The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1921-05-26


| The mahy friends Of Fred G. Spinney
are very glad to learn that he is gradual
ly improving from his recent serious ill-
ness with pneumonia, and are looking
for his complete recovery.
Poppies made by the American and
French Chldren's League will be worn
everywhere on Memorial Day. Mrs. An
ME M. Frast has them on sale for local
use. The proceeds are to be used for the
children of France. -.
1t cost Belfast young man the costs
OF court and the humility of appearing
before the Judge of the Municipal Court
Monday to square accounts for taking a
boat without leave or license, even if .he
did not mean to STEALTH.
4 The Mcclellan school will give their
annual entertainment Saturday after
noon, June 4th, in connection with the
pictures at the Colonial Theatre. It's
Title is The Midsummer Eve, Musical
and Fairy Play, There are Sc children
from all the grades in the cast.
Mrs. Frank A. Bramhall chaperoned a
party OF young ladies to the Battery,
where they spent Saturday and Sunday
In the Pitcher cottage. The party in
ciuded Misses Alberta W. Farnham,
Muriel and Rena DeBeck, Esther F.
Evans, Margaret M. Mitchell, E. Frances
Abbott, Charlotte and Eva Tibbetts, Miss
Lylla Sprague. Miss Rena DeBeck, whose
marriage takes place in few weeks to
William l.. Luce of this city, was the
guest of honor
Saturday and Sundays warm wave with
an average temperature of about SO degrees
was record breaker for May in this vi
cipity. There was little oxygen in the
air and an oppressive stiffness Saturday
all day and Sunday until about p. M,
when sudden fall of temperature follow
ed the thunder shower and wind storm,
Charles E. Stevens of this city has re-
Gently completed a half century at har
at his shop in the Armory building. He
F was apprenticed to the late Leander Sta
Piles OF horse bride fame, then in Rock
land. Since then he has seen the bust
ness work up to its climax and also &C
; back gradually as motor vehicles increas-
ed He was for few years located in
Ellsworth, but the greater part of his SO
years have been spent in Belfast.
State Auto Agent j. Austin McKeen
has been doing effective work the past
week in that branch of road rules and
: intends to keep it up. Monday two men
l were before Judge Clyde R. Chapman of
the Municipal Court on the complaint of
, Mr.. McKeen for driving autos while I'M
der the influence of liquor. They were
fined S100 and costs of court, with Jail
| sentences, but the fines and sentences
; were suspended. =. City Marshal M. R.
, Knowlton says he intends to begin early
in the season to enforce the road rules
here, particularly for fast driving and
for driving while under the influence of
liquor.
Belfast relatives and friends have re-
ceived the following of unusual interest:
"Mrs. Robert Burns MacMullin requests
, the honor of your presence at the mar
J riage of her daughter Marion to Mr..
Henry Cameron Eldert on Thursday, the
{ twenty-sixth of May at five o'clock in
the afternoon at Saint Stephens Church
Sixty ninth Street, east of Broadway in
the City of New York" Mrs. Mac
Mulln and Miss Marion have been in
Belfast frequently. the guests of their
cousin, Miss Maude E. Barker.
. S. Dana Townsend, representing the
educational department of the Victor
Talking Machine Company of Camden,
N j., was in Belfast Friday and Satur-
!. day. He addressed the students of the
High school Friday on the benefits to be
in the study of music and English. Mr..
Townsend is touring Maine at the sug-
gestion of Miss Florence Hale of the
State Educational Department.. They
met in like work in Dakota recently and
this trip is the outcome of it.
A canvasser giving his name as Bazan
has been soliciting here and very sue
cessfully for magazine called The LOYAL
American, printed in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The magazine is devoted to disabled SOL
diers in the late war and one that
naturally appeals to the sympathy of
all. The canvasser is fraud and his
cards were returned as discredited by the
Cincinnati publishing house. Interested
parties here will take the matter I'D with
proper authorities in an attempt to locate
the man. The old saying that ga sucker
is born every minute is oldfashioned
now, as at least ten arrive in that speci-
fled time.
Belfast High school lost to the Camden
High in game of base ball played on the
Congress street grounds in this city last
Friday afternoon in score of IL to 7.
The visitors made seven runs in one in
ming and held the lead to the end The
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