The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-09-26


hands another 10 per cent war honus
This is the second time this firm has vol.
UNFAIRLY raised the wages of their EN-.
ployes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy E. Copeland will
move here from Albion, where they have
been living a number of years. Mr..
Copeland will succeed E. S. Pitcher as
piano tuner and will occupy a part of the
store with Samuel Adams.
Edward Flarity, cook on the coast pa
troll boat on duty in this vicinity was
taken ill last Thursday evening and car
ried to the Waldo County Hospital, where
he remained several days for medical
treatment.
At the inquest held on the recent fire,
which destroyed the house and barn of E.
E. Littlefield on the Belmont Road the
estimated value was given as So, 500; es-
timated damage, total; insurance, 81, 900;
estimated value of contents, s., 1000; esti-
mated damage to contents, $1,000; insur-
ance, $780, Cause of fire unknown.
Lieutenant Commander w. R. A.
Rooney, U. S. N, by direction of the
Navy Department, will be at the Uni
versity of Maine, Orono, Maine, to enroll
on October 1st, 1918, students subject to
draft desiring to enroll, not exceeding
fifty $50 students. These men must be
indicted by Draft Boards concerned.
KEEP BUYING w. S. S. Searsmont
has completed it's quota in w. S. S.
through the splendid work of Fred E.
Miller, a former Belfast boy This
makes the goth town to raise the amount
required by tn I'm and leaves Belfast, Bel
mont, Searsport, Liberty, Palermo and
Northport with work to do before they
can enter the honor list
The local Red Cross society has receiv-
ed instructions from the conservation de-
partment asking all to save the following
articles, which can be made use of in the
manufacture of carbon used in gas masks:
peach stones, apricot, prune, plums, olive
and cherry pits, date seeds, Brazilian,
walnut, English or native), hickory and
butternut shells. All should be carefully
dried and saved and sent to the Library,
where Miss Annie L. Barr is the official
chairman.
Questionnaires have been sent out from
the local Exemption Board at the rate of
100 day to men between the ages of 10
and Sc, inclusive, according to their Sc
rial numbers. A call was received
Thursday for five limited service men to
60 to Fort Slocum, the exact date to be
announced later. Daniel Kirschbaum
has been sent here from Camp Devens to
assist the local board, in accordance with
the new plan of having a man from the
service, who is a stenographer, to assist.
SOUTH BELFAST. Miss Eulalia Green
law, who has been spending the summer
in Ipswich, Mass, is guest of her moth
er, Mrs. Abbie Greenlaw, in Northport.....
Miss Alice Robbins of the city has been
visiting with Mrs. A. w. Roberts, the
past week. ..... Mr.. and Mrs F. E. Curtis,
and family of Northport were Sunday
guests of Mrs. Curtis mother, Mrs. Annie
Monroe, in Belfast. Mr.. Walter Clark
of Moody Mountain was guest of his
sister Mrs. Geo. Curtis, Tuesday, Sept.
18th. -. Mrs. Annie Anterior and two
children of Lowell, Mass, who have been
guests for the past two weeks of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. W. Roberts, have returned to
their home.
The remains of William Culligan, who
dir at the Waldo County Hospital Sept.
10th, were shipped last Friday to his home
at 1872 South Park avenue, Buffalo, N. Y.
He was the son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Culligan of that city. Rev. FIR. Timothy
j. O'Mahoney of the St. Francis Catholic
church was called to see him at the hos
pital and the young man died during the
service. He was serving as fireman on
the steamer Lake Pearl at Searsport,
when he was taken ill with pneumonia.
Last Thursday his Identification papers,
photos, etc., were found in his coat
pockets. Mr. Charles R. Coombs re-
ceived instructions for shipping the re-
mains, etc., from the young mans father.
He was "a years and II months
INFLUENZA OR GRIP. There are a
number of cases of influenza reported in
Belfast and vicinity. DR.. T.. N. Pearson
of Morrill,, who has an extensive country
practice, Is reported to have 800 cases.
DR.. Foster C. Small has one family in
Swanville ill with what he considers the
genuine influenza and thinks it was con-
tracted from letters received from Camp
Devens. DR.. Elmer Small, who has had
years of experience with the disease, says
that he considers the local cases simply
another form of the old grip that has
been epidemic. the
Waldo County boys reported ill or recov-
ering at Camp Devens are Charles Mar
sano, William Dickey, j. Elliott Clement
of Belfast, Stanley Gray, Vesper Maho-
ney and Fred Dickey of Lincolnville..
Mrs. Mabel Crockett of this city was
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