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

mere Will be public whist party in
| Red Mems hall next Friday evening
Mrs. Clarence E. Frost is confined r.
her home on Cedar street with chicken
poX
About O'Clock Sunday evening a
false alarm was rung in from box 80 at
the corner of Bridge and PIERCE s+reetS
Inc lire department responded quickly as
II was bad night for a fire The off,
GERS are iookl ng for the guilty party and
1t is to be hoped that they will be sue
cessful. A fire alarm costs the c;tv
something besides the Inconvenience of
its tiremen.
| One OF the best basket ball games of
the season is looked for Saturday eveDino
when the basket ball team of the Bar
Harbor Radio Station at Otter Cliffs will
come to this city for a game with Co, F.
OF the Third Infantry at the Armorv The
game is sure to be one of the best of the
season and will be followed by dance.
Music will be furnished for the occasion
by the Bar Harbor Jazz Band of eight
pieces which has pleased so manv Banoor
audiences this winter. 1t is certain to be
game well worth seeing.
Mrs. Cecil Clay, city chairman of the
Woman's Liberty Loan Committee. has
appointed the following assistants for tine
Victory Loan the last week in April Mrs
Clay is ambitious that the CITY be cam
Vassed early In the drive as it was in the
last drive: Mrs. Fred Rackhff, Congress
street and Lincolnvile ave; Mrs. Arthur
Morse, Cedar and Salmond streets; Miss
Marion Frankel, Court and Elm streets:
Miss Sara Frankel, Lower High and Com
merclal streets; Miss Kate Warren, Church
street; Mrs. Warren Nichols, Northport
Ave; Mrs. Chas. E. Rhoades, Condon
Allyn and Race streets; Mrs Harry W.
Clark, Upper High street; Mrs Benz. P
Woods, Waldo Ave and Vine street: Mrs
Florence c. Fernald, Union, Harbor and
Bell streets; Mrs. Percy Weber, Bay
View street; Miss Katherine C. Ouimby,
Main street; Mrs. John Fogg, Charles and
Pearl streets; Mrs. Fred Poor Spring and
Franklin streets; Mrs. S. A. Parker, Grove
and Park streets; Mrs Ralph Ames, Miller
street; Mrs Ralph Guthrie, Bridge street
and River Ave; Mrs. Frank L. TowIe,
Shore road, Searsport; Mrs. Eta P. Saw
cry, back road, Searsport; Mrs Fred G.
Splnney, general solicitor.
THE MAYORS SUPPER. Mavor Glenn
ent w. Wescott gave dinner to members
OF the city government and other city
| o1ilclals at the Windsor hotel last Monday
evening. Landlord Edwin A. Jones furn-
ished delicious four course menu and
covers were laid for twenty A band
orchestra OF SIX pieces under the direc-
ton of Lloyd D. McKeen, violininst.
furnished program of popular and pa
trlotlc selections. Councilman Ralph H.
| Howes acted as POSTMASTER and kept the
program going in a bright and breezy
business mans manner Mayor Wescott
outlined what he hoped the present CITY
| government would do and after his con-
else and comprehensive manner spoke of
few of the leading problems confront
ing Belfast, the railroad, the Water Com
pany, new school building and local in
dustries, etc. Later T. S. Thompson spoke
on the road question; Walter G. Hatch on
the City Government; " A Simmons
nIlrp h acipn aI,t0 fr,n ClorL
| Charles S. Bckford on the schools; DR..
| w. l.. West on the care of the city poor
and the schools; B. L. Davis on the new
school building and accented his state
ments with pledge of $500 on a popular
subscription for building modern school
house on the common. Fire Chief Stephen
s. l.. Shute spoke on that department
| and he was followed by the POSTMASTER
who gave several examples illustrating
| our fire departments efficiency which
| most of our citizens realize, but do not
| fully appreciate unless in comparison with
| other less fortunate. Eynwood B. Thomp-
son also spoke on the school question.
Ex-Mayor Robert F. Dunton closed the
program with woods of commentator
| on the efficiency of the work of the past
years city government as an example of
cooperation without politics, but with
business men of both parties giving their
| city the best service possible. He also
congratulated the city that the same men
| were IN office for the coming municipal
year. He closed his most interesting
| speech with references to the League of
J Nations.