The Republican journal., 1921-04-14
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| The Sons of Veterans and Auxiliary
| will have a supper Monday evening
April Is, at O'Clock. All are requested
! to bring food. All not members will be
! charged IS cents.
Mrs. S C. Pattee, with her junior dane.
| ing class and McKeen's orchestra, will
60 to Searsport, Saturday, April 23rd,
and repeat the program given at her East
er bail in the Armory. There will also
be dance.
The April term of the Supreme Judicia
Court with Judge Scott Wilson of Port
land presiding will open in the Court
House Wednesday, April goth. The reg
ular day of opening April 10Th is Patri-
OTIS Day and a legal holiday.
John R. Dunton has bought the Carter
house he has been occupying several
years on Church street. The house is
one of the most modern on the street,
was built in 1890 by Albert M. Carter and
occupied by him as residence until his
decease.
April 18th is the official time for open
ing the sardine business on the Maine
coast, but there is no indication that the
local plant of the Booth Fisheries Co. will
start. A recent telegram from Eastport
In the daily papers indicates that the
large fleet of motor boats are still in
winter quarters.
SOUTH BELFAST Mrs. Herbert B.
cunningham, formerly Miss Arlene Wad-
In, entered the Sisters Hospital, v ater-
VILE, last Sunday for an operation for ap-
pendlcitis. Relatives here have received
a favorable report and her many friends
nope Tor speedy recovery.
A conference of all the local leaders of
the county in connection with Boys and
Girls Club work, will take place Satur-
day, April 10th, in the Farm Bureau
Office at Belfast. The meeting will start
8 IN the afternoon. All interested in
club work are invited to be present.
Thieves broke into car at the depot
last Friday night and took coil of rope,
a box of dry fruit, can of coffee, to
bacco and box of oranges. They open
ed box of tea, but did not seem to care
for that. The James F. Perkins cottage
Just below his residence on upper High
street was entered recently and quilt,
and other household goods taken, The
police hope to make the arrests in the
near future.
The meeting of the Community Advis-
DRY Board of the Salvation Army was
given up to discussion of the financial
side of the work, Mr.. o. E. Frost, presi-
dent, wished to obtain from headquar-
tiers all the advertising matter possible
before making definite plans. The meet
ITNn ,rSI1, -
again at the call of the president. In this
connection it is interesting to know that
the Salvation Army is President Hard
lng's hobby and in speaking of it recent
ly he said: eff there is somewhere in the
world human touch that awakens dis
appointment into hope, that is the finest
hobby in the world"
WEST BELFAST. Mr.. and Mrs Charles
Lassell and two children of Burnham
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Hartshorn re-
Gently. Frank Finley of Wilmington,
Del, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Walter
Childress,... Mrs Henry Elms, who has
!: been very sick with the grip, is gaining
:, Mrs. Levi Campbell visited Mrs. Will
Wight recently. There was a large at
tendance at the Sunday meeting held at
Equity Grange hall under the direction
of j. H, Lord. Walter Childress, who
had the misfortune to sever the index
finger on his left hand recently, is gain
ng.-..Mr. and Mrs. S. w. Newcomb, who
spent the winter in Altoona, Pa, are ex-
pected home soon.
THE b. H. S. MERCURY The spring
issue of Mercury, the High school maya
zine, has made its appearance in phase
of unusual originality. Its advertising
columns also indicate that it was finan-
cial success. 1t will be a souvenir in
years to come of school life, lectures, So
cial functions, ETC., particularly of the
class of 1921. The staff included: Editor
in-chief, Bartlett Whiting, East North
port. '21; assistant editor, Kermit Nick
erson, Swanville, 20; business manager,
Carroll Parker, '21; assistant business
manager, Tolford Durham, '22; literary
edit-rs, Ruth Leman, '21; Mildred Black,
[ 20, Hazel Nickerson, '23, Pearl Decrow,
| "a, athletic editors, Lillian Davis, '21,
i Watson Nickerson, '2l; local editors,
/ Ruth Dinsmore, '21, GRAND Orchard, 90,
David Moody, '23, Winfield Thompson,
"a; personal editors, Verna Greenlaw,
~, Donald Knowlton, '22, Fern Orchard i,
i '23, Robert Condor, "a; alumni editors,
Vial a, AdIHcIIuC IOSt,
F., exchange editor, Lenore Thompson, '2l.
The closing meeting for the season OF
| the Women's Alliance was held at the
home of Mrs. Irving T. Dinsmore last
! Thursday afternoon with large attend
| ance. Miss Msude E. Barker, the retir-
ing president, presented the gavel to Mrs.
j. c. Durham, her successor, with many
| good wishes for the prosperity and use
| fulness of the organization. The paper
of the day was by Rev. Ava Roy Scott,
Phi. D. of Bangor, "a Study of Goethe
Faust" DR.. Scott ranks this master
piece as standing in literary value with
| the Iliad, Hamlet and the Book of Job.
Its composition spread over sixty years
of Goethe's life and thus became some
thing of record of the richness and di
versity of his genius. The old legend OF
the scholar, who sold his soul, fascinated
the youth, but when he completed it in
old age he felt that it should be changed
to be emblematic of the ideal of persist.
ent battle against temptation, and in
this lies the greatness of this wonderful
mystery play. DR.. Scott brought Out
with strength and clearness the lesson OF
| the anguish and remorse of evil-doins
and the reward of upward striving il
faith, hope and love. During the socia
hour the hostess was assisted in SERVING
tea and waters by Mrs C. w. Wescott
Mrs. William M. Randall, Mrs Fred A
johnson, Mrs. Sumner c. Pattee, Mrs
Stephen S. L. Shute, Mrs. Robert P