbins.
Belfast Commandery United Order of
the Golden Cross, will have meeting
this, Thursday, evening, when there will
be special business. All members are
urged to attend.
DR. Elmer Small has been confined to
his home the past week with genuine
ease of influenza. He attended hundreds,
of cases during the epidemic and his own
is one of the last to be reported. He is
improving.
A Red Cross benefit party will be held
at the home of Mrs. David Herrick, lower
Congress street, next Saturday evening.
A short program will be followed by box
supper, when coffee will be served to all
bringing their own sugar.
George H. Salisbury, corporal of Co.
F. of this city, has severed his connection
with the Third Maine Infantry and locat-
ed in Lewiston, where he has employ
ment and has Joined Co. 1. of that city.
Mrs. Salisbury will later in the season
Join him in Lewiston.
Mrs. E. S. Pitcher, chairman of the
music committee, has received notice
from Mrs. Myrtle White, president of the
Maine Federation of Women's Clubs, say
ing that the State meeting is again post
poned from Dec. 3rd and 4th to Dec. 10th
and 18th at the Augusta House, Augusta.
Invitations from Company F. Third
Maine Infantry of this city, have been
accepted by the Naval Reserves at Rock
land and the Military Detachment at
Standpoint to attend the first military
ball to be given by the local Company in
this city on Thanksgiving night. 1t is
expected that both commands will send
liberal delegations for the occasion.
Collectors of war posters who wish
specimens used in the United War Work
Campaign, as we'll as in other war cam
paigns and government activities like
the food administration, can obtain them
by making application to Capt. Orrin J..
Dickey of the Publicity Department.
These posters, familiar to all at this time,
will in the future become valuable
souvenirs.
The Dick ey-Knowlton Real Estate Co
are again offering for sale the C. M. Hall
farm in East Belfast, which they sold last
season to Bucksport parties. This place
was owned by the Abbott brothers, who
only few weeks following its purchase
and within week of each other commit
ted suicide in Bucksport. 1t was most
remarkable case as both were in apparent
good health and had many plans for a
long and happy life on their East Side
farm.
Capt. Orrin j. Dickey and Lieuts.
Roswell l. Hammons and Basil r. Allen
of Company F., were in Bangor for the
week -end at the Bangor House, where
they were in attendance at the Officers
Training School, 1t is not expected that
there will be any material change in the
status of Company F., with the close OF
the war as the men are enlisted for a
| term of six years, and there will not be a
/ close of duty with them as in the case of
the men in service enlisted for the term
of the war alone.
A Hartford, Conn, exchange has the
following item of interest in regard to a
vel and favorably known summer resi-
dent of Belfast: "Warren A. Gentner, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Gentner OF
No. 26 Hopkins street, recently received
a commission as second lieutenant, engi-
neers, United States Army. Lieut.. Gent
ner is a graduate of the Hartford public
Hiqh school and later studied civil engi-
neerine at this Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology, where he graduated in 1913.
For several years he was employed in the
engineering department of the board oil
water commissioners on the Nepaug res
ervoir project. In October, 1917, Lieut.
Centner was drafted and sent to CAM
Devens. A few days before the Seventy
sixth Division left for overseas service he
was transferred to the engineering offic.
ers' training school from which he had
inst been graduated and was assigned tt
duty at Camp Humphreys, Virginia"
Frederick Smith of Portland, connect.
ed with the service club room branch oi
the War Camp Community Work, was il
Belfast last Thursday the guest of the
committee at the local club room.
social evening was spent when men from
the coast patrol, from the Sandypoin
shipyard, from the Exemption Board Of
4 flee force and from Co. F. of the Thirt
Maine were present. Mrs. Clarence E
Read presided at the piano, vocal solo
and duets were rendered by Miss Rather
inc E. Brier and Charles F. Hammons
popular war songs, ETC., were sung by ;
I chorus. Coffee, doughnuts, cheese ant
saltines were served by the hospitalit!