The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-12-12
The News of Belfast

Give War Savings Stamps this Christmas
Our Searsport items have failed to
reach us this week.
James B. Staples, who trained at Went
worth Institute, Boston, and has been at
Fort Standish, has returned home.
Mathews mill began work last Monday
after being shut down for number of
days Oh account of an accident to the
engine.
Thos. H. Marshall Post, G. A. R., will
hold their annual election of officers Mon
day, Dec. 10th. All members are request
ed to be present.
Sylvanus Edgecomb and Harold Ladd
arrived home last Friday from Camp
Upton, N. Y, where they have been in
special service
The Emma White Barker Tent, D. of
", have postponed their next meeting
to Dec. 18th on account of illness among
their members.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Robertson
have moved from Alto street to the M.
r. Knowlton house on High street, in the
tenement recently vacated by Mr.. and
Mrs. C. E. White.
Miss Mona E. Burgess, The Journals
East Belfast correspondent, has been ill
the past week with mild case of influ-
enza. She was taken i'll in school and
was obliged to ride home.
Miss Grace Mitchell, one of the operas
tors at the local telephone Office, will
leave soon for Detroit, Mich, where she
will take course to become registered
nurse at the Grace Hospital, Woodward
avenue.
Monday was a beautiful winter day
with clear skies, bright sunshine and a
blanket of soft, flaky snow covering the
earth, leafess branches of trees and
shrubs. 1t was the first of the kind De-
cember of 1918 has given US.
Although the State and several of the
County Public Safety rooms have been
closed, the Waldo county room under the
direction of it's most able chairman, O.
E. Frost, will be continued until some of
the pledges soon due on the war drive
have been collected, etc.
Sheriff Frank A. Cushman has been
entertaining at the w. c. j. the past
week "two travelling men and horse
dealer" All are pressed into the regular
service, but the latter will probably leave
early next month for an enforced visit
in Thomaston.
Mr., and Mrs. Franklin Warren have
moved into the Frye Block for the winter
and the agents, the Dickey-K
Real Estate Co., have also rented one
tenement to MIR. and Mrs. Herbert Elwell
The Clark house on Allyn street has been
let to Benjamin Boynton and family who
have moved here from Camden.
The Chautauqua Circle will hold the
next meeting with Mrs. c. A. Hubbard,
Park street, Monday afternoon, Decem-
Der 10th. Reading topic from the C. l..
S. C. book, "The Canadian Common
wealth" chapters seventeen and eighteen.
Roll call, Current events. All members
are requested to be present.
The Hospital Club wish to thank all
individuals for the gifts given to the hos
pital Donation Week. Especial thanks
is extended NJ W. Welch for material
and work in finishing floors, to H. j.
Locke &. Son for knives and forks, to
James H. Howes for towels and to John
A. Fogg and H. L. Whitten Co. for sup
plies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bradbury F. Gushing left
Boston recently to spend the winter in
Florida. A personal letter under date of
Dec 4th by Mrs Gushing says that they
were at Jacksonville after most COM
Portable trip, expected to spend the night
at Lakeland, and reach their destination
Useppa Island at noon Dec. 5th. This
beautiful winter resort is just below
Tampa, has never known frost, has ex-
cellent fishing, a wonderful climate,
grape fruit the best in the world. Mr..
Gushing has leased Tarpon Inn, where
they will make their home.
Thomas H. Marshall Circle has elected
officers for the ensuing year as follows:
President, Rose Fairbrother; senior vice
president, Hannah Wilson; junior vice
president, Mary Collins; treasurer, Ida
Mahoney; chaplain, Eta Smith; conduc-
tor, Minnie Shaw; guardian, Susan Pat
terson; delegates to the convention, Net
tie White, Minnie Shaw. George Juan,
Eta Smith, Susan Patterson, Ida Ma
honey, Mary Collins; alternates, Alice
Cannon, Hannah Wilson, Orissa Wing,
Frances Murch. Three more alJernates
will be appointed at the next meeting.
NORTH BELFAST. Word has been re-
ceived from Everett S. Hatch, son of Mr..
and Mrs w. G. Hatch, who is located in
Camp Meade, Md, that he has been pro-
NOTED to sergeant. Sergt. Hatch is a
graduate of the Eastern Radio Institute,
Boston. Last July he enlisted in the