The Republican journal., 1920-03-18


S. H. S. boys got 81 baskets to their l6.
Mrs. Annie Dickey Matthews is as.
sisting in the retail department of the
Belfast Candy Company in their new
quarters in the Hayford Block on Church
street.
Adrian c. Tuttle and son, Paul G.
futile, left Saturday for weeks visit
in Boston. En- route they will visit Mr..
Tuttle's mother, Mrs. Emery Varney, of
Freeport.
Mrs. Mary L. Hanson announces the
engagement of her only daughter, Mil
bred L. Ward, to Gerald Coggins. son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Cogeins of Lincoln
vile. Miss Ward is graduate of the
B. H. S. III, and Mr.. Coggins is en-
ployed as a lumber surveyor. No date
has yet been set for the wedding.
OH DEAR! The ground hog has re.
deemed his reputation as a weather
prophet. In Boston Post, which bears
the date of Feb 1882 is the following de-
pressing old-new rhyme:
'If cloudy Candlemas Day in leap year be
And the woodchuck his shadow cannot
see,
Back in his ground-hole ne goes to stay,
For winter will last till l-FooPs Day."
A special meeting of the North Church
Guild will be held in the church parlors
Sat evening, Mar. 20. Work will be
done for the Pedlars Parade. The regu-
lar meeting of the Guild will be held on
Monday evening, March %, at the home
of Mrs. M. E. Brown, Misses Bertha
Wiley and Louise M. Ferguson, assistant
hostesses. At this meeting all members
are requested to come and bring all fancy
articles which they have pledged for the
fair.
The concert and confetti ball tomor-
row, Friday, evening in the Armory by
the Belfast Band, j. Lee Patterson, lead
er, will be one of the most pleasing
social events of the season. The con-
cert program will be made up of request
numbers of instrumental and vocal Sc
lections and that means the best of pop
ular favorites. The band is always
ready to do it's share for Belfast and this
is an opportunity to return courtesies.
If you can't attend you can send your
contribution for its treasury.
Mayor C. w. Wescott, realizing the
absolute and urgent need of better freight
service between Boston and Belfast, has
succeeded in interesting the Eastern
Steamship Lines Inc, sufficiently to put
their two steamers, the Belfast and Cam
den, on their regular routes about April
list. This is at least one month earlier
than the company had planned to begin.
There is not only need of food in the
local stores, but our industries are closed
on account of lack of transportation
The local steamers are now on their reg
ular routes.
Efforts are being made to form platoon
of pupil over Is years of age, members OF
the B. H. S., to be an adjunct of Company
F. of the Third Maine Regiment This
organization would permit of non-com-
missioned officers among the students
and afford military practice, which many
High schools now enjoy. Captain A. E. !
Andrews of Co. F. and Herbert H. Stew
ems of the Auxiliary addressed the High
school Wednesday urging the matter
Austin Vaughan, Thomas Lothrop and
Ivan Havener have been made a COM
mittee to secure enlistments for the
platoon.
DR.. Alfred johnson of Belfast and
Brookline was one Of the speakers on the
program at the Maine Centennial observ-
ance in Portland Monday evening. His
grandfather, the late Judge Alfred John
son of Belfast, was member of the con-
vention that framed the Constitution of /
the State of Maine at the time of the sep
aration from Massachusetts,, just a CEN
fury ago last Monday. Judge johnson
took an active part in that convention.
For this reason DR.. johnson was asked to
speak. Governor Coolidge of Massachu-
sets also asked Dr. johnson to be the
bearer of his greetings to the citizens of
Maine from their parent State, the Com
of Massachusetts,.
The management of the Waldo County
Hospital is to be congratulated in secur-
ing the services as superintendent of
Miss Alice M. Wescott, R. N, who will
begin her duties April list. Miss Wescott
is Blue Hill girl She trained at the
General Hospital in Bos-
ton and later took course at the WATSON
Maternity Hospital in Springfield, Mass.
She was in France over year during the
war with the Red Cross in the Base Hos
pital Unit No. 6. Since her return home
she has been doing private n, rslng in
Boston, and was called to Belfast several
weeks ago by the critical illness of her
sister, Mrs. Carl H. Stevens. Miss Wes-
colt will bring to the Waldo County Hos
pital a wealth of experience and good