The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1920-03-11

The large and handsome shade tree 81
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. GEORGE A
Leavitt in East Belfast was broken of
near the base OF its trunk in the Gale NJ
last Saturday at p. m. It fell directl,
over the street putting the telephone anf
electric light wires out of commission
fortunately no one was injured as tn,
live wires were broken in every direction
An Associ ated Press despatch from New
York under date of March 5th saws of 3
Maine man well known in Belfast: "Seth
M. Milliken, widely known merchant and
banker, died in his Fifth avenue home to.
day at the age of IS. His fight for con.
troll of the Mercantile National Bank OF
New York in 1907 attracted attention
when with F. W. Woolworth they wrest-
ed it from C. W. Morse, Augustus Heinze
and E. R. Thomas. He was president of
sever al wooden companies and a director
In many large dry goods firms in the
country. He was born in Poland, Me-,
educated at the academy at Yarmouth.
Me-, and began his business career in
Minot, Me-, later moving to Portland and
then to New York"
Miss Loula A. Mason, who with her
brother, William A. Mason, is spending
the winter in st. Petersburg, Fla, says
in personal note:
Dear Snow-Bound Friends:-We en-
Joy reading the news in The journal but
are sorry to learn of the sickness and
death of friends. We are reminded of
your cold winter by the cool waves which
reach us. Monday, March list, was the
coolest day ever recorded here so late in
the season, IS degrees in the morning and
about so at noon. We were fearful of a
frost last night, but none came here.
hey West, M ami and St. Petersburg, &C
cordlng to the papers, have the warmest
climate. st. Petersburg is called the sun
shine city and rightly, too, as we have
had only four rainy days, or days when
the sun did not shine since Oct 23rd. In
other parts of Florida they get ram when
we have only clouds. We have quite
colony of Belfast people here, and one
evening we entertained eleven. Glad YOU
are to have MIR. Wescott for Mayor again.
Wish you could see some of the beautiful
roses grown here to remind you it is not
cold, even if we have steam heat MANY
nights. We hope the snow will be gone
on our lawn by the time we arrive home
In April. We also hope you will have an
early and warm spring
Miss Essie M. Sanborn, R. NJ, daugh-
ter of MIR. and Mrs. Eben M. Sapborn of
this city, is now connected with the Ex-
tension Department of Peabody College
IN tennessee. She is at present County
Nurse in the anti-tuberculosis branch in
Rutherford County. While at SMYRNA
she is the guest of Mrs. Joseph Edwards.
She expressed request for home-cooked
baked beans, but they had never heard of
such a thing in Smyrna. Miss Sanborn
attempted to teach Mrs. Edwards the art
of bean baking and succeeded wonderful
ly we'll, considering the kitchen did not
contain bean pot. They are now con-
sidered the best thing on the menu in the
Edwards home and are served several
times week instead of Saturday night.
the New England custom. Miss Sanborn
was sure she could do better work if she
only had a big brown bean pot such as
her mother uses. A search began for
one, but they soon learned that Tennes-
see could not fill the order, as bean pot
was an unknown quantity to them. But
Miss Sanborn knew where she could find
one and sent the request home. Charles
F. Swift was pleased to fill the order. but
says it will be an expensive bean pot
when it reaches Smyrna. The pot cost
38 cents, it took Mr.. Swift an hour and
half to pack it and the parcel post charge
was 70 cents.
The Unitarian Alliance met at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Stephen S. L. Shute Thurs.
day afternoon, March 4th, an unusually
large number being present. The presi-
dent, Miss Charlotte w. Colburn, presid-
ed, and after the minutes of the last
meeting were read by Mrs. Arthur E.
w lisou, SCSiC y, anu SOIlle routine DuS1-
ness voted on, a most attractive musical
program delighted the members. Mrs.
Louise d. Pierce, organist at the First
Parish Church, played Bertini', Marche
Mignon in spirited and finished manner.
graciously responding to an encore with
Little Boy Blue. Mrs. Melvin o. Dickey
rendered Rogers Persian Serenade most
daintily, it being composition suited to
her fine contralto tones. Mrs. George c.
Bosom, Jr., who has travelled in Persia as
well as in all other parts of the inhabited
world, gave short appreciation of Omar
Khayyam, with some account of Edward
Fitzgerald and the debt which literature
owes to him for his matchless translation
Mrs Clement W. Wescott then sang a
group of four Persian songs, the words
from the Rubiayat, atfording her hearers
a genuine musical treat, her splendid
sympathetic voice being heard to good
advantage in these difficult compositions.
Just before each song of the group Mrs.
5. A.sParker read the quatrain from the
Rubiayat. The original and unique pro-
gram afforded rare enjoyment to the large