The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-03-27

next saturday at the Wells, Ferguson.
Brier, Coombs and Wyllie parlors.
Charles B. Merithew, Charles Mahonev
and Bert Harvey have been appointed
first class privates of Co. F. by Cant
Grin j. Dickey.
Malcolm Mcleod of Dark Harbor was
in Belfast Tuesday for X-Ray treatment
at the office of DR.. Carl H. Stevens. He
had injured his right wrist in crankinp
his motor boat, and feared a bone had
been fractured, but only dislocaton was
revealed by the treatment.
Private Lloyd Dyer of Co. F this civ
has gone to Islesboro for the summer and
received a furlough from the COMPANY
during his absence. Private William Me-
loon of the Company is employed in Fair
field, where he is connected with the
Central Maine Sanitarium.
Charles w. Lancaster is financially in
terested in the Emerson Laundry in the
Lancaster store on Main street and is in
stalllng up-to-date power machinery.
which was recently bought of Castine
parties, who had used it only ten weeks.
Electrical power will be used Mrs E,
II. Emerson, who started the laundry. is
an expert at hand work in this business,
Miss Clarabel Marsh, manager of the
local Office of the Western Union, has
resigned, to take effect the last of this
month. She will be succeeded by Miss
Florence M. Brown of this city, now in
charge of the office at the R. R. station
IN Unity. Miss Brown was a student of
Miss Marsh in the Belfast office and is
well qualified to deal with the general
public.
Through the efforts of the Board of
Trade it is hoped to retain in Belfast the
manufacturing plant of Pierce Billings.
The firm will furnish the machinery al
ready installed here and $40, 900 in capital;
1000 for present needs and the remain
der later. Citizens of Belfast will loan
them $40, 600 They have no contracts at
present but hope to receive one when
business conditions become normal
At Mayor Wescott's banquet last Mon
day evening Councilman Bert L. Davis
did a most commendable thing in Offering
to pledge $500 for the subscription for
new building on SChoohouse Common,
Who will give 81, 900 and have the privi-
lege of naming the building. The PIERCE
school bears the name of the family maxi
ing this beautiful building possible and
the Mcclellan school has taken the name
of the former owners of the residence,
now most comfortable and well located
school house.
The officers of Thomas H Marshall
Post, G. A. R, have placed their Me-
mortal Day plans in the hands of Captain
Orrln j, Dlckey again this year, as has
been the custom for a number of years.
and he will arrange the program. This
will be year when many more homes
will have occasion to remember and OBJ
serve the day, it being the first Memorial
Day after the close of the war, and it is
intended that it should be one of the best
Captain Dickey has already begun the ar
ranging of the program. Memorial ser
vices will be held in the Armory and
Rev. William Vaughan of East Belfast
will be the orator of the day
William L. Cook of this city has bought
the Frank Nye undertaking business and
will personally conduct it. Mr.. Cook came
here when young man from Unity and
learned the undertaking business with j.
C. Thompson & Son. Later he went to
Neihart, Mont, where he continued it for
some time. For few years he travelled
for drug company in Billings, Mont.
He has been at his home in this CITY sew
eral months, and will leave the last of
this week for trip to New York in the
interest of his new business
The Blue Birds gave a party to their
mothers IN the vestry of the First Parish
church last Saturday afternoon They
presented three little plays the first being
"The Birthday Candles" the teaching of
which was that the pleasures of fairyland
| lie all about US if we will but train our
eyes to see them. In this, Priscilla Thav-
er was the child who was celebrating her
9th birthday. Dorothy Thayer and Doris
Wilson arIayed in genuine oldfashioned
gowns, were the great aunts whom she
was visiting and the fairies of the candles
were Ora and Hildegarde Rogers, Char
lotte Decrow, Alice Coombs, Thelma
Dexter and Elana Shute The second
play was written by Mrs Wilson and
published IN The Ladies' Home Journal,
the title being ''The Moss Elves and the
Wood Cutters - This taught the lesson
of the reward of kindness. The wood
cutter was Doris David, his wife, Char
lotte Jones, and the elves, Jack David
and Sybil Jones. In the last play, "Blue
Birds at Home" all the club took part,
presenting Mary Pickford Ferne Lime
kim and Marguerite Clarke MARY Spear
as guests of honor, entertaining them
with songs, folk dances and games.
Punch and cookies were then served
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