The Republican journal., 1919-07-10

Monday to attend the meeting of the
State Superintendent Conference.
Weather permitting, the w. G. T. U.
will have piazza party on Friday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Annie M
Frost Light refreshments will be served.
Two swarms of bees have taken up
their abode at the Court House and who
ever gets their honey will pay a high
price for it in labor. One swarm arrived
there June 9Th and the other few DAVIS
ago.
Belfast relatives have received news of
the arrival of son to Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Seymour Gray of Providence, R. l..
William Seymour, Jr. Mrs. Gray was
formerly Miss Natalie Maude Pottle of
Belfast.
Mrs. Caroline W. Luce of this city has
a parlor rose which has grown 6 feet
since January last, having now is BIOS
SONS and during the last five months has
had g. The health and bloom of this
which will be put on the market in the
near future.
City Marshal M. R. Knowlton recently
brought to this office a medal about the
size of a silver half dollar. 1t is six
pointed star within circle and bears the
name of ''Carl Tornsten, Portland, Ore
gon, 1918" 1t was found in the pocket
of coat picked up in the street in this
city, evidently lost by stranger
Supt. E. E. Roderick is chairman of the
Junior Chautauqua committee and wish IS
all interested to call on him at the city
building. He has the badges, banks,
pledges, ETC., at his office ready for dis
tribution and will explain all about the
games and entertainments of this branch
of the leading event of this season.
; to their former home in Madison. They
were very pleasantly situated here, the
doctor having an office on Main street,
and their home was in the c. F. Thomp-
son house on Cedar street. Personal let
tiers came frequently from their former
home in Madison urging them to return.
The United States Treasury Dept, in
appreciation of the efficient service rem
dered in all the Liberty Loan Campaigns,
has presented W. j. Clifford with medal.
In all Red Cross, Y, M. C. A, and other
l.; ho6iac Mr. (TEfForJ
of his poster advertising space and has
many letters of commentator from the
chairmen of the various committees
Mrs P. D. II. Garter announces the
engagement of her daughter, Miss Edna
Virginia Curtis and Herbert Lord Rack
life Of Savannah, Ga, formerly of Old
Town. The wedding will take place in
the fall. Miss Curtis has been student
nurse for the past year and half at the
Eastern Maine General Hospital, Bangor,
but has arrived home to prepare for her
wedding She is graduate Of the B. H.
S. III
The dancing carnival, under the direc-
ton of Thompson & WEIGH, in the Odd
Fellows hall last Wednesday evening
was SO successful and so well attended
that it will be repeated later. Donald
Thompson is the son Of the late VIM P.
Thompson and well known here, his for
mer home The Jazz band was a novelty
and the best of dance music. The piar-
ist distinguished himself as an acrobat as
we'll as a musician.
Friends of Lieut.. Harry NJ Woods,
who left Belfast with the Waldo County
draft in September, 1917, will be pleased
to learn that he has received his release
from service and has again been elected
as principal of Freedom Academy. Mr..
Woods former successful record, coupled
, with the broadening and development of
his army experience, point to continu.
) ance and increase of the former success
of the Academy under his direction.
MIR s. A. Littlefeld of SebastopoI,
Calf, in a personal note % The journal,
mentions the fact that he misses his ole
friends and many relatives in w aldo
County and also says he wi observe his
81st birthday, July 28th. We suggest
: that he be given post card shower with
real Maine messages. His box number is
263 and cards must leave here July 21st
: Mr.. Littlefield has taught AZ terms of
school in Waldo Comfy and has been
member of the Monroe and Belfast Grand
Army Posts. He has also been active in
other lines of business
In tie clean up campaign in the CITY,
nothing meets with more approval than
the improvements made on High street
in front of the poster boards owned by
, The Belfast Bill Posting Co. The ground
has been neatly graded and flower beds
made, park benches painted to cores
pond to the mouldings on the poster
boards, have been placed for he conven-
: fence of visitors while waiting for the
transportation cars. Work was done
under the direction of W. J. Clifford