The Republican journal., 1921-05-05
Find the mines. Find the 9s.

The family at the Home for Aged
Women were recently made very happy
with large lot of beautiful mayflowers
sent by Mrs. c. B. Holt of Liberty.
Rev. FIR. John E. Kealy of Lewiston
was in Belfast Thursday on his way tc
Castine on business in connection with
the building of the Catholic church in
that town.
Capt A. C. Batchelder, who recently
returned from Boston, where he spent the
winter, has taken a rent in the Vickery
tenement house at the corner of Church
and Bridge streets. Mrs. Batchelder will
arrive home early in May.
A flower hunt May first in the vicinity
of Lake Quanta bacook resulted in find
ing blue, white and yellow violets, he
paticas in pink, white, purple and blue,
! bellwort, bush honeysuckle, strawberry
and BURBERRY blossoms, dandelions, shad
bush and mayflowers. The clintonia was
also found with well developed buds.
The Boy Scouts and the Rangers of the
Baptist Sunday school, accompanied by
Rev. George c. Sauer and with Earl
Ness as umpire, played the first of a
series of base ball games on the Congress
street grounds last Saturday forenoon
Naturally the Scouts won, but the little
Rangers held them down to 90 to 25 1t
was some exciting near the close of the
game, when the Rangers led by one point.
The Journal in connection with the
big celebration of the anniversary of
Blacks New England Theatres announces
the contest of skill in which all the read
ers of this paper can participate. In
bret, IN this issue we print a large dis
play of advertisements which readers can
look through to see how many "9s''
| they are able to find. The person finding
the most "9s" of different sizes will win
prize. To the person finding the most
"9s" we will give six tickets for any
night during the week of May 9, to the
! next highest number four, to the next
number two. Answers can be left at
/ the box office at the Colonial Theatre.
Louis Towers of Burnham was before
i Judge Clyde R. Chapman of the NUM-
cipal Court Friday charged with passing
worthless checks, was found guilty and
committed to the county Jail to await
| the action of the grand jury at the Sep
| TENDER term of the Supreme judicial
| Court. He was arrested in Rockland and
1t is alleged that he is wanted in Somer-
| set county for the same offence. He is
| alleged to be guilty of passing the fol-
! lowing in Waldo county: Coombs Bros ,
Belfast, SIS; Cakes Aldus, Belfast, IS;
George Turner, Belfast, Sc 10; E. T.
" hItehouse, Unity, 81; a Sc. 10 check
cashed in Freedom and a $40 check in
| Burnham. All were drawn on the Lewis
ton Trust Co.
In renewing his subscription to The
journal H. L. Measure, former Monroe
man, now in Ames, Iowa, gives some in
tereshng bits about the weather and cost
of provisions and land. He says: "We
had a very mild winter, but April Spilled
the BEANS On the 18th we had
quite a heavy rain and the 10th colder
with snow, almost a blizzard. Corn is
selling at 80 cents; oats, % cents; hogs,
live weight, cents; hay, SIS; eggs, 20
cents. Winter wheat is looking fine.
These prices are hard on the farmers; a
little more than one third the cost of pro-
| duction. More oats have ben sown
! than in any previous year. Not much
! land Is being sold at present. Some sales
have been made at 5000 and up per acre;
| in some sales it has reached $500, when
| the improvements were very modern and
I the land located near some large city"
| The following added attrac tons will be
presented at the Colonial Theatre Ami
versary week (the week of May 90 Mon
| day will be Ladies' Night. A box of
Schratf chocolates to each of the first
| hundred ladies'. Tuesday the Metropoli-
| tan Concert Company; Wednesday a
| special prologue will be presented, Thurs
| day concert by the Belfast Band; Fri
day the Harmony Boys in Twenty Min
utes of Minstrelsy. Saturday will be
Orchestra Night with McKeen's Orches-
ira. 1t will be week of big times with
no advance in prices. The journal IN
connection with the big celebration OF
the anniversary of Blacks New England
Theatres announce the contest of skill In
(which all the readers of this paper can
participate. In brief, in this issue we
print large display of advertisements
which readers can look through to see
jhow many '9's" they are able to find.
THE person finding the most "9's' OF
different sizes will win prize. 10 the
person finding the most "9's' we will
! give six tickets for any night during the
week of May g; to the next highest num-
der four; to the next number two. An
savers can be left at the box office at the
| Colonial Theatre. Have your answers In
Saturday noon, May T. The result Will
| be announced Saturday eve.
MOTHERS! ATTENTION The Red
| Cross implores you to Gull out from your
| children's wardrobes any out grown
clothing or any other strong, whole gar
ments of any kind that may serve to
clotbe the millions of fatherless children
in Europe whose pitiable plight, we VINO
| have not seen it, cannot imagine. The
demand is very urgent. Waldo county,
in addition to 100 layettes, must furnish
| $40 garments for children ranging all the
way to fourteen years of aye If such
garments can be procured ready made it
will help greatly. Already several ladies
have volunteered to be responsible for
from five to ten garments each. Are
there not many in the county who could
furnish at least one o. two? Many sug
pestions have been sent showing how old
stockings and socks, underwear, sweat
ers, and even flour sacks. cretonne cur
tains, and portierres-in fact, any strong,
clean cloth can be utilized to make good,
warm clothing for children. 1t is great
challenge to ingenuity. Please see what
YOU can do. In the meantime please
telephone any member of the committee,
whose names are given below, for infor-
nation, if you desire it, or let them know
that you will be responsible for certain
| u,,,bor ~ o,rmopfs Miss Maude u,