The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-01-30

The H. H. class of the Baptist Sunday
school with their teacher, George H. Rob-
ertson, will give sociable in the church
vestry, Tuesday evening, Feb. 4th. Stere-
opticon pictures of their trip to Mt.
| Katahdin last summer, views of the big
dam and other pictures of interest will
be shown. The entertainment will begin
at 7.30 and will be followed by social
time. Candy will be on sale.
The first steamboat service between
Camden and Belfast in several months
was opened Monday and is greatly ap-
preciated by the travelling public The
steamer Gov. Douglass, Captain W. D.
Bennett, will leave Camden daily at 10
a. m. for Belfast, carrying freight and
passengers. She is due in Belfast at 12
O'Clock and on her return to Camden will
leave at one O'Clock, arriving there at
p. m.
| Roy E. Young, local manager of the
Direct Importing Company in the Chase
! block, Main street, has been succeeded
by Mrs Young, who will remain while
| he is absent as engineer of the new
schooner Jennie Flood Kreger, soon to
be launched from the Frost shipyard in
| this city. Mr.. Young is now on the YES
sci in charge of the engine which is being
used for stepping the masts, putting the
Il in nj OF Ha h ~, r
the maiden voyage of the schooner either
to the Mediterranean coast or to South
America, Fred Black, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Martin Black of Northport, has
shipped as second mate with Captain
Kreger.
After lapse of nearly four weeks, Mrs
Henry W. Collins received two letters
last Saturday from her husband, Private
II. w. Collins, who saw seven months
service at the front with the Fifty-First
and Fifty Seventh Coast Artillery. The
letters were from Hyeres, U. S. Base
Hospital 80, American Pest Office 1872.
He left the base hospital at Nevins
January list on the Red Cross train
and after ride of three days and three
nights arrived at this beautiful city
in Southern France near the Italian
border. He writes that the Red Cross
has done everything possible for the
men in the service and also while
they were in camp and hospital. He
says he is now located in one of the best
hotels in France, now taken over as a
hospital. 1t is seven stories and the men
are given free access to all its convent
ences, to it's pool and billiard ia bles, etc.
They are given band concerts every night
and are supplied with an abundance of
excellent food from dining hall as large
as our Opera House at home. He had
Just finished a supper of roast beef,
mashed potatoes, bread and peaches.
The streets of the city are bordered with
palm trees and there are beautiful flow
ers growing wild which at home we see
only in the greenhouse, and there is an
abundance of fruit, particularly oranges.
The houses are the residences of the rich
French and are handsome The hospital
is supplied with the best of water which
is taken from a near by bill. The wealth
er there is like a Maine August and he
spends some of his time summing himself
on the grass near the tennis court. He
has travelled over the greater part of
Scotland, England and France. He ex-
poets to leave Hyeres in about SIX weeks
for Bordeaux to take transport to the
States. His regiment arrived home a
few weeks ago and he was detained in
France by illness. He now weighs about
$50 pounds but hopes soon to gain his
normal weight, as it seems good to be
living with sufficient food, etc., after
what he has endured at the front. He
said he recently climbed hill near the
city, on which was the oldest church in
France and from which he could look
across the Mediterranean Sea.