The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1920-01-22

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Rev. Harry H Upton of Springvale
arrived Tuesday to join his wife and lit
tie daughter, who are visiting relatives
The North Church Guild will meet
next Monday evening with Mrs. Hattie
Hamilton, Franklin street. Miss Carrie
Newcomb and Mrs. Freda Follett will be
assistant hostesses.
The Travellers Club will meet next
Tuesday afternoon at 230 o'clock with
Mrs. C. S. Bickford. The program will
be: paper, The City Of Brotherly Love,
Miss Hopkins; reading, William Penn,
Maude E. Mathews; reading, Moravian
Customs at Bethlehem, Mrs. Clement.
Fire was discovered early Wednesday
morning in the L. L. Rogers blacksmith
shop on Beaver street. 1t had evidently
been burning some little time, but the
firemen controlled it by cutting several
holes in the floor. The damage was very
slight, considering the location of the
fire in the double floor.
Capt. Albert E. Andrews of this city
has received his comm isslOn to sue
coed Capt. Ross l. Hammons, who re-
Gently resigned from Co. F. of the Third
Maine Regiment. Capt. Andrews has
had experience in military tactics in
home service and also over seas and has
fine record in both
The first real sleighing of the season
arrived with the snow storm of last Sat
urday, when about eight inches of snow
fell. There have been several snow fur
ries since. Jan. 18th the thermometer
registered Is above. Jan. 18th, 5 above,
and Jan. 10Th fell to IA below zero. Jan.
goth it was 10 below. Jan. 21st it was Is
above and a foot of snow fell.
BELFAST FIRE RECORDS. In the Bel
fast Free Library may be found an inter-
esting collection of old record books Civ
ing the history of Belfast Fire Com
panies. Three bound volumes and two
pamphlets cover the years 1921 to 1857
for the history of the Belfast Fire En-
CINE Co. Last week l. NJ. Cottrell of
East Boston, formerly of Belfast, pre-
scented to the Library the records of the
Washington Hose Co. No. from 1865 to
May 4, 1886, when the company disband-
ed. Albert C. Burgess was the first clerk
of the company, elected in Dec. 1865. l.
T. Clough was the last to hold that Of
flee and was elected in Jan. 1885. The
books contain records of every fire that
occurred, of all meetings, balls and all
events of interest to the company. 1t
frequently mentions Fire Co. No. 2, its
rival If the records of No. are in ex-
istence they would make valuable adj
dition to these documents of local his
tory.
The reception at the North Church
Tuesday evening to meet their new pas
tor and his wife, Rev. and Mrs. Albert C.
lliott, was very largely attended and
most social function. In the receiving
line were the guests of honor, and the
deacons and their wives, Mr.. and Mrs.
M. C. Hill, DR.. and Mrs. Adelbert Mil
lett, Mrs. C. o. Poor of the Circle and
Mrs. Herbert L. Seekins of the Guild
Thomas E. and Harry E. Bowker> and
Dean Knowlton ushered. The guests in
cluded the local clergy and their wives
with the exception of Rev. and Mrs. C.
w. Martin, who responded by letter.
Music was furnished by Mrs. T. E. Bow
ker, Mrs. E. P. Frost, Mrs. Basil r. AL
len and Mrs. M. O. Dickey, and also by a
Victrola loaned by VIM. L. Luce. Re-
freshments were served by Mrs. j. W.
Jones, Mrs. z. D. Hartshorn and Mrs. H.
B. Young with the Minnetoska Club as
sisting. The attractive parlors were dec
GRATED with color scheme in red in
GLIDING the flowers, light shades, cush-
ions etc. Mrs. E. S. Bowker was chair
man of the general committee with Miss
Amy E. Stoddard and Mrs. Norman S.
Donahue decorating and Mrs Allen in
charge of the music.