The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1920-03-11
Sheriff Frank A. Cushman has he.. -

successful in farming on small SC L. at
the county Jail and has also raised some
of the present-day luxuties, as he had q
400 pound hog slaughtered there last
Thursday. The animal was fine speci.
men when hung up in the stretchers.
The Belfast Band, j. Lee Patterson.
leader, is planning for one of its old.time
favorite programs to be given at it's con-
cert and ball at the Armory Friday even
ing, March 18th. Charles F. Hammons
will sing by request Carolina Sunshine
with band accompaniment and their vocal
assistance in the chorus. Other popular
songs are on the program.
The Hospital Aid and Club will meet
with Mrs. o. S. Vickery tomorrow, Fri
day, at p. m. All members are cordial
ly invited to be present and bring ma
terials of yarns, silks, etc., suitable for
articles to be used on the tables at the
fair to be held in July as benefit for the
hospital. There is already a great amount
of enthusiasm in this midsummer event.
The Standard Oil Company has bought
and surveyed large tract of land in East
Belfast and will remove their tanks there
as soon as arrangements can be made in
the early summer. They have fine
wharf privilege and will dock their
freight barges at their own pier and
plant. This company has built up an
immense trade in Belfast and their new
plant will enable them to extend it into
the outlying districts
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Gray, who had
been seriously i'll with pneumonia at the
Waldo County Hospital, have recovered.
They were also able to take to their home
Wednesday their little son, Alton Scott,
who has been at the hospital ill with
pneumonia for some time. Randall and
Russell Knox of this city have been at
the hospital ill with pneumonia, but the
former has been able to be moved to his
boarding place. The young men are en-
ployed in the Leonard, Stevens & Bearce
factory.
At the last meeting of the Boy Scouts
Robert Condor of Northport was elected
to membership. Two new names were
also received. Basket ball is to be taken
up again for practice now that the cpl
demic season is apparently over The
present topic at the meetings is that of
the History of the Flag" which should
be known by every Scout. Attendance
in the past month has been limited on
account of illness, but plans are in order
for hike just as soon as the weather
conditions will permit. Contributions to
the drive fund have been received from
Rev. A. E. Wilson, Mrs. Amos Clement,
Mrs. Cecil Clay, H. H. Stevens, R. F. |
Dunton, T. Frank Parker.
The petition of the Pejepscot Pulp and |
Paper Company for the privilege of ex-
tending their wharf at the local plant on
Water street was allowed Thursday after
noon at a special hearing of the city gov
eminent This will give them wharfage
of 300 feet and Sc, TAB square feet for
storing room, or more than doubling their
present yard. The past season they have
had several thousand cords of wood stored
here, but are shipping all the time and !
have left about 400 cords Operations
will begin here on the new wharf in May
or June and Captain C. B. SWEET, local
manager, will return here with his family |
from Machias. In the meantime he will
direct the work of selecting and preparing
the Gaping and covering material for the
wharf at their Washington county wood
lots, where they have immense tracts of
timber land, including whole islands, The
material will be sawed and fitted at their
mill at Saline River. The Belfast plant
of this company is one of the most desir
able of Maine industries and is growing
all the time These present improvements
will lead to others which they have in
mind for no distant future work.
The Boston Transcript of March 3rd
has the following interesting account of
what Alfred johnson of this city has been
doing in snowbound Massachusetts,: |
cdr. Alfred johnson, who has been d.
recting the snow gangs recruited through
the Chamber of Commerce and Associated
Industries to ''dig out" the ReadvilIe
yards on the New Haven system, has this ,
comment to make about the situation.
while great deal has been Justly said |
in praise of our New England railroads
that have kept their main lines of COM
munication open but have been forced to
abandon their branch lines during these
times that try mems souls, some of US
feel that justice has not been done to the
New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail.
road. 1t has been my privilege, through
the courtesy of the Boston Chamber of
Commerce, to have special opportunity
to see the men who run it take off their
coats and 60 to work, and every man of
them, from the highest officials, who in
normal times sit at their desks in the
South Station, to the humble track walk
ers, deserves a word of commentator
That conditions in southern New England
have been unprecedented ever since the
great snow storm of Feb. 5, the public is
sufficiently aware, but the public little
dreams to what extent the employees of
the New Haven, whose jobs have moth
ing to do with manual labor in normal
times. have turned out of their beds long