The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1920-06-24

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: Miss Mildred Thomas, B. H. S. 20, has
taken a position in the office of Hall &
wilkins, Main street.
Mrs. Eleanor N. Winship of Wakefield,
Mass, and party arrived Friday morning
from Boston and will occupy the Harri-
man cottage at Shore Acres for the sum-
mer season.
Herbert H., the little son, of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert H. Stevens, recently I'M
derwent a successful operation for the
removal of tonsils and adenoids at the
Tapley Hospital.
The Dickey-Knowlton Real Estate Co.
have rented for DR.. Percy Warren of
Bangor his cottage at Northport to Mr..
E. N. Eames of the Boston Lumber Co.
of Boston, Mass, for the season.
Belfast friends of the bride will be in
terested in the following: In Milbridge,
June S, at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Leroy W. Strout, by DR.. Davis, Fred c.
Avery and Miss Myra Hayford Sawyer,
both of Skowhegan.
The week of 'longest days of the year"
is with us, having begun last Friday.
Friday will be one minute shorter in day
light The days have had total increase
of hours and Al minutes, the length now
being Is hours and 81 minutes.
The Dickey-K nowlton Real Estate Co.
have sold for Mrs Blanche Hayter Treat
of Boston, a large section of land near
Birchcrest in Northport to Louis X. Hirsh
of Akron, Ohio. Hon. Peter j. Mcclure
of Boston was in this city on Saturday in
connection with the deal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph A. Peavey are
moving their household goods from Dali
las, Texas, to their new summer home at
South Shore, Northport, and have sold
their former residence. They have named
their Northport home Loeb Haven. Mrs.
M. A. Peavey, Mr.. and Mrs. D. A. Nc
Lehman have also decided to locate North.
They are at present at The Waquoit
The following members of Emma White
Barker Tent, D. of ", were recently
elected to office at the annual meeting in
Augusta: Mrs. Myra Scribner Dutch, de-
partment inspector; Mrs. Ethel Mosman
Pettee, departing nt musician; Mrs. Annie
Hobbs Jellison, second delegate to the
national convention to be held in Atlantic
City. N. J., in September
| The San Jose, Calf, Mercury Herald
of June 10th publishes handsome photo
of former Searsport girl and says:
CDR. Rubie Mae Durgin of Berkeley,
laughter of DR.. and Mrs. E. H. Durgin of
Cupertino, will shortly make tour of
the Hawaiian Islands, sailing on the
steamship "Wilhelmina." On her return
she will be accompanied by her sister,
DR.. Eva Missner. who with her husband,
DR.. Frank R. Missner, are practicing
physicians on the island of Mani. DR..
Eva Missner will visit her parents and
her numerous friends during her stay
Both ladies are graduates of Stamford
Medical College"
THE COMMUNITY CHAUTAUoUA. The
worth while program of the Commu-
nifty Chautauqua opens Wednesday, July
21st, and closes July 25th. The lecture
by former visitor in Belfast, man of
high standing in the nation and good
influence in his home city, Newark, N
j., is the first lecturer-Dr. Alexander
Cairns. DR.. Cairns will give US live, up
to- the minute discourse, "The Goose That
Lays the Golden Eggs" lecture which
is full of vigor and life, and brilliant with |
humor and thought. The general feeling
of an audience after hearing DR.. Cairns is
that they have met a worthy man and
heard worthy lecture on subject of
great value.
FLOWER THIEVES. For several years
there has been more or less flower steal
ing from private gardens and also from
the cemeteries in and around Belfast
Recently three young girls were caught |
taking flowers from one of the most at
tractive gardens on Church street; where
the owners have paid as high as S12 to
have their special floral pets protected,
and were recently fortunate in catching
these three, whose parents wished to
settle rather than have them taken be-
fore Judge Chapman. While guilty these
girls are not the only ones who take
flowers and destroy plants. The Chenery |
gardens have been practically destroyed
and many cemetery lots despoiIed after
relatives have done their best to make
them attractive.
About 95 members of Company F, Third
Maine Infantry, under Capt. Albert E.
Andrews and Lieuts. Basil R. Allen and
John E. Wright, left Saturday morning
by train en- route for a soiourn at Camp
Devens. They will return home via
Portland, where they will take part in
the Fourth of July parade One of their
number, Arthur Barnes, is at the Waldo
County Hospital with compound frac-
ture of the right fore arm, the result of
an accident at the Armory Saturday
morning, when Charles Merrithew mis-
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