The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-04-18

LeiOy a. SOouiuS mas SOLO tine 0O-fOOt
power boat, which he built the past win
ter, to Nantucket, Mass, parties for fish,
ing purposes He is now building Spite
driver for E. P. Jordan of Brooksville.
The Sons of Veterans, with the other
allied G. A. r. bodies as guests, will give
an open meeting at the Knights of Pyth-
las hall next Monday evening They will
present a special program in honor of
Patriots Day.
Mr.. E. N Wiggin was taken seriously
i'll last Monday morning in B. D. Fields
store while on his way to breakfast. A
physician was called and Mr.. Wiggin
taken to his home, where he is gradually
improving.
This, Thursday, evening, the Junior
Alliance Camp Fire Girls will meet at
Helen Wescott's at Gas. The annual
election and monthly ceremonial will be
followed by an informal address on Life
in China" by Mr.. Richard Shaw.
Hon Robert F. Dunton, for years the
senior member of the law firm of Dunton
& Morse, who withdrew from the firm a
short time ago, has again returned to it.
Miss Margaret A. Dunton will continue
! as the new firms stenographer. The new
change dates from April list.
| The Belfast Company of the Third
Maine Regiment has a sufficient member
ship for its organization. 1t is probable
that the following, who are popular cam
ddates, will be elected Captain, Orrin
j. Dickey; first lieutenant, DR.. Ansel M.
Lothrop; second lieutenant, Roswell |.
Hammons.
Belfast friends of Charles Howard of
Gardiner, who formerly ran on the Bel
fast Burnham line as one of the mail
clerks and who is now training at Cornell
University, Ithaca, N. Y, to be an avia-
tor, will be sorry to learn that he is ill of
pneumonia. He was planning to 60 to
Texas for further training after finishing
at Cornell.
The last session of the story hour at
the Peirce school was held last Saturday
with Mrs. j. r. Dunton and Helen Brown
as story tellers. The former told How to
Find Happy Land and the latter told
the little ones who were very much inter-
ested of Jack and the Beanstalk and the
Gingerbread Man. These meetings have
been under the supervision of Miss Annie
L. Barr, librarian of the Free Library,
who has devoted one-half hour at each
session amusing the children with in
structive pictures, etc, and has also fire.
quently substituted for others who were
unable to attend.
At the regular meeting of the Boy
Scouts Tuesday evening there was larg-
er attendance than usual. Carroll Pottle,
Eugene Sholes and William Cook were
elected to membership The names of
Ralph Philbribk, Melvin Wood, Floyd
Winchester and Eben Mank were pre-
scented and referred to the investigating
committee Frank l. Wilson addressed
the organization on the matter of the
Thrift Stamps and it was voted to give a
part of Friday forenoon to the aid of the
Thrift Stamps and to have short street
parade and solicit from the houses over
which the line of march was made.
ADVERTISING PAYS. In another COL
umn of The journal is a report of the
commendable work the Board of Trade is
undertaking to keep some of the money
in Belfast and Waldo county that is 60
ing out to large mail order houses in
practically all lines of goods even gro
ceries, but principally in dry and fancy
goods. In this connection we clip from
The Journals report of one of the last
summer lectures and reprint it as of
special interest at this time:
James S. Knox of Cleveland, Ohio, a
business expert, spoke on Community
Efficiency" A rapid speaker, mag
netic personality, an open-eyed traveller
and student of humanity his every SEN
tence was full of thought and advice.
He complimented Maine for its rare
beauty and natural resources, but aimed
direct blow at its poor roads, which he
saw in every direction, and its wasted
water power, etc. To pick out thought
here and there from his wonderful col
lection of advice to the chamber of COM
merce, business men, farmers, the school
authorities, the churches and in fact all
phases of community life would be use
less Naturally we were interested in
his advice to the business men to use
their home papers as advertising medi-
ums He said if the mail order houses
continue to take advantage of the mer-
chants who fail to advertise in their
home paper some of them will be obliged
to close their stores. The mail order
houses are factor to be reckoned with
in every community and the only way
for local merchants of all kinds to coun-
teract their trade is to advertise at home
among the customers who can see the
goods before they buy.
The Coe- Mortimer Fertilizer Co. have
been rushing work for the past two
weeks to counterfeit the delay occasioned
by the ice blockade They are employ
ing about 100 and later will employ more
The Belfast friends of DR.. John Stew.
ems, who was located for a number o.
years in Belfast, where he has relatives
and where he married Miss Bessie Mar